Saturday, February 8, 2014 This will be my page for snow updates for the night. 6:49 p.m.: currently lightly snowing in the U District with temperatures around freezing. Surprisingly, it actually is sticking on some cars and even some sections of black pavement. Some feature looks to have developed off of the system coming in […]
Light Snow Tonight
Saturday, February 8, 2014 4:20 p.m. Hey everybody, I hope your Saturday is going well. Mine is. I haven’t done much (or anything for that matter), but that’s doesn’t necessarily constitute a bad day. It’s good to have a chill day every once in a while. The story of this week has been the snow […]
It’s Been Eons!
Friday, January 10, 2014 7:42 p.m. Triceratops vs Tyrannosaurus rex. This makes Holyfield vs. Tyson look like a game of Kidz Bop. I wonder who got their ear bitten off. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur It’s been eons. Well, OK, maybe we still have the same continents now as we did when it last rained, but it’s been at least […]
The Storm Is Upon Us
Friday, January 10, 2014 7:35 p.m. It’s been eons.Ok, maybe we still have the same continents now as we did when it last rained, but it’s been at least a month since we saw ourselves a good, old-fashioned Pacific Northwest extratropical cyclone. This baby’s gonna bring our “trifecta” of rain, wind, and mountain snow. We may even end up […]
Cascade Concrete
Thursday, January 9, 2014 2:35 a.m. (yup, one of those nights) They say the Eskimos have 100 different words for snow. I doubt “Cascade Concrete” is one of them, because I don’t know of any Inuit peoples in the Cascade mountain range. However, it is definitely one that many people, and certainly every skier and […]
Finally… Snow in the Mountains!!!
Wednesday, January 8, 2013 9:37 p.m. I’ve been waiting for this date for so long! Franklin Falls Webcam on I-90: http://www.wsdot.com/traffic/passes/snoqualmie/default.aspx Snow in the mountains. But not only that… snow at Snoqualmie Pass. I’m taking a class with Cliff Mass this quarter, and he’s a bit skeptical that the Summit at Snoqualmie will get enough snow […]
Don’t Mess with the Polar Vortex – The Midwest Arctic Outbreak and Climate Change
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 12:14 a.m. I don’t know how many of you watched the Packers-49ers game on Sunday, but it looked absolutely frigid. The grass was brown. The surface temperature was 3 or 4 degrees. Green Bay actually got down to -18 that day, which is a record. That’ll freeze cheese. My cousin Colleen […]
The Truth About My Snow Forecast
Saturday, December 21, 2013 11:32 a.m. It wasn’t that good. Simon Cowell is giving me the thumbs down: http://tinyviolets.wordpress.com/category/music/ What? I think my elitist response yesterday was an insecure attempt to retain my position as Seattle’s best snow forecaster. For this snow event, that wasn’t true. I was calling for what the models were showing… 2-6 […]
Less Snow than Forecast
Friday, December 20, 2013 7:43 a.m. Where’s the glacier? We got significantly less snow than forecast. I’m actually super proud of myself… I called this before several others, including but not limited to Cliff Mass and the Seattle NWS. That takes skill! (and a fair amount of luck) As evidence, here was my Facebook status […]
Oh Heck Yeah!
Thursday, December 19, 2013 8:32 p.m. OK, so when I saw the latest model run, I absolutely jumped for joy. Why? Because the newest WRF-GFS model run upped the forecast snow amounts. At first, this model gave us a lot of snow, but then it sharply pulled back. Now, it’s trending whiter again. Let’s take a […]