Saturday, September 17, 2011 7:30 P.M. It looks as if the rain has spread in much earlier than I anticipated, so I am shifting rain totals higher amounts (up to a half inch in the lowlands) and am expecting the rain to stop and shift to showers Sunday morning. I guess the model I looked […]
First “major” storm of the year
Saturday, September 17, 2011 10:56 A.M. 9/17/11 10:45 A.M. PDT infrared satellite (taken from UW atmos website) Ladies and gentlemen, it appears that our first “major” storm of the year is upon us. I say “major” because it will likely be the biggest storm we have seen in months. However, I put quotes around it […]
Tropical vs. Extratropical Cyclones
Thursday, September 15, 2011 4:05 P.M. I’m doing what would be Friday’s post today since I will hiking around Mt. Rainier tomorrow. We are now right at or just past the peak of hurricane season, and in a month or so, we should start seeing a more consistent flow of extratropical storms across the Pacific, […]
Double-Dip La Nina!
Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:08 A.M. Sea Surface Temperatures at different points in the Equatorial Pacific on week centered around 9/7/11 The above picture is from NOAA’s CPC (Climate Prediction Center). As you can see, there has been a clear trend as of late for a cooling of the SST (Sea Surface Temperatures) in the […]
Pattern Change!
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:38 P.M. Hi everybody! I slacked off on writing my weather blog this summer, but now I am back and I will resume a regular schedule. Thank you Nicholas Efthimiadis for the friendly reminder to stop being so lazy! In all honesty though, there wasn’t much to write home about this […]
Tranquil Weather to Continue
Saturday, August 6, 2011 12:52 A.M. (up late) When storms come our way, I usually look at multiple weather models, because they all show different outcomes from the same set of present conditions. Sometimes these different outcomes are pretty similar, and other times, they are completely out of sync. When there is an especially tricky […]
Mirages!
Thursday, August 4, 2011 9:51 P.M. As I was taking the ferry back from Victoria the other day, I took the picture above. I was seeing a mirage! I had always seen those common road mirages before, where the sun hits the road and it looks like there are black oil slicks ahead of you […]
Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 11:01 P.M. I was recently in Europe touring with my jazz band. Everything was wonderful; the people, the culture, the sights, and the music were all fantastic. However, I also noticed some very interesting weather. While nearly all the trip was hot and sunny, there were some interesting cloud formations that […]
Our Natural Air Conditioning and Marine Push
Monday, August 1st, 2011 3:37 P.M. Marine Push(up) When people think of Seattle, they probably think of coffee, bad sports teams, and people with webbed feet. They probably don’t think of air conditioning. However, we can get pretty hot in the summer. I remember a couple years back at Sea-Tac when the mercury hit 103 […]
A Period of Nice Weather
Saturday, June 30, 2011 11:48 P.M. Hello everybody!!! It’s great to be back on this blog. Between traveling in Europe, attending college orientation, and helping paint my house, I haven’t had much free time. However, my schedule is lightening up and I will get back to these regular blog postings. This summer has been really […]
