Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
November 21, 2009 1:38 P.M. Look at the graphic above. It shows the track of the vigorous low I was talking about in earlier posts. This low looks like it will not bring high winds to our area, but the coast and southwest interior could get slammed. Usually we don’t see winds as strong as […]
November 20, 2009 3:44 P.M. Hey everybody! Many of my devoted Garfield High School following saw me in the Messenger, the school newspaper today. I’m truly humbled to have had such a great article written about me and to have been given the chance to show something I have started with the rest of the […]
November 18, 2009 3:47 P.M. Hello everybody! The rain from the approaching front has started falling around the sound, and, as I and every single news station around Seattle has been forecasting, this storm is going to be a wet one. Take a look at the precipitation graphic for the next 24 hours (ending at […]
November 17, 2009 9:08 P.M. I tend to either get a lot of things accomplished during the month of November or not very many things at all. The distinction between the two lies in one thing; weather. When it’s sunny outside, I just want to go outside and play, or I can’t concentrate because I’m […]
November 16, 2009 8:41 P.M. I didn’t blurt it out yesterday (maybe I should have), but I was a little skeptical about the forecast when they called for a major windstorm in the Puget Sound region. First of all, the models were not locking on any one situation. Second, there looked to be another low […]
November 15, 2009 6:01 P.M. I’ve been having a lot of trouble getting homework accomplished today and focusing in general because I’ve had my eyes on two things. And they are both weather related (of course). First of all, remember how I was talking about how if you brought that band of rain that was […]
November 14, 2009 9:54 A.M. In a previous post I mentioned the possibility for snow at some of the higher elevations. And guess what? We saw some! Look at this picture from North Bend by Kathy Hyland from KOMO4 News. North Bend is at an elevation of approximately 1,000 feet, and they saw sticking snow. […]
November 10, 2009 9:53 P.M. November is a unique month in that the weather changes very rapidly throughout the course of it. The beginning of November is not notoriously stormy; yes, it is usually moderately wet, but there are stormier periods of the year. By the end of November, though, we have reached the stormiest […]
November 7, 2009 7:16 P.M. What is instability? I often mention instability as the cause of post-frontal showers after the cold front of a storm system has passed in the PacNW, but what does it really mean for the atmosphere to be unstable? It means that the atmosphere has a steep temperature gradient. Our surface […]
November 6, 2009 5:48 P.M. All I can say is WOW!!! Unless you’ve been living in a cave the last 20 hours or so you have no doubt noticed the intense precipitation that has been bombarding the area in the form of heavy showers and thunderstorms. The radar image above was shot at 11:40 P.M. […]
