Thursday, November 12, 2015 9:53 am Everybody talks about atmospheric rivers. Atmospheric river here, atmospheric river there. And while the “atmospheric river” term is certainly useful and is used in scientific literature, it also comes across as a bit of a euphemism. It sounds so nice and tranquil, like a stream flowing through the heavens, […]
The First Flooding of The Season!
Thursday, October 29, 2015 4:59 pm Record flooding in Mt. Rainer National Park, November 2006. Credit: National Park Service For some reason, the weather always seems to get dramatically stormier as soon as we switch from October into November. The weather could be fine for trick-or-treating, and then whammo! November rolls around, and there are more fallen […]
What Was the 1997-1998 El Niño Like?
Saturday, October 17, 2015 4:01 pm Beach erosion by Pacifica, California due to storms during the 1997-1998 El Niño event. Credit: USGS With all of this talk about the “Godzilla” El Niño of 2015, it’s important to remember that an event of this magnitude is not unprecedented. Back during the 1997-1998 winter, we saw the largest El Niño on […]
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Historic Flooding in South Carolina
Monday, October 5, 2015 2:49 pm The Pacific Northwest is no stranger to flooding. I believe that Washington has had the most federal disaster declarations of any state, which may be surprise you due to our seemingly-mundane weather. But we get these massive floods from time to time, and we also have a tendency to get […]
A Good Soaking
Monday, March 3, 2014 9:57 p.m. I don’t want to say winter is over. Heck, Snoqualmie pass was closed from North Bend to Ellensburg today, which I believe is a 70 mile stretch or so. Bellingham got clobbered with snow twice in the past two weeks. But, we face an unfortunate reality – it is […]
Biblical Rainfall Amounts in Colorado
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 4:13 a.m. (one of those nights…) Hey everybody! It’s super early Wednesday morning and I woke up and am having trouble falling back asleep. There are two things that make me fall asleep… writing weather blogs and reading the Bible. I’m not religious, I just want to read it because I’m […]
Rain
Thursday, April 4, 2013 2:29 P.M. UW Atmospheric Sciences Composite Northwest Radar Loop: Valid 2:24 P.M. 4/4/2013 “Hey buddy! It’s been awhile! How are you? What have you been up to lately? Do you and the jet stream still have that thing, or are you cut off from her lovely geostrophic flow?” That’s what I […]
Muggy and Rainy
March 11, 2013 10:40 P.M. I tried to be creative and somehow link the post I made ten days ago to this one, but when I typed “Lil’ Wayne Rain” or even “Lil’ Wayne Precipitation” on Google Images, all I got was Lil’ Wayne making it rain (aka throwing money in the air, because that’s what […]
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A Storm, and then Cold
Monday, January 7, 2013 10:13 A.M. It’s refreshing to finally have another decent storm roll through the area. As I have stated many times on this blog, I vehemently dislike boring winter weather. Today’s the first day of winter quarter at the UW, and weather-wise, it’s off to a stellar start. We’ll see about otherwise… […]
Storms!
Friday, November 16, 2012 8:50 A.M. I’m happy. You know why I’m happy? Because we will finally see a string of strong storms that will streak from ocean to peak through next week. Now that was clever. Let’s look at the timeline for our storms. Our first storm comes in on Saturday morning. This one […]
