Cool Eddy off Vancouver Island Coast Today!

We saw a little-known, but fascinating meteorological feature off the coast of Vancouver Island today… a little swirl in the clouds created due to differences in the strength of northwesterly winds along the coast of Vancouver Island. Speed shear in NW flow parallel to Vancouver Island spun up a nice eddy off the Vancouver Island […]

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Puget Sound Waterspouts

Sunday April 1, 2012 6:24 P.M. Waterspout over the Florida Keys. Retrieved from NOAA. When I was looking at the radar today, I definitely noticed some rather heavy rain showers. I have a house in Cultus Bay on South Whidbey Island, so I wasn’t too surprised when my neighbor called me to tell me the […]

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