Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
When I was trying to think of non forecast-related topics to blog about the other day, all the topics that came to my mind were depressing. I didn’t want to write about our worsening drought situation or the the high likelihood of an above-average fire season, and UW professor/blogger Cliff Mass had already written a […]
Everything seemed right for record high temperatures at Portland. We had offshore winds to prevent any cooling from the Pacific Ocean and a massive ridge overhead with insanely warm temperatures aloft. But with extreme heat comes extreme fire danger, and fires have erupted over the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia over the past few days. […]
Monday, December 5, 2011 10:20 A.M. Hi everybody. Sorry for not writing the past few days, my computer has been at the shop and I haven’t had access to one. I am writing this post at the library and I need to be sitting down in a class in nine minutes, so this will be […]
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 10:59 P.M. Photo Credit: Kevin Ebi @ Living Wilderness The next week or beyond will be very boring and uneventful for meteorologists. The culprit? A HUGE ridge of high pressure off the Eastern Pacific. Take a look at the current atmospheric configuration from tonight’s 00z UW WRF-GFS run. Valid 10:00 pm […]
