Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
Last week, the Bootleg Fire, a 400,000 acre conflagration that is still only 40% contained, made headlines when it tripped off a set of high-voltage transmission lines known as the California-Oregon Intertie that transmit electricity between the Pacific Northwest and California. At the time, California was experiencing an extreme heat wave and very high electricity […]
I know I’m pretty darn late to this blog – these wildfires have occurred two weeks ago. But I would be remiss if I did not at least write a little something about the devastating fires that have caused so much destruction over California. Two fires in particular – the Woolsey Fire near Los Angeles […]
Hi all! I’ll start by giving a “life update” of sorts: I’ve moved from being a meteorologist at Avangrid to being a meteorologist at Portland General Electric! At Avangrid, my work was primarily focused on very short-term, hourly energy forecasts for Avangrid’s wind farms along the Columbia River Gorge, and I worked a rotating shift […]
