Sky Poet

Photography can be as poetic and compelling as the work of the written masters, and we are lucky to have such a visual poet here in the Nort...

Battling Extremes and the July 4th Forecast

It is startling to see such weather extremes so close together. Here in the Northwest we are experiencing wetter and colder than normal cond...

Cascade Melt Out

There are few more important questions for Northwest hikers:  when will their favorite trails melt out and the hiking season begin in earnes...

Summer Squall

Yesterday (Saturday) the area experienced an event more common to the eastern U.S.:  a summer convective squall. Forced by an short-wave tr...

Saturday morning update

Looks like most of the precipitation has shifted south towards Portland and southwest Washington---their turn.  The model predict that prec...

Wet Day and Hard Forecast

It was quite wet today over much of western Washington as a SE-NW band of precipitation set up residence across the region for hours.   Majo...

Now is the Time to Fix the Math Meltdown in Seattle Public Schools

Check out my new blog on math curriculum here. A few days ago the Seattle Times ran another story on the math problems in Seattle, noting ...

Why are coastal water temperatures cooling?

The air temperatures are warming over northern California.  The same with southern Oregon.   But something awfully strange is happening with...

Feeling a bit tropical outside?

Seems a bit humid?   More like the East Coast in summer than our normally low relative humidity? The dew points...a good measure of the mois...