The Most Boring Winter in Seattle History

Many of you have complained about this winter.  That the weather has been entirely boring:  no snowstorms, no real windstorms, no extreme te...

Island Clouds

Can an island that reaches a few hundred feet in elevation create its own clouds?   The answer is yes, and some wonderful video of southern ...

The U.S. Weather Prediction Computer Gap

It happened again.  A major storm hit the northeast U.S. and the U.S. global model lagged badly behind the predictions of the European Cente...

High Pressure Uncertainty

While the the Northeast U.S. is staggering under the onslaught of heavy snow and strong winds, Northwest meteorologists are dealing with one...

The Block

This is turning into a lame winter and the upcoming weekend and early next week should leave us completely high and dry.  Why?   A huge are...

The Deceptive Weather Radar

Sometimes the weather radar shows precipitation, but at the ground it is completely dry. Sometimes the radar shows nothing above a location ...

Smartphone Pressure Observations Take Off

In a previous blog I mentioned a young firm, Cumulonimbus Inc, that created a new Android app, PressureNet2, that collects the pressure obse...