A Strange Warm Rain

3 PM View In Seattle  Today was a day of warm, light drizzle from sunrise to sunset.  Visibility was minimal and air was permeated by an eth...

Fixing the National Weather Service's Computer Gap

In previous blogs, I have documented the profound inadequacy of the computational resources used for operational numerical weather predictio...

Status and Outlook for Northwest Snow

I am getting a number of folks asking about whether there will be lowland snow this winter.   Even the Seattle PI had a story about the fea...

Superstorm in the Atlantic

Although my attention is generally on the Pacific Ocean, I can't help note the weather event that many meteorologists are talking about ...

The Secret of Snoqualmie Pass

How would you like to take a ski lift where you begin with temperatures in the low teens and by the end of your journey minutes later (and a...

Summer and Winter at the Same Time

What is going right now is quite amazing...summer and winter are within a half-mile of each other in much of the Pacific Northwest .   Move ...

Amazing Contrasts in Maximum Temperatures

These are the maximum temps for the 24-h period ending 10 AM on Saturday.  Amazing contrasts....in the fifties (some near 60F) at locations ...