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Good morning!  I wasn’t planning to write much more on weather for a few weeks.  I’ve had plans to write about the pandemic, the economy, and greater social and political implications for the future.  But fi […]

After a day of intermittent snow showers and temps which were 10 degrees below normal, we finally have some sun and average temperatures.  What’s even better is that the extended forecast is calling for more of […]

I wasn’t happy to see snow falling this morning but hopefully, this will be the end of it for the season.  We could get up to an inch but for now, most seems to be melting on contact.  Highs today will be about 2 […]

Our morning is seeing a mix of sun, clouds and light snow showers.  At least the winds have diminished a bit.  This weather is hard to take after the past few weeks, but this is typical for spring in Michigan.  Th […]

I was treated to an incredible sunset on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound tonight! I took the below photo while kayaking in Cultus Bay facing WNW.

One subtle feature (but one that really jumps out to a […]

The storms that swept through the area on Monday, April 13, 2020 brought a National Weather Service-confirmed EF-1 Tornado to Frizzellburg (between Westminster and Taneytown in north-central Maryland), and very […]

Yesterday’s winds didn’t seem that bad, at least not as strong as what was predicted.  The highest gust showing on my weather station was 24 mph.  I heard that some lost power so I think that the wind was worse i […]

Changing up on my usual once every 10 days reporting pace, I thought the very active, stormy pattern for a good part of the day on Monday was quite interesting and warranted a special post off-schedule. Light rain […]

Though most of you know me as the local weather geek, I’ve also a bit of a economics buff and stock market junkie. I got my first taste of Wall Street at a young age, overhearing the market bits between news […]

After a pleasant Easter Sunday, today will begin a period of much cooler weather.  We are under a wind advisory until 8 PM and hopefully, we won’t have too much wind damage.  They are predicting gusts in excess o […]

Over the past week, the weather in the Pacific Northwest has taken a dramatic turn.  Back in late March and early April, we were under a continuous two-week stretch of clouds, rain, cool temperatures and fairly […]

This blog post is a response to the following question, which I received over on my Facebook page – Tri-Cities Weather:
Mark, I remember all the Easters here in the Tri Cities as being WINDY and COOL. Never […]

This morning is very nice although I hate to think of what’s coming tomorrow.  We are under a Strong Wind Advisory with gusts up to 50 mph expected for our Monday.   Regardless, today is looking quite nice al […]

The mixture of mild to warm days interspersed with cooler periods with frequent light rains continued through the beginning of April. We had only 0.42 inches total of rainfall during this period, with 9.17 inches […]

Wednesday was wonderful with partly cloudy skies and temps in the low 70s.  Then yesterday happened.  In the late afternoon, rain moved in.  It didn’t take long for ice pellets to start falling.  Then it cha […]

Yesterday was very nice with light winds and highs reaching the low 70s once again.  The day began with sun, then clouds began moving in by late afternoon.  The rain started about 8 PM and continued into the o […]

Although we received very little rain, Mother Nature put on quite a light show for us last night.  Most of the storms missed us and we only got 0.06″ of rain here, but many areas received well over an inch.   I ha […]

We only received 0.03″ of rain overnight but there is more on the way.  Highs today are expected to be very warm before a very significant cold front moves in and will affect our weather into the weekend.  They a […]

We will be losing our sun as the day goes on, but at least we’ll have  very mild temperatures.  Unfortunately, those won’t last long as very chilly weather move in for Easter weekend.  Our prediction even me […]