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Continuing with the roughly 10 day shorter summaries (leap year made thi period a 9 day one to close out the month) to cover a general period of more or less similar weather patterns, a mixture of mild and […]

Today is the first day of spring meteorlogically speaking, and it will certainly feel that way.  Highs will be in the upper 40s and we should see quite a bit of sun according to the forecast.  This upcoming week w […]

Today is February 29, Leap Day.  It’s also the last day of meteorological winter, which is defined as December 1 – February 28/29 in the Northern Hemisphere.  Of course, you don’t need me to tell you that winter i […]

It is really lovely to look out the window and see such a bright day.  We have total snow ground cover and it won’t be quite warm enough to melt much of it.  But temperatures are expected to rise into the 40s a […]

Our winter storm was a bit of a fizzle from what was originally predicted and that’s fine with me.  We have about 4 to 5 inches on the ground depending where it is measured.  Today is still bringing a little l […]

A ridge of high pressure in place over the region is providing pleasant weather conditions for the second half of this week. Wednesday will probably be the day with the most clouds. This is thanks to northwest […]

The snow began late last night and dropped 1.3 inches by 8 AM.  It is now increasing in intensity and another 3-4 inches is expected by midnight.  Winds are expected to pick up later and it will be a challenging d […]

Tuesday began clear for most of the Willamette Valley, but folks in downtown Portland and Vancouver had to wait until 10-11 am to break out of the clouds. The 10:00 am visible satellite image below shows how […]

A winter storm watch is in effect from late tonight through late Wednesday night for my area.  Total snow accumulations of 4-to 8 inches are expected, and this includes all of southeast Michigan.  This will be t […]

Sunday’s wind storm certainly lived up to expectations and in some cases even exceeded them. As usual, Rattlesnake Mountain brought home the prize for highest wind gust – 82 mph. People rarely go up there, though, […]

We will start seeing a change in the weather tonight as a winter weather system moves in over the next few days.  We aren’t expecting any great amounts of snow, maybe up to 5 inches total over the next 3 days.  W […]

Today will be very warm for late February, but we are told that winter will return with a vengeance mid week.  We could see highs near 50° today and plenty of sun.  The only negative will be the winds.  But we cer […]

JANUARY 2020 MONTHLY SUMMARY ROCKVILLE 2.8 WNW MARYLAND by Kevin Shaw, Observer

January 2020 was warmer and a bit wetter than normal. My maximum temperature average (46.9°) was 5.6° above normal but my m […]

As the storm system I blogged about yesterday continues to approach, the National Weather Service issued a wind advisory for our area. Not much has changed in the forecast (except a slightly lower chance of rain), […]

Recent snowfall in Washington’s mountains has brought the amount of snow up there to near-normal values for this time of year. Some of this snow even caused the record-setting flood event seen Walla Walla and […]

This is expected to be a very nice weekend with very warm temps and plenty of sun.  We are celebrating my oldest son’s birthday so I’m very happy that the weather will be nice.  This morning isn’t quite a chilly a […]

The weather was fantastic this week across the entire Pacific Northwest! Sunny skies were the name of the game for the entire region – including both Seattle and Portland who had their first sunny days this year! […]

Continuing  with the 10 day shorter summaries to cover a general period of more or less similar weather patterns, our wet pattern from the start of the month continued though the 13th then dry weather took over […]

We are expecting plenty of sun over the next 3 to 4 days, and that just doesn’t happen in February in Michigan.  Although our current temp is only 24°F, there seems to be quite a bit of melting out there in the s […]