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  • This morning is perfect with plenty of sun and a light breeze. Highs should reach near 80°F.  Unfortunately, we have more rain coming for the weekend, something we don’t need.  We’ve been mowing the lawn ab […]

  • Wednesday was a pleasant, partly cloudy day with comfortable temperatures and dew points. Temperatures started out in the upper 50s in the early AM and rose into the mid 70s by mid-afternoon. Overnight into […]

  • Here is Wednesday – June 6, 2018`s – Historical Climate Summary !

    Lowest Barometric Pressure : 29.88″ at 2, 3 a.m.
    Highest Barometric Pressure : 29.97″ at 10, 11 a.m.

    Lowest Relative Humidity : 38% at 2 p […]

  • TEMPERATURES

    It was one of the warmest months of May with Mean Temperatures running nearly +5° departures from Normals. It was a rollercoaster of temperatures through the month, starting off chilly (May’s Low […]

    • Thanks Jeff. Looks like Mt Hood is wearing its hat today! Snow level still looks pretty low – I guess there is patchy cover at Timberline Lodge now after your warm month. Is it the resolution of the photo, my computer, or was it hazy on this day of the picture? I don’t think you all have started your fire season yet. Here in Maryland we are nice and wet to keep the fires at a minimum. The rest of the summer – we shall see…

    • Hi Kevin. It was a bit of a hazy day when I took that pic of Hood.

      This morning’s report from Timberline shows the morning snow depth was 53”.

      After very little precip here since mid-April, models are showing a fairly robust system (especially for June here) moving in on Friday, showing our area getting 0.50”-1.00”! Snow levels are expected to drop to about the 4000’ level so Timberline could get quite a dumping.

  • Temperatures are cool this morning but the sun is shining brightly and very little wind for a change.  Radar is showing no precip anywhere in the state and highs should be just about where they should be for […]

  • Tuesday started out clear/sunny and cool. Increasing clouds in the afternoon yielded to threateningly cloudy skies in the evening, as a cold front rushed through from the north. Storms nearer the PA border were […]

  • Here is Tuesday – June 5, 2018`s – Historical Climate Summary !

    Lowest Barometric Pressure : 29.88″ at 4 – 9 p.m.
    Highest Barometric Pressure : 29.98″ at 12 a.m.

    Lowest Relative Humidity : 35% at 4 p.m […]

  • Happy Tuesday, friends!

    We’re starting into a (somewhat brief) pattern of warmer and brighter weather, for the next couple of days. A few areas, mainly the coast and north, are seeing some light rainfall this […]

    • Thanks for your great report Brie! I enjoy that Pac NW weather so much, esp around this time of the year. We haven’t had it too bad yet here in central Maryland as it has been wet and relatively cool of late so far in June. We had a warm and wet May. If we can keep the clouds and rain around, it won’t get too hot, but I am sure it will eventually as we move more into the pure summer months.

      I have an endless fascination and love of the mountains. Your picture in this post is awesome . It reminds me of my trip in the mid 70s when I hiked around Sunrise on the NE side of Mt Rainier and we never got a good view of the whole mountain, just partial shots that just add to the imagination and make your mind wonder how much further up is it to the peak? Is this Mt Rainier in the picture? I usually see all clear shots of Mt Rainier on photo or all socked in when live. I did see it all clear on a business trip to Seattle in May 1993. That was truly awesome! Thanks so much for your great posts you resumed recently – keep up the great work!
      Kevin here in Maryland

      • Thank you Kevin! I have family in Maryland. 🙂 I haven’t been over that way in a very long time though, almost 20 years since my last big trip, and about 14 since a short drive through the area, on my way down to DC and Virginia. I think our springs have flip-flopped, you all got the wet weather and we’ve been very dry. We set records for warmest May and tied the record for driest May at SeaTac.

        And thank you on the photo! It is in fact not Rainier, but Whitehorse Mountain near Darrington, a town about 80 or so miles north east of Seattle, nestled in the mountain foothills. Glacier Peak, another one of our 5 WA stratovolcanoes is right nearby the area, tucked back further east in the mountains. It’s a beautiful area. I had to snap that particular image because I liked the cloud combination, with the slight lenticular development as well.

        I’m glad to hear you’re enjoying the blogs, thanks for reading! I’ve been crazy busy the last 5 months or so, my stepdaughter moved in with us in December, and then I accepted a weather internship position at KOMO News in Seattle and just wrapped that up at the end of May. I also got hired onto KOMO’s radio promotions team and will be staying involved with the forecast team as needed, but now I have a little more free time as the radio promotions work is a bit more sporadic. 🙂

    • Thank you Brie! Great to hear more about you and your Maryland connection. And you have been busy in weather on some of your local media outlets there. The only Seattle on-air met I knew of for years is the recently retired Jeff Renner, who has written a few books on Mountain weather and climatology that particularly piques my interest. I have made some contact with him, mostly through our facebook connection. More later, I got to get some sleep. I don’t get enough, I am crazy busy even though I am retired. Take care, will be back in touch soon, esp. if you post more great Pac NW weather/mountain shots.

  • We knew that the majestic, rotating supercell we saw yesterday (Tuesday 5/29/2018) would be very hard to surpass, but Wednesday ended up far exceeding our expectations. Even as early as the night before, the Storm […]

  • We can expect highs today only in the 60s.  We had scattered showers overnight with a little thunder which dropped 0.18″ of rain.  Yesterday was cloudy with very strong winds, not a pleasant day to be o […]

  • Monday started out cloudy with a light shower (0.01″) around 0700 and pleasantly cool, with mins falling into the mid 50s. By mid-day the sun was out and the temperature rose through the 50s and 60s into the mid […]

  • I have been bogged down with a lot to do the past few days, and have had quite an erratic sleep schedule. The weather has had me hopping, and Marty was over on Friday to get my VP2 station squared away along with […]

  • Here is Monday – June 4, 2018`s – Historical Climate Summary !

    Lowest Barometric Pressure : 29.95″ at 7 p.m.
    Highest Barometric Pressure : 30.07″ at 7, 11 a.m.

    Lowest Relative Humidity : 32% at 4 p.m […]

  • Yesterday was wet and chilly with strong winds most of the day.  Today will at least produce some sunlight even though windy conditions will prevail.  High temperatures will remain in the low 70s most of the w […]

  • Lowest Barometric Pressure : 29.83″ at 1 a.m.
    Highest Barometric Pressure : 30.05″ at 11:59 p.m.

    Lowest Relative Humidity : 38% at 5, 6 p.m.
    Highest Relative Humidity : 97% at 11 p.m.

    Lowest Dew Point Temp […]

  • I woke to the sound of raindrops this morning and there was 0.14″ in my gauge at 8:15 AM and an additional 0.07″ has fallen since then.  It seems to have stopped for now.  The possibility of more rain r […]

  • Here is Saturday – June 2, 2018`s Historical Climate Summary !

    Lowest Barometric Pressure : 29.84″ at 6, 7 p.m.
    Highest Barometric Pressure : 29.94″ at 1 p.m.

    Lowest Relative Humidity : 58% at 2, 3 p.m […]

  • Temperatures in the 90s are just too hot for my liking and I’m happy to  see the cooler weather.  Highs today will only reach the mid 60s and that’s lovely as far as I’m concerned.   I usually have my gar […]

  • Lowest Barometric Pressure : 29.85″ at 12 , 5 a.m.
    Highest Barometric Pressure : 29.98″ at 3 a.m.

    Lowest Relative Humidity : 74% at 2 a.m.
    Highest Relative Humidity : 100% at 3, 8, 9, 11 a.m., 12 p.m. […]

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