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  • Monday, January 25, 2016
    1:24 pm

    A car submerged in snow. Photo taken 23 January 2016.
    Credit: Wikimedia User Aude

    Last week in Seattle was pretty stormy, capped off by a very wet Thursday […]

  • Tuesday, November 17, 2015
    10:34 am

    Things are really ramping up now throughout Western Washington. The all-important PDX-BLI gradient, which was forecast to max out at 14-18 hPa, is already at 18 hPa, and […]

  • Saturday, November 7, 2015
    2:13 pm

    Less than a week ago, Cyclone Chapala slammed into Socotra, a small Yemeni Island some 150 miles east of the Horn of Africa, and Yemen, a small country on the […]

  • Saturday, October 17, 2015
    4:01 pm

    Beach erosion by Pacifica, California due to storms during the 1997-1998 El Niño event. Credit: USGS

    With all of this talk about the “Godzilla” El Niñ […]

  • Thursday, October 15, 2015
    3:52 pm

    Every autumn, our beloved deciduous trees shed their leaves, creating an annual economic boom for children everywhere as parents and neighbors pay them the proverbial quarter […]

  • Monday, October 5, 2015
    2:49 pm

    The Pacific Northwest is no stranger to flooding. I believe that Washington has had the most federal disaster declarations of any state, which may be surprise you due to […]

  • Thursday, October 1, 2015
    4:08 p.m.

    At Sea-Tac, the last time we had a month that was cooler than average for that month was February 2014. Since then, 20 months have passed, with 19 consecutive months […]

  • Thursday, September 17, 2015
    1:24 p.m.

    The port town of Coquimbo, Chile after the earthquake and tsunami. Credit: Wikimedia User Sfs90

     
    Chile is hands-down the most active place in the w […]

  • Tuesday, September 15, 2015
    2:27 pm

    Things were never looking good for our beloved salmon this year. I’ve been a fisherman all my life (I actually just got back from catching a bunch of albacore tuna off […]

  • Monday, August 31, 2015
    1:14 pm
    I’ll just cut to the chase here… Saturday’s storm destroyed my weather station at our house on Whidbey Island. Before the storm, there were three cups on the anemometer. Now, […]

  • Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 11 years ago

    Wednesday, August 12, 2015
    10:18 pm
    Hello everybody! I have a day off from my counselor duties at Hidden Valley Camp so I thought I’d go ahead and write a blog about the upcoming rains later this week. We could […]

  • Saturday, July 11, 2015
    5:04 pm

    Hello everybody! I’ve been living in the woods for the past 3+ weeks up near Granite Falls, Washington, and there ain’t no WIFI in the woods, so that’s why the blogs have […]

  • Tuesday, May 26, 2015
    6:38 pm

    On Good Friday, Mary 27, 1964, Southeast Alaska was rattled by a 9.2 magnitude earthquake with a hypocenter some 15 miles below Prince William Sound. The damage throughout the […]

  • May 7, 2015
    12:28 pm
    I still remember the Nisqually Earthquake of 2001. Ironically enough, we had just finished an “earthquake drill” when our second-grade teacher shouted “Earthquake! For real!” We all […]

  • Wednesday, April 8, 2015
    12:07 pm

    Edvard Munch’s The Scream

    As the picture above insinuates, the future is not good.
    Now, when I’m talking about the future, I’m not talking about 100 years […]

  • Tuesday, March 4, 2014
    12:15 a.m.
    Back in high school, I wrote a post on nuclear energy. It was the most-read post for a long time on this blog. It has since fallen to 2nd place behind “Mt. Rainier Weather.” […]

  • Monday, February 23, 2015
    11:50 p.m.

    When I was walking home from school today, I stopped at a viewpoint right above my house to take a quick glance at the Cascades, curious to see how white they where. I […]

  • Wednesday, December 17, 2014
    1:46 pm
    Last Thursday night, right after I had finished my final, my mom and I decided to trek up to Sandy Hook, which is a little coastal community situated on Cultus Bay on the […]

  • Friday, November 21, 2014
    9:58 pm
    We have a bad habit of making a big deal out of the white stuff in Seattle, and it seems to get worse with each passing ‘blizzard.’ It’s all too predictable; the chains on buses […]

  • Monday, November 10, 2014
    12:39 pm

    I think the above meme explains all you really need to know about the weather this coming week. But I shall oblige your curiosity and explain the meteorological situation […]

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