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Pi Day 2016
4:55 pm

I apologize for not being in the blogosphere yesterday – I was up at Alpental introducing 5-year-olds to poles. I taught lessons up there this year on the weekends and had a spectacular […]

Thursday, February 11, 2016
8:12 pm

Although it has been my most enduring, meteorology was not my first foray into the natural sciences. When I was in preschool, I was obsessed with volcanoes and […]

Tuesday, February 9, 2016
11:37 am

Right now, we have a pretty impressive inversion over our region. This was something I expected, and honestly, I was surprised that it was not stronger yesterday. It will […]

Monday, February 8, 2016
4:59 p.m.

We’ve seen our fair share of suffixes and nicknames for atmospheric and oceanic phenomena of all types these past two years. We had “The Blob,” a simple but very accur […]

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, […]

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.” […]