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Sunday, November 9, 2014
5:04 pm
Every once in a while, a storm so unbelievably massive, so breathtakingly powerful, and so horrendously destructive appears in the models that you literally go into cardiac […]

Wednesday, September 24, 2014
10:07 pm

Good evening everybody, I just got back from my first day of school. I’m actually pretty exhausted, so this will be a quickie. Only nine more months to go…

We […]

Thursday, August 21, 2014
11:03 p.m.

We “only” reached 70 degrees today. At 6 degrees below average for a high temperature, it’s fairly cool, but not extraordinarily so. The last time we didn’t hit 70 was on […]

Tuesday, July 22, 2014
12:11 a.m.
Apparently, there’s been a pretty massive complex of wildfires in Eastern Washington over the past week I’ve been at camp. I’m finishing another day off and need to be back in […]

Thursday, May 22, 2014
4:19 p.m.

“Cosmos” has always been a fantastic show, but it, and its host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, seem to have gained even more popularity recently. The thing I love about Mr. Tyson is […]

Thursday, May 1, 2014
9:45 p.m.
I’ve actually got some free time on my hand before I get back to doing the last 3/10ths of my linear algebra assignment. So I thought I’d post a blog, because I haven’t posted for […]

Monday, March 24, 2014
1:54 a.m.

Retrieved from WSDOT Flickr page

Sorry about the delay in postings. End-of-quarter finals unfortunately usually take higher priority over weather posts. This […]

Saturday, February 8, 2014
This will be my page for snow updates for the night.
6:49 p.m.: currently lightly snowing in the U District with temperatures around freezing. Surprisingly, it actually is sticking on […]

Thursday, January 9, 2014

2:35 a.m. (yup, one of those nights)

They say the Eskimos have 100 different words for snow. I doubt “Cascade Concrete” is one of them, because I don’t know of any Inuit peoples […]

Tuesday, January 7, 2014
12:14 a.m.
I don’t know how many of you watched the Packers-49ers game on Sunday, but it looked absolutely frigid. The grass was brown. The surface temperature was 3 or 4 degrees. Green […]

Tuesday, December 12, 2013
11:13 a.m.
I’m back! Sorry it’s been so long. The end of the quarter was quite stressful. Heck, I had a seizure on the night of my final. That sure threw a wrench in my […]

Sunday, December 8, 2013
11:39 p.m.
Numerical weather prediction has gotten pretty darn good over the past few decades, but it wasn’t always that way. But taking this class has made me realize how incredible […]

Sunday, December 8, 2013
7:56 p.m.
Were all familiar with Isaac Newton. You know, that “apple” guy. Or was it a peach? Either way, I’m sure most of you are also familiar with his second law, which says that […]

Monday, December 9, 2013
12:44 a.m.

Let’s start out with some definitions:

Radiant Flux = F,   units are in Watts (Joules/sec)
Irradiance = E, units are F per unit area (W/m^2)

Energy of a photon: h*v, […]

Saturday, December 7, 2013
8:38 p.m.
Well, I’m back! I’ve been through heck and back over the past few weeks with schoolwork, but I now have some time to write on this blog, and write I shall.
OK, well that […]

Thursday, November 7, 2013
8:17 p.m.

A visible satellite image of Super Typhoon Haiyan as it makes landfall Friday morning Philippine time. Credit: NOAA.

A few hours ago, Super Typhoon […]

Thursday, October 31, 2013
5:54 p.m.
Our third law that we will concern ourselves with is the first law of thermodynamics. It will be the third of the “big six” we will look at for now. Here’s the law.

This […]

Wednesday, September 18, 2013
4:13 a.m. (one of those nights…)
Hey everybody! It’s super early Wednesday morning and I woke up and am having trouble falling back asleep. There are two things that make me fall […]

Wednesday, September 4, 2013
8:49 p.m.

I remember when the above picture went viral all over the internet last year. I took one look at it and knew that it was fake; the cloud in the back is a LP […]

Thursday, August 29, 2013
2:16 p.m.
Alright, I have to give credit where credit is due. Both Scott Sistek and Cliff Mass, my two favorite weather bloggers in the Pacific Northwest, blogged here and here about […]