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El Nino and La Nina are both part of the El Nino Southern Oscilliation (ENSO) pattern in the eastern tropical Pacific ocean. This oscillation, or switching, refers to the temperature of the water in that region. […]

August 27, 2009
1:34 P.M.
So, today I’ll talk about our early autumn storms and our very tricky extended forecast. First of all, as most of you know, the tropics are very active in the months of august and […]

July 30, 2009
4:03 P.M.
Today went as expected; highs were again near 100 or above near the foothills, but temperatures were in the 60s at the coast due to a strong onshore flow. For the rest of us in between, […]

June 30, 2009
9:35 P.M.
Nothing new to talk about today. Tomorrow, I’ll talk about pyrocumulus clouds. Without looking up the term, post what you think they are on the wall. I’ll see how many people read this. […]

May 12, 2009
9:18 PM

For some reason, the atmosphere failed to really destabilize, and the expected thundershowers failed to flare up. Tomorrow, in the plains, there will be a huge outbreak of severe weather. […]

January 25, 2009
3:36 P.M.
There was a little snow this morning and right now, but it isn’t really amounting to much. It will continue a little longer and taper off this evening. Again, no accumulations are […]

Today was cloudier than expected due to moisture streaming over the top of our ridge of high pressure. It was still dry though. A semi-zonal flow will keep things moist at times for the week ahead with some sunny […]

Wow! It has been a while since I wrote a forecast for this! I don’t even have a prediction for today!
Well, remember how I said it could get really warm in the long range like a week ago? That time is finally […]

This April will end up being the 10th coldest April ever recorded in Seattle, but in Bellingham, this will be their 5th coldest. Why have we been so cold? The answer is that instead of getting customary high […]

I’m copying everything down from the facebook blog to this, just to have everything on this since I am now officially using it. Here is a quick discussion topic I did back like 2 years ago.

Charlie Phillips […]

Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Many people would be surprised to find out that the Pacific Northwest gets some of the biggest floods in the world. The reason why it is not common knowledge is because the places that […]

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

I’ve been watching the weekend forecast with some interest, because it is looking more and more like we might get quite a bit of rain out of these storms. The maps above show the […]

Monday, October 4, 2010
11:10 P.M.
Hey everbody. I’m not sure how many of you have heard, but this winter has the possibility of being an extremely snowy one, both for the lowlands and the mountains, but […]

Thursday, September 23, 2010
8:29 P.M.
Yup, you guessed it, the rain is BACK in the forecast. We had different scenarios being forecasted by two different models. The American GFS model was forecasting dry and […]

Wednesday, September 22, 2010
4:34 P.M.
As many of you have noticed, the U.S. hasn’t been hit by a hurricane this year. We’ve come mighty close – one recurved off of the outer banks and one landed just south of […]

September 21, 2010
5:43 P.M.
Hey guys, I have some breaking news! Ok, just kidding, it’s not really breaking news. The weather models are acting up (I wish they weren’t, THAT would be breaking news!). Tropical […]

Wednesday, September 15, 2010
4:15 P.M.
Greetings my friends! Recently, we’ve seen a gradual transition to fall from summer. The days are getting shorter, and they are also getting cloudier and rainier. Up until […]

Tuesday, September 14, 2010
3:21 P.M.

After the Columbus Day Storm, we would be without a major storm for some time. But we had a major windstorm on November 13, 1981. This storm was actually similar to the […]

September 10, 2010
3:31 P.M.
Hey everybody. I’ll pick up the tab on where we left off on yesterday. I must emphasize that the contents of this blog are not my own ideas, sure I’m not copying and pasting (except […]

September 9, 2010
5:01 P.M.
While the weather is still pretty boring, I thought it would be a good idea to go over some different topics that are still related to weather, even if they aren’t my own forecasts […]