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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 6 months ago
It’s been five days since my initial post, which, despite describing the most boring weather feature in existence, actually became my most-viewed post ever with over 1,000 views this week! That’s because Scott […]
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Death Ridge To Kill All Interesting Weather For Next 10 Days, on the site 8 years, 6 months ago
Thank you so much Roseanne! Keep us posted on the weather there – you can always message us reports and/or pictures and we’ll share them on our Facebook page. And enjoy a prolonged break from the rain!
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 6 months ago
The title reads like an Onion article, but it’s true. A massive ridge of high pressure will move into western North America today and stay there for the foreseeable future, putting an abrupt end to our normally […]
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Thank you so much Roseanne! Keep us posted on the weather there – you can always message us reports and/or pictures and we’ll share them on our Facebook page. And enjoy a prolonged break from the rain!
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Windstorm Review, on the site 8 years, 6 months ago
Thanks Cathie. Quite a few people lost power there. I don’t know Dr. Sheffield, what department was she in?
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Advection Fog Over Lake Washington!, on the site 8 years, 6 months ago
You need 100% relative humidity to form fog – the air has to be saturated to the point where it cannot hold any more water vapor. However, you can have 100% relative humidity and not have fog if the air is “supersaturated,” meaning it holds a greater amount of water vapor than its theoretical limit under “normal” circumstances.
You can have…[Read more]
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Snowy November, on the site 8 years, 6 months ago
50-foot seas… yikes. The biggest I can remember here in the Pacific Northwest were some 40-foot seas during the “Great Coastal Gale” of 2007, but we simply don’t get storms large and deep enough to generate waves above 50 feet.
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Wet year in Utah helps the Great Salt Lake, on the site 8 years, 6 months ago
Wow, I actually had no idea how shallow the Great Salt Lake was. Year-to-year variability doesn’t have any impact on Lake Washington, since lake levels are controlled via the Ballard Locks. It’s fascinating that the amount of lake effect snow you can expect to see in a winter is influenced by last year’s snowpack.
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 6 months ago
Folks west of the Cascade crest smashed record high temperatures today as a Pineapple Express continued to pump extremely warm and moist air originating from the Hawaiian Islands into the region. The fact that […]
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I found your post about fog interesting. I often wondered why the humidity isn’t 100% every time that there is fog.
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You need 100% relative humidity to form fog – the air has to be saturated to the point where it cannot hold any more water vapor. However, you can have 100% relative humidity and not have fog if the air is “supersaturated,” meaning it holds a greater amount of water vapor than its theoretical limit under “normal” circumstances.
You can have “leftover” fog when you are close to 100% relative humidity, but the fog will be in the process of burning off and no new fog will be formed.
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Weekly Wrap Up: July 23, 2018 #ARWX, on the site 8 years, 6 months ago
Awesome post Jeff! I thought local climatological differences in Seattle were huge, but I think they are even bigger in Portland due to the Columbia River Gorge. I’m in Northeast PDX, so we are windier and cooler during gorge outflow events, and our freezing rain lasts far later than downtown.
One thing that would be really interesting is…[Read more]
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, "Thermal Winter" Begins With Exceptionally Warm Pattern, on the site 8 years, 6 months ago
Great post Karl. I especially liked your reasoning for the “real” winter for the Pacific Northwest.
I’ve always wondered what November 1955 was like… I remember from when I was a kid seeing super low record lows on the KOMO newscasts during mid November and being in disbelief. Here’s the temps at Sea-Tac from that stretch of November…[Read more]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 6 months ago
This storm lived up to the hype, delivering a strong blow to the coast and lesser but still damaging winds inland, particularly the Puget Sound. Fellow WeatherTogether blogger Brie Hawkins of Little Bear Creek […]
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My brother lives in Seattle. I’ll have to check with him to see if he lost his power. If you attended the University of Washington, you may know his wife, Dr. Rosemary Sheffield. She’s retired now but worked there quite a few years
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Thanks Cathie. Quite a few people lost power there. I don’t know Dr. Sheffield, what department was she in?
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 7 months ago
I just got back from a weekend vacation at my uncle’s place in Pacific City, Oregon, but how I wish I could stay just one more night! Why, you may ask? The first significant windstorm of the 2017-2018 storm season […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 7 months ago
When I was little, I remember how the Summit at Snoqualmie would always put out a “Photo of the Day,” chronicling the weather conditions each day up on the mountain. Now, they have an Instagram and take photos […]
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Post 1 Redux, on the site 8 years, 7 months ago
Wow, pretty drive! We have a place on South Whidbey and those forested drives are familiar. 🙂 I can’t remember the last time I saw fog there was though.
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Charlie Phillips posted a new activity comment 8 years, 7 months ago
Have you tried combining them with an Orange Julius @markingalls? That might suffice for the time being.
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 7 months ago
It was a fringe event once again, but many places around Puget Sound saw a second lowland snow event yesterday morning and afternoon! It wasn’t as widespread as predicted due to the center of low pressure […]
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, HAPPY VALLEY, OREGON, WEATHER: OCTOBER 2017, on the site 8 years, 7 months ago
Wow, those are some beautiful pictures! I particularly enjoy the cumulus congestus and double rainbow. And yes, this October was much, much drier – it made biking to work far more comfortable. 🙂
As always, thanks so much for your detailed report.
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, A Review of Thursday's Snowstorm and a Forecast for Tonight, on the site 8 years, 7 months ago
Let’s see if this works.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yenpSFiiroI&w=560&h=315%5D
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, A Review of Thursday's Snowstorm and a Forecast for Tonight, on the site 8 years, 7 months ago
I remember January 2004 very well, I forgot to put that one in there. It was a classic overrunning event for us – we got at least 3 inches of snow before it turned to rain. No large discrepancy in elevation (which is good, because we are close to lake level!). Portland got severe freezing rain later on from that storm.
I have particularly vivid…[Read more]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 7 months ago
First off, I apologize for getting this out so late – I’ve been extraordinarily busy between the WeatherTogether/WeatherQuack merger and work. Trust me, I wanted nothing more than to give y’all a forecast for the […]
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The most memorable snowstorm of my early childhood in The Dalles was of course late November 1985. Temps as cold as -1F a couple days before Thanksgiving, too….
Then there was the 1992-93 winter season, where the cold and snow lingered throughout late February and the first few days of March.
The El Nino season in 1997-98 had a big memorable snowstorm in The Dalles, with about 18 inches and tons of even taller drifts.
Adulthood memorable snowstorms (besides Dec ’08) included April 20, 2008 in Eugene; March 21, 2012 all over the PNW and November 13, 2014.
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Mine would probably be winter of 2003-2004. I lived on McChord AFB near Tacoma and at one point we had 18 inches of snow on the ground. I was nine, but it seemed like we got a couple of different snow storms right around the new year, along with an ice storm that grounded everything to a halt.
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I remember January 2004 very well, I forgot to put that one in there. It was a classic overrunning event for us – we got at least 3 inches of snow before it turned to rain. No large discrepancy in elevation (which is good, because we are close to lake level!). Portland got severe freezing rain later on from that storm.
I have particularly vivid memories from that day walking along Lake Washington with my friend and taking in all the scenery together. Schools were of course closed, and the snow stuck to the roads like glue since they were well below freezing. I remember seeing a guy ski down Madrona Hill outside my friend’s house.
I was lucky enough to ski down Madrona Hill in 2008… this was taken the evening of December 21, our second big December 2008 snowstorm. I think the snow had stopped falling at the time of this video, but I’m not sure. Little brother alert at 0:20 and dog (ours) alert at 0:56. https://youtu.be/yenpSFiiroI
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Let’s see if this works.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yenpSFiiroI&w=560&h=315%5D
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Another awesome write-up of our strange weather, Charlie! I’ve been able to get yard work done with the dry streak, though my hands were starting to feel like fake ones with the cold, windy air. Never thought that I’d be able to schedule December yard work 5 days in advance (I took the day off from work knowing that this was coming).
Now, if we can just get this next potential ridge to set up further offshore.
Charlie what to you is not normal that is an all to familiar pattern here in the North. You just need to come up for an few years and you will see what I mean. Every time during the deep cold I drive thru the inversion layer that fills the bowl in the Tanana valley in which Fairbanks is in.