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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, A New Climate Change Movement, on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 6 months ago
There has been a lot of talk about climate change, and how we need to do everything we can to mitigate it. At the same time, there has been a lot of talk about how the climate is “always changing,” and that […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Viva La Niña!, on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 7 months ago
Credit: NOAA
Earlier this week, my good friends at NOAA (well, hopefully we’ll be best buds someday) issued a La Niña watch for the Tropical Pacific. Some of the models were showing a […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Record Heat Today?, on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 7 months ago
What a change a month makes! Back on the 10th and 13th of March, we had two powerful windstorms roll through the area, with the one on the 10th causing lots of damage to the Northern Interior and creating a lot […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Another Beautiful Week On Tap, on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 7 months ago
Wow, what a change in weather we have had! From the wettest winter on record to two consecutive weeks with temperatures above 70 degrees! Our transition from autumn to winter is swift, but our transition from […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, The Demise of The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 7 months ago
On Wednesday, the New York times came out with an alarming article. It said that a new, high-resolution model was showing that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), a massive ice sheet west of the “Transantarctic […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Funnel Cloud Over Mill Creek!, on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 8 months ago
Credit: NASA AQUA Satellite, ~2pm on Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016
Yesterday was definitely a crazy day for weather! For much of the day, a pretty strong Puget Sound Convergence Zone set up […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Sneezing Up A Storm, on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 8 months ago
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
2:28 pm
Every year, around the first week of March, springtime allergies hit me harder than a bottle of caffeine pills. For the majority of the winter, I’m totally fine, and then […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Sunday Windstorm Review, on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 8 months ago
Pi Day 2016
4:55 pmI 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 […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Everything You Need To Know About Gravitational Waves, on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 9 months ago
Thursday, February 11, 2016
8:12 pmAlthough 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 […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Major Inversion, on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 9 months ago
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
11:37 amRight 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 […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, The Death Ridge!, on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 9 months ago
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 […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, A Review Of The Massive Storm Back East, on the site Charlie's Weather 8 years, 10 months ago
Monday, January 25, 2016
1:24 pmA car submerged in snow. Photo taken 23 January 2016.
Credit: Wikimedia User AudeLast week in Seattle was pretty stormy, capped off by a very wet Thursday […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, A Very Stormy Tuesday!, on the site Charlie's Weather 9 years ago
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
10:34 amThings 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 […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Why Did Yemen and Socotra Just Get Hit By Consecutive Tropical Cyclones?, on the site Charlie's Weather 9 years ago
Saturday, November 7, 2015
2:13 pmLess 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 […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, What Was the 1997-1998 El Niño Like?, on the site Charlie's Weather 9 years, 1 month ago
Saturday, October 17, 2015
4:01 pmBeach 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 […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Why Are Our Evergreens Turning Brown?, on the site Charlie's Weather 9 years, 1 month ago
Thursday, October 15, 2015
3:52 pmEvery 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 […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Historic Flooding in South Carolina, on the site Charlie's Weather 9 years, 1 month ago
Monday, October 5, 2015
2:49 pmThe 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 […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Another Heat Record Bites The Dust/Thoughts on The Blob, on the site Charlie's Weather 9 years, 1 month ago
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 […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, A Megathrust Earthquake And Tsunami off Chile!, on the site Charlie's Weather 9 years, 2 months ago
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 […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Our Beloved Salmon, on the site Charlie's Weather 9 years, 2 months ago
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
2:27 pmThings 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 […]
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