Charlie Phillips


  • 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.” […]

  • Monday, February 23, 2015
    11:50 p.m.

    When I was walking home from school today, I stopped at a viewpoint right above my house to take a quick glance at the Cascades, curious to see how white they where. I […]

  • Wednesday, December 17, 2014
    1:46 pm
    Last Thursday night, right after I had finished my final, my mom and I decided to trek up to Sandy Hook, which is a little coastal community situated on Cultus Bay on the […]

  • Friday, November 21, 2014
    9:58 pm
    We have a bad habit of making a big deal out of the white stuff in Seattle, and it seems to get worse with each passing ‘blizzard.’ It’s all too predictable; the chains on buses […]

  • Monday, November 10, 2014
    12:39 pm

    I think the above meme explains all you really need to know about the weather this coming week. But I shall oblige your curiosity and explain the meteorological situation […]

  • 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 […]

  • Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 11 years ago

    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 […]

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