Charlie Phillips

Tuesday, November 15, 2011
12:43 P.M.

In a nationwide survey of 1,010 American adults taken in May 2011, only 47% of Americans believed in human-caused climate change. In this blog post, I will provide […]

Wednesday, October 26, 2011
12:23 P.M.

Mt. Rainier is one of the most prominent peaks in the world, and it is certainly the most prominent one in the contiguous United States. Because it is so prominent, it […]

Tuesday, October 17, 2011
4:04 P.M.

That was a bold title, and I may end up eating my own words at some point in the next couple weeks. Nevertheless, I firmly believe that tomorrow will be the warmest day […]

Sunday, September 18, 2011
8:30 P.M.

Summer is back!
Hi everybody! I have some good news for you sun lovers. It looks like we have a warm week on tap. Remember that powerful wave I was talking about? As […]

Saturday, August 6, 2011
12:52 A.M. (up late)
When storms come our way, I usually look at multiple weather models, because they all show different outcomes from the same set of present conditions. Sometimes […]

Thursday, August 4, 2011
9:51 P.M.

As I was taking the ferry back from Victoria the other day, I took the picture above. I was seeing a mirage! I had always seen those common road mirages before, where the […]

June 2, 2011
3:08 P.M.
Hello everybody, I’m at the Garfield Community Center right now and for some odd reason I can’t post pictures to my blog at this time. Anyways, I have some good news! Next weekend will be […]

We have, as of May 24th, seen 1,208 tornadoes this year, and there was a significant tornado outbreak yesterday and another smaller one today. That is absolutely incredible. The average for the entire year in the […]

Wednesday, March 23, 2011
2:13 P.M.

Would you look at that! A weak high pressure system off of our coast is creating a bubble of sunny conditions and a weak area of low pressure arriving from the south is […]

Tuesday, March 22, 2011
1:24 P.M.

Hey everybody, this is going to be a real quick forecast, but I do have some good news, and no, it’s not because I saved 15% on my car insurance by switching to GEICO. It h […]

Tuesday February 22, 2011
11:46 P.M.
Yay! I’m back on this blog. In retrospect I should have put an update that I just needed to take a break from it to work on some academic and college stuff and get all that […]

Saturday, December 11, 2010
2:18 P.M.

Wait a minute…

There we go. 🙂
The word is out that we will likely see some of the biggest flooding since January 2009 on some rivers, and January 2009 was a […]

Tuesday, December 7, 2010
5:44 P.M.
I know… I know… I haven’t updated it in a while. Same story as always… I’ve been extremely busy. I thought senior year was supposed to be a breeze! Not with my class […]

Thursday, November 25, 2010
8:59 A.M.
Hey ya’ll, so we are seeing a little bit of light snow this morning. It’s not that big of a deal because it is going to change to rain later in the afternoon and it will […]

Monday, November 22, 2010
11:50 P.M.
So the snow has now largely come to an end. Don’t be surprised if you see a flurry, but I doubt you will see any additional accumulation.
Generally, I’ve been hearing of […]

Monday, November 22, 2010
6:22 P.M.
WOOHOO!!! I can’t believe this is happening. Winter storm warning and 2 inches of snow and counting! The models predicted zip. Cliff Mass predicted zip. Scott Sistek predicted […]

Sunday, November 21, 2010
12:28 P.M.
Hey guys. Some of you saw some snow flurries this morning. Some of you did not. It depends on where you live and your elevation. I say some flurries but no accumulation. It […]

November 16, 2010
8:53 P.M.
Alright ladies and gents, it’s time to tell you the TRUTH about snow in the upcoming days. There have been a lot of rumors flying around. I don’t know if I’ve ever told you, but I […]

November 11, 2010
9:09 P.M.
Making an acronym that sounds like an actual word (aka: not MOFACASOSWWWW – Major Outbreak of  Frigrid Air, Copious Amounts of Snow or Other Severe Winter Weather in Western W […]

October 27, 2010
1:59 P.M.

Look at that storm!!!
Now, many of you may have heard about the huge storm in the Midwest. There has been a lot of talk about it being the strongest extratropical storm on […]