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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Fire Season Ends for Pacific Northwest This Weekend, on the site 3 years, 3 months ago

I haven’t been razor clamming in the longest time. Last time I went was April 19, 2008, and it was very memorable. A very cool trough moved overhead that day (Seattle was 45/34, with a trace of snow), and one of the showers brought graupel to the beach. And then, gradually over the next 5-10 minutes or so, the beach became more and more charged,…[Read more]

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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Thermal Troughs, Adiabatic Processes, And A Warm End To The Week, on the site 3 years, 3 months ago

Hi Bori, I can try! What are you struggling with?

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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 3 years, 3 months ago

We really lucked out with our fire season west of the Cascades this year. After one of the driest springs and hottest/driest summers on record, vegetation was incredibly dry and the environment incredibly […]
Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 3 years, 4 months ago

The 2021-2022 storm season is knocking at our door. Take a look at the precipitable water imagery over the East Pacific and note the dramatic stream of subtropical moisture barreling towards the Pacific Northwest. […]
Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 3 years, 4 months ago

In my last post on August 9, I talked about a record heat wave slated for the upcoming week. After a month-long blogging hiatus, I get to blog about something much different – a chilly, early-season atmospheric […]
- Charlie Phillips replied 3 years, 3 months ago
  
  I haven’t been razor clamming in the longest time. Last time I went was April 19, 2008, and it was very memorable. A very cool trough moved overhead that day (Seattle was 45/34, with a trace of snow), and one of the showers brought graupel to the beach. And then, gradually over the next 5-10 minutes or so, the beach became more and more charged, so much so that people’s hair was standing on end and I would shocked every time my toes touched the tips of my steel-toed boots. I could even hear a faint buzzing sound on my clothes… maybe a metal zipper or something. No lightning ever struck but it was quite alarming, especially since we didn’t really have any place to shelter.
  
  Hoping I can go again soon, and with a little less weather drama this time!
Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 3 years, 5 months ago

A dangerous heat wave will impact the Pacific Northwest this week. It won’t be anywhere near as strong as the “Heat Dome” of June 26-28, but it will still bring record highs to large portions of the Pacific NW […]
Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 3 years, 5 months ago

As of 8/2, Portland and Seattle have seen 48 and 49 consecutive days without measurable precipitation, respectively. Such dry spells aren’t unheard of for the summer – Portland’s record for consecutive dry days is […]
Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 3 years, 6 months ago

Last week, the Bootleg Fire, a 400,000 acre conflagration that is still only 40% contained, made headlines when it tripped off a set of high-voltage transmission lines known as the California-Oregon Intertie that […]
- Cathie Ursu replied 3 years, 5 months ago
  
  Wow, so glad I don’t live out there. It would be too much going through this every summer.
Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 3 years, 6 months ago

“Unprecedented” is an overused meteorological buzzword, but in the case of the June 2021 Pacific Northwest Heatwave, it is absolutely warranted. This heatwave shattered meteorologist’s preconceptions of what the u […]
Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 3 years, 7 months ago

It was hot Sunday and today! My brother came down to Portland for the weekend, and yesterday, we went cliff diving at High Rocks Park on the Clackamas River. There were some pretty acrobatic divers jumping off the […]
Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 3 years, 7 months ago

11:00 pm Monday

What a shift in weather we’ve seen over the last week! In my last blog on 5/31, I was talking about the potential for record heat in Portland on Tuesday, 6/1. Portland indeed set a record that […]
Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 3 years, 7 months ago

It was toasty this Memorial Day weekend! Portland hit 82 on Saturday, 84 on Sunday, and 88 today, According to chief KPTV meteorologist Mark Nelsen, this was the warmest Memorial Day weekend by average high […]
Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 3 years, 7 months ago

The warmest temperatures of the year are on tap for this weekend into early next week, and we’ll have super low tides to go along with the hot weather. This post ended up being kinda (dare I say, unnecessarily?) […]
Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 3 years, 8 months ago

Last Wednesday, the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), a government agency that oversees water resource management in the Western US and Great Plains, announced that they would close the main irrigational […]
Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 3 years, 8 months ago

What happens when you combine an unstable airmass, a mountain range, and daytime heating? You get scattered afternoon/evening thunderstorms that bubble up along the Cascade crest! We saw a ton of those today and […]
Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 3 years, 8 months ago

Remember the “Blob?” That awful patch of sterile, warm water from late 2013-2015 and again in summer 2019? Well, now we have the opposite of the “Blob;” a swath of cooler-than-average water along the West Coast […]
Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 3 years, 8 months ago

April 2021 was by far the driest April on record for Portland, with only 0.39″ of rain falling at Portland Int’l Airport. This record-dry April occurred on the heels of a much drier-than-average March. As I […]
Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 3 years, 9 months ago

Many locations across the Pacific NW have seen their driest start to spring on record. As of April 22, Portland has seen a paltry 1.64 inches of rain since March 1, which is more than 4 inches below-average. […]
Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 3 years, 9 months ago

Spring used to be my least-favorite season. Back in elementary and middle school, I grieved the transition to boring weather, the seasonal closing of ski resorts in the Cascades, and the departure of the windy, […]
- Sara Robertson replied 3 years, 9 months ago
  
  I love a day off from school for “Tulip Day!” Great report, and crazy that there was snow on Saturday at Pine Hills. You gotta love crazy spring weather!
Charlie Phillips wrote a new post on the site Charlie's Weather 3 years, 9 months ago

La Nina years are known for bringing hefty snows to the Cascades. I still remember the La Nina year of 2007-2008, when I went skiing in the Alpental backcountry on Memorial Day with my mom. We had to skirt around […]
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