@charliep127
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Hot Week Ahead, With Possible Thunderstorms Friday Night/Saturday, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 6 months ago
I’m committing one of the cardinal sins of weather blogging here: putting a high-impact, but uncertain, forecast in the title of a weather blog. I truly believe that this is an unethical practice, and that those […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, 2020 Fire Weather Outlook, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 6 months ago
One of our family friends described Pacific Northwest weather as being ‘stuck in a wet sock.’ Today has certainly felt that way. We’ve had a steady drip of rain here on Whidbey Island but hardly anything in the […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Heat Wave Later This Week!, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 6 months ago
What a wet weekend it has been! Many places across the I-5 corridor have picked up 0.25-0.75 inches of rain over the past 48 hours, but the Olympics and Coast Range have seen much more, with 1-2 inches common. […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, The Return of The Blob, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 7 months ago
I was perusing the Facebook weather-sphere the other day, and KPTV chief meteorologist Mark Nelsen pointed out that the Blob had resurfaced dramatically over the past month in the Northeast Pacific. Taking a look […]
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Thanks for the update, Charlie! Looking forward to the sun and warmer temps as we are walking the doggies so much now. bolB!!
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Have Travel Restrictions Improved Our Air Quality?, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 7 months ago
When I was trying to think of non forecast-related topics to blog about the other day, all the topics that came to my mind were depressing. I didn’t want to write about our worsening drought situation or the the […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Rain Arrives Wednesday, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 7 months ago
Saturday’s rain was refreshing, wasn’t it? Some spots saw far more rain than forecast as a weak upper-level low slowly drifted southeastward from the Olympic Peninsula through the Willamette Valley and into […]
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Drizzle Tuesday Night/Wednesday, Sunny and Warm Thursday/Friday, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 7 months ago
Thanks Holly! Yes it does… though I’m a bit worried about the drought potential this summer if we don’t get some more rain. Thankfully, we’ll get a pretty good soaking this Wednesday and potentially some more rain this weekend.
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, A Beautiful Sunset With Mountain Waves, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 7 months ago
I was treated to an incredible sunset on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound tonight! I took the below photo while kayaking in Cultus Bay facing WNW.
One subtle feature (but one that really jumps out to a […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Drizzle Tuesday Night/Wednesday, Sunny and Warm Thursday/Friday, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 7 months ago
When one thinks of springtime weather in the Pacific Northwest, fires are one of the last things that typically come to mind. However, a fire flared up on Easter Sunday at the Swanson Bark and Wood Products […]
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Thanks Holly! Yes it does… though I’m a bit worried about the drought potential this summer if we don’t get some more rain. Thankfully, we’ll get a pretty good soaking this Wednesday and potentially some more rain this weekend.
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Comparing The Coronavirus Recession to the Great Depression, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 7 months ago
Though most of you know me as the local weather geek, I’ve also a bit of a economics buff and stock market junkie. I got my first taste of Wall Street at a young age, overhearing the market bits between news […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Wet/Cold Week Ahead, And My Coronavirus Wake-Up Call, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 8 months ago
I hate to do this, but I’m going to start off this blog on a preachy note. I think most people get the severity of the coronavirus situation by now, but to those who don’t – I also didn’t grasp the severity until […]
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Fabulous post Charlie. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. The more people talk about what needs to be done, maybe the easier it will be to get through it! I hope!
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Will Spring Slow The Spread of COVID-19?, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 8 months ago
Thank you Holly! Thinking of you, Isaac, and the entire Thanksgiving crew. Take care of yourselves and be safe.
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Blazing Sunshine Today, Rain Arrives Monday, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 8 months ago
We live in a completely different world now than just a week ago. I can’t even imagine what the next weeks, months, or even hours may hold, but I know one thing: this virus will completely restructure our society, […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Will Spring Slow The Spread of COVID-19?, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 8 months ago
One of the most well-known aspects of influenza, more commonly known as the ‘flu,’ is that it occurs in yearly, seasonal outbreaks, with infections increasing as much as ten times from their summer minimums during […]
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Thank you Holly! Thinking of you, Isaac, and the entire Thanksgiving crew. Take care of yourselves and be safe.
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Snow Flurries Today, Measurable Snow Tonight?, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 8 months ago
With the coronavirus dominating seemingly every aspect of our lives, it’s hard to pay attention to much else, including the weather. The situation unfolding in Italy right now is horrifying, particularly […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Warming Through Thursday, Then A Colder Regime, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 8 months ago
Early spring is upon us! I went hiking on Friday in Forest Park with fellow WeatherTogether blogger (and music buddy… he’s a great sax/french horn player!) Karl Bonner ahead of the cold front that swept through […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Showers and Sunbreaks Today, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 8 months ago
Just a quick post/explanation about the unsettled weather we’ve seen today! We’ve seen plenty of “showers and sunbreaks” today as an upper-level-trough moves onshore. Upper-level-troughs are associated with both […]
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Hey Charlie. Great analogy with the lava lamp, especially for those of us who actually had one!
I had two rounds of hail yesterday afternoon here in Happy Valley, the first lasting 10 minutes and having both hail and graupel simultaneously; the second was just a 2-minute period of very small hail. There is still some left this chilly, foggy morning where it piled up from bouncing off of the roof.
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Beautiful Early Spring Weather This Week, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 9 months ago
Tuesday began clear for most of the Willamette Valley, but folks in downtown Portland and Vancouver had to wait until 10-11 am to break out of the clouds. The 10:00 am visible satellite image below shows how […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Sunny Week Ahead + Snowpack Update, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 9 months ago
I went snowshoeing up at Mirror Lake on Saturday, and I can confirm that there is a TON of snow up there!
Honestly, it’s shocking that we have as much snow as we do in the 3000-5000′ range of the Southern […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Record Flooding Strikes The Blue Mountains, on the site Charlie's Weather 4 years, 9 months ago
This post was co-produced with fellow WeatherTogether blogger Mark Ingalls of Kennewick, WA.
From Wednesday, 2/5 – Saturday 2/8, the Blue Mountains of Southeast Washington and Northeast Oregon witnessed a […]
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