Fundraisers for Marysville schools, students May 17 & 19
MARYSVILLE — Community get-togethers will be giving boosts to Marysville schools on Thursday, May 17, and Saturday, May 19.
May 16, 2012
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Snowpack, Spring Floods, and Why the Northwest is Better than California
Yes, the weather has turned cool and wet again, with snow falling in the higher passes and upper mountain slopes. Paradise at Mt. Rainier received ten inches yesterday (see pic). But we have a really good snow pack and lots of water for this summer. Here is the latest snow pack in terms of percentage of...
Solar Eclipse from Space
Let me show you something that is pretty amazing.It was cloudy over most of the Northwest and thus we were unable to see the annular solar eclipse from the ground...disappointing! But if you can't see it from the ground, why not enjoy the view from space?Can you see the eclipse from one of the National...
Annular Eclipe Cloud Update
Sunday noon update: the warm front is moving through and the rain is ending over western WA. Some breaks and thinning of the clouds can be expected during the next few hours.An annular eclipse--the sun is not completely covered by the moonTomorrow (Sunday) between roughly 5:30 and 7:30 PM PDT an annual eclipse of the...
Mysterious Ocean Precipitation Under Clear Skies
For a number of days, starting on Friday, the new Langley Hill coastal radar has been showing lots of precipitation offshore, some if it heavy. Yet the skies have been clear or nearly so. Then on Wednesday the rain disappeared. What is going on? And let me warn you now...these mystery showers are going to...
U.S. Climate Versus Weather Computers: Climate Wins
Why is the U.S. government provide hugely more computer resources for climate prediction than weather prediction? And why is far more emphasis given to climate prediction research than weather prediction research and development?In some past blogs I talked about the unfortunate lack of computer resources available to the National Weather Service (NWS), resulting in the...
Bark For Life, Paint the Town Purple, M-DOG cleanup all on May 19
MARYSVILLE — Saturday, May 19, will provide the community with plenty of opportunities to come together on behalf of pooches and those coping with cancer.
May 15, 2012
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Cold Records with Warm Temperatures
On Saturday it became toasty here in Northwest, with many locations gets into the 70s and lower 80s. Yet a number of locations exprienced daily minimum temperature records in the morning--here is the proof from the National Climatic Data Center records website. The blue dot indicate a tie for the record and stations with an...
Summer in May
It is a climatological oddity of Northwest meteorology that we often get a period of very warm, dry weather sometime in the second or third week of May, followed by a retreat into the dismal June Gloom. Well folks, we are about to have the heat wave--one that will bring near 80F temps to Seattle,...
The Windiest Place along the West Coast
As the U.S. West Coast enters the warm season, one area is getting very windy, particularly during the afternoon and evenings. Day after day this region will be hit by 20-30 mph winds, often with higher gusts. A region, where the afternoon is often too windy to be on the beach, with wind-driven sandy stinging...
Letter Carriers Food Drive returns to Marysville, Arlington May 12
SMOKEY POINT — The National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive is right around the corner, and organizers want people to keep three things in mind:
1. Yellow plastic bags will be placed in mailboxes on Wednesday, May 9.
2. Those bags will be picked up by letter carriers on Saturday, May 12.
3. Volunteers are still needed to help sort all of the donations that will come in.
May 8, 2012
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