The National Weather Service predicts El Niño conditions to persist through the upcoming spring, and that changes what we can expect this winter in the PNW.
It is 95% certain that El Niño will occur for January 2024 through February and March 2024. There is a 71% probability it will be classified as a strong one.
Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) officials are busy monitoring the roads at Snoqualmie and Stevens Passes for the upcoming snowfall.
Winter is still very much in play here in the Pacific Northwest, as demonstrated by the formation of fascinating ice spikes around Puget Sound this week.
When an atmospheric river is added to a frontal system, a long list of dangers are created for the west coast. Here are some examples from the incoming storm.
The Convergence Zone (also sometimes abbreviated 'PSCZ') is one of the more fascinating weather phenomena in the Pacific Northwest.Weather 101 Answer:Northwest winds in the upper atmosphere become split by the Olympic Mountains, then re-converge over Puget
So, you thought you'd stay informed on the crazy weather this winter by friending or following a meteorologist on Twitter.And then comes the snow or storm forecasts, and Tweets become filled with cryptic terms and maps that look like some...
There are two different wind events that are most common around Western Washington. There's a pattern that brings strong easterly winds to the Cascade foothills, and another that brings strong winds to the Western Washington lowlands.Lowland Wind EventsWin
SEATTLE -- Hurricanes have the Saffir-Simpson Scale ("Category 5"), tornadoes have the Enhanced Fujita Scale ("EF-3") but now the West Coast has a storm scale of our own with a recent introduction of a new rating system for "atmospheric rivers"...
This chart will show how many times it has rained in Seattle on any given day over the past 125 years. Period of record: Jan. 1, 1894 - Nov. 19, 2019. Combination of Seattle-Tacoma Airport (1945-present) and Downtown Federal Building...
Well, sort of.Seattle ranks behind a lot of cities when it comes to annual rainfall totals. Chicago, Dallas, and Miami, among others, all get more rain per year than Seattle's 37 inches.But that's because while it indeed rains a lot...
Marine pushes are the summertime occurrences that bring our steady diet of morning fog. It also contributes to our natural air conditioning.On most days in the summertime, there is higher pressure that sits offshore from Western Washington, and lower press...
This is kind of tricky. Even though showers are indeed rain, theres a subtle but important distinction between the two as far as weather forecasts go.When we call for Rain as in, Rain at Times, a rainy day, Occasional...
There are two main types of fog, and the Northwest gets both varieties. And they both are directly related to the dew point.The dew point is the temperature at which the air becomes 100% saturated. At that point, the air...
The thermal trough is responsible for almost all of our heat waves in the summertime. A lot of times, we associate low pressure with stormy, rainy weather. But intense heat can also cause low pressure.In the hot desert, you...
This is a trick question. There really isn't much of a difference. They all mean the sky is part clear, and part cloudy. It just gives us a larger vocabulary to work with.Although most of the time, we'll tend to...
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