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It's been an amazing week, which kicked off with thunderstorms and large hail last Friday, and then four wind storms Sunday night through Thursday. As you might imagine, the skies were dancing quite a bit with all the wind and rain, so I compiled some of the best time lapse videos of the week. Maybe find your iPod and crank up some tunes in your ear buds as you watch the days go by :) Per usual, these are from Dr. Dale Ireland in Silverdale and the UW Atmospheric Sciences Building. November 12: (Silverdale:)
November 13: (UW) November 17: Silverdale: UW: November 18: Silverdale: (Gorgeous Rainbow Alert!) UW: November 19 (UW): Have a great weekend! 
Reader Carol Smith, who like most of us are trying to adjust to the onslaught of the rainy season, penned this nice little poem about the November weather of late: Read more »
It rained on November 19th in Seattle. In other news, the sun rose in the east.
Planning an outdoor event in Seattle in November is always a risky adventure, but no day is worse than November 19th, which is statistically the wettest day of the year in Seattle. Since 1893, it has rained on this date a whopping 87 times (counting today). The next wettest date not counting this year is a tie between Dec. 1 and Nov. 15, both at 80 (although it did rain on Nov. 15 this year too, we'll have to see If Dec. 1 can maintain the tie.) Overall, that means that there is a 3 in 4 chance that it'll rain on Nov. 19th each year, although I guess we were due because it didn't rain on Nov. 19, 2008. On the flip side, Aug. 1 and Jul. 30 are the driest days of the year, with rain only 9 times since 1893. See the entire chart at our Weather FAQ 
While this is technically not weather related, a lot of people thing meteorologists deal with meteors, so this blog post will be right up their alley. According to Spaceweather.com, there was a spectacular fireball that streaked across the western states on Wednesday. Salt Lake City TV News site KSL.com says a fast-moving meteor lit up the night skies over most of Utah just after midnight Wednesday. Moments later, the phones lit up their switchboard as people across the state called to tell them what they saw and ask what it was. Professor David Kieda, chair of the University of Utah's astronomy department, told KSL.com the energy of the meteor coming into Earth's atmosphere was so powerful it has to be measured in Terawatts. "It's almost like the consumption of the United States all at once. It was a fraction of a second," Kieda said. Here is a collection of videos that came into the station:
If this sounds familiar, it might be because a similar event happened here over the Seattle area -- actually twice. Once on June 3, 2004, and again on Feb. 18, 2008. 
..MAXIMUM PEAK WIND GUSTS FROM AROUND WESTERN WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY EVENING AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT... 
Our army of reporters and photographers all have iPhones to get news stories and breaking news into our newsroom faster, but sometimes, Mother Nature wins. Take a look at this report from our sister station KATU's Joe English and photographer Tom Agosti tried to file from a jetty overlooking on the viewing platform on the south jetty at the mouth of the Columbia River on Wednesday. Note to Apple -- the next version needs a boom mic! :)
The weather didn't cooperate around here for the Leonid Meteor shower early Monday morning, but I did get a request for some photos of it.
Here is a wonderful online gallery from Spaceweather.com. 
When November rolls around, weather warnings come fast and furious. But there's so many different ones that have specific meaning to the National Weather Service, but might leave you at home scratching your head. Like: What's the difference between a Snow Advisory and Winter Storm Warning? To start with the basics: a "Watch" means conditions are favorable for the highlighted event, but not certain yet. These typically get issued 12-48 hours in advance of an approaching event. Sort of like a "heads up." A "Warning" means conditions are imminent within 12 hours or are already occurring. Let's break down some of the most common ones we see around Western Washington this time of year: Read more »
Typically, it's Sequim that boasts the 300 days of sunshine (not sure how accurate that is -- I might buy 300 dry days, or maybe with a peek of sun, but not 300 Los Angeles-esque sunny days) but one thing is for sure, Sequim can boast being the driest spot in Western Washington, with just 15-18" of rain per year -- half that of Seattle. Read more »
We talk about it a lot during wind events: "Higher wind speeds in the Northwest Interior". This is generally the area from roughly Everett north to the Canadian border, and west to Port Townsend, including Whidbey, Camano and San Juan islands. Other cities would be Anacortes, Bellingham, Mount Vernon, and Burlington. This map below shows a rough outline of the Northwest Interior: Read more »
Our resident photographer Jeff Fogg (of Issaquah) who is working at Antarctica's McMurdo Station continues to send some great photos from way down under. |
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Originally from Port Angeles, Scott graduated from the UW in 1994 with a degree in Atmospheric Sciences and has been producing weather reports for broadcast and on the Web ever since.
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