KOMO Weather Blog

Where not to go to avoid the mother of all bad hair days

You've spent several minutes working to get your hair just right, and then you decided to take a day trip to the Columbia Gorge this week.

Oooooo...bad choice.

You thought Seattle's ice storm was bad?

If you thought our ice storm from mid January was something spectacular, you should see what parts of Switzerland have been going through.

These photos show what happens when you combine a large body of water (Lake Geneva) with winds gusting over 40 mph and temperatures that hadn't seen the warmer side of 25F in a week.

Florida waterfront condos literally create their own weather

How would you like to live in a place that not only has a stunning view of the Gulf of Mexico, but creates its own weather?

Check out this photo of individual fog wisps climbing over a line of tall waterfront condos, taken Sunday afternoon by JR Hott of Panhandle Helicopter in Panama City, Florida.

Spring and winter, just 35 miles apart

What a zany morning around the Puget Sound area, where one area was basking in mid-upper 40s while just 35 miles away, it was well below freezing amid a dense fog.

Welcome to winter in the Northwest.

Amazing Seattle-area weather videos and pictures from the past two months

With the Christmas holidays running into a mid-January storm, followed by some time off, I've accumulated quite a backlog of amazing weather photos over the past 6 weeks in my inbox.

From incredible sunrises on Mt. Rainier to interesting ice displays on windshields (before the mega ice storm), Mother Nature has been flexing her artistic muscle in many different ways.

National forecasters wonder -- where's the snow?

Seattle's snow and ice storm in mid-January has been the exception to what has been a national norm this winter of a distinct lack of snow across the lower 48 states.

You know it's been a crazy winter when parts of Texas have had more snow this winter than Minneapolis and Chicago.

But just don't complain to anyone in Alaska about the lack of snow -- some cities there are 4-10 feet above avearge.

Here is a roundup from Associated Press Science writer Seth Borenstein:

Seattle photographer captures Northern Lights over Yellowknife

A Seattle photographer recently braved the ultra cold winter nights of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights -- and he wasn't disappointed.

Doug Mahugh made the trek up north to visit friends he had met on Facebook who have two Samoyed dogs as he does but took along the camera in the hopes of finding the aurora.

La Nina: Still alive and hanging around through spring again

One thing the recent snow and ice storm did besides knock out power and rewrite record books was to quell the nearly steady diet of emails wondering where La Nina went and if she'd ever show up.

Web camera captures lightning strike over Whidbey Island

Did those of you around Whidbey Island hear a big clap of thunder around 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning? This brilliant lightning strike, captured on tape, was likely the culprit.

How cold was it last week? 'Old Man Winter' put in an appearance

There were dozens to hundreds of amazing photos from the ice and snow storms last week, but this one really caught my attention.

Mary Popovich took this picture looking out her living room window in Bellingham on Jan. 18.

"As I was walking by I stopped and notice this profile on the fence post," she said. "I think it's really odd that the snow created such a profile."