August 11, 2009

This blog's for you: Geek Weather!

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Howdy, Friends and Readers, thanks for your patience with me, the wayward weather blogger. Gee, I haven't posted here for almost TWO mon...
June 13, 2009

Water, water everywhere

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Well, Blog Fans, we've been getting a lot of water falling down out of the sky. The rain just keeps on coming. Here are the Idaho Fall...
June 8, 2009

Whazzup with this blog?

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Greetings, loyal readers! I had NO idea this blog would have such an "after life." I just checked the statistics for the first t...
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April 17, 2009

Reaping Rewards of Righteous Winter!

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Well, I can't help it--I have to include a photo from last year's bicycle trip to The Tetons, as well as a link to a few other photo...
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The Seam!

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WOW--Look at this clip from the global water vapor view! Totally awesome, is all we can say! Susun and I are heading out tomorrow for Jack...
April 7, 2009

Sulphur Gas Cloud

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Leave it to Spaceweather once again. If you go to their website tonight, you can see an animation of a 600-mile diameter sulfur gas cloud f...
April 4, 2009

Redoubt Stuff

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Well, Spaceweather once again "takes the cake" for the most educational and entertaining coverage of the Mt. Redoubt eruption saga...
April 1, 2009

Leave it to Spaceweather!

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Hi, it's April Fool but this is NOT an April Fool post here. I came onboard to post up about the West Pacific water vapor patterns. Wh...

Check the West Pacific Water vapor!

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WOW, Sports Fans, this is pretty impressive--it's a stacked deck heading east--ain't no way it's gonna miss the You Ess of Eh! I...
March 23, 2009

BAM--Redoubt Blows

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Woke up to the news today, oh boy! Plume to 50,000 feet from four explosions overnight. How about this quote from one of the scientists? ...
March 8, 2009

Your checklist

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Greetings, Dear Readers! This will be our last Sunday School. We are preparing to put this blog to sleep as winter is mostly over and Sprin...
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March 7, 2009

The Saturday Shuffle

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Greetings, Dear Readers! Only two more weeks until the first day of Spring! This particular post will be a grab bag of various topics--not...
March 5, 2009

Ah, HA! What were we saying?

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Hey, Dear Readers, I have been taking a break from the Winter 0809 blog. Somehow, reality got real distorted over in California and I just ...
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March 3, 2009

Tuesday thoughts

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Greetings, Dear Readers! I have posted the latest 5-day QPF forecast above. You can see that California once again is getting all the acti...

Gravity Wave? Who knew?

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Perhaps you have been as intrigued as I have been by media coverage of The Big Winter Storm back east. As you might expect, I have been lap...
March 2, 2009

Quite the comparison!

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I'm posting up the afternoon surface temp map. It's quite the comparison. If you look at the overnight temps below and then this m...

A rain event

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Don't ya love those pretty colors? Well, they do tell a story. Take a Big Picture look at the advance of warmer temps coming in from w...
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March 1, 2009

East Coast water discussion

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First, let's dispel some media myths that are running rampant tonight. New England is NOT going to get buried in snow! No, it's rea...

And Along Came Polly Pacific

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What can you say about people who play with their food....and weather, too? Maybe they have too much time on their hands? Well, whatever, ...
February 28, 2009

National Snow Cover

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Just an FYI. Here's today's Intellicast national snow cover map. And here's the link to find it yourself should the urge ever a...

Arctic Circle has all the fun!

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Those lucky (but frozen) puppies up in the Arctic Circle latitudes have all the fun! Being as it's a Saturday morning, I decided to roam...
February 27, 2009

NORCAL drought is history

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(See note at end of post.) The February 19 drought monitor already showed NORCAL "going green" again. That's a HUGE improveme...
February 26, 2009

Redoubt Dissected!

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Well, folks, this is what a volcanic cone looks like when it gets WAAAY too much attention! People with a heck of a lot of time on their ha...

Alaskan Action

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I was roaming around looking for a good rendition of the new addition to the sidebar--NWS Offices nationwide. I happened to stumble into th...

Site Stats

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A couple of weeks ago I decided to put a "site monitor" on this blog. I wanted to know if people were really reading the blog. O...
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February 25, 2009

Pretty impressive water vapor!

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Okie, dokie, Weather Fans,let's take a look at the Northern Hemisphere water vapor patterns, courtesy of the US Navy. Gee, something tel...
February 23, 2009

Some Late February Precip

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The Snake River Plain is in line for a wee little bit of precip today. Those "pointy thing" (AKA: the Tetons) to our East will pr...
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February 22, 2009

Sunday School Blow Up!

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Greetings and welcome once again to another thrilling session of Sunday School! Today we're going to talk volcanoes. We'd like to ...

Redoubt update

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Alaska's Mount Redoubt has been pretty quiet the past few days. The above graphics are the seismic data. You can see how the shaking a...
February 20, 2009

Some brief thoughts

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As you can see from the above latest QPF graphic, NORCAL is in line for some impressive new precip--over 5 inches if the weather wonks are c...
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February 17, 2009

Our Sun.

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We are smack in the middle of transition between two Sunspot Cycles. Right now the solar disk is abnormally quiet. "Sun watchers...
February 16, 2009

Just how is Alaska, anyway?

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I haven't had time to check in on Alaska lately. I've assumed it's cold up there. I noticed on the NWS Warning composite that th...

It all depends...

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Whether our weather will continue this pattern into March depends on the jetstream and the water vapor supply. Right now, it looks good. A...

When's the party over?

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The screen shot on the right is the overall QPF for the next five days. The left shot is the current NWS warning composite as of Monday mor...
February 15, 2009

Tell it like it is!

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Hey, those Reno weather wonks are gettin' some ATTITUDE! Check this snippet from the 7:26 pm 15FEB AFD: "NICE WARM CONVEYOR SHOWIN...

Spaceweather

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The photo above is just a reminder to visit Spaceweather often. Don't forget! That website simply ROX~!

Sunday School has Visual Aids!

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Hey, there, Class, Thanks for showing up for Sunday School this morning! As promised last week, we're going to walk you through the new...
February 14, 2009

More focus on California

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Here is some really strongly worded language: "California is facing the most significant water crisis in its history. After experiencin...

Da BUOY

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We wish to encourage our Dear Readers to check "Da BUOY!" NOAA and their cohorts run a first class buoy operation spread all over...

Wild West Jet

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Today's jetstream diagram reminds me of either rodeo or some scene from a 1950's black and white Western shoot-'em-up. It's...
February 12, 2009

A moment of truth

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All eyes and hopes are on California right now. Californians might not know or realize it but lots of humans elsewhere are praying that the...

Precip perks up

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Well, this graphic is pretty self-explanatory. If you've been watching what we've been posting, you can quickly note the quantum le...
February 11, 2009

GFS animation + Accuweather drought story

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We all read a lot about the models that the NWS Staff uses to make their forecasts. One of the primary models is the GFS. Click here to se...

All ashore!

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Here are the twin Northern Hemisphere views courtesy of the US Navy for Wednesday morning. I don't have time to draw little funky lines...