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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The Secrets of Staying Dry While Biking
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog. This blog provides updated forecasts and comments on current weather or other topics. Wednesday, May 12, 2010. The Secrets of Staying Dry While Biking. May is national bike to work month and next week is bike to work week. Here in Seattle a big concern is staying dry while bike commuting or during recreational runs. You all have seen weather radar images on TV or the web (see one below). Equipped cell phone, or on tv. Here is an example of a radar animation:. And radar helps in a...
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Weather Role Reversal
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog. This blog provides updated forecasts and comments on current weather or other topics. Saturday, May 16, 2015. It is always fun when the normal weather patterns reverse. This week for instance, the normal precipitation pattern reversed over Washington State, with eastern Washington getting hit hard, while only light showers damped the west. Here is the percentage of normal precipitation over the past week. Pretty dramatic! The Olympics, the home of the rain forests? The roles have...
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Eastern Washington Gets Some Drought Relief
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog. This blog provides updated forecasts and comments on current weather or other topics. Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Eastern Washington Gets Some Drought Relief. Their gamble paid off, big time. This rain was sufficient to thoroughly soak the ground and obviate the need for irrigation for a while, and even provided some water for the Yakima River reservoirs. The weather gods were clearly smiling on the eastern Washington agricultural community. The daily precipitation from the WSU Ag W...
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Oyster victory: But there is more left to do
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog. This blog provides updated forecasts and comments on current weather or other topics. Friday, May 1, 2015. Oyster victory: But there is more left to do. Today there was a substantial victory for those who value the environmental quality of our State's waterways: Taylor Shellfish announced it would not spray the pesticide/neurotoxin. Over thousands of acres of tideland of Willapa Bay and Greys Harbor. And the Seattle Times. 3) Oyster farmers are still planning to spread. It is sta...
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: A Major Advance for Numerical Weather Prediction in the U.S.
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog. This blog provides updated forecasts and comments on current weather or other topics. Monday, January 5, 2015. A Major Advance for Numerical Weather Prediction in the U.S. Today, NOAA's administrator Kathryn Sullivan announced that the National Weather Service will acquire two very powerful CRAY supercomputers to support U.S. numerical weather prediction. A machine that will FINALLY allow the U.S. to do world-class forecasting. (The press release is here. The new machines announc...
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August 2012 - The Weather
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This blog provides forecasts weather or other topics. The Driest August In Seattle History (and more to come). I didn't want to mention this, worrying I might jinx it, but it is clear that August 2012 will the driest in Seattle history. So far we have had a trace. Which means a sprinkle that is less than .01 inches. (The National Weather Service defines measurable rain. As rain of .01 inches or more.) The previous record was in 1974 when .01 inches had fallen. But look at precipitation in the second pane...
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Seattle's Erratic Support of Bicycle Commuting
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog. This blog provides updated forecasts and comments on current weather or other topics. Friday, May 15, 2015. Seattle's Erratic Support of Bicycle Commuting. Today is Bicycle Friday, the day that Seattle's bicycle commuters celebrate and goodies of all kinds are found near local commuting routes. Fact Number 1: Seattle is incapable of keeping its main bicycle superhighway, the Burke Gilman Trail, in decent condition. Whereby a cyclist can commute without serious and dangerous conte...
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Why last winter was so unusual
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog. This blog provides updated forecasts and comments on current weather or other topics. Monday, May 18, 2015. Why last winter was so unusual. Last winter and this spring have been a different animals meteorologically, at odds with anything we have seen before. So unique that it should give forecasters pause. So unique that it is probably not the result of global warming. But it is more interesting than that! So how could we have normal precipitation but poor snowpack? Something wei...
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Drought Help
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog. This blog provides updated forecasts and comments on current weather or other topics. Monday, May 11, 2015. The atmosphere over our region has made a major transition and it appears that the next week or two will be much cloudier and wetter than we have seen in a long time. The ridge is gone, replaced by deep troughing over the eastern Pacific. Precipitation continues for the next 72 hr, again with LOTS of rain over and east of the Cascades. So why the big shift? Interestingly, t...
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Seattle's Lightning Detection Network Illustrates Volcano Lightning and Much More
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog. This blog provides updated forecasts and comments on current weather or other topics. Sunday, May 3, 2015. Seattle's Lightning Detection Network Illustrates Volcano Lightning and Much More. Did you know that perhaps the premier global lightning detection network is centered her in Seattle? And that it not only can sense lightning from thunderstorms but the discharges produced by major volcanic eruptions? Most major eruptions produce lightning, including our local favorite: Mt....