Jun
24
Look for the cowboy hat.
And the blue suit.
That’s what I did during the opening session of the AMS Broadcast Meteorology Conference in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma this week.
I was looking for the guy everyone calls “Heatwave” because no weather conference would be complete without his sense of humor and passion for weather, especially…uh…heat.
In my ongoing series of Friday interviews, I’m talking with Meteorologist Richard… Read more
Jun
22
Would you believe there’s only one part of the country forecast to have a ‘drier than normal summer’?
And we’re living in it!
That’s right. NOAA seasonal forecasters expect the dry summer places like Oregon & Southwest Washington to be drier than usual for July, August & September. The ‘B’ on this summer forecast image stands for ‘below normal precipitation.’
So get your sprinklers ready.
Bruce’s Temperature &… Read more
Jun
20
“
Go big or go home!”
That seemed to be the mantra around Oregon and Washington when it came to spring rains that refused to quit. La Nina driven weather patterns kept hanging on.
Until the v-e-r-y-end-of-spring.
This chart to the right is put together by the National Climatic Data Center as part of its report on the spring.
This time, they tracked spring rainfall and every… Read more
Jun
17
She’s not afraid to ask the tough questions.
She’s personally interviewed some of the biggest names in politics, like Barack Obama, while he was running for President.
And she absolutely adores—make that practically worships—pugs.
In my ongoing series of Friday interviews I’m talking with KOIN Local 6 News Anchor Kelley Day.
#1: A lot of people know you grew up in the Portland area. But did you… Read more
Jun
15
Check this out: it’s ash shooting more than 20,000 feet into the sky above the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano in Chile.
The NASA image shows the massive ash plume as it looked from outer space during June 2011.
And if you look toward the top right of the photo, you’ll also see mountains covered in ash and mountain lakes that are half gray which means they’re covered in… Read more
Jun
13
This is now Arizona’s largest wildfire on record!
There is so much smoke from the Wallow wildfire in Arizona that you can clearly see it from outer space in this NASA image.
This picture was taken on June 9, 2011 as the fire’s total hit 400,000 acres–but on June 13, 2011, the Wallow fire become Arizona’s largest wildfire on record. The total hit 469,407 acres (1,900 square… Read more
Bruce Sussman has been forecasting Northwest weather since 1994. He is the Chief Meteorologist at Koin Local 6 News in Portland, Oregon and a member of the American Meteorological Society. Bruce graduated from University of Missouri and completed advanced Meteorology studies at Mississippi State ....
