This is a picture of the final Space Shuttle launch in U.S. history. The Space Shuttle Atlantis. Weather was questionable but just good enough to get the job done. For my ongoing series of Friday interviews, I'm talking with the guy who runs the Planetarium at OMSI, the Oregon Museum of … [Read more...]
Fourth Of July In The Northwest: Trend Proves True, Again
It's here, the Fourth Of July Weekend. And while my cousin Mariana is sending me texts from Kansas letting me know about triple digit heat...here we sit in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington--waiting for a warm up. Well, here it comes. And it's proving that the Fourth Of July … [Read more...]
Friday Interview: Talkin’ With Meteorologist Richard “Heatwave” Berler
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 … [Read more...]
Northwest Summer 2011 – Bruce Sussman’s Summer Outlook
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. … [Read more...]
Northwest Spring 2011 – Littered With Cool & Wet Weather Records
"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 … [Read more...]
Chile Volcano Eruption Causes ‘Volcanic Sunsets’
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 … [Read more...]
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