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Outside science academies to review warming panel

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:55:22 GMT

Weather Service: Snow today

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:26:32 GMT

Well, ha-lo there sunshine

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:40:52 GMT

Northwest shows off both day and night

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:38:34 GMT

With all the sunshine in February, you can bet the Pacific Northwest was going to strut its stuff, and strut it did!

I received two fantastic photos into my e-mail bin from last week. The first here was of a sunrise coming up behind Mt. Rainer captured by Larry Savage from Olympia on Sunday morning.

Watch as tsunami effects hit Ventura harbor

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:07:20 GMT

Snowpocalypse to snowicane: Hype reigns

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:23:06 GMT

The Associated Press had a nice article today on all the hype over the East Coast snowstorms, from "Snowpocalypse" to "Snowmageddon" to my personal favorite "Storm of the Century" and the controversial "Snowicane" which *really* riled up the official forecasters as just too sensational.

Here is the full article by Associated Press writer Genaro C. Armas :

Weather officials break out the (*) on East Coast snow records

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:17:47 GMT

It turns out, that record 28.8 inches of snow recorded at Baltimore's airport in early February during the Snowpacalypse/Snowmaggedon storms has been downgraded.

Live from Cape Meares as the waves roll in

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:22:28 GMT

Watch as rocket destroys a sundog

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:30:00 GMT

I typically like to show something stunning on Friday, be it cool photographs or some other great weather video, to hold us all through the weekend, but this week might be near the top of the charts as far as "Cool" factor.

On Feb. 11, the Solar Dynamics Observatory was launched from Florida on a five-year mission to study the sun.

Its first order of business: Destroy a sundog hanging over the launch site.

A sundog is the term for those rainbow clouds that sometimes appear on mostly sunny days.

A cloud full of ice crystals was at just the right spot to split the sun's rays into the colors of the prism -- that is, until the Atlas V rocket came blasting through.

Here is one video of it -- with the event around 1:50 in to the movie. Notice the cloud ripple effect too:

Tropical storm 'waves hi' to satellite

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:15:15 GMT

Atmospheric Sciences Prof. Dale Durran at the University of Washington noted this interesting shot on a high-resolution satellite image of Tropical Cyclone Gelane which was toiling around off the southeast African coast this week.

If you look in the upper left corner, it appears you can see the sun shining off the waves generated by the storm. (Durran notes the storm would be positioned further northeast when those waves were generated)

Here is a zoomed in look: