Karl's Weather Discussions

After a very stormy couple of weeks for the Pacific Northwest, the weather is calming down this Friday evening.  It’s always refreshing to see weather geeks get back into “storm mode” each fall, and last week surely didn’t disappoint!  We had multiple atmospheric rivers pummel the West Coast, from Vancouver Island all the way south to San Francisco…where many locations broke their all-time 24-hour rainfall records. Several locations set their all time 24hr rainfall total between 1:00 AM PDT 10/24/2021…

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It’s October and the weather is just about as boring as it can get.  Other than relatively chilly temps and the possibility of snow over the Cascade passes the next couple days, there’s nothing meteorologically or seasonally interesting going on:  no atmospheric rivers, no Indian summers, and no big early-season freezes either. One thing that’s perfectly normal and iconic about October in Western Oregon and Washington, is the arrival of valley fog.  We already had a couple foggy mornings in…

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