http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2011/10/noreasters-versus-northwest-windstorms.html

Look…severe weather in any form, in any location, is not fun after one day. But I’m tired of everyone foo-fooing me when I say that the Northwest gets severe weather as well.

The latest nor’ Easter, while impressively early this year I admit, reminds me of this …

The Northwest also has our weather demons…likely even worse than those vaunted nor’easters! ( but when do you ever hear about it?)

Cliff Mass, the pre-eminent weather guy of the region says….

“In general, the very strongest Northwest cyclones are stronger than the top Nor’easters, with our 1962 Columbus Day storm probably being the most powerful non-tropical coastal storm to hit the U.S. in a century. (Beware–those wily east coasters like to call their storms “Perfect” or “Storm of the Century” and get books and movies made about them. Don’t believe their propaganda–ours are bigger and more powerful).”

It’s only because we have been neglected, in the media and in federal budgets, that this is becoming apparent (something us natives have known for a long time!)

He continues…

“If a big midlatitude cyclone hits the Northwest this year we will have a magnificent view of the details using the new coastal radar. And if our models are wrong about intensity or position, the new radar will enable us to get out timely warnings in time to save property and lives. We have finally caught up to the east coast, where they have had radars looking offshore for decades.”

So what he is saying is just NOW, in 2011 (!!), are we able in the Northwest to scientifically prove that our weather is “worthy” of being bad and worthy of attention on a national scale. We finally got a weather radar for the coastal regions this year (where our weather comes from!)

Again, bad weather everywhere is no fun. Don’t get me wrong. But I wonder how many people have lost their lives in the Northwest because the rest of the country has thought that there are no problems up here other than rainy and cloudy days…

People!  Summer starts here July 5.  And right on schedule….

This is today’s forecast courtesy of  KOMO

All I have to say is that at least everyone’s bitchin’ will be coming to an end.  I’m thankful for that.

I am always right about this.  [Queue people ranting: "OH, this is DIFFERENT!!  It's the coldest spring on record!!"", waaaahh, wahh, wahh....]

Shut up already.  It’s finally here.  It happens every year to some degree or another.  Myself I’m glad we have 3 air conditioners at the ready, with another two in backup.

Summer…disgusting.

Love, Garrett

It’s Juneuary….

Let the bitchin’ begin!

Punxsutawney Phil says Spring comes early‼

Sigh….

RED!

Sunset light blasted me as I came in this evening…all in a devilish
glow…awesome!

This is our street — right at our block!  What a wild night.  And cold — love it!

I especially like the big bus sledding down the hill around 3:00 — and that it takes out the bus stop sign. (And even funnier is that stop is scheduled for removal, bahahaha!)

I Love Fall, II

Yay snow!!!!!

I love Fall

I really do….best season.

My annual celebratory cold weather post.

Yay, it’s officially fall!

Rain. Rain. Rain. Rain. Rain. Rain. Rain. Rain. Rain. In August!

My dream come true.

That is all…

I was right. I knew I was. People: I’ve been here all my life. Trust. And stop whining.

See also:

[waaah, waaah] This rain is abnormal [Waaaah, waaah]

Northwest’s preeminent meteorologist agrees with me…June sucks.

That is all.

Cliff Mass is on my side!!

Per my post last week (2 down below “[waaah, waaah] This rain is abnormal [Waaaah, waaah]“) One of the Northwest’s preeminent meteorologists, The UW’s Cliff Mass, agrees with my rant! OK, he doesn’t explicitly point me out or anything, but here is an expert on weather totally backing me up on what I’ve been saying forever. Outstanding.

Here’s his post:

The First Day of Summer: When Will It Be?

In fact, he’s more conservative than me in his findings — he says July 12 instead of my July 5th.

I love it when this happens — now I have an actual article by an expert to refer to when people complain (Which happens nearly every day! I swear….)

BTW, I *love* Cliff’s blog. I’m a total weather junkie.

STOP it. You are wrong. It is always like this.

The Seattle area gets a nice little sunny streak in early May, which make all the ex-pats go bananas that summer is here. Then it shuts down again with the last part of May and most of June being pretty cool with spats of rain all the time.

“Oh, this is so abnormal”

“Oh, this isn’t like other years”

Bull$hit. It is ALWAYS like this in Seattle spring. I’m tired of hearing about it — I thought I had posted about this previously on my blog to proove my point, but I’m making record now.

I need to remind everyone that summer around here does not start until exactly July 5th.

Oh, and more rain is in the forecast!! Hahahahahahahaha.