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Mountains & Their Hats – Lenticular Clouds

Mountains & Their Hats – Lenticular Clouds

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Ever Wondered Why Rainier and Baker Occasionally Wear Cloud Hats? Lenticular Clouds above the Olympic Mountains, with Mount Constance in the center, it’s peak hidden behind the clouds. Living in the Seattle Metro area, perhaps you’ve seen Mount Rainier and Mount Baker don their cloud “hats” on occasion. This is a fun weather phenomenon that makes for some amazing cloud formations that occur above mountainous terrain, and occasionally in other places as well. Want to know about what causes these…

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Winter Storm Maya Recap – February 5-6th 2017

Winter Storm Maya Recap – February 5-6th 2017

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Let’s take a look at our recent winter storm, named Maya by The Weather Channel. As you may have read in my previous blog, this was quite possibly one of the most difficult snow forecasts, or really any forecast, that many of the meteorologists and those in the local weather community had ever seen. So many factors came into play with this particular set up, that even a one degree temperature difference would have meant cold rain instead of snow….

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Anatomy of a Snowflake

Anatomy of a Snowflake

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Have you ever wondered how snowflakes are formed, and are they really all different? Well, this post is for you! “Q: How are snowflakes formed?  A:  A snowflake begins to form when an extremely cold water droplet freezes onto a pollen or dust particle in the sky. This creates an ice crystal. As the ice crystal falls to the ground, water vapor freezes onto the primary crystal, building new crystals – the six arms of the snowflake. That’s the short…

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Frozen Bubbles – A Perk of the Cold?

Frozen Bubbles – A Perk of the Cold?

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I’ve really wanted to start blogging but I’ve been lacking ideas for subjects….so I thought, why not use some of my photography and tie it into the weather? In this case, we are currently in our coldest weather pattern in at least a few years! Lows have dipped down into the 20’s and teens for many areas in Western Washington. This morning at 8:30am, it was a balmy 20 degrees Farenheit in my backyard. The sun was just peeking through…

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