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KOMO - Seattle, WA : Putting Duluth\'s incredible rain storm into Seattle perspective | Weather Blog | Seattle News, Weat

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:41:39 +0000

Wow! I think you are correct!

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Tacoma mom upset after kids severely sunburned at school | Health | Tacoma News

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:05:09 +0000

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Northern Lights make it all the way south to Oregon | Weather Blog | Seattle News, Weather, Sports,

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:12:01 +0000

We try but it's rare to get them this far south and sometimes they sneak up on us. The Seattle/Western Washington area was a lost cause due to clouds so it didn't warrant much attention, but good point and I"ll see if we can make it better known when the solar storms are coming :)

KOMO - Seattle, WA : NOAA gives 50-50 shot of El Nino conditions this winter | Weather Blog | Seattle News, Weather, Spor

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:32:03 +0000

Heh, I see there is a lot of confusion over the 50/50 thing in the headline but commenter "Ryanthecubsfan" has it correct. It's weighing more toward El Nino now. I went back and tweaked said headline and added back in a line into the blog to clarify. It's a bit more complex than just stating "we don't know so it's 50-50" :)

KOMO - Seattle, WA : A rather unique place to find warmer weather than Seattle | Weather Blog | Seattle News, Weather, Sp

Mon, 4 Jun 2012 16:50:33 +0000

Point taken :)

KOMO - Seattle, WA : A rather unique place to find warmer weather than Seattle | Weather Blog | Seattle News, Weather, Sp

Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:46:49 +0000

I just tweaked it a bit :)

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Does the weather really get better during a full moon? | Weather Blog | Seattle News, Weather, Sport

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:54:06 +0000

We have another person around here who similarly tracks the weather based on the moon "holding its water" -- we put a blurb about it when Steve Pool and I wrote our weather book 7 years ago -- interesting theory! :)

KOMO - Seattle, WA : What old treasures are hidden in the KOMO Weather Center? | Weather Blog | Seattle News, Weather, Sp

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:37:53 +0000

Until the last few years, the weather computers did not run on Windows, so I have no idea why the NT disks were there. the drawer was a mish mosh and I don't know why some stuff was even there -- probably because it was outdated at the time and got tossed in there. We ran on SGI's for a long time :) As for upgrades, I was in a unique position in that I had also worked for the weather software company for a few years in the late 90s and had a lot of experience on the SGI platform, so I was best suited to run the upgrades. We've since moved on to Windows and PC platforms and now IT does the upgrades :)

KOMO - Seattle, WA : What old treasures are hidden in the KOMO Weather Center? | Weather Blog | Seattle News, Weather, Sp

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:43:19 +0000

Heh, chalk it up to us being a bit disorganized although I was the gatekeeper of the weather software discs for a while since I was in charge of the upgrades. :)

KOMO - Seattle, WA : What old treasures are hidden in the KOMO Weather Center? | Weather Blog | Seattle News, Weather, Sp

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:46:37 +0000

Haven't ventured to try :)

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Funnel cloud spotted over Yelm | Weather Blog | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO

Fri, 6 Apr 2012 03:40:18 +0000

Got the photo (http://yfrog.com/obonaomj) -- was there rotation with that one too? There was a whole lot of "scud" out there that looks like funnel clouds :)

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Can you accurately predict Seattle\'s weather using the Farmer\'s Almanac? | Weather Blog | Seattle

Mon, 2 Apr 2012 18:38:06 +0000

The UW does not generate a 10 day forecast. The farthest they go out is 7 days, and yes, I'm a UW model fan.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Mega Millions now at $540 million, or 12 million trips across 520 | Local & Regional | Seattle News,

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:35:59 +0000

Point taken -- switched it to, what else, coffee! :)

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Murder charge filed in death of Tacoma man | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Break

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:29:53 +0000

Hi all -- a mea culpa on our part. It was Jones' mother, not Williams' mother who lived there. Story has been clarified.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : A lot of snow for a few, not a lot of snow for many | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Spor

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:06:17 +0000

Yes -- prevailing theme here :) I know it snows somewhere and everyone thinks it'll snow everywhere but not the case here :) But tough for us to still get the warning out for the places where we DO think it will snow while NOT freaking out the rest of the area :)

KOMO - Seattle, WA : A planetary show for the ages coming up this weekend | Weather Blog | Seattle News, Weather, Sports,

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:49:43 +0000

Sunday evening -- hold out hope, it looks like there's a chance of clearing skies

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Propane tank explodes at construction site near Mukilteo | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather,

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:35:41 +0000

We think there were two tanks. One tank was in the process of being loaded and that one exploded. Definitely a tank that exploded not the truck.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Curious what the weather was on your birthday? There\'s a map for that | Weather Blog | Seattle News

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:38:25 +0000

It just means we've gone digital :) The maps since 2002 are in online format, not paper format, for archiving purposes :)

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Florida waterfront condos literally create their own weather | Weather Blog | Seattle News, Weather,

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 21:44:05 +0000

The condos are certainly enhancing the fog. Look at the condos in the distance -- note how it's foggy at the top, but not the bottom. The "engine" is just starting there. Also read JR's account of how they form. The physics is solid. It's the same effect, more or less, that cause our cap clouds on Mt. Rainier. There may be some regular fog in other spots where the air has cooled just enough on its own, but the condos are enhancing it where they stand.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Web camera captures lightning strike over Whidbey Island | Weather Blog | Seattle News, Weather, Spo

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:47:51 +0000

Yes, camera is pointing roughly north from Hansville across Skunk Bay. That island just to the right of the bolt is Whidbey Island. There was an earlier video I posted on Twitter from Greg during the ice storm (so, about 12,000 tweets ago :) ) that showed the nighttime lights of Anacortes behind the island there.