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The Northwest is really a treasure trove of spectacular natural photography, but this image has to be one of the most stunning. This "Sunset rainbow" photo was taken in Port Angeles on Sunday evening by Jeanne Pumphrey just after a storm passed. She says the camera didn't do it justice for the rainbow's brilliance factor, but I'd say it looks pretty amazing to me.  And while we're on the subject of cool photos, here are some others submitted to us either via e-mail our our YouNews page. This is a Kirkland sunset submitted by Victoria Yonke:  This is another cool sunset, taken by Robin Moses near Port Angeles:  Oak Harbor Sunset by YouNews contributor darrylsplace  Here is another spectacular sunset, this one taken by Michelle Sistek in Mukilteo. (Yes, there is a relation :) )  One of the many lightning photos submitted to YouNews. This one is by zenseas:  And finally, this shot of a sunset over Lake Sammamish by YouNews contributor indigohippie:  Keep sending those photos to our YouNews site and I'll occasionally post the best ones here. 
Seattle, along with many other cities, hit 90 or warmer on three consecutive days between Thursday and Saturday, although the coast and north interior lucked out a bit as an unexpected seabreeze kept temperatures down there a bit.
The three straight days of 90 in Seattle was only the 13th time in Sea-Tac history we had a streak of three days at or over 90. The record is 5 days set August 7-11 in 1981. There were five instances of a four-day streak, and six other instances of a three-day streak aside from last week. Read more » 
With thunderstorms back in the news, I figured it'd be a good idea to dig this out of the blog archives for today:
1) What's does a "Severe Thunderstorm Warning" mean? Read more » 
In Seattle, it's an underlying debate that has raged since Denny and Mercer pulled up their boat on Alki Beach -- more than Coke vs. Pepsi, more than boxers vs. briefs, more than did get peanut butter get merged into chocolate or did the chocolate get merged into the peanut butter…
And that is -- are you happier when it's a cool, rainy, blustery day around Seattle? Or would you rather it be sunny and 80+? Read more »
As temperatures look to climb over 90 degrees for three days in a row here, you might wonder how often that occurs.
Actually, it's not that rare. Seattle typically gets two good heat waves a year where we get close to, or over 90. And three days of 90+ is not unheard of. It just happened two summers ago, in fact. So let's look back at some of Seattle's worst heat waves. Read more » 
One of my favorite game shows to watch while growing up was Concentration (not the original, but more the knock-offs in the late 70s and 80s).
For those that don’t remember or have the Game Show Network (is it even on there anymore?) it was memory game where you had, say, 30 squares on a game board, and each board had 15 hidden images. You would have to "open" a square, two at a time, to try and find the matching images. (Here is a rough online version to give the idea.) Each time you were successful, the squares would be erased from the board and reveal part of a visual word puzzle like an a head of lettuce with "-tuce" after it, and then maybe a bingo card with an arrow pointing at the center space, followed by a church dome, and then an engagement ring and the puzzle would be "Let Free Dome Ring" The more squares you removed, more of the puzzle is revealed. The first player to guess the word puzzle was declared the winner, and then got some fabulous prize like a 7 day, 6 night stay in Cabo San Lucas, spelled out by a man with a booming TV game show voice. So what does this have to do with the headline to this story, promising some story about a global warming bet? I'm going to do the impossible: Tie global warming into historical game shows. Read more » 
You may have heard this before, but did you know Seattle is nowhere near the top when it comes to wettest cities in the U.S. by annual rainfall?
With our 37" of rain a year, we fall way behind cities with sunnier reputations such as Miami, Houston, and New York. Why? Our rain comes in little drips and dribbles -- it can rain all day here and we'll get maybe 0.10" of rain. In the Midwest and east coast, it can rain buckets in just a few minutes. The poster child for that today is Oklahoma City. They had a massive rain squall move through on Monday and take a look at these numbers: Read more » 
Is it for the view? Or just survival?
Striking new research in the Southern California mountains suggests recent warming is behind a massive die-off and rapid migration to higher ground by nine different plants - from desert shrubs to white firs.
Here is the full story from Associated Press writer ALICIA CHANG: Read more »
Sort of like capturing a ghost on film, there are a lot of interesting facets to weather that are difficult to grasp just staring out the window the naked eye. But put it on time lapse, and some of weather's hidden treasures can become more obvious.
Our resident time lapse weather expert, Dr. Dale Ireland, was kind enough to send in a few more of his awesome time lapse videos from the past week. Each one he sends is like a textbook that can help us visualize how weather works in a way just text on computer screen or a still photo could never do. Read more »
The 2008 Perseid meteor shower peaks Tuesday morning during the pre-dawn hours. "There should be plenty of meteors--perhaps one or two every minute," said Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Read more »
Online weather is typically a one-way street -- I find something cool to write about, and you read it. But now, we've made it much more interactive.
We are happy to announce that we now will offer commenting on our blog entries. This will give you a chance to discuss the topic du jour with your fellow web readers (and me). And I'll have some fun with this as the blog evolves with more user-interactive topics entries. Register below and happy commenting! -Scott |
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August 20, 2008
- Seattle, Washington
Originally from Port Angeles, Scott graduated from the UW in 1994 with a degree in Atmospheric Sciences and has been producing weather reports for broadcast and on the Web ever since.
