The Weather
Thursday, November 12, 2009
The Weather Re: Up in the Mountains
Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Here is Mt. Baker's snow report:
"Snow is very soft and very deep off the groomed runs."
And it's beautiful outside. I am jealous.
Sports / The Weather Up in the Mountains
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:19 AM
- Seattle Municipal Archives / Stranger Flickr
- Let us hit the slopes, old chap!
Per Slog tipper Sonya:
Crystal Mountain opened yesterday with about a 30-inch base. Sonya says, "Bring your old gear."
Baker opens today with about a 50-inch base. "It could be 65 by Thursday."
White Pass opens tomorrow, with "conditions like Crystal, but it will take you an extra hour to get there."
And Whistler (partially) opens Saturday with reduced-price tickets at $59—"Not sure if that's in CAD or USD. Not sure if it matters."
Saturday, November 7, 2009
The Weather The Downpour
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM
- .Ariel / Stranger Flickr
- "Sassafras, ready for rain"**
Nice weather*, eh? And here's the Seattle forecast from the National Weather Service:
Today: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High near 49. South wind between 14 and 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.Tonight: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 4am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4am. Low around 41. South southwest wind between 9 and 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Sunday: Rain likely, mainly after 10am. Cloudy, with a high near 51. South wind between 9 and 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Sunday Night: Rain likely, mainly before 10pm. Cloudy, with a low around 42. South wind between 11 and 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Monday: Rain, mainly after 10am. High near 51. South wind around 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Monday Night: Showers likely. Cloudy, with a low around 41. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Tuesday: Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 50. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Tuesday Night: Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39.
Veterans Day: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 49.
Wednesday Night: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 40.
* Here's the Cliff Mass Vocabulary Word of the Day.
**Backstory from .Ariel in The Stranger's Flickr pool: "My coworker Gretchen gave me this doggie raincoat for Sassafras. She'd received it as a gift for her cat (!?!) and since the cat hated it, Gretchen decided to pass the raincoat on."
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Life / The Weather Chief Sealth Trail
Posted by Jesse Vernon on Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:07 PM
- SDOT
I suggest the Chief Sealth Trail. I just discovered it yesterday, and I'm heartbroken I didn't spend more summer days there—it feels like a secret world tucked in the middle of the city. Starting in Beacon Hill, it transports you to Kubota Garden via Ireland. Or New Zealand. Or some other place with rolling green hills I've never been. Find the entrance like this: Head toward the north end of Beacon Hill (take 12th Avenue across the Jose Rizal Bridge—inhale that view), veer left around the Pacific Medical Center/Amazon (check out the weird new green lane—is it Astroturf?), take 15th Avenue South to Beacon Avenue, pass the Jefferson Park Golf Course (laugh at the street called Cheasty), and find the entrance just past South Columbian Way. (If you're confused, this bike map comes in handy. SDOT will even mail you one for free. So you can put it on your wall and gaze at it all winter long, planning your sunny-day adventures.)
- SDOT
The trail (paved, smooth) runs along Seattle City Light's utilities corridor, which provides for sharp intersecting (power) lines of sight as you ride up and down the hills (roller-coaster-style, so gravity does the work for your lazy legs) and catch glimpses of Lake Washington through the turning trees. Also: Peep Rainier Valley's monster-size P-Patches! (With sunflowers!) Also: Trip on the fact that you are riding atop the excavated soil and concrete from the light-rail construction along Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
And if you were to risk life and limb by listening to music while you ride (the horror! The danger!), Throw Me the Statue are the ideal accompaniment.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
The Weather Seven Days of More Sun
Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:43 AM
Isn't it nice when you're getting ready for work and you look at the weather forecast and all you see is sunshine for days?
Friday, October 2, 2009
The Weather The Sky Right Now
Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:56 PM
The world looked like the inside of a dishwasher this morning. And now?
Monday, September 21, 2009
The Weather Heat Wave!
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 9:15 AM
University of Washington weathersuperman Cliff Mass tells us why it's going to be so warm in the Jet City this week over here.
Today: Sunny, with a high near 72. North wind between 6 and 11 mph.
Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 84. East wind at 9 mph becoming south.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 78. Calm wind becoming southwest between 7 and 10 mph.
Thursday: Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 66.
Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 69.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 73.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 73.
Also, skiers and snowboarders, take note: Cliff answers (sort of) the question "Should you take a chance on a season ski pass this winter?"
And! Fans of Cliff, F.Y.I.: He's teaching Atmospheric Sciences 101—a general introduction to weather—this fall, open to both UW students and external "access" students.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Two-Block Radius / City / Life / The Weather Today in Trees
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:35 AM
- The Big One: I love you.
Friends, it is a bit windy out, and the sky grows cloudy. The leaves are turning. Today is the day to visit your favorite tree. I stopped under the tree that I love more than all other trees this morning—an entire universe exists under its canopy. It is the Big One.
The Big OneThe tree's trunk stands between the root-cracked sidewalk and seed-covered streets. Its leaves fall on the rooftops of parked cars. When you open the car door, branches reach into your vehicle and coarsely brush your face. They are curious; they are feeling things out.
The other day, under the branches of this massive tree—at the corner of East John Street and 11th Avenue—a rather handsome young man approached me. He was walking a white bicycle; he was looking at me with mild curiosity. He said: "Enjoying the tree? Isn't it wonderful? I live over there and see it every day, and I still can't get enough of it." He was as in love with this tree as I am. I asked if he knew its type. "It's an alderwood and probably 150 years old. I can't be sure of that number." I asked if he was an arborist. "Me? No," he said adjusting his helmet, his face brightening, his eyes somewhat dreamy, and a branch dipping toward his back. "I'm a natural scientist, so I do have some idea about plants. But I'm not an arborist." I thanked him for the good information, and he said it was a pleasure to share it.
All trees aspire to bigness. Bigness is their gaudium—the characteristic pleasure of a particular form of life. Chenjerai Hove writes: "I used to watch cattle chewing lazily under the shade of the musuma trees, chewing as if to show me that I was not able to enjoy what they enjoyed." When we see a big tree, we see this enjoyment, this gaudium. Little trees do not have this effect; their lives are small and stupid. The lure of big trees is that they are heavy with life and are deep in thought.
Five more of the sexiest trees in Seattle lionized by Mr. Mudede over here.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
The Weather
Native American Summer! American Indian/Alaska Native or, More Accurately, Harvest Summer!
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:30 AM
- Viv | Seattle Bon Vivant / Stranger Flickr
- Sorry I keep using this photo over and over on Slog. It just perfectly captures a beautiful Seattle day.
UPDATED! Thank you, commenters, for help with the title. I'm only 1/16 American Indian/Alaska Native, so I don't get the updates, and I never knew that about the first frost. Also: fixed the bad Cliff Mass link—thanks, rob!.
It was beginning to feel like glove weather (and look like raincoat weather) in Seattle, but don't put away the swimsuit (or the barbecue!) yet. The forecast:
Today: Sunny, with a high near 71.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 56.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 81.
Friday Night: Clear, with a low around 58.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 81.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 58.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 71.
Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 57.
What a beautiful weekend it will be.
Bonus peripherally native-American-related local weather item: UW weather-hero Cliff Mass looks at the Enumclaw tornado (!) here:
Enumclaw means "place of evil spirits" in the native American vernacular and it lived up to its name on Sunday: a tornado, which started around Bonney Lake moved eastward until weakening over the the town. According to an excellent report by the National Weather Service this was a confirmed category 1 storm with winds reaching 100-110 mph. The funnel hit the ground around 4:15 PM on Sunday and continued for 9.6 miles and 16 minutes. A barn and silo was lost, some greenhouses damaged, and lots of tree damage...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The Weather Two Hundred and Thirteen Miles Above Hurricane Jimena
Posted by Grant Brissey on Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Filmed from the International Space Station after Jimena downgraded to a Category 3 storm, 90 miles off Cabo San Lucas. Audio kicks in after a few seconds:
courtesy NASA
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Wilderness / The Weather Meanwhile in California
Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:02 PM
This image was taken on August 30 by the "backward (northward)-viewing camera of the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite." That's a big fire.
- NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team
- (Click to Enlarge)
h/t: the Register
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Sex / Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz / The Weather The Snuggie Sutra
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:18 AM
- thesnuggiesutra.com
- "You know you like it all cuddly!"
Snuggie season is almost upon us! Prepare with your loved one by reviewing the material found here.
One question: Why so heterocentrist? Hmmmmm, Snuggie Sutra? Clearly—or at least as much as for anyone—Snuggiesex was made for the gays.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Two-Block Radius / The Weather Since It's Never Going to Actually Rain Ever Again...
Posted by Megan Seling on Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Two-Block Radius / The Weather Seattle Needs a Shower
Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:56 AM
Here we have the sidewalk outside of the Comet. On the right, you get a glimpse of what color the sidewalk should be. On the left you see what color most of the sidewalk is. It's covered in dirt and gum and beer and hot dog juice and probably a little puke. It smells bad and it looks disgusting. Oh how I wish it would rain.
Monday, August 3, 2009
The Weather Flickr Photo of the Day
Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:29 PM
"Green Lake" by jasonneuerburg.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Wilderness / The Weather Why Don't You Go Jump in a Lake?
Posted by Kelly O on Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:00 AM
Tons of photos after the jump...
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Chow / The Weather Hot Tip
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Over in Questionland, Andrew Beck asks, "Does any one know if Anchovies & Olives has A/C?"
The answer is yes, and apparently Anchovies & Olives also takes requests. Slog tipper Matt writes:
i wanted chilled cucumber soup. i called olives and anchovies, and whoever answered said they didn't have it, and i must have whined a little, because she put the phone to her chest for a moment (yes, i can hear that sort of thing) and came back on saying that "chef stowell would be happy to make you a cucumber soup."we showed up half an hour later and he was already working on it (it ended up with a lovely tower of smoked bass in the middle). it was perfect. and they're air conditioned.
ethan's our hero.
Chow / Drunk / The Weather Got A/C?
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:39 PM
A reader writes to our restaurant guide suggestion email:
You should add air-conditioning as a feature. Fuck it's hot.
Your wish is our command, reader, and this information is only going to get more valuable as all the ice on the planet melts: Air-conditioning has been added as a feature for both bars and restaurants. We're aiming to chain an intern to a computer and have them go through every damn place in town marking the ones that have cool, cool A/C, but meanwhile, put your favorites in comments and we'll start there.
Off the top of my head: The Feedback Lounge (new in West Seattle and SO cold you can't believe it), Bastille (new, French, Ballard), Tango (has a little paper sign heralding their A/C stuck to their sandwichboard on the sidewalk), the Brooklyn (great happy hour), Anchovies & Olives, Purr...
Photo by Ham Hock from The Stranger's flickr pool.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
The Weather One-Minute Miracle
Posted by Dominic Holden on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:28 PM
This seems ridiculous, I know, but it's worth it. You will need: (1) a pillow, and (2) a freezer. Take your pillow and put it into the freezer. After a while, remove the pillow from the freezer and then hug it for the best minute of your night. Any other suggestions?
The Weather These People
Posted by Dominic Holden on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:56 PM
What's with all the people today walking around in jeans, long pants, and head-to-toe black outfits? Did they miss the memo that it's the hottest day ever in Seattle? They're everywhere. I saw a dozen on my way to work and a dozen more going for lunch. Schmader thinks they might have "funky skin diseases." Are they going to melt? Look at this guy...
He must be made of Teflon. And the guy on the corner wearing jeans and a hoodie, my god.
Chow / Drunk / The Weather Hot Tip
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Bar Exam went to the Feedback Lounge this week; the results of the examination are over here. (Did you know that Alice Cooper loves golf? True.) The Feedback Lounge is new, it's in a deep part of West Seattle known to real-estate agents as Morgan Junction, and it must inescapably be compared to the Hard Rock Cafe: The burgers are merely serviceable, and you're only going to fully appreciate this place if you have an unholy love of rock-and-roll paraphernalia (e.g., the world's largest private collection—one hopes—of KISS merchandise).
But you should know this: The Feedback Lounge is air-conditioned to a near-arctic level. You will need a sweater. They also have pinball, and Centipede, and Tron, and Space Invaders. If I could magically transport myself there when they open at 4 p.m., I absolutely would, and I'd stay until they threw my cool, cool behind out at closing time.
The Weather Hot Tip
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:05 PM
Slog tipper Zack says you can build your own air conditioner!
In an attempt to beat the heat (and avoid spending $200+ on an ac), a friend of mine and myself spent last night researching and constructing a homemade air conditioner. Here are our technical specifications and documentation, so you too may enjoy a luxuriously comfortable life.The project was surprisingly successful, with our "AC" blowing VERY cold air. After a follow-up call with my colleague this morning to see how the longevity of the unit held up overnight, he recommended getting a larger and insulated bucket (the ice was all melted by early hours of the morning).
Total cost of the project: ~$40
Heater core: $20 - Shucks
Aquarium pump: $10 - on sale at The Fish Store
Hoses, fittings, duct tape: $10 - Home Depot
Two bags of ice: $3 - SafewayThe fan and bucket we had on hand [along with, apparently, the frozen pizza box—that is, Airflow Directional Constrictor Device].
*note: The pictures were taken with my phone and came out all blurry, so for that, I apologize.
Enjoy!
More, larger photos (including "Snowflakes, bitch!") after the jump.
Mailbag / The Weather Hot Tip
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:44 AM
This week alone I've seen the following:• People running or walking their dogs on hot pavement (it burns their pads).
• People leaving their dogs in cars: Gray Nissan [license plate number redacted] at University Village, shame on you.
• People leaving their dogs tied outside of resturants while they cool their heels in the air conditioning inside.Are these people stupid, selfish, thoughtless, or insane?
I work at an animal hospital. I see the heat stroke, vomiting, and organ failure 15 minutes in a hot car can cause.
Get a grip, Seattleites... be mindful or let someone else raise your pet.
D. Kaye
Photo by Archie McPhee Seattle from The Stranger's flickr pool.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Chow / The Weather Hot Tip
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:38 PM
From Merriam-Webster:
vi·chys·soise
Pronunciation: \ vi-she-swäz [you say the last syllable, "swahz"; the Merriam-Webster robotman will say it for you over here, and his voice is very cooling]
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from feminine of vichyssois of Vichy, from Vichy, France
Date: 1939
: a soup typically made of pureed leeks or onions and potatoes, cream, and chicken stock and usually served cold
If this sounds icky to you, you need to try it—it is a perfect and beautiful hot-weather food, it is ridiculously easy to make (you don't have to be anywhere near the hot stove), and Julia Child's recipe is (in its most basic form) vegan. Personally, I recommend you use chicken or veggie stock instead of the water, definitely do the puree step, and stir in at least a bit of cream. (I also sautee the leeks in butter, then add the potatoes and water/stock, but this increases your hot-stove [and fat] quotient.)
Having a pot of this in the fridge will improve your outlook immensely. Enjoy with a very cold glass of rosé.
Photo by wesh from The Stranger's flickr pool.
The Weather Hot Tip
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:30 AM
Per Dr. Jonathan Golob, light-colored curtains are more effective at deflecting hot, hot heat than dark-colored ones. It's all about albedo.
Photo by donnamarijne.
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