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September 2006 ArchivesLet me go out on a limb and make a bold prediction. No more rain for the month of September. Ok it's actually an old growth limb I'm standing on. Oooo! Bold move you say just 4 days left in the month and I call for no more rain. We've had just .86" of rain this month. September should average 1.75". I'll go out a little further and say (drum roll please) we won't get any measureable precipitation until sometime into ... Summer in September continues. Even though it's offically fall, these truly are the dog days of summer. I've been digging around looking at some of the long range computer models. NGM, GFS & MM5 all show this dry pattern continuing. The Tuesday morning GFS keeps rain out of the picture through the middle of October! Granted that's a reach. The daytime high's in the 80's will come to an end later this week. A weak system will pass by to the n... Look up in the sky ! It's a bird. It's a plane no it's the International Space Station! Clear skies this weekend will allow for not only star gazing but also space station gazing! The ISS has been in the news lately with the successfull mission of space shuttle Atlantis, and the arrival of another space tourist this weekend. Anybody got 20 million I can have so I can join club space tourist?
Auntie Em, Auntie Em look it's a twister! It's not that uncommon to see a funnel cloud in the Pacific Northwest. They appear mostly in the spring and early fall when you have rapid changes in the atmoshere. What's unusual about this funnel cloud is where it occured. Bellevue Washington, just north of downtown Seattle!
Hold on now everybody let's not go jumping onto the El Nino bandwagon just yet. Yes I've seen the data and watched the stories about this being another El Nino winter. George Taylor, down at OSU has revised his forecast, with precipitation tapering off by mid-winter. Data coming in on the ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) index shows a couple of things. First, this El Nino is getting started late in the season. Usually we see sig... Our teachers told us it was dark, cold and far away, but it was still a planet. Most of us never knew Pluto's status was at risk. But recently some of the (only 4% !) world's astronomers got together and held a vote. Pluto lost, it's planet status revoked. Do you think this is crazy - did Pluto get a raw deal? Believe it or not, one of NASA's scientists wants to know what you think. And he's giving you a chance... You can sometimes see them from miles away. Twisting, turning, racing accross open farm fields on a sunny northwest day. Many people call dust devils mini-tornadoes, and they sure look them, minus the cloud on top. Here's one from the Willamette Valley on Saturday. >> Continue reading: Dust Devils |
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