The next cold front is forecast to sweep through the Pacific Northwest tonight, reaching #Vancouver and #Seattle around 21:00 (local time), and #Portland around 22:00.
Heavy rain, strong wind, and isolated lightning strikes are all possible. Note most people will not experience lightning, it's just a possibility.
If you're into #weather models, check out satellitewx.com which was built by a meteorologist friend of mine.
It is a comprehensive website giving real-time satellite and radar observations along with a large amount of model data.
Reminder as polls begin to close in the U.S.: Once the poll closes and the counting begins, no candidate or proposal races ahead or falls behind despite how the media frames it.
There are a fixed number of votes for each. It takes time to count all of them. They don’t come in uniformly. This is expected and acceptable.
I was laid off today. First time I've dealt with something like this. Not much else to say at this stage.
If anyone has meteorology work of any kind, please let me know. I'm pretty tied down to Hermiston for now, but open to some forms of hybrid work in the Pacific Northwest.
There should be a vacancy tax on all urban and suburban property types.
Give 1-2 months once vacancy begins without it then start scaling up each month the property remains vacant.
Force developers, landlords, and others to offer up vacant residential, commercial, and industrial units at a fair market price rather than holding onto it for an obscene amount of time asking for a high price.
Obviously there’s nuance that people smarter than me would need to figure out but almost any candidate including this concept in their platform would get my vote.
I love working remotely. My daughter spent most of the day just hanging out in my office with me and when I put her to bed this evening she said working with me was her favorite part of the day.
My SIL is at a church youth camp near Mount Hood and sent me a video of her hiking through a thunderstorm in the woods yesterday. I inquired further and she told me the leaders didn't know it was going to storm.
I reached out to our bishop and we're going to put together a workshop so that the adult leaders can be empowered to know what to look for to avoid this in the future rather than relying on a simple phone weather app.
I don't fault people for not knowing, but now that I know it's a problem I feel like it's my responsibility as a meteorologist to help improve the situation. For now they're proactively texting me asking for updates through the end of the campout. Glad to see they're doing what they can.