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For over 25 years, I’ve had a front-row seat to the meteorological circus that is Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. I’ve seen it all — from “Pineapple Expresses” to “Bomb Cyclones” to that one time we had a sunny weekend day in mid-November.
I’m originally from Port Angeles, Washington, but consider myself a “child of the Northwest”, having lived in several places along the Pacific Coast through childhood as the son of a Coast Guard search and rescue pilot. I returned to the Seattle area after graduating high school to get my degree in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington. It was long enough ago to remember when Almost Live! was a Saturday night staple and know what it’s like to walk up the ramps of the Kingdome to seats on the third deck to watch Griffey, Edgar, and… Rick Mirer? (ALSO: HAD NO ONE REALLY THOUGHT TO PUT IN ESCALATORS?)
I had most recently spent the last four-plus years as a senior digital content producer at FOX Weather keeping a keen eye on national weather events, but the bulk of my career had been spent as a digital meteorologist at KOMO-TV, the ABC local news affiliate here in Seattle.
There, I was one of the first (if not *the* first) dedicated online meteorologists in the U.S., writing the daily forecast for KOMO’s then-new web site (in Netscape!), all under the mentorship of the late, great Steve Pool. We even co-authored a book, “Somewhere, I Was Right.”
In the mid-2000s, I created the “Partly to Mostly Bloggin’” weather blog, which lasted well over a decade. You might have heard of me as “the 78 Minutes of Seattle Summer” guy or “the weather forecaster who posts about Emergency Kittens…”
But I’ve been eager to rekindle my online Seattle weather roots and thus, the Emerald City Weather Blog is born. My goal is to translate the science behind our weather into something you can actually use. I’ll break down the forecast, explain weird atmospheric patterns, and help you understand why it’s going to be cloudy with a chance of ‘what was that?'” I speak fluent Puget Sound Convergence Zone, even if the UW wouldn’t count it as my foreign language requirement.
I am also the self-proclaimed “spokesperson for Seattle’s rain fans”. If you’re the type who loves clouds and rain and loathe those days over 85, as the song goes, you’ve got a friend in me. Forgive me if I’m a little more cheery toward the grayer days, but I feel that contingent of weather fans needs a champion. But don’t worry, I’l still talk about the sunny and warm days. I’ve got an entire arsenal of Emergency Kittens videos at the ready to get us rain fans through the hot days.
So consider this your go-to source for trusted analysis and a good laugh about the weather we all know and love to complain about. I’ll give you the facts, but I promise they won’t be dry…
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