Cliff Mass Weather Blog

The satellite imagery over eastern Washington this morning looked like someone had gone crazy with a white crayon,  drawing many white lines, most extending roughly east-west.

This morning, a strong low-level temperature inversion caused the air quality to decline over western Washington and created false radar echoes on local weather radar.

Reminder:  an inversion occurs when temperature increases with height, a reversal (inversion) of the normal situation in which temperature decreases with height. 

This morning, fog was widespread over the lowlands of western Washington, with many of the river valleys in the murk (see visible image below around 7 AM)

 There is always a yin and a yang in the weather.

Because of the structure and limited extent of weather systems, one area's precipitation bounty inevitably means less precipitation than normal for an adjacent region.

Virtually every spring, some media and activists claim that the upcoming summer will bring above-normal wildfire activity over the Pacific Northwest because of global warming/climate change (see example from last year below).