Warm and Nice with Alpine Thunderstorms for the PNW(and Some Upper-level Smoke)
Hello there everyone to my first-ever blog! I am excited to try to make at least one blog each week where I will go a bit in-depth about what weather the PNW looks to be expecting. *Expect some humor also mixed in* Let's start out by going over what is happening right now. Below you will see the simulated high-pressure ridge (reds and oranges) and low-pressure trough (blues and purples) positions from the GFS model. This gives us a good overview of what conditions will probably be like in parts of North America. Out west, we have a large ridge causing above-average warmth for this time of the year and little to no precipitation. While out east a trough is causing cooler and more unsettled weather. The placement of this ridge over the west is also causing the airflow over the PNW to be favorable for smoke from the Canadian wildfires to enter the region (for the time being). This was very evident during the sunrise this morning which Randy Small from the Whatcom County Weather Page o...