Cliff Mass Weather Blog

September is a meteorological transitional month in the Northwest.   The jet stream starts to strengthen and move south, while we begin to f...

It is a sad day for all of us who care for the University of Washington. Also, a sad day for those who value the essential American principl...

On Monday, I was contacted by Scott Beason, Park Geologist at Mount Rainier, who was looking for precipitation data. Why?   Because of a ser...

 I have gotten several messages about yesterday's localized smoke event, so let me answer them here. First, the smoke concentration in s...

 Sitting in my office right now, it smells like wildfire smoke. Looking at the latest (4:30 PM) PurpleAir air quality map, one sees a narrow...