Cliff Mass Weather Blog

 I have received several inquiries about snow in the Cascade passes from folks who will be traveling over Thanksgiving, and for others looki...

This was a bad week for wind energy in the Northwest, but before I discuss this, let's step back for a few minutes. There is a lot of in...

 This has been a very wet fall in California.    A big contrast with last year. Los Angeles this week Consider the differences from normal o...

There have been several stories in the Seattle Times and some local media that have hyped and exaggerated the "drought" over Washi...

Most of the time, atmospheric rivers-- plumes of lower-atmospheric moisture from off the Pacific Ocean- -are relatively wide and thus produc...