Made it to MLB ballpark #17 last night — Angel Stadium. Loved every second of it for the nostalgia factor. No frills and reasonable prices. I hope it never changes.

Sending thoughts to Spokane tonight, terrible to see wildfires spreading through populated areas.

A major new wildfire outbreak is now underway across interior Pacific Northwest, with dozens (or more) new wildfires already popping up in eastern Oregon & Washington following tens of thousands of lightning strikes in region experiencing moderate to extreme drought. #ORwx #WAwx

Got a close up of the marine layer hole over Santa Catalina Island on my flight out of San Diego this morning. I think this is fairly common but it’s new to me!

Impressive stuff going on in Seattle where virtually all transit agencies are setting ridership records and neighborhoods are seeing record visitors.

Aaaaand the Colorado Rockies are covered in smoke.

California bike infrastructure

My first full day in San Diego and there is a wildfire nearby. Makes it easy to see the height of the marine layer…

If you’re wondering how the World Cup is going in Seattle, Airbnb just emailed us offering cash bonuses in exchange for securing bookings during matches. The exorbitant dynamic pricing / politics has likely backfired and I suspect Seattle will have the same or less tourists than a typical summer.

If this is my last Mariners game before I leave Seattle, I choose to remember this and not seeing us get one hit twice in three days... (first foul ball after several hundred lifetime baseball games)

The snow level is below 3,000 ft in the Cascades this morning. It’s even snowing at Longmire!

Some personal news...

Not surprising, but most of the PNW is expected to have above normal risk of significant wildfires by July-August.

Anthony Edwards@edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The National Interagency Fire Center has released its summer outlook. Elevated wildfire potential is projected across a broad swath of the West, with the highest risk generally shifting from the Four Corners Region in May and June to the Northwest, Rockies and Northern California by July and August.

This thunderstorm produced a waterspout over Puget Sound! Photo via Reddit.

Probability of super El Nino vs probability of super duper turbocharged El Nino? Check out the strength forecast cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ana...

Well, this is simply infuriating. Someone's got to fight this in court. BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service open.substack.com/pub/morethan...

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

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As the first reanalysis data become available, I think I can say with a fairly high degree of confidence that the March 2026 heatwave will go down as the most anomalously extreme heat event ever observed at any time of year in the southwestern U.S.

Colorado snowpack is melting out three weeks ahead of the previous record. This is happening at 1.5C of warming. What will the record year look like at 2 or 2.5C?

Is climate change making cold extremes more frequent/severe? No This plot shows the difference in temperature of the 0.2% coldest hourly temps (from ERA5) from two periods: 2000-2019 and 1980-1999. Red colors indicate that the later period had warmer extreme cold temperatures.

Earlier today, I was asked to comment on the current state of American disaster preparedness. That was already a fraught question, even prior to present chaos, but then I saw today's headlines. 🫠 "Top Disaster Response Official Claims He Teleported to a Waffle House"

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

The upcoming SW USA heat dome is predicted to be so anomalous that the 500 hPa heights over the entire region will exceed every historical daily max (1990-2025) from now until JUNE. This may be a short lived event, but the consequences for snowpack, water supply, and drought will be felt all year.

Major shades of '21 Pacific Northwest heat event. EFI maxed out across the majority of the Western US, for multiple consecutive days.

By how much and for how long will the upcoming weather pattern--an astonishing anticyclone--be breaking March records in the west? A lot, and a long time. Here's GFS forecast 500hPa height compared to the March record. Breaking monthly records by >50m, and 2 to 5+ days in monthly record territory.

That storm made a nice dent in the WA state snowfall deficit. However, it wasn’t enough to get up to the 10th percentile line. Snowpack remains low, but at least we’re well clear of historic lows. A warm atmospheric river next week will be a net negative for snowpack.

US 2 Stevens Pass is now closed between milepost 55 and 85 because our plows are not able to clear the road due to illegally parked vehicles at the summit. If you have selfishly chosen to block our crews and first responders, come move your car off the highway.

All signs continue to point to an exceptional, long-duration, and record-breaking to (in some cases) record-shattering March heatwave initially centered across U.S. Southwest but expanding to much broader region next week. This is effectively a full-on summer heatwave in March.

Incredible to see a mid-March snowfall in Seattle. I saw the high-res models showing snow last night and didn't believe them!

The latest run of the European ensemble model has 500 mb heights a week from now around 5960 m over southern AZ. To give some perspective on how insane that is, that would be the orange dot on the SPC graph of Tucson historical 500 mb heights (red line is all-time highest)

The #Seattle area may see some wet snow between the pre-dawn hours Friday until about mid morning -- yes, including the Friday morning commute -- with slushy accumulations on grassy surfaces. Get the scoop in the ECWB: emeraldcityweather.com/atmospheric-... #wawx #wasnow

Atmospheric river may bring some slushy snow to Seattle and Puget Sound region Friday - Emerald City Weather Blog

So, about that Friday the 13th… To say this week’s weather has been wacky is to sell “wacky”

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