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Pacific Breeze Returns - No Sign of a Painful Polar Vortex Happy 2020! By the way, where's my flying car? Think about it. Years ago when you daydreamed about the 21st century you pictured monorails, robotic butlers and romantic getaways to the moon. Instead we got a...

Note to Self: It's Just Frozen Water "Dad, you don't have to shovel water" my oldest son, Walt, bragged. We were visiting their home in Seattle; 50-degree sunshine never felt better. Minnesota had been transformed into a vast ice skating rink and I was feeling sorry...

Happy 40-Degree Winter Solstice! Meteorologists are great fun at parties. Get us in a corner with a cup of (cheap) eggnog and we'll babble on about Alberta Clippers, Bomb Cyclones, maybe throw in a scandalous Texas Hooker. Just to clear up any ambiguity, a "Texas...

Enduring the Dark Days of December "If only I was as brilliant during daylight as I am at twilight", wrote Anastasia Bolinder. December is a month of perpetual twilight. Today's ration of sunlight is 8 hours and 46 minutes. That compares to 15 hours, 37 minutes of...

Hanging Onto a (Slushy) White Christmas Santa is chill, because we will have a white-ish Christmas this year, in spite of a prolonged, slow-motion meltdown. Daytime highs reach or top 32F from Friday into Christmas Day. If the sun comes out Sunday 40F isn't out of the...