In case you haven’t heard, the National Weather Service is predicting, with high certainty, a very strong El Niño this year. A strong El Niño has already formed with a 90% chance of it strengthening to very strong and a
Once we lose the tides, the ebb and flow of life’s sustenance is diminished.
Today is the 30-year anniversary of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous people are communities who have existed on land long before the…
Despite what the calendar might say, winter has definitely arrived in the Pacific Northwest. This week’s Update features a variety of stories, including a story or two on online travel agencies (OTAs), and stories on Vacasa’s public debut and Amex…
Climate change — to those who indulge in counter-factual thinking and who hold anti-science beliefs — may be an abstraction and a mere theory. But weather extremes became a startling, real, and deadly health threat to tens of millions in…
This is the best restaurant in the Pacific Northwest. To read they are re-opening makes me happy. That they are doing so with a new phenomenal talent makes this event ten-times better.
[Chef Aisha] Ibrahim was the sous chef at…
The big picture: A highly unusual weather pattern that statistically has less than a 1-in-several-thousand-year chance of occurring is starting to shift and weaken slightly over the Pacific Northwest. The area of high pressure aloft is colloquially known as a…