CHANGES ON THE HORIZON

The majority of our weather comes from the west and today if you looked to the west you could see it coming. I took this picture around noon. Notice how the sky is sort of split in two. There was blue on the top part and white below. It made a pretty clear line in the sky.



The orange dot on the satellite image is about where I took the picture in Kirkland. It is looking across lake Washington at the city of Seattle. I drew an orange line on the satellite image where I believe to be the front edge of the clouds in the previous picture. The thin clouds to the east of the orange line are also visible in the previous picture.



Some of the thin clouds were thick enough to produce a halo around the sun. As expected the rest of the clouds moved in later in the day consuming the blue sky. These clouds are ahead of a weak weather system that is expected to bring Seattle at least a little bit of rain Wednesday.

ON THE WATER… Calm but warm

I was on a sailboat today shooting a segment that will air in June on KING5. It allowed me a great vantage point for watching the sky.



It was a perfect lazy day for these sea lions. Notice how calm the water looks. The glassy appearance indicates that it was a bit too calm to give the sails a workout but it was still nice just to be out there.

Overhead there was a nice halo around the sun. A halo forms when sunlight is refracted through the ice crystals that make up these high clouds.

It was a bit hazy on the horizon but there is still nothing like seeing Mt. Rainier from the water.

I hope you enjoyed this weekend as much as I did because we are heading back to more typical spring weather this week.

A TASTE OF SUMMER

Despite the high clouds, many spots in western Washington warmed into the 70s with a few spots in the south Sound region in the lower 80s! The high at Sea-Tac was 76. It was a very nice evening to try out my new camera. My old one got a little too wet a few weeks ago, and by “wet” I mean in-the-lake wet. Now I’m back in business and my first photo shoot was during my dinner break on the roof garden at KING5. Here is one of the roof garden’s transient residents.



Here is my first movie with the new camera. It's 12 seconds long and it shows the high clouds we had at sunset.



I bet it was tough to get on that departing Alaska Airlines flight after a day like today. Sunday is also looking really good with temperatures similar to Saturday and more high clouds.