The Pacific Northwest can sometimes receive violent windstorms that reach hurricane strength, but it is not subject to hurricanes like the East Coast. These regional storms are known as mid-latitude cyclones. The mid-latitudes, from 30˚ to 60˚ north, experience a…
Year: 2018
Snow in May? No it’s just Cottonwood Season in the Puget Sound area.
Drive I-90 these days, and the breeze is made visible by the puffs of white cottonwood seed aloft, delicate as duck down. It’s actually the signature of a tough survivor. Cottonwood colonizes some of the roughest territory taken on by…
