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YES!

9 hours ago | [YT] | 91

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Had a successful northern lights chase January 19-20! I’ve got some time lapse material that I plan to put together from this.

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2 weeks ago | [YT] | 144

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Go hawks! Currently I’m working on putting together a bit more of a long for video using a lot of the extra flooding footage I captured. I could just upload it all as one big b-roll clip, but I think I want to put some more work into it instead. This channel will primarily be used for livestreaming storms in Washington state and occasionally elsewhere. When there’s is really interesting weather on the horizon, I will do forecast style videos. When we get into quiet times, similar to now, I will work on doing recaps of storms I’ve chased. Let me know if any of you have any feedback or suggestions. Thanks everyone!

3 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 93

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Well, I hate to be the bearer of less than pleasant news. Unfortunately after this weeks fresh mountain dumping of snow, the snow levels are about to rise this weekend and into next week. It is looking more likely that we may have another.. **trigger warning..** atmospheric river/Pinapple Express in our future. I know, everyone is tired of those words, especially after December. But unfortunately this is something we should discuss.

Saturday night through Tuesday night is the timeframe when this is possibly going to occur, with Monday looking the rainiest. The snow level at Stevens Pass is likely going to climb to over 6,500 feet, and rain will be falling at pass level. Attached is a map showing 72 hour rain totals from Saturday at 10am through Tuesday at 10am from the European model. This is not a great look for our snowpack. River flooding? Maybe, but it’s still a bit far out to be sure. A lot of snow has fallen in the lower elevations of the foothills. My concern, is that a decent amount of snowmelt will occur in tandem with this rainfall. The National Blend of Models shows less rain totals, which still wouldn’t be great for the snowpack but would pose less flooding concerns. Hopefully it ends up being just another couple rainy days with no issues.

And then after that, we going to get more mountain snow again, right?! 😀 Right?! 🫠… well 😐… not for a while. Temperatures in the mountains are likely to stay elevated for some time… it might even get downright balmy up there for a bit.

So, if you ski or snowboard, I’d recommend enjoying the fresh powder sometime Today-Saturday if you can make it up there. I’ll monitor the upcoming pattern, and hopefully we won’t have to talk about flooding concerns. But, if we do, we will try our best to communicate about it and cover it of course. Shown in the first graphic is the European model rain totals for the time period discussed. *Written on 01-09-26* #Weather #wawx
- Benjamin J

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1 month ago | [YT] | 94

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Our next planned live storm chase is scheduled to begin around 4PM this upcoming Tuesday! Follow this link to get notified of when the stream begins: youtube.com/live/LI52dlJmgeM?feature=share

1 month ago | [YT] | 48

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❄️ 🎉 A Winter Storm WATCH has been issued for Cascades Mountains and the northwestern slopes of the Blue Mountains of Washington state. This watch is for a long period of time from Monday night through Thursday afternoon. This upcoming period is the most favorable period of mountain snowpack building that we’ve seen so far this winter! Several FEET of snow is likely to fall in the mountains this week, including at pass levels!

Skiers rejoice!! Be watching for a scheduled snow chase livestream for Tuesday afternoon and evening.

Attached here is a link to the full winter storm watch text from numerous National Weather Service offices.

NWS Seattle, Spokane, Portland forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=SEW&…

NWS Pendleton blue mountains forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=WAZ030…

#wawx #weather #winter #snow 01-04-2026
-Benjamin J

1 month ago | [YT] | 65

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SEA!!!!

1 month ago | [YT] | 41

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Hey folks, I was considering doing a livestream looking over data tonight but I am going to opt for spending time with the family. There is plenty of weather coming up you can expect and associated storm chase livestreams.

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