Bruce’s Briefs

Well here it is the weekend before the Holiday madness starts and two days before it actually becomes winter! For those of you interested that will be on Sunday at …

Needless to say, it’s been a very interesting week of weather. Three days of record high temperatures, a pretty good wind storm, and now we’re going to have a beautiful …

We warned you last week that there would be more high wind events and the one for tomorrow looks like the real deal. As you can see from the surface …

November was interesting, and while we are almost 12 inches ahead for rainfall on the year, November was below average. So what else is new for the Pacific Northwest? We …

Clearly the locals are now happy since “normal” weather has returned to the Pacific Northwest and the forecast is looking like not much will change through Turkey Day. As you …

The weather words of this week and continuing through the weekend will be offshore flow. This is caused by a fairly strong high-pressure system (1037mb) that remains situated over the …

It’s a big weekend for racing in the Pacific Northwest with all kinds of great events for every level of sailor. Looking at the Surface Forecast Chart for Saturday evening …

I’m afraid our lovely Indian summer has come to its inevitable conclusion with plenty of rain, cool temperatures and unstable air that resulted in yet another tornado and some lightning. …

Another very interesting week for weather as we slowly make our transition to fall in the Pacific Northwest. The temperatures are still above “normal” and we are definitely in line …

We wrap up another interesting week for weather in the Pacific Northwest with morning fog, clearing afternoons and temperatures still in the 70° range. Amazing. That however is all going …

Another pretty great week in the Pacific Northwest however as you can see from the surface charts, the change is coming. As far as this weekend and the Foulweather Bluff …

Has it been wet enough for you yet? So as of today we’ve had almost 6.5 inches of rain for the month of September compared to 1.52 inches which is …