The Dungeness Valley is famous for its many days of sun, yet Port Angeles has been found to be inside the rain shadow of the Olympics as well.  Atmospheric Sciences’ Cliff Mass is quoted here. 

Every two weeks, Reginald Roberts posts a new set of earthquake forecasts on his website, NextEarthquake.com. Roberts says his earthquake forecasts, which included a prediction of the earthquake that shook Hawaii on Thursday (Oct. 20), are accurate over 90 percent of the time. If Roberts is right, then all the world’s seismologists and earthquake geologists are wrong when they say earthquakes are too chaotic to be predicted. 

The city of Seattle is using new technology that allows officials to know exactly how bad storms are and what neighborhoods are getting hit the worst. Cliff Mass, professor of atmospheric sciences, helped design the system; read more here. 

The OOI project, involving OSU, UW, Scripps, Woods Hole, UCSD and Rutgers, is discussed.