We love Cliff Mass, and we never, ever want anything bad to happen to him. Now, his family's dog is missing. So, Seattlest sleuths, it's time to spread the word and get her home safely. more ›

It seems everyone, even the newsmakers, rabble rousers and muck rakers have taken Friday afternoon off. more ›

In a city where the weather is conversation topic numero uno, and where geeks rule, it's no surprise that a shake-up in the meteorology scene could cause such the cultural tsunami. News of Cliff Mass's departure from KUOW's Weekday rocked the city, sparking debate about free speech, big media and, of course, the weather. His presence on public radio has been sorely missed, but all you weather fanatics get pumped: Cliff is coming back! more ›

Let's end this. Do you actually care about the weather in Seattle? more ›

Friday's news: a big blaze, some warm weather (and a hot story about a weather man), plus some new leads to a couple of cold cases. more ›

You're right--this spring has been super, super crappy. Cliff Mass says so. more ›

The possibility of snow that whipped local newscasters into a panty-bunching frenzy is becoming less and less likely. In a blog post today, Cliff Mass lays down for us the delicate circumstances it takes to produce snowflakes in the city: more ›

Weather watchers will be surprised, nay, shocked to learn that Cliff Mass doesn't put a lot of stock in the predictions of Punxsutawney Phil. more ›

We read the latest blog post from Cliff Mass before our morning coffee, so we had to review it a few times to make sure this good news was legit: more ›

So much for that insane snowstorm we were supposed to get tomorrow. Cliff Mass has spoken: more ›

THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD: Only two days left to catch this film and reminisce about your WTO activist days. Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno battle free market mentality by selecting a despised corporation, setting up a fake website, and waiting until they’re invited to speak at an event as a representative of that company. Shenanigans ensue. more ›

After our recent heat wave, UW meteorologist Cliff Mass emphasized that weather shouldn't be confused with climate change. Then he added, with scientific sangfroid, "I suspect mankind will not act fast enough to reduce fossil fuel use to stop large global warming effects and that we will learn to live with it." more ›

It's the first day of real rain after a loooooooooong dry spell, and UW weather sage Cliff Mass says: Watch out! "During the dry period oil, dust and other debris collect on roadways and the addition of water produces a slippery emulsion." It certainly does, and you notice it taking the corners, or on a hill. That said, at the moment traffic flow looks pretty good. more ›

Make no mistake about it. Last Wednesday was an epic event. The thermometer was just so many numbers. But no one who has lived here, in recorded history, had ever been through anything like it. more ›

If you didn't stock up on fans, porches, and Mint Juleps this past weekend to brave the heat, you may want to rethink that decision. This week (and perhaps even longer) Seattle will be experiencing one helluva summer heat wave--to the point where an excessive heat warning has been issued for our area until Thursday, July 30. more ›

The good news is that UW weather guru Cliff Mass says we're not looking at a record-breaking temperature spike coming up--but the bad news is that it's still a pretty sharp spike to be poked with. (In the same post he's got reader pics of noctilucent clouds, which, in a movie, would be a signal for supernatural doings afoot. Go take look. Real pretty.) more ›

• Seattle Bubble has some fairly depressing graphs of job losses in the region. Why, graphs, why?
• MyBallard has info on the 10,000 or so people prepared to invade Greenwood tomorrow for the 50th Annual Greenwood Seafair Parade, including links showing which streets are closed.

The heat's already gotten to our squirrel neighbor, and it's just after nine a.m. KOMO says 85 degrees today, tops. Cliff Mass says in New England, people are complaining about their cold, dreary summer, but we've got temps in the 80s as far as next Monday. more ›

We’ve spent the last two Junes bitching about the weather, so we are using this gloomy Friday to rave about all the blue sky and warm temperatures we’ve had so far. Seriously, Greek god of weather, get over here so we may perform many high fives. more ›

The UW's weather guru Cliff Mass is part of a threesome that have appealed to the King County Superior Court to block the Seattle Public Schools' adoption of an inquiry-based math textbook series: Discovering Algebra, Discovering Geometry, and Discovering Advanced Algebra. In a press release, they argue that inquiry-based math instruction has resulted in a growing "achievement gap in mathematics among ethnic minority and free-lunch students in 4th, 7th, and 10th grades." The argument is also playing out in the op-ed pages of the Seattle Times, where a math teacher at Roosevelt responded to Mass's vocal criticism, oddly without including a single math-achievement benchmark that might sway us in favor of the series. more ›

Multiple weatherological sources are saying if we can just hold out through showers today and tomorrow, we're headed to some mighty fine sunshine--in fact we might hit 70 by Thursday. We get a little weepy just thinking about it. more ›

The P-I says that the Seattle school board voted to adopt (4-3) the Key Curriculum Press Discovering Mathematics textbooks series--for algebra, advanced algebra, geometry, pre-calculus and calculus classes across the district. (Statistics classes get an Addison-Wesley textbook.) more ›

Cliff Mass says we got us a real frog-strangler bearing down on us. The storm should arrive in western Washington this afternoon, with winds and anywhere from a quarter to three-quarters of an inch of rainfall. The southwest side of the Olympics could get 2-4 inches, so if you want to play blue-tarp camper, this is your moment! more ›

Yesterday we blogged about Cliff Mass's opinion on the high school algebra and geometry textbooks the school board is considering--and nobody with an opposing view commented. You'd think it was unanimous agreement. However, we were notified about this indignant response on Twitter: "Wow, I just lost all respect for the Seattlest - GG. http://bit.ly/1R3H08 Cliff Mass is an idiot. Agh so pissed off. Why can't ppl see that all the great minds are saying NOT TO lecture at kids or drill-n-kill. WELCOME TO OUR GENERATION!! Lets go to the weatherman for how we should teach math. EXCELLENT IDEA. Include all the rich white males from Bellevue while you're at it." more ›

Tucked at the end of UW meteorologist Cliff Mass's post about the millions of square miles of low clouds over the ocean that will ruin our sun-loving lives for the foreseeable future is a PS about Seattle's high school math "situation" that we mentioned last week. Says Cliff: "I was amazed that three of them are still considering a terrible math series (Discovering Algebra, Discovering Geometry) that was found by the State Board of Education to be unsuitable. And dropped by San Diego as a failure." They lost us with the titles, for god's sake, but it helps to have Cliff weigh in with an expert opinion. more ›

As Cliff Mass was pointing out during our monsoon yesterday, Sequim (pronounced "skwim" for the newbies) sits in a rain shadow and gets less rain, more sun. But before you move, owners of this Seattle house, check out the neighborhood--KOMO has a story on Sequimmers' distaste for lavender and fuschia paint. The extra sun doesn't seem to be translating to sunny dispositions. more ›

We just added Q13's Parella Lewis to our Twittabase--we wanted to make sure we're bringing you a fair and balanced weather report--and already she's rewarded us by predicting a partly sunny weekend. Contrast this with Cliff Mass, working out of the notorious socialist stronghold of the UW, and his fixation on depressing graphs about the cold. As a caveat, four of Lewis's recent tweets mention drinking coffee to wake up and another one is a Thoreau quote, so it sounds like she's as desperate for sun as anyone else. more ›

We were just reading the Weekly's conversation with Cliff Mass about global warming's effects on the Northwest: in the coming years, "late springs and early summers may actually be cooler--at least in the Western part of the state." Compare that with today's Seattle Times story on spring coming earlier around here: "Dozens of studies concur that the onset of spring--as measured by the response of plants, animals and ecosystems--is about a week earlier than it was 50 years ago," and Lake Washington's "spring cycle of warming and algae growth now start three weeks earlier than it used to." Spring comes earlier and gets colder. FAIL. more ›

You may have noticed the snow flurries yesterday and this morning. Were you psyched about them? Even after Snowmaggedon '09, Seattlest can't seem to kick that momentary, childlike thrill when we see flakes drifting from the sky--but trust us, the thrill fades ever more quickly with each snowfall this year. According to Weather Underground, we're doomed to snow here and there throughout the day, but tomorrow looks clear and sunny. We're on a Winter Weather Advisory until Tuesday. Our weather guru, Cliff Mass, says "an inch or two is possible," and that "this really is quite extraordinary." Mmhmm. All we know is that the weather has us swapping tall tales about early summer blizzards with friends who've also done time in the Midwest. more ›

• Big Blog won points with a post about The Bachelor's ex-wife and her YouTubed guest spot as a groupie on local band Out From Underneath's Seattle-heavy music video. Onwards and upwards, Gas Works Park.
• The blog formerly known as bigasscity is quoting none other than ZZ Top while crunching the numbers about Metro's projected budget shortfall and how much money the city could have saved by rejecting the bored tunnel viaduct replacement option.
• Cliff Mass thinks it's "pretty definite": we're looking at more snow, probably on Sunday. Actually, that works well with our schedule. How kind of the gods to check with Seattlest HQ's Google Calendar before sending the cold front!