We occupied everything this week. Bars (all weekend, because who puts Halloween on a Monday?), the streets (when it was nice) our houses (when it wasn't), sporting events (in spite of rain), and of course, you know, the actual protests. more ›

Crappy weather, crappy traffic, and a crappy jobs outlook mark today's headlines. Apparently, everyone remembered that Thursday is the day that we complain about where we live. more ›

Scan-091029-0001-Edit-Edit by photosbysomeguy from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

Last week, Seattle was smugly content in the knowledge that summer had, at last, began. We smugged too soon. more ›

Summer! by p.folrev from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

Food and wine writer and generally cultured fellow Ronald is currently traveling in Italy--but that can't stop him from writing for Seattlest. Here's a piece he's just sent from Venice. more ›

Does it really always rain on Memorial Day? Hanna goes on a weather fact-finding hunt, to see whether or not the myth is true. more ›

Might not want to stand under any small trees today! The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory, starting now-ish and extending into the evening. Winds could reach 20-30 MPH with 45 MPH gusts--not extreme, but don't be surprised if there are some branches in your lawn come tomorrow. And don't leave the house with your umbrella--it's been through enough already. more ›

Seattlest will be counting down to 2011 with a series of posts on our highlights of this year and what we're looking forward to in the next. Got a list to suggest? Send it our way. See the entire series here. more ›

Well, not really. Some fun stuff happened. But, if we’re judging it strictly by the weather, we might have ourselves a candidate for Worst Summer Ever. more ›

Steve Pool is promising eighty degrees by Saturday, but we know better than to hang our hopes on the emptiness that is a Seattle weather person’s five-day forecast. Just go outside, shit is cold. If summer is going to spring back into form like a sunny Lazarus, we won’t complain--but right now it’s taking more faith than us heathens can afford. Coming off maybe the wettest Bumbershoot in memory, this feels like an appropriate time to reflect on the summer in the past tense. more ›

A PLAY OF MAGICAL THINKING: Intiman Theatre presents The Year of Magical Thinking, a play by well-known and much-loved author Joan Didion, based on her bestselling memoir of the same name. Directed by Sama Lapine and starring Judith Roberts, this beautiful show relives the heartbreaking aftermath of Didion losing her husband of 40 years while her daughter lay in intensive care, and how she coped with her grief. 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 ›

Seattle weather guru Cliff Mass has some unsettling news: May 20 to June 30 was the driest such period in the 116-year history of Seattle weather-record-keeping. Seattle got a mere .18 inches of rain--not enough to chase a whiskey--deblitermashing the previous record by a full .1 inch! Suck it, 1934. more ›

First rain in 30 days by aphid00, from the Seattlest Flickr Pool more ›

Cliff Mass says no rain was detected at SeaTac (despite a few drops in Seattle yesterday), and so we've moved into contention for the "longest dry run in May-June" in recorded history. Truly these are days of miracle and wonder. 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 ›

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It's snowing like hell near Microsoft, Wedgwood has sun and blue skies, Capitol Hill has sunbreaks and winds, and Shoreline was getting pelted by snow pellets. Of course, that was five minutes ago, so by now the opposite could be true in every case. We keep looking out the window and thinking it's either late December or April. But that's March for you. Meanwhile Metro's list of impacted buses is growing. more ›

Cliff Mass says: "The latest prediction by the National Weather Service's Climatic Prediction Center is for cooler and wetter than normal conditions over the next month. Sounds like a La Nina forecast to me." Sweet. Cold and wet. If we were a mushroom, we'd be looking forward to that. In any event, you are now required to skip out of work any time there's sun over the next few days. Seattlest says so. Let us know if you need a permission slip. more ›

Last night--see Exhibit A, to the right--we walked home in a snow flurry. This morning it's 25 degrees and sunny. Tomorrow, says Cliff Mass, it's back to a rainy gray: "Temps will warm rapidly as the associated front approaches and there should be considerable rain shadowing from Seattle northward. So it is possible that some locations will initially see some snow (particularly south Tacoma) that will turn to rain." more ›

Finally we've found a replacement for clicking updates on political polls--clicking for weather updates on Cliff Mass's blog: "There should be an inch or two by the end of the Wed. morning commute. At this point it looks like temperatures will warm up enough by midday that that the snow might turn very wet or even to rain at the lowest elevations...but we are right on the edge." Then later on Wednesday, another system is headed our way that could bring rain or a lot more snow, depends on how lucky we are. Has anyone read Cliff's book? more ›

So be careful! We're looking at high winds tomorrow, and by Saturday there should be a couple feet of snow in the mountains "followed by frigid temperatures." Thus far, Chinook, Cayuse, and the North Cascades Highway passes are all to be closed. We still haven't seen anything saying there will be snow within the Seattle city limits, but if you live up north, it might be time to stock up on salt for your driveway. more ›

The CDN on CNN? The Central District News blog got a chance to describe Seattle and the neighborhood for CNN; it's a good read--almost as if Scott spent more time on this article than on a typical blog post. (We kid because we love!) Scott suggests a unique tour guide for the CD: "A good way to tour the neighborhood is to load up your iPod with Sir Mix-A-Lot's 'Posse on Broadway' and follow the streets as they're called out in the song. And don't forget to grab a box of delicious Ezell's Fried Chicken -- they say Oprah loves it!" Of course, he also gives pointers on the weather: "Some seasons are wetter than others around here. To guarantee a damp experience, your best bet would be to plan your travels for sometime in the narrow window between late October and the 4th of July." more ›

And we quote from the weather advisory: "FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT ... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SEATTLE HAS EXPANDED THE FLOOD WATCH TO INCLUDE A PORTION OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ... INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ... KING ... KITSAP ... LEWIS ... PIERCE ... THURSTON. FROM 4 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT. PERIODS OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE WATCH AREA THURSDAY AND PERSIST THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT." Wear your galoshes if you're going out tonight. [Update: new shit has come to light: "NEW COMPUTER MODELS ARE SHIFTING HEAVY PRECIPITATION SOUTHWARD FROM EARLIER GUIDANCE AND ARE ALSO more ›

Pamplona is not Seattle, we can all agree. The bulls run every morning in Pamplona during the ten-day festival of San Fermin in July, which would never work in Seattle.. Blue Angels strafe Seattle every August during Seafair, which would never work in Pamplona. more ›

fall or winter? by M P G more ›