PMEL in the News
How a super typhoon got sucked into a jet stream and spawned the storm that’s barreling right for us
Typhoon Songda didn’t make much of a splash earlier this week when it swept harmlessly past the east coast of Japan, hundreds of miles from shore. So it seems incongruous that this waning tropical storm, born 5,000 miles away, now threatens Washington with a Saturday windstorm that could be one of the fiercest in recent history.
Official Roster of Teams, Advisory Board Announced in the $7M Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE
XPRIZE, the world’s leader in designing and managing incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges, today announced a total of 32 teams from 22 countries will compete to win the $7M Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE, a three-year global competition challenging teams to advance ocean technologies for rapid, unmanned and high-resolution ocean exploration and discovery. An Advisory Board of leading experts in the fields of oceanography, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), underwater technologies and imagery, also announced today, will advise the Ocean Discovery XPRIZE.
New technologies – and a dash of whale poop – help scientists monitor whale health
A lot of people think what Leigh Torres has done this summer and fall would qualify her for a spot on one of those “World’s Worst Jobs” lists. After all, the Oregon State University marine ecologist follows gray whales from a small inflatable boat in the rugged Pacific Ocean and waits for them to, well, poop.
Winter forecast: If Seattle doesn't get a cold spell, state climatologist will 'eat a bug'
We haven't had a region-wide major lowland snow event in Seattle since January 2012, or even much of an extended cold spell, but maybe we're finally due? And if it doesn't happen again for the 5th winter, maybe we'll get a small consolation prize? Forecasters with the Seattle office of the National Weather Service held its annual emergency managers and media workshop this week, to go into greater detail of what the winter forecasts are saying so we all know what to expect and keep you all informed.
The "Blob" is there now, but if it sticks around, is it really a winter death sentence?
With all the talk of La Nina going away and going into a neutral winter, there’s another wrinkle lurking as meteorologists try to figure out a winter forecast: The Blob. Or more aptly, “The Blob, Part II” Yes, it's back, the large pool of above-normal temperature sea surface temperatures in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.