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Scene on the Sound: Daybreak over Shoreline

Friday, December 4, 2020

 

Daybreak over Shoreline
Photo by Tim Davis

Tim Davis took this view of Shoreline from Kingston. Always interesting to see what the neighbors see!

Daybreak over Shoreline
From above President Point, Kingston
6:53am 11.29.20



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WeatherWatcher: Photogenic end to a Thanksgiving weekend

Monday, November 30, 2020

From a balcony in North City, overlooking the McAleer and Lyon creek watersheds towards Mt. Baker. You can see the shallow layers of fog in the valleys. Photo by Jon Ann Cruver

A rare break in late November weather gave way to a brilliant sunny day with a mix of patchy fog and high clouds in the area. Clear skies overnight Sunday morning produced some radiative cooling, an effect that often occurs during the longer clear nights between the fall and spring equinox. 

Infrared radiation from the surface radiates back out to space, causing the ground to cool down faster than the air above it. With relative humidity levels at near 100% as the ground cooled, a shallow layer of fog formed in lower elevation areas.

We were also between weather systems on Sunday, with our next rainmaker threatening to arrive sometime after midnight Monday morning. 

The approach of this storm front produced the high clouds, particularly the lenticular clouds north and east of the Olympic Mountains. You'll notice our sunset was rather red in the photos below, indicating the approaching storm front isn't far off.

Several of our readers sent in photos from across Shoreline from Puget Sound to North City. I'll start with the east side, from the North City neighborhood:

Sun filtered by fog on top of a ridge in North City.
Photo by Cynthia Sheridan

Then we transition over towards Richmond Beach and the Puget Sound where the fog was thinning. You can still see a hint of the fog very close to the water.

Puget Sound and Olympic Mountains with lenticular clouds from Innis Arden.
Photo by Jan Hansen

Finally we'll finish off the day with yet another spectacular sunset at Richmond Beach Saltwater Park. The park was full of visitors, many of them enjoying the view on walks around the park.

Photo by Lee Lageschulte

Those red skies I mentioned earlier, demonstrate one of the oldest meteorological rules of forecasting. Red skies at sunset or sunrise indicate an approaching or departing storm front. 

The old sailor's saying: "Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning. Red skies at night, sailors delight." In our case though, the red sky is the approaching storm this time, as it will hit overnight, not after sunrise.

Photo by Lee Lageschulte

Forecast for Monday is a stormy one, as we are expecting a round of rain to arrive overnight, with winds increasing as well. Gusts could get as strong as 40mph in the morning before easing a little in the afternoon to 20-30mph.

Once we get through the storm on Monday though, high pressure rebuilds and clears us up with patchy fog in the mornings, sunny afternoons, and clear and chilly nights. We could see patchy frost in places through the rest of the work week and into next weekend. 

Careful on those morning commutes if it takes you out on exposed side streets before sunrise.


For current weather conditions visit www.shorelineweather.com



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You see what you want to see

Sunday, November 29, 2020

 

Photo by Jan Hansen


Go right ahead and admire the shapes and shadows, the perfect placement for the path of moonlight on the Sound. See how the clouds try to pretend they are a mountain range and the land is an anonymous ribbon of darkness.

All I can see are the two trees, holding hands in the moonlight and leaning affectionately toward each other as they watch the sun set.

DKH



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Light at the Beach

Saturday, November 28, 2020

 


Light at the Beach - Photo by Janet Way



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Wind and water

Saturday, November 7, 2020


It's amazing what the wind will do on Puget Sound. This scene is a little more than choppy water. Marc Weinberg caught the breaking wave at just the right moment.





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Autumn leaves

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Photo by Jan Hansen


At least we had a few days to pretend we could compete with New England for beautiful fall colors. Now the rain and wind have come and the trees are being stripped. Jan Hansen captured these while they were still on the vine.




 

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Feel the calm

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

 

Photo by Barbara Twaddell


You are sitting on the hillside overlooking Puget Sound. The clouds are rolling slowly in, everchanging. The Sound is flat and calm. Large vessels sail by on their way to exotic destinations.

You feel peace and calm. All is right in your world.

(Do you believe me yet? Just keep breathing.)




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Ballooning

Friday, October 9, 2020

Photo by Mike Remarcke



Hot air balloons fly high in the sky with Cascades and clouds in the background and the trees of Lake Forest Park in the foreground.





 

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Orb weaver web necklaces

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Photo by Colleen Weum


I am so puzzled by the orb weavers this year. I received several photos like this recently. I have never seen an orb weaver create a necklace like this. Obviously there is web in the center because that's where the spider is sitting.

Maybe the webs have always looked like this - but what makes the outer area so distinct?

I really like orb weavers. They guard my front door every year and keep most of the little flying things out of my house. There are sometimes a couple of them and we often have to have discussions about where they can build and where they can anchor their webs.

[Yes, I talk to spiders. I also talk to inanimate objects. Get over it.]

This year there is a large one who anchored her web on the hand rail. I broke that strand and she wisely moved up and away but still near the door and the porch light. Yesterday, I realized that she was sharing or overlapping her web with a smaller orb weaver. And today there were three of them, working peacefully with small webs side by side.

I haven't seen a flying creature in a week.

I have to find the Spider Man and have him tell me what's happening.

--Diane



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A reminder of blue skies

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Photo by Lee Lageschulte


Just a reminder. We have had blue skies and vivid colors before

and we will have them again.



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Sometimes the smoke clears...

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Photo by Cynthia Sheridan


Sometimes the smoke clears enough to look almost normal at ground level. 

This person peacefully reading a book in Pfingst Animal Acres Park in Lake Forest Park is taking advantage of some clearing of the air to get outside for a while.

The air is still terrible but compared to what it has been, this must have looked good.

--Diane



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Three views of smoke

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Photo by Mike Remarcke

This was the start of the day, looking to the east over Lake Washington toward the Cascade mountains. The sky is orange with thick smoke. The sun is a bright, fuzzy, yellow ball with indistinct edges. There might be a white circle in the lower part of the sun, or perhaps it's a visual afterimage from staring at the sun.

Photo by Jan Hansen

This was later in the morning, after it was light, looking west over a barely visible Puget Sound toward Olympic Mountains completely hidden by a low bank of smoke. The blue sky and an oblivious wispy white cloud are above the smoke. The smoke sits in the treetops and some may be at ground level.

Aerial photography, copyright Marc Weinberg

The sun is setting in the west in this view from 400 feet over Shorewood High School. The light reflecting from the smoke creates bands of color in the sky. Two bands of yellow shade to gray at the sides, lower the yellow blends into orange. The sun looks like it's pushing the orange band down, sitting on it. Then three narrow bands of blue, purple, lavender which are perhaps mountains, then land, then the water of Puget Sound. Next are the treetops of Richmond Highlands.

The huge cars lots of two dealerships are in the foreground. Above them are baseball fields, small and large, a large brown open rectangle, and finally the football field surrounded by the track.

The Shorewood buildings are a jumbled collection of flattish roofs of different sizes and pitches off to the right side of the playing fields.



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Early morning freight train breaking through misty fog

Friday, September 4, 2020

Photo by Karen Weber



Looking from the top of the hill leading down to Richmond Beach Saltwater Park, the pedestrian bridge and the buildings at the beach.

The fog comes in from the Sound in a low, thick band at treetop level.

The photo caught the early freight train breaking through the misty fog below a sleepy Innis Arden, with the early light of dawn.




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Do we have another volcano? No, but there will be wildfire smoke

Thursday, September 3, 2020

 

Photo by Jan Hansen




The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency warns of possible wildfire smoke in Puget Sound region.

A plume of wildfire smoke from California is expected to pass over the Puget Sound region starting Thursday, September 3.

At first, most of the smoke will be overhead. It will likely have minimal impacts on ground-level air quality, with MODERATE air pollution levels at most.

If smoke lingers in the region over the weekend, air quality may reach air pollution levels that are UNHEALTHY FOR SENSITIVE GROUPS.

PS CAA is monitoring the situation and will provide updates as conditions develop at www.pscleanair.gov



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Unripe berries as art

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

 

Photo by Gloria Z Nagler



In the right light, even pesky, unripe blackberries cluttering our yard are appealing:)

--Gloria Z Nagler






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My world view sees peace

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

 

Photo by Jan Hansen




When the news tells of a world of unrest, my world view sees peace. 

--Jan Hansen





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Kenmore marina

Monday, August 31, 2020

Photo by Jerry Pickard



The Kenmore marina on a sunny day




 

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View of the Blue

Saturday, August 29, 2020

 

Aerial photography by Jared Solano. Instagram @Juarez.Solano


Here's a view of Puget Sound we don't usually see - from a vantage point several hundred feet in the air!

The open space in the foreground is Richmond Beach Community Park, next to the Richmond Beach Library. I assume the tennis courts are part of the park but I admit they are new to me.

The waters of Puget Sound look impossibly blue this day. Look at all the shades of blue we have - water, land, mountains, sky, clouds.

From this vantage you can see not one, but two ferries on the Edmonds-Kingston run.

The outline of Point Wells is just visible through the trees but the dock clearly angles far out into the Sound.

Considering the residents' preoccupation with views, I'm surprised at the number of evergreens. However, you can definitely tell where Woodway is because of the tree cover in the far right of the photo.

--Diane Hettrick



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Looking at clouds

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Photo by Susan Dale Leonardi


Imagine lying back in a lounge chair on a hot day and looking at the sky.




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A beautiful day at Richmond Beach

Friday, August 21, 2020

Photo by Lee Lageschulte

A beautiful day at Richmond Beach. Over a hillside of leafy vines and a few scrubby trees, a wide expanse of flat, shiny water. Land in the distance is visible only as a dark brown line on the horizon.

The sky is a deep blue, mostly covered with clouds. Some are piled up like an enormous mountain range; others float in patches of cotton.



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