by Jeremy Allyn

Powder Starvation, Dec. 7, 2014 Mt. Rainier. Scott Rinckenberger photo

Warren Miller has this old saying: “Every second, of every day, it’s snowing…somewhere on the planet.”  I’m not much of a Warren Miller fan, but he makes a provocative point.  Unless you are currently neck deep in ...

It hardly needs saying that we have had an odd start to winter here in the Northwest. Due to this unusual season, we have adopted a modified forecast schedule at the Northwest Avalanche Center.

What we want you to know:  The Mountain Weather Forecast will continue to be issued twice a day; once in the ...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Years from Mt Hoods’ backcountry! As you know, we have had a very slow start, in what we were hoping to be an “El Nino” season. Thankfully, Mother Nature granted almost 3’ of powder for the holiday! We can only hope that the trend of snow will continue through “Juneuary ...

The slow start to winter continues in the Cascades. Yesterday I was asked by a ski area manager what is going on and my short answer was an uncooperative jet stream. Basically we like a consolidated west flow over the Northwest for snow production in the Cascades. What we have now instead is unconsolidated weak ...

We've yet to turn the page on the wet fall and start the winter snowfall in earnest, so we have delayed launching into daily forecasts for now.  A bit of snow today at mid and upper elevations brought about 6-8" new.  It shouldn't make much of a difference once we hit the work week, as ...

What a turkey of a week in the mountains, one that you've heard more about river flood warnings than fresh snow in the mountains or resort openings. Most of our precipitation gages have not washed away despite a few stations recording 10 or more inches of rain in the last 4 and a half days (we lost connection with the Paradise ...

Greetings and welcome to our new NWAC blog!  We hope to use this space to convey information that just doesn't fit in the scope of our regular forecast products.

We had a good go at getting winter off the ground last weekend with the arrival of a solid 1-3 feet of snow throughout the region. However ...