Ingalls Weather

08/15/2025

08/15/2025

🛰️ SATELLITE VIEW 🛰️

The low pressure system bringing out atmospheric river is nearing Haida Gwaii. We definitely have some November vibes out of this one.

Image from 15:00 Friday.

08/15/2025

🌀 HURRICANE 🌀

Erin is now the first of the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Not much change to the forecast, still looking at a track between North Carolina and Bermuda and then off toward or east of Newfoundland.

People north of Myrtle Beach should continue to keep an eye on this storm. Some of the outer bands may brush the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

08/15/2025

🌳 TREE DOWN 🌳

My wife spotted this tree down at the bottom of Martin St in White Rock. This tree had already been tipping for the last few days and finally gave up.

It likely wasn’t knocked over due to weather though I’m sure overnight rainfall moistened the soil enough for the roots to lose their grip.

08/15/2025

🗺️ MORNING ANALYSIS 🗺️

The atmospheric river is here and it is raining pleasantly in the Lower Mainland! This trough along the coast will dominate weather conditions throughout the Northwest for the weekend.

08/15/2025

08/15/2025

📡 MORNING RADAR 📡

Light rain has made it over the Cascades into Central Washington. That said, I don’t think the Tri-Cities will get any of it until tonight.

Radar image from 04:30 Friday

08/15/2025

Where were you when the lights went out?

22 years ago today — at 4:11 p.m. on August 14, 2003 — the power went off across Ottawa, much of Ontario, and throughout eight U.S. states.

Within the span of a few minutes, some 100 electrical generating stations, including 22 nuclear plants, completely shut down.

More than 50 million people were left without power.

(Across the river, Quebec’s power grid was unaffected.)

With the 9/11 attacks less than two years before, people’s first thoughts were of terrorism.

Memories were also still fresh from 1998’s ice storm and prolonged electrical outage.

It turns out that a software bug combined with high tension wires touching trees in Ohio had colluded to precipitate the widespread and protracted power failure.

In Ottawa, with traffic lights out of commission, all intersections became four-way stops while inconvenienced commuters remained “surprisingly civil”.

It became a great night for impromptu street parties and clear sky stargazing.
Restaurants gave away melting ice cream to passersby.

Unfortunately there were also 22 cases of looting in the city, an armed robbery of a Sparks Street jewellery store — and several fires, one of which claimed the life of a teenaged boy.

It took a few days for power to be restored everywhere, and Ottawans would not again face another extended outage until tornadoes swept through our region in September of 2018.

Visit our website as James Powell shines a light on the lessons learned from the August 2003 blackout:

https://www.historicalsocietyottawa.ca/publications/ottawa-stories/momentous-events-in-the-city-s-life/lights-out

(Note: the attached image is not an actual satellite photo, but rather an imaginative composite circulated following the blackout to dramatize the blackout's prolonged impact on a large part of the continent.)

08/15/2025

: Cave Study Reveals Maya Drought

The first study to isolate rainfall conditions hundreds of years ago suggests a series of long-lasting droughts led to the collapse of the Classic Maya civilization. The data was collected from a stalagmite retrieved from the Yucatán Peninsula's Grutas Tzabnah cave in 2006. A team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, used oxygen isotope analysis in the layers deposited on the stalagmite to determine rainfall levels for wet and dry seasons between 871 and 1021 CE, the Terminal Classic period of the Mayans when major city-states declined and the civilization ultimately collapsed. The findings showed eight droughts which lasted between three and 13 years during this timespan. This aligns with existing evidence that shows construction of Mayan monuments and political activity came to a stop during periods of water stress.

This map depicts the Maya lowlands, including the Grutas Tzabnah site, marked with an X, where chemical analysis of a stalagmite revealed a pattern of drought periods that led to the collapse of Classic Maya civilization.

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