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	Podcast:		Weather With Cliff Mass
	Episode:		Western Washington Faces Wet Weekend After Unseasonable Warmth
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:05:50
	Publish Date:		2018-11-02 15:06:02
	Description:		People in the Pacific Northwest experienced wet but weirdly warm weather on Thursday as rain generated by an atmospheric river came through. These plumes of moisture are a classic feature of late fall and winter weather on the West Coast, and are also known around here as "The Pineapple Express" because they originate in the tropics near Hawaii. And they can bring in unseasonably warm temperatures. The region felt a classic example of it on Thursday, says KNKX weather expert Cliff Mass, who teaches atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington. “We had winds coming from Hawaii. We had an atmospheric river that moved northward into our region. It was startlingly warm, temperatures getting into the low 60s, it was breezy. I mean, you could have been on the big island of Hawaii,” Mass said. “Just fascinating.” Also noteworthy, Mass says, was the way that the rainfall was much heavier on the western side of the Cascades than in Puget Sound, because of the angle at which the
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