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Stuart Tomlinson

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Stuart Tomlinson moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1981 and joined the Bellingham, Washington, Herald and then The Oregonian as the pop music critic. He later fashioned a general assignment beat with an emphasis on weather and weather-related issues. After taking a buyout from The Oregonian, he worked as a special projects producer for the ABC-TV affiliate in Portland until his retirement last summer.

A meteorologist attracts an audience with casual writing and controversial views

A meteorologist attracts an audience with casual writing and controversial views

 If not for the astrophysicist and author Carl Sagan, University of Washington atmospheric scientist Cliff Mass might be writing and teaching about Nor’easters, Mount Washington in New Hampshire and Boston’s…
July 8, 2022
Reconstructing 72 hours of life and death under the "heat dome"

Reconstructing 72 hours of life and death under the “heat dome”

EDITOR’S NOTE: Temperatures in the Pacific Northwest were sitting in the single digits, with rare snow in the cities along the I-5 corridor, as this piece came in for editing.…
January 11, 2022