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.
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 Back Bay instead of atmospheric rivers, Mount Rainier … Read more
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. Long-time weather-watcher Stuart Tomlinson reflected back on the “heat dome” … Read more
