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Scott Sistek

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Seattle Meteorologist / Weather Journalist at Emerald City Weather Blog // Spokesperson for Seattle's rain fans. //Tweets my own.

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Scott is a Senior Digital Content Producer and meteorologist for FOX Weather, based in the Seattle area.

Scott earned his degree in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington and started at KOMO-TV two days after graduating. He would spend 20-plus years there, first as weather producer, then helping build the station weather brand online through writing daily online forecasts and eventually through his "Partly to Mostly Bloggin' " weather blog. He also co-authored the book "Somewher…

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Seattle about to get a ‘Parabolic’ heat wave?

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By Scott Sistek 
| Emerald City Weather Blog
ECMWF 850 mb temp anomaly (Non-math majors: “What?”) (Math majors:….”Ummm, yeah Scott… What?”) (CAUTION AHEAD: This post is rated “M” for… “Math”.Yes, this forecast uses obscure math vocabulary. If you were thinking you were coming to Facebook explicitly to avoid having to think about — or learn about — math, here is the TL;DWM(“Too Long; Don’t Wanna Math”) version: It’s going to get hot on Sunday and Monday, then it’s not.
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Thunderstorms possible in Seattle on Saturday, then comes heat for the inaugural World Cup match?

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By Scott Sistek 
| Emerald City Weather Blog
GOES-18 satellite image from June 4, 2026 showing a large area of low pressure in the Gulf of Alaska moving toward the Pacific Northwest. If you’ve ever wanted to get insider information on the best time to start a game of weather bingo, these next couple weeks is your week, as we’re about to run the gamut again from chilly rains and thunderstorms to at least some inklings of a heat wave looming in the middle of the month :O But first, the cold and the rain.
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Seattle forecast to endure its 14th-consecutive hotter-than-average summer

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By Scott Sistek 
| Emerald City Weather Blog
Photo by Robert Ritchie on Unsplash A long climate streak in Seattle is set to add another year to its jaw-dropping tally this summer if the long-range outlooks are on the right track. The latest 90-day outlook from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center shows a 60-70% chance that Seattle will end up with a warmer-than-average summer. That’s a stunningly high confidence for a long range outlook in itself and a bit newsworthy in its own right.
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