Weekly Entertainment: Knowledge Bowl
March 16th, 2009 by Matthew LeachAt Central Kitsap High School (actually at many high schools nationwide) there’s a club called “Knowledge Bowl” where typically the smartest kids in school form teams and battle in a Jeopardy style competition. The video will explain itself, but last year for one of my weather broadcasts I decided to try my hand at the Knowledge Bowl competition and quickly discovered it wasn’t quite my thing…
And here’s a fun fact: I have never been back…I wanted to leave
on a good note 
Now on to the forecast which has a bit of sloppy snow in it. The radar has been acting up today causing for periods of heavy rain, wet snow (yes, I saw a bit of wet snow this morning), breezy coniditons and sunny breaks. Tonight will feature the same variability: breezy, mostly cloudy and chilly. Note that heavier showers can momentarily bring the snow level down, so if you see snowflakes flying around tonight don’t be surprised! In fact, the higher elevations might even manage a bit of slushy accumulation. Lows will be in the 30s.
Tomorrow will be another brilliant spring day: clouds, sunbreaks, rain showers potentially mixing with hail or snow and breezy coniditons. Highs will be cooler than normal in the mid to upper 40s. Don’t you just love spring? That was a serious question, actually. I tend to love spring days because there’s normally not too much of the same thing!
More of a cloudy and rainy pattern returns for Wednesday through Friday (Friday is the first day of spring, by the way. Spring begins at 4:44 AM Friday morning) before another chilly storm moves in over the weekend, dropping snow levels dangerously low accompanied by several showers. Yes, we could indeed see some more wet snow showers. I won’t even go into snow accumulation possibilities yet…
Though spring begins Friday, it won’t feel or look like it!
Have a great evening!
Matthew Leach
Kitsap Weather
7 DAY FORECAST
Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group
March 16th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
I do not see any snow chances on Sat unless you count .02 on the gague, what model is telling you that?
If I do not get snow tonight, is it almost a sure thing on Sat? I am higher elevations.
March 18th, 2009 at 6:17 am
Heights are going to get pretty low in the 520s to 530s over the weekend, especially Sunday and some areas, particularly the Hood Canal region, could see some snow.
Nothing is set in stone yet but the possibility is there…
March 18th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Did the latest gfs knock the possibility away? Any chance for a conversion zone?
April 30th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Well congratulations, Matt! Not even a year out of high school, and you’ve got a running column with the Kitsap Sun. Great job.
I hope your career only climbs from here.
It was nice to see the KB video – I was absent the day it played in school, and had never seen the finished version! I felt a lot more stupid when you were filming than I look on the final product. You ever feel that way?
- The only girl who talked in the KB video