"This winter, expect...absolutely anything," courtesy of the Seattle P-I. Thanks P-I...tell us something we don't already know! Oh, we understand, "El Nino is so last year..." and that this year is apparently "ENSO neutral," but is unpredictable weather in the Pacific Northwest really news? In general, Seattle winters and weather have always been unpredictable. Take this year for example, when it was snowing the last days of March and pushing 70 degrees yesterday, the first......

Another beautiful photo from Seattlest Flickr contributor Tim Willis Yesterday's stormy weather left over 35,000 homes in Western Washington without power. Nearly 20,000 of the homes affected were in Seattle and South King County. The National Weather Service warned of gusts of over 55 mph yesterday and, while it's no scientific measure, the windows of our house were rattling and the power flickered more than once last night. Thankfully, it never went out. The Washington......

Alright, already! El Nino or the just rewards for our sins or a butterfly failing to or excessively flapping his wings somewhere in Asia have dictated that we have a million snow days this year. Our standard number of snow days per season is probably somewhere around .3. What is this so far? Five or so, at least? It's easy to understand that we don't have a snow removal infrastructure because that shit is expensive......

Remember the monoski? The snow skate? Exactly. It is with great reservation that Seattlest takes a peek at the SMX, a mountain bike/ski hybrid thingamajigy. It feints at combining our two favorite sports, and yet we remain skeptical--is this the Segway of snowboarding? We're intrigued because this new toy takes its cues more from mountain bike design than from skis or snowboards--this product is being reviewed on a mountain bike site and that's a suspension......