Notes from the edge of the map — ocean, weather, wandering, and the beautiful disruption of the status quo.
A personal blog about the ocean as a system, a metaphor, and a place to think. Updated when the weather turns — often, but never on schedule.
There is a particular kind of silence that lives on the Pacific before a storm system moves in. It is not peace. It is pressure. This post is about learning to read that silence — on the water, in the data, and in the way a day feels before everything shifts.
Read more →For years I thought the goal was smooth sailing. Flat seas. Predictable forecasts. Then I spent a season on a boat that leaked and a satellite feed that kept cutting out, and I realized the interesting parts of any journey happen exactly where the disturbance is.
Read more →A running log of observations from a week spent tracking a low-pressure system that never became a named storm but completely rearranged the weather around it. Includes screenshots, half-formed theories, and one very bad cup of coffee at a 4 a.m. briefing.
Read more →Every chart has a boundary. Every forecast has a cone of uncertainty. This is a short essay about the places that fall between the lines — the currents that do not show up on the official map, and why the most interesting parts of the Pacific are the ones that resist being pinned down.
Read more →Five books and two longform articles that shaped how I think about instability — not as something to avoid, but as the engine of everything that moves.
Read more →Pacific Disturbance is a personal blog about the ocean as a system, a metaphor, and a place to think. It is updated when the weather turns, which is to say: often, but never on schedule.
Written somewhere off the map. Powered by wind, salt, and stubborn curiosity.