Connelly: KUOW should bring back Cliff Mass

Cliff Mass can be as quirky and blustery as those late fall frontal systems and winter snow squalls whose arrival onshore the University of Washington atmospheric scientist is so adept at charting and predicting.

Mass has long been an essential prelude to weekends when this hiker doesn't go to Mass. It's often important to head out knowing the likelihood that a gorgeous Saturday sunset atop a high ridge in the Cascades will yield to a cold, soggy, socked-in Sunday morning.