By Nic Loyd, WSU meteorologist, and Linda Weiford, WSU News
SPOKANE, Wash. – Cool weather sweeping the region and the season’s first snowfall in the Washington Cascades is a big flip-flop from the month we just left behind. In October, there was no need to wrap ourselves in a comforter when at times we needed a fan. With more than two weeks of unusually warm weather, we couldn’t mourn the passing of summer when instead it felt like June.
During a typical October in eastern Washington, temperatures dip four degrees from one week to the next, making it the month with the biggest temperature drop from start to finish. But this year, we saw something different.
To read the rest of this column in the Spokesman-Review news, go to http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/nov/04/weathercatch-warmer-drier-weather-likely-to-stick-/