By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – Amid the focus on drenching rains across the Pacific Northwest this week, a different kind of weather record was set in the state of Washington on Tuesday: Abnormally warm temperatures.
By Nic Loyd, WSU meteorologist, and Linda Weiford, WSU News SPOKANE, Wash. – On Nov. 17, a giant windstorm roared through the region to a balmy high temperature of 54 degrees. A little more than a week later, temperatures plunged to 7 degrees and we saw barely any wind at all.
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 […]
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – Many Washington residents will wake up to Jack Frost nipping at their lawns, gardens and windshields tomorrow morning as the first widescale frost of the season descends on both sides of the Cascade range.
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – An autumn storm system will blow into the Pacific Northwest on Halloween like an angry spirit.
PROSSER, Wash. – Gerrit Hoogenboom, director of the AgWeatherNet program at Washington State University since 2010, has accepted a position at the University of Florida beginning Jan. 1.
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – A top-10 list declaring Washington the cloudiest state in the country may have some residents wondering if the Farmer’s Almanac has its head in the clouds.
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – As a record-breaking hot summer in the Pacific Northwest gives way to the first days of the autumnal equinox, it’s still T-shirt and sunglasses weather over much of the region. Stores may be festooned with Halloween decorations, but temperatures in Yakima, Pullman, Walla Walla and the Tri-Cities […]
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – The calendar says it’s September but it’s about to feel like July as temperatures surge well into the 80s and 90s over much of the Pacific Northwest. By Saturday, many locations will be baking in heat that’s 10-plus degrees above average for this time of year, according […]
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PROSSER, Wash. – As Washington state emerges from its most blistering summer on record, the state’s hottest place was, ironically, an area known for giant irrigation sprinklers and well-tended orchards and vineyards. With the mercury hovering above 100 degrees for 22 days, including a scorching 113 in June, the Tri-Cities […]