By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – The mysterious “milky rain” that hit parts of the Pacific Northwest last Friday was the result of a rarely seen weather phenomenon that began near an ancient saline lake nearly 500 miles away, according to Washington State University meteorologist Nic Loyd.
PROSSER, Wash. – Washington’s mid-November cold snap came with well-below-normal temperatures across the central and eastern parts of the state, recalling similar events in 1955 and 1985.
By Rachel Webber, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PROSSER, Wash. – It’s official. This summer’s heat set a record. And it followed the warmest spring in 20 years, which made the 2014 growing season an unusually prolonged period of anomalous warmth.
By Hannah Shirley, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – July 2014 was unusually sweltering, even by summer standards, as much of central and eastern Washington experienced the hottest month in at least a quarter century.
By Hannah Shirley, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PROSSER, Wash. – June was warm and dry in Washington, despite a few cool days and isolated wet weather mid-month. The Tri-Cities reached 90 degrees on June 2 and Orondo topped out at 95 degrees on June 23.
By Rachel Webber, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PROSSER, Wash. – Turnabout is fair play and, apparently, the weather agrees. In a span of three years, Washingtonians have experienced both extremes of spring weather.
By Rachel Webber, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PROSSER, Wash. – April seemed anxious to welcome summer this year, as a rapid warming trend at month’s end brought Washington its hottest weather since September.
By Rachel Webber, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PROSSER, Wash. – The lion quickly surrendered to the lamb in March as a brief shot of early cold rapidly yielded to mild weather for most of the month.
By Rachel Webber, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PROSSER, Wash. – Better late than never. That’s a common sentiment among Washingtonians in the aftermath of a February of significant recovery in the mountain snowpack.
By Rachel Webber, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PROSSER, Wash. – New year, same old story. The dry and largely uneventful winter conditions of late 2013 persisted into January, although Washington’s temperatures were much warmer than in December.