By Rachel Webber, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PROSSER, Wash. – Washington state weather could hardly make up its mind in 2013, as temperatures flipped from unusually warm to cool by the end of the year.
By Rachel Webber, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PROSSER, Wash. – All that cold and nothing to show for it. Despite the bitter chill of early December, a lack of precipitation and bad timing have left the mountains low on snow for the start of 2014.
By Rachel Webber, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PROSSER, Wash. – Autumn weather in Washington typically becomes increasingly active from September to November, but that was not the case in 2013. September kicked off the season with a superstorm, one of the highlights of the fall.
By Rachel Webber, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PROSSER, Wash. – Four new weather stations will provide wheat farmers and breeders with insights into the influence of weather patterns on wheat production and yields in eastern Washington.
By Rachel Webber, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PROSSER, Wash. – A familiar adage says that all good things must come to an end. Apparently, the weather is no exception.
By Rachel Webber, College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences PROSSER, Wash. – Although the calendar said September, the stormy weather at the end of last month looked more like November or December.
PROSSER, Wash.- Only three words are needed to describe this summer in Washington state: hot, hotter and hottest. In Prosser, August ended with the hottest temperature since 1991, and the June to August period was the second warmest on record. “Low temperatures in August were the warmest on record as a result of […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – If you thought it seemed especially hot last month, even for summer, you’re right. Prosser’s average July 2013 high temperature was the warmest on record for any month since AgWeatherNet records began in 1990. A Web based, publicly available system, AgWeatherNet provides access to near real-time weather data and value-added products from […]
PROSSER, Wash. – We knew it would happen eventually. Like the spring of 2013, this June was actually warmer than average in Washington state, emphatically ending an ongoing period of relatively balmy weather and a trend in recent years of cooler than normal conditions during the early growing season. In fact, June may be part […]
WSU Extension agriculture scientist Steve Van Vleet holds frost-damaged wheat removed from a farmer’s field near St. John, Wash. The May frost stressed 17 acres, leaving the wheat vulnerable to disease as well, he said. (Photo by Linda Weiford, WSU News) COLFAX, Wash. – May, with its promise of begonias and bumblebees, threw a […]