Weather

Bloomsday participants wanting to donate their jackets by tossing them atop the branches of Riverside Avenue street trees – as is the Bloomsday starting line tradition – might want to wait little longer on Sunday.

Following a chaotic swarm of twisting storms in its final week, April’s tornado count in the United States climbed to at least 300, the second-highest in the month on record.

Deadly thunderstorms, including several tornadoes, ripped across the Great Plains and Corn Belt on Tuesday - capping an abnormally active week and month for twisters in the central states. A violent tornado in Kansas killed one person and injured three more, while a family of tornadoes - including a deviant vortex that spun backward - danced in the dark in southwestern Oklahoma.

In the fall of his eighth-grade year, Andy Brown’s family moved to Dayton, Ohio. A surprise October snowstorm shut down the schools.

For years, scientists have said that atmospheric rivers can either make or break the water supplies of thirsty California cities and farms. For the last two winters, a steady succession of these giant “rivers in the sky” have dumped record-breaking and drought-busting precipitation across the state, while simultaneously causing catastrophic floods, landslides and dangerous blizzards.

A dry month is expected to get wetter in the Inland Northwest.

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is likely to be destructive and costly and has the potential to be one of the busiest on record.

Dubai flights have been severely disrupted and cars were left stranded on flooded roads after record rainfall over the past day brought the city to a standstill.

The Washington State Department of Ecology declared a drought emergency Tuesday, citing this year’s low snowpack and dry forecasts.

Weather conditions are shaping up to make this weekend one of the best so far this year in the Lilac City.

Spokane County residents will soon be able to know how polluted the air in their own neighborhood is in real time.

The upcoming hurricane season is shaping up to be another extremely active one, powered by the Atlantic’s record-breaking run of high temperatures.

Late Monday morning, the sun will disappear from residents in North America for the first time since 2017.

When heat waves swept across large parts of the planet last summer, in many places the oppressive temperatures loitered for days or weeks at a time. As climate change warms the planet, heat waves are increasingly moving sluggishly and lasting longer, according to a study published Friday.

Revelers this St. Patrick’s Day were greeted with an unseasonably warm weekend that either broke or tied temperature records in multiple regional locations, according to the National Weather Service.

Gardeners, outdoorspeople and children, rejoice: sunshine will grace Spokane this weekend.

Snowpack on northwest mountains may have gotten off to a rough start this winter, but local ski areas say the conditions are prime for spring skiing after some fresh snow fell in the past few weeks.

A crippling blizzard has dumped as much as 6 to 11 feet of snow on California’s Sierra Nevada since Thursday, closing roads and ski resorts as it produced whiteout conditions and hurricane-force winds. The snow had eased across the region early Monday, but forecasters said more is to come through Tuesday afternoon, and winter storm warnings are in effect.