Weather

Universally known to indicate that the winter season has arrived and known in the Inland Northwest to indicate that it is time to don warm boots and gloves to scrape your car before work, snow is familiar to many around the world.

Spokane drivers should exercise caution on their first drive of 2025.

A widespread swath of the country, from the northern Rockies to the East Coast, is bracing for a blast of Arctic air that will send temperatures plummeting this week and dropping even further as additional cold air moves in next week,

The East Coast has yet to experience a major storm this winter season - but meteorologists are now monitoring a potential new pattern that could drive notably stormy weather to the region come January.

Since the turn of the century, major hurricanes hitting the U.S. have had one key feature in common. Location. The Gulf of Mexico coastline transformed into a bullseye for major storms, which have taken aim from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Marco Island and destroyed communities in their wake. 

As Spokane residents ready for the transition in a new year, they may notice the weather is warmer than usual.

You can still dream about a white Christmas, but this year Spokane is likely to have rain and higher-than-normal temperatures for the holiday.

Strong wind gusts, including almost 70 mph at the Spokane International Airport, downed trees and knocked out power to several thousand residents Wednesday morning.

Hundreds of people are feared dead after Tropical Cyclone Chido carved a trail of destruction in the French territory of Mayotte when it made landfall at the weekend as a storm equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane.

The flurries seen Monday by many Spokane residents is expected to continue Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service, slowly switching to rain as temperatures rise in the afternoon.

A dry, partly cloudy Sunday should give way to a snowy Monday morning commute for Spokane-area drivers, according to the National Weather Service in Spokane.

Spokane drivers should be careful when traveling this weekend, especially on the West Plains or north of Mead.

BANDON, Ore. – The warnings of a looming cataclysm are ubiquitous along the Oregon Coast. On blue-and-white signs, a cartoon wave curls out of the sea, capital letters blaring: TSUNAMI HAZARD ZONE. Harbingers of a future disaster are always in the periphery, staked next to highways, on neighborhood streets, between the crab shack and the chowder house.

A lumbering low-pressure system over the central Mediterranean Sea has been dousing Greece in waves of torrential rainfall over recent days, a weather pattern reminiscent of one that wrought severe flooding in Spain in October.

MADISON, Ohio – Great Lakes communities were pummeled with snow this weekend as unusually warm weather plunged into a lake-effect snow event, expected to continue until Monday.

An intense lake effect snow event was underway Friday, a storm expected to hammer parts of the Great Lakes region, including Upstate New York – plastering lakeside communities with up to 5 feet of snow. Thunder and lightning could accompany the heaviest snowfall, which might come down at rates of 4 inches per hour.