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Weather & Climate

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Weather Eye: Warm, dry start to autumn could give way to showers

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

September 24, 2024, 6:05am Clark County News

Autumn began at 5:43 a.m. Sunday and achieved a higher temperature than the last day of summer Saturday. The high was 76 degrees compared to Saturday’s 75. And not to be outdone, today’s high temperature is predicted to be at least 90 degrees with a slight easterly wind. Read story

Tropical Storm John forms in the Pacific and may cause flooding in southern Mexico

September 23, 2024, 8:23am Nation & World

Tropical Storm John has formed in the eastern Pacific Ocean and may bring flooding to southern Mexico later in the week. Read story

Weather Eye: Enjoy late summer weather, keep an out for woolly bears

September 21, 2024, 6:07am Clark County News

How are you enjoying this fine late summer weather? I guess that is the last time I will be asking that as the autumn equinox occurs Sunday at 5:43 a.m., and then we are off and running with the fall season. The weather, however, will remain more summerlike than fall,… Read story

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Weather Eye: Expect partly sunny skies and highs in 70s this week

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

September 19, 2024, 6:04am Clark County News

‘She told me the seasons were changing. The sun was shining but it was not hot. I could feel a sense of irritability in the air. Breezy, calm, breezy, no one noticed, and no one cared, at least not this day. Perhaps when one thinks about yet another change to… Read story

Central Europe flooding leaves 16 dead in Romania, Poland, Czech Republic and Austria

September 17, 2024, 9:32am Nation & World

Exceptionally heavy rainfall pounding Central Europe has prompted deadly flooding in the region, with four new deaths reported Monday in Poland, three in the Czech Republic and one in Romania. Read story

Casualties in Myanmar push Southeast Asia’s death toll from Typhoon Yagi past 500

September 17, 2024, 9:31am Nation & World

Floods and landslides in Myanmar triggered by last week’s Typhoon Yagi and seasonal monsoon rains have claimed at least 226 lives, with 77 people missing, state-run media reported Tuesday. The new figures push the total number of dead in Southeast Asia from the storm past 500. Read story

North Carolina’s coast has been deluged by the fifth historic flood in 25 years

September 17, 2024, 9:21am Nation & World

Parts of southeastern North Carolina were still underwater Tuesday after a storm that wasn't quite organized enough to get a name dropped historic amounts of rain on an area that has suffered floods of a lifetime at least four other times in the past 25 years. Read story

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Weather Eye: It is beginning to feel like autumn as overnight lows dip

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

September 17, 2024, 6:04am Clark County News

On Sunday, Vancouver had its lowest high temperature for the month with 67 degrees. Today with light rain and showers moving in undoubtedly, we may record the lowest high temperature again for the month. The last week of summer looks more like fall, folks. Read story

The Columbia River pours through the Bonneville Dam spillway in August. A new study from the U.S. Department of Energy&rsquo;s Richland-based Pacific Northwest National Laboratory indicates climate change may increase hydropower generation.

Federal study finds climate change will boost Pacific Northwest hydropower

The Columbia River pours through the Bonneville Dam spillway in August. A new study from the U.S. Department of Energy&rsquo;s Richland-based Pacific Northwest National Laboratory indicates climate change may increase hydropower generation.

September 16, 2024, 11:41am Clark County News

Climate change will cause existing hydroelectric dams to generate more power in the Pacific Northwest and around the lower 48 states in the coming decades. That’s according to projections from an August study by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Richland-based Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Read story

Strongest typhoon since 1949 hits Shanghai and knocks out power to some homes

September 16, 2024, 9:50am Latest News

The strongest typhoon to hit Shanghai since at least 1949 flooded roads with water and broken tree branches, knocked out power to some homes and injured at least one person as it swept over the financial hub Monday. Read story