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Weather & Climate

Weather Eye: Cooler, drier conditions will be on tap later in the week

January 17, 2023, 6:04am Clark County News

Can you believe we had a dry day Monday? That was the first day since New Year’s Day that we had nothing measurable in the rain gauge here in Vancouver. Did you like it? Well, then you will like the drier weather pattern shaping up. Read story

Ryan Orosco, of Brentwood, carries his wife Amanda Orosco, from their flooded home on Bixler Road in Brentwood, Calif., on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. The last in a three-week series of major winter storms is churning through California.

Ninth in series of California storms dumps more rain, snow

Ryan Orosco, of Brentwood, carries his wife Amanda Orosco, from their flooded home on Bixler Road in Brentwood, Calif., on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. The last in a three-week series of major winter storms is churning through California.

January 16, 2023, 1:28pm Nation & World

The ninth atmospheric river in a three-week series of major winter storms was churning through California on Monday, leaving mountain driving dangerous and flooding risk high near swollen rivers even as the sun came out in some areas. Read story

Mass storm outages bring misery across California, exposing power grid’s vulnerabilities

January 15, 2023, 6:05am Nation & World

David Higares was on his fourth day without power in his Morada, California, home in San Joaquin County when he woke up to indoor temperatures barely above 50 degrees. Read story

In this photo from February 20, 2022, film crew workers walk through the Alabama Hills beneath the lightly snow-capped Sierra Nevada Mountains (TOP) near Lone Pine, California.

California suddenly has so much snow. A ‘great elixir for drought’ but unlikely the cure

In this photo from February 20, 2022, film crew workers walk through the Alabama Hills beneath the lightly snow-capped Sierra Nevada Mountains (TOP) near Lone Pine, California.

January 15, 2023, 6:02am Nation & World

At the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Laboratory in Donner Pass on Wednesday, snow was piled so high that lead scientist Andrew Schwartz no longer needed stairs to exit the second floor. Read story

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

Weather Eye: Trade your rain jacket for a warm coat later this week

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

January 15, 2023, 6:00am Clark County News

A look into the rain bucket for Vancouver so far this month on Saturday afternoon revealed that we are still a bit below average for the month. However, we will have some good rains today, and I’m quite sure we will rise above average by Monday. Read story

David Hollon walks his property looking for personal items as they recover from a tornado that ripped through Central Alabama earlier this week along County Road 140 where loss of life occurred Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023, in White City, Autauga County, Ala.

As tornadoes hit Alabama and Georgia, survivors hid in tubs, shipping container

David Hollon walks his property looking for personal items as they recover from a tornado that ripped through Central Alabama earlier this week along County Road 140 where loss of life occurred Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023, in White City, Autauga County, Ala.

January 14, 2023, 4:24pm Nation & World

An Alabama engine mechanic took refuge in a shipping container as a tornado from a violent storm decimated his shop and killed two of his neighbors along its destructive path across Alabama and Georgia. Read story

The roof of a local businesses is strewn about after a tornado passed through Selma, Ala., Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023.

Rescuers seek survivors after storms kill 9 across South

The roof of a local businesses is strewn about after a tornado passed through Selma, Ala., Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023.

January 13, 2023, 1:20pm Latest News

Rescuers raced Friday to find survivors in the aftermath of a tornado-spawning storm system that killed at least nine people as it barreled across parts of Georgia and Alabama and inflicted heavy damage on Selma, a flashpoint of the civil rights movement. Read story

A home sits in floodwaters in Salinas, Calif. on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023.

Rain-soaked California to see more rounds of stormy weather

A home sits in floodwaters in Salinas, Calif. on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023.

January 13, 2023, 12:37pm Nation & World

Rain-soaked California will see several more rounds of stormy weather through the weekend and into next week, the National Weather Service said Friday. Read story

The roof of a local businesses is strewn about after a tornado passed through Selma, Ala., Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023.

EXPLAINER: What came together to make deadly Alabama tornado

The roof of a local businesses is strewn about after a tornado passed through Selma, Ala., Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023.

January 13, 2023, 7:58am Nation & World

A La Nina weather pattern, warm moist air coming from an unusually toasty Gulf of Mexico, likely juiced by climate change, and a decades long eastward shift of tornadoes came together to create the unusually early and deadly storm system that hit Alabama Thursday, meteorologists said. Read story

Heavy rain to continue as atmospheric river moves through Western WA

January 13, 2023, 7:24am Northwest

Heavy rainfall will continue into Friday morning as an atmospheric river system makes its way through Western Washington. Read story