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Weather & Climate

Weather Eye: Warm, dry October might be one for the record books

October 11, 2022, 6:04am Clark County News

Our warm and dry weather continues past the one-third mark here in October. Unless we had more than a trace of drizzle overnight or early this morning, we are on day 11 without measurable rainfall. It is somewhat unusual to not have had at least one soaking rain this far… Read story

Soldiers stand guard under the rain near a cross that decorates a road in Comasagua, El Salvador, Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. At least five soldiers died on Monday nearby when the wall of a home collapsed as they were sheltering from the rain while deployed to crackdown on gang activity.

19 dead as Julia drenches Central America with rainfall

Soldiers stand guard under the rain near a cross that decorates a road in Comasagua, El Salvador, Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. At least five soldiers died on Monday nearby when the wall of a home collapsed as they were sheltering from the rain while deployed to crackdown on gang activity.

October 10, 2022, 5:26pm Nation & World

Former Hurricane Julia has dissipated, but is still drenching Guatemala and El Salvador with torrential rains Monday after it reemerged in the Pacific following a pounding of Nicaragua. Read story

Men pick up a damaged roof in the aftermath of Hurricane Julia in San Andres island, Colombia, Sunday, Oct.9, 2022. Hurricane Julia hit Nicaragua's central Caribbean coast on Sunday after lashing Colombia's San Andres island, and a weakened storm was expected to emerge over the Pacific.

Hurricane Julia hits Nicaragua with torrential rainfall

Men pick up a damaged roof in the aftermath of Hurricane Julia in San Andres island, Colombia, Sunday, Oct.9, 2022. Hurricane Julia hit Nicaragua's central Caribbean coast on Sunday after lashing Colombia's San Andres island, and a weakened storm was expected to emerge over the Pacific.

October 10, 2022, 9:35am Nation & World

Hurricane Julia hit Nicaragua’s central Caribbean coast and dumped torrential rains across Central America before reemerging over the Pacific as a tropical storm. It was forecast to travel parallel to the coasts of El Salvador and Guatemala on Monday. Read story

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

Weather Eye: Woolly bears’ forecast is in … maybe

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

October 9, 2022, 6:00am Clark County News

The withering blackberries on the vine and dry leaves rustling along the tattered blades of grass were the backdrop of my annual trek in search of one of nature’s lowly weather prognosticators, the woolly bear caterpillar. Read story

Snowbirds Bruce and Kathy Hickey, both 70, are seen through the windows of a trailer that had been waterfront, as they look at the wreckage of the trailer park where they had a winter home, originally purchased by Kathy's mother in 1979, on San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, one week after the passage of Hurricane Ian.

He survived Ian in a tree as his mobile home flooded. Are trailer parks too risky?

Snowbirds Bruce and Kathy Hickey, both 70, are seen through the windows of a trailer that had been waterfront, as they look at the wreckage of the trailer park where they had a winter home, originally purchased by Kathy's mother in 1979, on San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, one week after the passage of Hurricane Ian.

October 9, 2022, 6:00am Nation & World

Shawn Hunte figured he would weather Hurricane Ian the same way he weathered countless storms as a shrimper on the flooded, tilted decks of bucking boats in high seas. Read story

Smoke to linger in Seattle area, degrading air quality

October 8, 2022, 6:31pm Northwest

Smoke from wildfires in the Cascade Mountains is likely to hang around the Puget Sound region through the weekend, possibly pushing the air quality down to levels considered unhealthy for sensitive groups — or even worse — in parts of King and Snohomish counties. Read story

Mount Index is obscured by wildfire smoke from the Bolt Creek Fire Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022.

Washington’s fire season is lightest in a decade

Mount Index is obscured by wildfire smoke from the Bolt Creek Fire Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022.

October 8, 2022, 6:21pm Northwest

Washington this year has had the fewest square miles burned in a decade, following the second- and third-worst fire seasons on record in 2020 and 2021. Read story

Residents placed a "you loot, we shoot" sign on their their flooded property Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, in North Port, Fla. Residents in the area continue cleaning up after Hurricane Ian came ashore along Florida's west coast last week.

Hurricane Ian floods leave mess, insurance questions behind

Residents placed a "you loot, we shoot" sign on their their flooded property Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, in North Port, Fla. Residents in the area continue cleaning up after Hurricane Ian came ashore along Florida's west coast last week.

October 7, 2022, 7:40am Nation & World

Christine Barrett was inside her family’s North Port home during Hurricane Ian when one of her children started yelling that water was coming up from the shower. Read story

Snowbird Bruce Hickey, 70, walks along the waterfront, now littered with debris including shrimp boats, in the mobile home park where he and his wife Kathy have a winter home, a trailer originally purchased by Kathy's mother in 1979, on San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, one week after the passage of Hurricane Ian.

Ian death toll hits 101 as evacuees return to mud, rubble

Snowbird Bruce Hickey, 70, walks along the waterfront, now littered with debris including shrimp boats, in the mobile home park where he and his wife Kathy have a winter home, a trailer originally purchased by Kathy's mother in 1979, on San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, one week after the passage of Hurricane Ian.

October 6, 2022, 7:07pm Nation & World

Rotting fish and garbage lie scattered in Sanibel Island’s streets. On the mainland, debris from washed-away homes is heaped in a canal like matchsticks. Huge shrimp boats sit perched amid the remains of a mobile home park. Read story

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

Weather Eye: Winter on its way, so enjoy these 80-degree days

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

October 6, 2022, 6:04am Clark County News

The weather has progressed as I thought with those marine clouds and cooler temperatures Tuesday and Wednesday. However, with clearing skies and a bit of an offshore flow of air, we should bounce back into the low 80s and stay there through Sunday, from what I can see at this… Read story