Weather & Climate

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

Weather Eye: Rain, rain will continue to wash that snow away

February 18, 2021, 6:05am Clark County News

Now that the snowmelt is happening, the cleanup continues with more rain upon us today. So, before we proceed let’s catch up and see how much rain fell in January around the area from your friends and neighbors. Read story

Power restored to all Clark County residents

February 17, 2021, 7:41pm Clark County News

Clark Public Utilities wrapped up repairs and restored power to its customers early Wednesday morning, following a dayslong effort to address issues caused by the prolonged winter weather event. Read story

A resident poses by a large ice-covered tree along NE 24th Avenue, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, in Portland, Ore., after a weekend winter storm toppled it.

Snowstorm brings ‘most dangerous conditions’ seen by utility

February 17, 2021, 3:30pm Latest News

Nearly 150,000 customers remained without power Wednesday in and around Portland, nearly a week after a massive snow and ice storm swept into the Pacific Northwest, taking out hundreds of miles of power lines as ice-laden trees toppled. Read story

City of Richardson worker Kaleb Love breaks ice on a frozen fountain Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, in Richardson, Texas. Temperatures dropped into the single digits as snow shut down air travel and grocery stores.

Power outages linger for millions as another icy storm looms

February 17, 2021, 2:15pm Nation & World

Nearly 3.4 million utility customers around the U.S. were still without power Wednesday in the aftermath of a winter storm that overwhelmed power grids unprepared for climate change, and another blast of snow and ice threatened to impede the efforts to restore service. Read story

Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon stands on his kitchen counter to warm his feet over his gas stove Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, in Austin, Texas. Power was out for thousands of central Texas residents after temperatures dropped into the single digits when a snow storm hit the area on Sunday night.

‘A complete bungle’: Texas’ energy pride goes out with cold

February 17, 2021, 8:29am Business

Anger over Texas’ power grid failing in the face of a record winter freeze continued to mount Wednesday as millions of residents in the energy capital of the U.S. remained shivering with no assurances that their electricity and heat — out since Monday in many homes — would return soon… Read story

Topsy-turvy weather from polar vortex

Icicles form on a citrus tree from a sprinkler system used to protect the trees from the freezing temperatures Monday in Edinburg, Texas. There have been record subzero temperatures in Texas and Oklahoma.

February 16, 2021, 4:47pm Nation & World

It’s as if the world has been turned upside-down, or at least its weather. You can blame the increasingly familiar polar vortex, which has brought a taste of the Arctic to places where winter often requires no more than a jacket. Read story

Millions endure record cold without power; at least 15 dead

A truck drives past a highway sign Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, in Houston. A frigid blast of winter weather across the U.S. plunged Texas into an unusually icy emergency Monday that knocked out power to more than 2 million people and shut down grocery stores and dangerously snowy roads. (AP Photo/David J.

February 16, 2021, 1:15pm Nation & World

OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. — A winter storm that left millions without power in record-breaking cold weather claimed more lives Tuesday, including three people found dead after a tornado hit a seaside town in North Carolina and four family members who perished in a Houston-area house fire while using a… Read story

3 dead, 10 injured in North Carolina tornado

February 16, 2021, 10:23am Nation & World

An apparent tornado killed three people and injured 10 others as it struck a coastal North Carolina town, authorities said. It was spawned along the edge of the same weather system bringing bitterly cold temperatures to much of the nation. Read story