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While the snowpack in Washington is good right now, whether it sticks around through the winter remains to be seen.

Lower Columbia Basin snowpack well above average for season

While the snowpack in Washington is good right now, whether it sticks around through the winter remains to be seen.

November 17, 2020, 5:06pm Clark County News

The Lower Columbia Basin’s snowpack is currently above average for this time of year, but despite persistent rain and snow in the mountains, it’s too early to say how the winter will shape up. Read story

Neighbors help each other as they evacuate the area before Hurricane Iota makes landfall in San Manuel Cortes, Honduras, Monday, November 16, 2020. Hurricane Iota rapidly strengthened into a Category 5 storm that is likely to bring catastrophic damage to the same part of Central America already battered by a powerful Hurricane Eta less than two weeks ago.

Hurricane Iota roars onto Nicaragua as 2nd blow in 2 weeks

Neighbors help each other as they evacuate the area before Hurricane Iota makes landfall in San Manuel Cortes, Honduras, Monday, November 16, 2020. Hurricane Iota rapidly strengthened into a Category 5 storm that is likely to bring catastrophic damage to the same part of Central America already battered by a powerful Hurricane Eta less than two weeks ago.

November 17, 2020, 12:47pm Nation & World

In a one-two punch, Hurricane Iota roared ashore along almost exactly the same stretch of Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast recently devastated by an equally powerful hurricane and then weakened as it tore across the northern part of the country. Read story

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

Weather Eye: November on track for rain

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

November 17, 2020, 6:03am Clark County News

A juicy autumn storm will approach the coast early today bringing strong winds and heavy rain. As of my writing Monday afternoon, the storm appeared to remain a bit far off the coast for a damaging windstorm there. As always things could change. Read story

A pregnant woman is carried out of an area flooded by water brought by Hurricane Eta in Planeta, Honduras, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. The storm that hit Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday had become more of a vast tropical rainstorm, but it was advancing so slowly and dumping so much rain that much of Central America remained on high alert.

Hurricane Iota now a Category 5 storm near Central America

A pregnant woman is carried out of an area flooded by water brought by Hurricane Eta in Planeta, Honduras, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. The storm that hit Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday had become more of a vast tropical rainstorm, but it was advancing so slowly and dumping so much rain that much of Central America remained on high alert.

November 16, 2020, 1:57pm Nation & World

Hurricane Iota rapidly strengthened Monday into a Category 5 storm that is likely to bring catastrophic damage to the same part of Central America already battered by a powerful Hurricane Eta less than two weeks ago. Read story

Two horses stand in the only dry spot at the Rancho Gonzalez stable in Davie. Horse barns in Davie and Southwest Ranches are under water days after Tropical Storm Eta flooded parts of South Florida.

Eta’s floodwaters drowned horse barns in South Florida. Now owners are scrambling to find dry land

Two horses stand in the only dry spot at the Rancho Gonzalez stable in Davie. Horse barns in Davie and Southwest Ranches are under water days after Tropical Storm Eta flooded parts of South Florida.

November 16, 2020, 6:02am Life

South Florida horse owners didn’t think Tropical Storm Eta posed much of a threat. Their horses had lived through countless hurricanes in barns made of concrete, or open fields where they could run away from any threat. Read story

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

Weather Eye: A look outside confirms that it’s November

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

November 15, 2020, 6:00am Clark County News

While there may be a few of us not behaving, I can truly say the weather is behaving as it should be for November. Rain and winds and snow in the Cascades. Welcome to a typical month for a change. Just look out the window and you’ll know it’s November. Read story

A man walks through a flooded road in Okonwas, Nicaragua, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020. Eta weakened from the Category 4 hurricane to a tropical storm after lashing Nicaragua&#039;s Caribbean coast for much of Tuesday, its floodwaters isolating already remote communities and setting off deadly landslides.

Iota threatens 2nd tropical strike for Nicaragua, Honduras

A man walks through a flooded road in Okonwas, Nicaragua, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020. Eta weakened from the Category 4 hurricane to a tropical storm after lashing Nicaragua&#039;s Caribbean coast for much of Tuesday, its floodwaters isolating already remote communities and setting off deadly landslides.

November 14, 2020, 3:54pm Nation & World

Tropical Storm Iota was brewing in the Caribbean Sea on Saturday, threatening a second tropical strike for Nicaragua and Honduras, countries recently clobbered by a Category 4 Hurricane Eta. Read story

People walk past boats on the beach in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Eta, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, in Gulfport, Fla. Eta dumped torrents of blustery rain on Florida&#039;s west coast as it slogged over the state before making landfall near Cedar Key, Fla.

Tropical Storm Iota forms, could follow Eta’s deadly path

People walk past boats on the beach in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Eta, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, in Gulfport, Fla. Eta dumped torrents of blustery rain on Florida&#039;s west coast as it slogged over the state before making landfall near Cedar Key, Fla.

November 13, 2020, 1:08pm Nation & World

Just as the remnants of Eta finally blew out to sea on Friday, another storm formed that could follow its path of death and destruction into Central America this weekend. Read story

A policeman carries his belongings across debris and muds at the typhoon-damaged Kasiglahan village in Rodriguez, Rizal province, Philippines on Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. Thick mud and debris coated many villages around the Philippine capital Friday after Typhoon Vamco caused extensive flooding that sent residents fleeing to their roofs and killing dozens of people.

Strong typhoon leaves 42 dead, 20 missing in Philippines

A policeman carries his belongings across debris and muds at the typhoon-damaged Kasiglahan village in Rodriguez, Rizal province, Philippines on Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. Thick mud and debris coated many villages around the Philippine capital Friday after Typhoon Vamco caused extensive flooding that sent residents fleeing to their roofs and killing dozens of people.

November 13, 2020, 9:03am Nation & World

Thick mud and debris coated many villages around the Philippine capital on Friday after a typhoon killed at least 42 people and caused extensive flooding that sent people fleeing to their roofs, officials said. Read story

Storm leaves thousands without power in Portland-Vancouver area

November 13, 2020, 8:05am Latest News

As many as 10,000 households saw power outages in the Portland-Vancouver area as a powerful storm dumped rain and strong winds lashed the region Friday morning. Read story