Weather & Climate

FILE - In this photo made in a flight provided by mediccorps.org, receding storm waters surround homes in Keaton Beach, Fla., following the passage of Hurricane Idalia, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. A handful of powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has some experts proposing a new category of hurricanes: Category 6, which would be for storms with wind speeds of 192 miles per hour or more.

Dial it up to Category 6? As warming stokes storms, some want a bigger hurricane category

February 6, 2024, 8:12am Nation & World

A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6. Read story

FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2015, file photo, a snowplow clears an overpass of freshly fallen snow over Interstate 90 at Snoqualmie Pass.

WA’s snowpack languishes with little hope for the months ahead

February 6, 2024, 7:32am Latest News

If you’ve caught a glimpse of the Olympic Mountains on a clear day recently, you’ve probably noticed a distinct lack of snow across the peaks. Read story

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

Weather Eye: Wintry temperatures have returned to Clark County

February 6, 2024, 6:00am Clark County News

After having several days last week with balmylike temperatures we are back to winterlike temperatures in the 30s and 40s. Our average high now is 50 degrees and the remainder of the week will average a little below that. A cooler northwesterly flow of air from Alaska will lower our… Read story

Jeffrey Raines clears debris from a mudslide at his parent's home during a rainstorm, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024, in Los Angeles. The second of back-to-back atmospheric rivers took aim at Southern California, unleashing mudslides, flooding roadways and knocking out power as the soggy state braced for another day of heavy rains.

Historic storm sends debris through LA’s Hollywood Hills and leaves 1.1 million without power

February 5, 2024, 12:40pm Latest News

A storm of historic proportions unleashed record levels of rain over parts of Los Angeles on Monday, sending mud and boulders down hillsides dotted with multimillion-dollar homes, posing grave dangers to the city’s large homeless population and knocking out power for more than a million people in California. Read story

Garden gnomes are lined up in front of homes that were burnt when forest fires reached El Olivar neighborhood in Vina del Mar, Chile, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. Areas around Vina del Mar were among the hardest-hit by fires that broke out in central Chile three day earlier, resulting in the deaths of more than a hundred people.

Hundreds of people are missing as the death toll from Chile’s wildfires reaches 122

February 5, 2024, 9:15am Nation & World

Firefighters wrestled Sunday with massive forest fires that broke out in central Chile two days earlier, as officials extended curfews in cities most heavily affected by the blazes and said at least 112 people had been killed. Read story

Hurricane center’s forecasts going inland

February 3, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World

The “cone of uncertainty” produced by the National Hurricane Center to forecast the location and ferocity of a tropical storm is getting an update this year to include predictions for inland areas, where wind and flooding are sometimes more treacherous than damage to the coasts. Read story

‘Pineapple Expresses’ and rising seas are battering California’s piers, threatening iconic landmarks

People push out water from a flooded business, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024 in Seal Beach, Calif. Heavy rain flooded roadways and much-needed snow piled up in the mountains on Thursday as the first of back-to-back atmospheric rivers pummeled California.

February 2, 2024, 12:35pm Nation & World

More storms, rising seas and huge waves are taking their toll on California’s iconic piers that have dotted the Pacific coast since the Gold Rush, posing the biggest threat yet to the beach landmarks that have become a quintessential part of the landscape. Read story