October 13, 2023, 6:00am Nation & World
Four dozen Antarctic ice shelves have shrunk by at least 30 percent since 1997 and 28 of those have lost more than half of their ice in that time, reports a new study that surveyed these crucial “gatekeepers’’ between the frozen continent’s massive glaciers and open ocean. Read story
October 12, 2023, 10:54am Clark County News
A small, brief tornado touched down Wednesday afternoon in La Center, according to the National Weather Service in Portland. Read story
October 12, 2023, 7:45am Nation & World
A storm system that moved across parts of Florida early Thursday left a path of damage to cars, houses and businesses, authorities said. Read story
October 12, 2023, 6:01am Clark County News
I would say we are well into autumn with blustery winds and quickly changing skies. Leaves are fluttering throughout the moist air; the grass is growing faster than a leapfrog on a mission and the fall mushrooms are surging up through the damp soil. Migrating birds are getting in their… Read story
October 11, 2023, 7:34am Nation & World
Lidia dissipated Wednesday after hitting land as a Category 4 hurricane near the resort of Puerta Vallarta, where one person was killed by a falling tree and two others injured Read story
October 10, 2023, 7:16pm Nation & World
Hurricane Lidia made landfall as an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm Tuesday evening with winds of 140 mph (220 kph) near Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Puerto Vallarta. Read story
October 10, 2023, 7:34am Nation & World
Tropical Storm Max made landfall in Mexico’s southern Pacific coast Monday, as the country braces for a second punch from Tropical Storm Lidia, expected to hit Tuesday as a hurricane in a different part of the country. Read story
October 10, 2023, 6:02am Clark County News
Vancouver had light rain for about three hours in the early afternoon Monday, with rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch. That means we are still running way below average for the month so far. Read story
October 9, 2023, 7:42am Nation & World
Air force helicopters rescued scores of stranded tourists Monday in India’s Himalayan northeast after a 6-year-old hydroelectric dam cracked open last week in intense rain, flooding a valley with glacial lake water and killing at least 74 people. Read story
October 7, 2023, 6:00am Clark County News
Thanks to those autumn-like east winds, the thermometer shot into the mid-80s Friday. Wind gusts at least along the Columbia and below our foothills were gusting between 20 and 30 mph. The temperatures around 85 degrees felt pleasant due to the dry air, unlike a more summer-like reading. Read story
