One of the most well-known aspects of influenza, more commonly known as the ‘flu,’ is that it occurs in yearly, seasonal outbreaks, with...

All indications point towards a very favorable water supply for the summer. Reservoirs are filled to the brim west of the Cascades and...

The Pacific Northwest is a tough place to forecast the weather for in general, but nothing is tougher here than forecasting snow. This...

Every year as autumn transitions to winter, we are bombarded with a seemingly endless supply of “winter weather outlooks.” The “Farmer’s...

One of the tallest deodar cedars (“tree of the gods” in Sanskrit) in Seattle was in Leschi Park until the lightning storm on September 7....

In my last article, I said that “we’d likely be in for yet another more active-than-normal fire season.” Thus far, that forecast has been...

I know I speak for us all in hoping for a tamer fire season this year. Long-range forecasts are always very tricky, but we’re now close...

Some of my fondest childhood memories are of fishing for sockeye salmon just outside the Leschi Marina. I’ve had the privilege of fishing...

During our semi-annual switch on and off daylight saving time (DST), there are always flurries of articles that come out extolling the...

If you told me a month ago that February, 2019 would be Seattle’s snowiest month in 50 years, I would have told you that you were crazy....

The strongest storm thus far of the 2018–2019 storm season brought a brief but intense blow to the Pacific Northwest on January 5/6, with...

During the early afternoon of Tuesday, December 18, the most powerful tornado to strike Washington since 1986 slammed into southern Port...