February

We may be under a La Niña weather pattern, but you wouldn’t know it looking at the lack of snow and the warm temperatures we’ve see across the Northwest this month. Marilyn Lohmann with the National Weather Service said the month of December has been so dry, that much of the area is at least ½" below normal in the precipitation column. And while this month ha ...

The weather to start March was, for the most part, the same weather we saw to wrap up February. With the exception of a few fast moving fronts that brought little more than windy conditions, it’s been uneventful. And that boring weather means no rain, which has National Weather Service meteorologist Marilyn Lohmann pointed out has led to abnormally dry conditions across the Inland Northwest. .

The past couple of days have been dry for much of the Inland Northwest, and of regions like Yakima and the Tri-Cities, the dryer weather has been welcomed relief.  Marilyn Lohman, meteorologist with the National Weather Service, says after a week plus of system after system rolling into the area, many communities are near or have passed record snow amounts for February.  An...

The region started the workweek with snow showers, and now it looks like we’ll wrap up the week with single digit temperatures.  Marilyn Lohmann with the National Weather Service said Monday’s storm was a perfect combination of moist air along the Oregon and cold air from Canada.  But she noted,...