La Nina

While our calendars are prepared to roll over to a brand-new year in the coming weeks, we’re in the heart of the current water year, which started back on October 1st.  The past couple of water years have been dry across the Pacific Northwest, so these November rain and December snow showers have been welcomed relief.  But, Terrell ...

The 2023 water year started October 1st, but unfortunately persistent drought remains for much of Oregon.  Pacific Northwest forecaster Washington State University’s Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik said it’ll be tough for some of the driest areas to recover.   "The areas w...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, recently released its U.S. Winter Outlook.  Beginning in December and running through February 2023, NOAA predicts drier-than-average conditions in the South with wetter-than-average conditions in the Ohio Valley, Great Lakes, northern Rockies, and the Pacific Northwest.   ...

The World Meteorological Association says the La Niña weather pattern will last through the end of 2022.  That’s the first time this century it will have lasted for three consecutive winters in the northern hemisphere.  La Niña conditions i...

Despite the spring rains we saw across much of the Pacific Northwest, drought conditions continue for much of Central and Eastern Oregon.  The water year officially ended in July, and Larry O’Neill, with the Oregon Climate Office, says conditions didn’t improve much in the last two months.   “The average...

It appears Argentina won’t be able to capitalize on the interruption of wheat supplies from the Black Sea.  That according to AgriCensus, a London-based Price Reporting Agency.  The agency said weather, inflation and political uncertainty all combine to be detrimental to wheat exports for the nation. Argentine farmers fac...

With the start of summer less than three weeks away, what can the state of Oregon expect when it comes to soil moisture? Oregon Department of Forestry Lead Meteorologist Pete Parsons said the wetter than average spring is expected to continue into the summer months ...

After a dry, quiet, and even boring winter, Mother Nature has kept the Pacific Northwest on its toes over the past month with a series of storms brining everything from wind to rain to even late season snow. But it looks like that active weather pattern will start to quiet down ...

Just went you thought winter was done with the Pacific Northwest, a new system rolled in Sunday and Monday, brining snow showers across the region. Some locations, including the Tri Cities and Portland, saw record April snow totals this week ...

Now that the Pacific Northwest is officially in spring, what can we expect, will we see those April showers, will we see warmer temperatures? National Weather Service meteorologist Marilyn Lohman said Spring is very volatile in the PNW, so change can and will happen very quickly ...