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As you travel across the Pacific Northwest, you will experience many types of landscapes. High deserts, forests, mountains, and coastline. And while you drive these diverse terrains you see it, a field tornado, the tracks of a Tasmanian devil, a field demon: a dust devil.

National Weather Service Meteorologist Steve Bodnar says the chance for fires here is much lower, even with incoming hot weather.

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...

April has been a unique moth, weather wise, for the PNW. After a winter that was primarily warm and dry, April turned out to be cooler than normal and very wet. Marilyn Lohmann, meteorologist with the National Weather Service said the showers were welcomed news after months of dry conditions ...

As we prepare to welcome in spring, old man winter provided one more shot across the Pacific Northwest this past week. Marilyn Lohmann, meteorologist with the National Weather Service said a cold front rolled across the area Tuesday morning, dropping temperatures and brining windy conditions ...

If you need to work out in the orchard, or if you have livestock to watch, the past month has been nice weather wise. A lot of sunshine during the daytime with temperatures slightly above normal. However, that beautiful weather has returned the region to dry, and in some cases very dry conditions ...

The past couple of weeks have been very quiet weather wise, and recently temperatures have been very pleasant for early February. And that weather is starting to have an impact on conditions across the PNW. Marilyn Lohmann, meteorologist with the National Weather Service says the sunshine has warmed soil temperatures, in areas without snow on the ground, by one to two degrees ...

The cloudy, unchanging weather pattern we saw for the back half of January did not stick around for February, thanks to windy conditions that blew into the Pacific Northwest this week, moving that fog and low-lying clouds out of the area; for the most part ...

While it does not feel like a heat wave, the temperatures across the Pacific Northwest have moderated over the past week. And following those bone chilling temperatures to wrap up 2021 and start the New Year, these average temperatures are feeling downright pleasant ...

It’s still too early to know if you’ll enjoy a White Christmas this year, but it looks like Mother Nature is setting the table for an active Christmas at the very least. Marilyn Lohmann with the National Weather Service says over the next couple of weeks, she expected systems to roll across the Pacific Northwest every 24-36 hours. “At thi ...