Oregon Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici says there’s a bipartisan effort to maintain services at the National Weather Service and its parent agency, NOAA.
We’ve already seen measurable snow in the higher elevations of the Northwest, and forecasters believe this is just the beginning. The Pacific Northwest is in the midst of a meteorological transition, moving from dry to wet. The area has been under an El Nino weather pattern for more than a year, but Charlotte Dewey, with the National Weather Service, says that’s changing.
“Right now, we’re at
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.
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
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