soil moisture

The saying across the Northwest during the spring months, if you don’t like the weather, just wait five minutes this will change. This year, that saying is very true. The region has seen isolated rain showers, and even thunderstorms over the past week. Mar ...

According to the latest USDA figures, winter wheat condition nationwide continue to slide lower. "52% of the U.S. winter wheat rated good to excellent condition that is down from last week’s 55%. 16% very poor to poor, that’s up from 14%," said USDA Meteorologist, Brad Rippey. How ...

With soil moisture levels so low across the Inland Northwest, we’ve already seen a few dust storms, and the Washington Department of Ecology says the area could see many more as the weather warms. The DOE’s Andrew Wineke said since a notable portion of the dust storms across the region come from agricultural sources, the Department has worked with farmers for several years on mitigation efforts.

A little over a week remains in the month, but if the current weather pattern hold, April 2020 will go down as one of the driest on record for many locations across the Inland Northwest. “There’s only been trace amounts in Wenatchee, and Yakima, to only a few hundredths across the Tri-Cities and Pendleton area, to around 0.3” around P ...

While the area has enjoyed several sunny days, temperatures across the Inland Northwest have been below average for the past week or so. The reason, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Marilyn Lohmann, the cold overnight temperatures, with many locations still dropping into the 30’s and some places recording lows in the 20’s. Despite t ...

March 2020 was a typical, and not just because of the COVID-19 pandemic. March is typically one of the wettest months for the Northwest, but as Marilyn Lohmann with the National Weather Service pointed out, this March didn’t turn out that way. She ...

Many sections of the Northwest are dry for this time of year. According to the latest USDA figures, 40% of Washington is considered Abnormally Dry, while nearly 23% of the state is under the D1, or Moderate Drought, designation. Those designations are found exclusively in Central Washington, stretching from the Columbia River to the Canadian border ...

Spring start on Thursday; at 8:50 a.m. Pacific to be specific. But winter did not leave without making it’s departure known. Marilyn Lohmann, meteorologist with the National Weather Servcie says a strong low pressure styemt dove into the Northwest last week, ushering in unseasonably cold temperatures. Loh ...

What a difference a week can make.  The first week of January saw mild temperatures and rain showers for much of the Inland Northwest.  Enough in fact that the lower Columbia Basin and Palouse saw soil moisture levels improved considerably.   ...

The big weather maker for much of the region this weekend, and even to start this week was the fog.  Thanks to stagnate air, we saw fog, sometimes very thick develop across the Inland Northwest.  Marilyn Lohmann with the National Weather Service said while that fog reduced visibility and made driving hard over the weekend, the biggest disappointment was the the rain, or lack of it.   “... Read Mor