Weather

Hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean begins June 1, and forecasters are warning people to brace for what could be an anxious six months - for residents along the coast and even well inland. While an average season bears witness to 14 named storms, this season could feature twice that number. Experts are sounding the alarms for an active season, in some cases issuing the most extreme preseason outlooks they ever have.

Take out your T-shirts and shorts. The season’s first surge of 80-degree weather is set to spread across the Inland Northwest starting Friday and sticking around through this weekend.

Bloomsday participants wanting to donate their jackets by tossing them atop the branches of Riverside Avenue street trees – as is the Bloomsday starting line tradition – might want to wait little longer on Sunday.

Following a chaotic swarm of twisting storms in its final week, April’s tornado count in the United States climbed to at least 300, the second-highest in the month on record.

Deadly thunderstorms, including several tornadoes, ripped across the Great Plains and Corn Belt on Tuesday - capping an abnormally active week and month for twisters in the central states. A violent tornado in Kansas killed one person and injured three more, while a family of tornadoes - including a deviant vortex that spun backward - danced in the dark in southwestern Oklahoma.

In the fall of his eighth-grade year, Andy Brown’s family moved to Dayton, Ohio. A surprise October snowstorm shut down the schools.

For years, scientists have said that atmospheric rivers can either make or break the water supplies of thirsty California cities and farms. For the last two winters, a steady succession of these giant “rivers in the sky” have dumped record-breaking and drought-busting precipitation across the state, while simultaneously causing catastrophic floods, landslides and dangerous blizzards.

A dry month is expected to get wetter in the Inland Northwest.

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is likely to be destructive and costly and has the potential to be one of the busiest on record.

Dubai flights have been severely disrupted and cars were left stranded on flooded roads after record rainfall over the past day brought the city to a standstill.

The Washington State Department of Ecology declared a drought emergency Tuesday, citing this year’s low snowpack and dry forecasts.

Weather conditions are shaping up to make this weekend one of the best so far this year in the Lilac City.

Spokane County residents will soon be able to know how polluted the air in their own neighborhood is in real time.

The upcoming hurricane season is shaping up to be another extremely active one, powered by the Atlantic’s record-breaking run of high temperatures.

Late Monday morning, the sun will disappear from residents in North America for the first time since 2017.