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Weather & Climate

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Weather Eye: Winter will return for remainder of February

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

February 24, 2024, 6:00am Clark County News

Friday certainly fits the category of a “false spring,” with full sunshine and temperatures hovering around the 60-degree threshold. It was indeed chilly early Friday, however, with most areas dipping to the freezing mark and into the 20s in the rural areas. Vancouver’s official low was 33 degrees. Remember that… Read story

A paddle boarder paddles through water at Badwater Basin, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. The basin, normally a salt flat, has filled from rain over the past few months.

Kayakers paddle in Death Valley after rains replenish lake in one of Earth’s driest spots

A paddle boarder paddles through water at Badwater Basin, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. The basin, normally a salt flat, has filled from rain over the past few months.

February 23, 2024, 3:13pm Nation & World

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Kayakers have been paddling in one of the driest places on Earth after a series of record rain storms battered California’s Death Valley and replenished Lake Manly. Read story

California’s rainy season is here. What does it mean for water supply?

February 22, 2024, 1:40pm Nation & World

After a dry start to winter, California's rainy season is finally well under way. Read story

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Weather Eye: Cooler temperatures, snow possibly heading our way

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

February 22, 2024, 6:00am Clark County News

OK, here we go again it seems. You may have seen a snowflake or two on your weather app for late this weekend and early next week. Let me explain. A major shift in the jet stream occurs Sunday as the polar jet dives southward out over the ocean and… Read story

FILE - A mechanized shovel loads a haul truck that can carry up to 250 tons of coal at the Spring Creek coal mine, April 4, 2013, near Decker, Mont. On Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, a U.S. appeals court struck down a judge&rsquo;s 2022 order that imposed a moratorium on coal leasing from federal lands.

Court lifts moratorium on federal coal sales in a setback for Dems and environmentalists

FILE - A mechanized shovel loads a haul truck that can carry up to 250 tons of coal at the Spring Creek coal mine, April 4, 2013, near Decker, Mont. On Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, a U.S. appeals court struck down a judge&rsquo;s 2022 order that imposed a moratorium on coal leasing from federal lands.

February 21, 2024, 4:36pm Nation & World

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday struck down a moratorium on coal leasing from federal lands in a move that could open the door to future coal sales from vast, publicly owned reserves of the fuel that’s a major source of climate-changing greenhouse gases. Read story

FILE - Emissions rise from the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the suns sets, near Emmett, Kan., Sept. 18, 2021. The Supreme Court&#039;s conservative majority seemed skeptical Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, as a government lawyer argued that the Environmental Protection Agency should be allowed to continue enforcing its anti-air-pollution &quot;good neighbor&#039;&#039; rule.

Supreme Court seems skeptical of EPA’s ‘good neighbor’ rule on power plant pollution

FILE - Emissions rise from the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the suns sets, near Emmett, Kan., Sept. 18, 2021. The Supreme Court&#039;s conservative majority seemed skeptical Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, as a government lawyer argued that the Environmental Protection Agency should be allowed to continue enforcing its anti-air-pollution &quot;good neighbor&#039;&#039; rule.

February 21, 2024, 3:59pm Nation & World

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed skeptical Wednesday as a government lawyer argued that the Environmental Protection Agency should be allowed to continue enforcing its anti-air-pollution “good neighbor” rule in 11 states while separate legal challenges continue around the country. Read story

People cross the street with umbrellas in heavy rain in Los Angeles, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024.

Saturated California gets more rain and snow, but so far escapes severe damage it saw only weeks ago

People cross the street with umbrellas in heavy rain in Los Angeles, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024.

February 20, 2024, 1:36pm Nation & World

Much of saturated California faced the threat of flooding Tuesday with winter storms blowing through, but so far the state has escaped the severity of damage from mudslides, wind and rain spawned by an atmospheric river only weeks ago. Read story

A person kayaks on South Portland Street in Seattle's South Park neighborhood Tuesday morning, Dec. 27, 2022.

How will climate change affect our back-and-forth La Niña, El Niño weather patterns?

A person kayaks on South Portland Street in Seattle's South Park neighborhood Tuesday morning, Dec. 27, 2022.

February 20, 2024, 10:15am Latest News

This is a simple question with perhaps not so simple an answer. Read story

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Weather Eye: Temperatures rising well into 50s remainder of week

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

February 20, 2024, 6:00am Clark County News

Ever since Valentine’s Day we have hovered in the mid-40s for high temperatures here in Vancouver. As I wrote in this column Monday afternoon, it still hadn’t reached 50 degrees despite the forecast of 52 degrees. Chilly weather indeed and with that I have good news and perhaps not so… Read story

A woman walk under the rain in Los Angeles, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024.

California braces for flooding again as another wet winter storm hits

A woman walk under the rain in Los Angeles, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024.

February 19, 2024, 11:40am Nation & World

The latest in a series of wet winter storms gained strength in California early Monday, with forecasters warning of possible flooding, hail, strong winds and even brief tornadoes as the system moves south over the next few days. Read story