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Low snowpack likely to mean low rivers this summer
8+ hour, 5+ min ago (1144+ words) There will be water in the rivers this summer, but there might not be much of it. Streamflow forecasts from the Natural Resources Conservation Service are predicting well below normal flows for the Spokane, St. Joe and North Fork of…...
Power lines, trees down; thousands without power after overnight windstorm
4+ week, 1+ day ago (424+ words) Power lines and trees are down across Inland Northwest as thousands lost power following an aggressive overnight windstorm. David Reif and his family and dogs slept at a hotel after a tree fell on their house on 23rd Avenue and Browne…...
U. S. Highway 2 near Leavenworth closed, U. S. 12 near Naches damaged after torrential rain, flooding
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (868+ words) Roads remain underwater, or washed out completely, as crews work to get Washington's transportation system back in order following a week of torrential rain and swollen rivers. Even with rivers cresting throughout Friday, travelers and commuters mostly waited in vain…...
Gusts up to 77 mph knock out power for 250 K on West Side
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (265+ words) Winds from the Pacific accelerated Saturday evening, knocking out electricity for tens of thousands and whipping cities from Washington's coastline to Puget Sound. The National Weather Service upgraded earlier predictions to a wind warning around Grays Harbor, with a steady…...
Spokane's heat spell to continue early in the week, with showers on the way
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (248+ words) Spokane's hot streak will continue through Wednesday and into the beginning of August, according to Joey Clevenger, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service. On Monday afternoon temperatures at Felts Field reached 92 degrees. It was 89 at Spokane International Airport. Clevenger…...
Gary England, forecaster who kept watch over Tornado Alley, dies at 85
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (981+ words) Gary England, a meteorologist who became Tornado Alley's most influential TV weatherman, adopting early Doppler radar technology so effectively that he often issued lifesaving warnings on twisters before the National Weather Service, died June 10 at a hospice center in Oklahoma…...