Weather

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.

When heat waves swept across large parts of the planet last summer, in many places the oppressive temperatures loitered for days or weeks at a time. As climate change warms the planet, heat waves are increasingly moving sluggishly and lasting longer, according to a study published Friday.

Revelers this St. Patrick’s Day were greeted with an unseasonably warm weekend that either broke or tied temperature records in multiple regional locations, according to the National Weather Service.

Gardeners, outdoorspeople and children, rejoice: sunshine will grace Spokane this weekend.

Snowpack on northwest mountains may have gotten off to a rough start this winter, but local ski areas say the conditions are prime for spring skiing after some fresh snow fell in the past few weeks.

A crippling blizzard has dumped as much as 6 to 11 feet of snow on California’s Sierra Nevada since Thursday, closing roads and ski resorts as it produced whiteout conditions and hurricane-force winds. The snow had eased across the region early Monday, but forecasters said more is to come through Tuesday afternoon, and winter storm warnings are in effect.

The amount of cold air above the Northern Hemisphere this winter is near a record low, an unambiguous signal of the planet’s warming climate, according to a new analysis of 76 years of temperature data from about a mile above the ground.

DALLAS — The heat in Dallas-Fort Worth broke at least two records Monday afternoon. The temperature reached 91 about 1:07 p.m. at DFW Airport, making it the hottest Feb. 26 on record since a 90-degree record was set 1917, according to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. Monday’s hot weather was also the 7th-earliest first occurrence of at least 90-degree heat in a calendar year on ...

Hurricane season is still months away, but warm winter waters in the Atlantic Ocean are already concerning some forecasters.

LOS ANGELES — Rain rolled into Los Angeles County on Monday and was expected to continue through Wednesday, with the latest storm system bringing heavier precipitation and a threat of flash flooding to western Los Angeles County and swaths of Ventura County. A flash flood warning was in effect Monday for a large portion of western L.A. County, including the Santa Monica Mountains, extending ...

Spokane drivers had a slick commute Thursday after 2.7 inches of snow fell Wednesday night into Thursday afternoon.

The Spokane-area snowpack has dropped significantly in the last year, which could have an impact on other parts of the environment over the summer.

  Spring-like temperatures are blanketing the US Northeast, but winter is far from over - and the potential for February snow is real, meteorologists say.

The weather pattern that brought record-setting rains, fierce winds and prolific mountain snows to California has not completely moved out, even after a three-day onslaught that featured hundreds of mudslides and at one point cut power to nearly 1 million customers. One more wave is coming through, and it will feature a quick burst of precipitation that could trigger flooding in a few more areas.

The Weather Man brought farmers a typhoon of mostly good news during his annual address Tuesday, but he also warned that a new perpetual cycle of weather has emerged that is conducive to the continued threat of wild fires in the Pacific Northwest.

Punxsutawney Phil, Western Pennsylvania’s famed weather-predicting groundhog, predicted an early spring Friday morning after he emerged from his burrow and did not see his shadow.

The Pineapple Express, an atmospheric river known for carrying tropical moisture from the Pacific Ocean to the West Coast, is expected to bring unseasonably warm temperatures and buckets of precipitation across Washington this week.