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We experienced a rare, extreme event and there is no reason to expect that such storms will become more frequent as the planet slowly warms.

 Wildfires and their smoke are a natural part of the Northwest ecosystem.

 You knew it was colder than normal over the Pacific Northwest during April.

This story on WUWT last week was so absurd, I felt like it needed a strong rebuttal. A November 4th article in the Canadian newspaper, Victoria Times Colonist, reported, B.C.…

 But there is no abrupt, end of the world, "existential" drought threat in the offering.  Sometimes atmospheric variability randomly gives us a very dry summer, like this year, but that is entirely natural and expected.

A video captured by nonprofit group Columbia Riverkeeper shows the horrifying effects of the Pacific Northwest heat wave on sockeye salmon. Just short of a salmon snuff film, the video shows listless fish dotted...

A failure that misinformed you and millions of others, and a failure that highlighted glaring weaknesses in the media's ability to cover important scientific issues...

The evidence for a predominantly natural origin of the high temperatures records of last week is compelling, with global warming marginally increasing the peak temperatures by perhaps a few degrees...

Reposted from the Cliff Mass Weather Blog New Podcast: Global Warming and the Northwest Heatwave, Plus the Weekend Forecast The severe heatwave this week has been on everyone’s mind, for…

Reposted from The Cliff Mass Weather Blog  It’s over.    Throughout the region, all-time temperature records have been broken, if not smashed.   Just to name a few: SeaTac hit 108F,…

If this forecast verifies virtually every major observing location in the western WA and Oregon interior will achieve their all-time temperature record...

The meteorological community is all abuzz about the forecast this weekend: several of the global models are predicting an extraordinarily unusual heatwave this weekend in the Pacific Northwest.

So the inescapable conclusion based upon snowpack observations is that there has been little trend in the amount of snow in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest during a period in which CO2 has been rising fairly rapidly...

Late last year, the state of Washington welcomed its first new ferry terminal in 40 years — the Mukilteo Multimodal Terminal, a contemporary transit building that pays homage to the environment and the region’s Coast...

The Trump administration has once again rolled back an important policy regarding the protection of birds. Only about a week ago, the administration stripped protections of migratory birds from accidental deaths by oil companies....