Weather reports on whatever I decide to report on.
Monday’s storm over the Columbia Basin produced plenty of lightning and heavy rain. Hermiston recorded 0.51″, the Southridge area of Kennewick had 0.58″, and I even received a report from Beck Road south of Kennewick where a grower had 0.84″! On top of this, flooding in Connell prompted the National Weather Service to issue a […]
Lying about 300 miles west of Cannon Beach, Oregon is Axial Seamount. This undersea volcano, which was discovered right around the time Mount St. Helens had its infamous eruption, was the first seamount to be observed in an eruptive state in real-time by instruments on its slopes. That event occurred in 1998, with other eruptions […]
There is a chance of showers for the Tri-Cities in place through Wednesday thanks to a deep low pressure system that is lazily moving across the Western United States. Rain chances drop off significantly Sunday night, but we can expect to see periodic light rain and drizzle for the next several days. The presence of […]
The Storm Prediction Center has placed parts of the region under a marginal risk for severe thunderstorms on Sunday. For the Columbia Basin, this includes areas that are along and east of a line stretching from Condon and Irrigon north to the Tri-Cities and Othello. More broadly speaking, it also encompasses most of northeastern Oregon, […]
This blog post is a response to the following question, which I received over on my Facebook page – Tri-Cities Weather: Mark, I remember all the Easters here in the Tri Cities as being WINDY and COOL. Never weather good enough to dress up nice for Easter Sunday. Is my memory faulty or is it […]
This post focuses on tornado statistics in the Tri-Cities and Columbia Basin. For specific details about the Richland tornado that happened on March 31, head over to this AgWeatherNet article that I contributed to. Tornadoes are a rare occurrence in the Columbia Basin, but they aren’t unheard of. This is something that we were reminded […]
A ridge of high pressure in place over the region is providing pleasant weather conditions for the second half of this week. Wednesday will probably be the day with the most clouds. This is thanks to northwest flow aloft, sending some high clouds streaming across the region. Some light rain showers associated with this pattern […]
Sunday’s wind storm certainly lived up to expectations and in some cases even exceeded them. As usual, Rattlesnake Mountain brought home the prize for highest wind gust – 82 mph. People rarely go up there, though, so what about in the lowlands? Helix, which is north of Pendleton, recorded a gust of 74 mph. This […]
As the storm system I blogged about yesterday continues to approach, the National Weather Service issued a wind advisory for our area. Not much has changed in the forecast (except a slightly lower chance of rain), so I won’t go into too much detail about that here. If you missed it, feel free to click […]
Recent snowfall in Washington’s mountains has brought the amount of snow up there to near-normal values for this time of year. Some of this snow even caused the record-setting flood event seen Walla Walla and Pendleton earlier this month, but this winter’s storms have not been quite as generous in the Columbia Basin and Yakima […]