Like clockwork, autumn’s chill has set the stage for the return of snow geese and swans to the Pacific Northwest. Most of the swans migrate here from Alaska and northern Canada, while the snow geese primarily come from treeless Wrangel Island, Russia . It takes the snow geese a month or two to fly to …
Atmospheric River stretches thousands of miles, begins in subtropics east of Guam An atmospheric river raced across the Pacific Ocean and then slammed into the Pacific Northwest Friday. High winds thrashed trees and knocked out power to more than 300,000 customers in Western Washington. Southeast of Mount Rainier, White Pass recorded a wind gust of …
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It rains a lot in Seattle. The climate’s much like England‘s. That was the explanation my brothers and I heard when we’d ask our parents why they’d ultimately chosen to settle in Seattle after our family immigrated from Southampton to the U.S. We entered the country at LAX in Los Angeles in 1968. A year …
Worst Air Quality in the World: Washington State Read More »
One after the other, a succession of small planes lightly dips into Okanagan Lake, scooping up another load of water while on-the-fly. And one after the next, each plane releases the lake water over a specific nearby target: Yet another patch of rugged forest just above the northwest part of the lake, not far from …
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