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LEXINGTON, Ky. — President Donald Trump signed an order Friday declaring a state of emergency for Kentucky as rain continue to pound much of the state. The presidential declaration allows the state to qualify for Federal Emergency Management Agency funding. It also authorizes FEMA to provide assistance as the state grapples with multiple days of heavy rains that have inundated much of Western ...

The first hurricane forecast of the year from the experts at Colorado State University released Thursday calls for an above-average season with nine hurricanes and a better than 50% chance a major hurricane will strike the U.S.

The extent of sea ice blanketing the Arctic this winter fell to the lowest level on record, researchers announced this week, an ominous signal about the effects of climate change in the world’s fastest-warming region.

The balmy weather this week brought about a change to the record books across the Inland Northwest.

The Inland Northwest has some of the warmest days of the year so far to look forward to next week, but will first need to endure a cold and wet weekend.

Flooding and landslides from swollen rivers and record-setting rain in southern Oregon and parts of the Willamette Valley have caused millions of dollars in damages and cost one woman her life.

During fire season, the National Weather Service deploys meteorologists to major wildfires to keep firefighters updated on changing wind conditions and to predict where the fire will spread.

Spokane’s recent streak of unseasonably mild weather will continue through the rest of the week, if a bit abated from the particularly balmy weekend, with highs around the 50s and possibly a tad warmer by the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.

After weeks of overcast skies and precipitation, the warmth of sunshine was beginning to feel like a distant, foggy memory for Spokane residents.

Areas of the Inland Northwest were flooding Sunday evening and Monday morning, leading to multiple road closures and forcing maintenance crews to pump water from covered highways.

The Spokane-area winter will officially transition this weekend from snow-and-cold to warm-and-wet. 

An atmospheric river is targeting the Pacific Northwest this weekend. It will deliver heavy rain and relatively mild air, and probably will be followed by a powerful low-pressure system expected to slam into the region early next week.

The weather system that recently dumped inches of snow over the region apparently is not yet done with the Lilac City. The forecast calls for up to an inch of snow Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.

A near constant dumping of snow fell during the daylight hours Sunday, foreshadowing the white week ahead.

Inland Northwest residents woke up to another round of snow Friday morning, with more expected this weekend as temperatures gradually warm up, according to the National Weather Service Spokane.

The polar vortex is coming back. After a half-month hiatus, frigid air will again surge across the United States beginning this weekend through next week, as the unusually cold blob of air dips southward, covering various parts of the country by Tuesday.

A week of bitterly cold temperatures should improve Thursday as a fresh layer of snow falls across the Inland Northwest.

Punxsutawney Phil’s prognosticated “six more weeks of winter” on Groundhog Day appears to be coming to a head, at least in Spokane.

Nearly 60 vehicle crashes accompanied the first major winter storm of the year, according to the Spokane Police Department.