Weather

Six days since a record-breaking windstorm tore through the region, power has been restored in all homes and businesses that were affected, according to a news release from Avista Utilities.

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LOS ANGELES — A 400-mile blanket of fog has socked in California’s Central Valley for weeks. Scientists and meteorologists say the conditions for such persistent cloud cover are ripe: an early wet season, cold temperatures and a stable, unmoving high pressure system. But take a stroll through X, Instagram or TikTok, and you’ll see not everyone is so sanguine. People are reporting that the fog ...

New outages were reported due to more high winds early Friday, but local utilities continued making progress in recovering from Wednesday’s windstorm.

Less than 15,000 electricity customers in the Inland Northwest remained without power Thursday afternoon in the aftermath of Wednesday’s windstorm.

Strong winds caused the death of a man near Coeur d’Alene and left thousands without power throughout the Inland Northwest Wednesday morning.

Strong winds will hit the Spokane region early Wednesday morning with predicted speeds that could match the devastating wind storm of 2015, according to the National Weather Service.

Strong, potentially damaging gusts of wind and moderate rainfall are expected in the Spokane region Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.

Spokane will likely avoid the heavy rains drenching much of Western Washington and the Idaho Panhandle, according to the National Weather Service.

Forecasters say the first snow storm of the season to take aim at major Northeast cities will dump several inches of snow over the weekend, followed by a bitter Arctic blast courtesy of the polar vortex.

An abnormal streak of mild temperatures will continue in Spokane, after warm weather dominated the first part of the week.

An atmospheric river-fuelled storm is soaking Western Washington and other parts of the Pacific Northwest, bringing heavy rain and snowfall that’s resulted in flooding, road closures and emergency evacuations. Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson declared a statewide emergency on Wednesday, Dec. 10, allowing the state to ask for federal funding to help cover the “significant” costs of responding to ...

CAMP MURRAY, Pierce County – Gov. Bob Ferguson declared a state of emergency Wednesday, called in the National Guard and said he is requesting assistance from the federal government following historic flooding that continues in Western Washington this week.

By Mathew Callaghan

A powerful atmospheric river is bearing down on the Pacific Northwest with back-to-back storms, bringing rain, gusty winds and unseasonably warm temperatures until Thursday morning.

The Spokane area can expect powerful gusts of wind Monday night as a storm barrels it way over the Cascades and into Eastern Washington.