Weather

Hundreds of people are feared dead after Tropical Cyclone Chido carved a trail of destruction in the French territory of Mayotte when it made landfall at the weekend as a storm equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane.

The flurries seen Monday by many Spokane residents is expected to continue Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service, slowly switching to rain as temperatures rise in the afternoon.

A dry, partly cloudy Sunday should give way to a snowy Monday morning commute for Spokane-area drivers, according to the National Weather Service in Spokane.

Spokane drivers should be careful when traveling this weekend, especially on the West Plains or north of Mead.

BANDON, Ore. – The warnings of a looming cataclysm are ubiquitous along the Oregon Coast. On blue-and-white signs, a cartoon wave curls out of the sea, capital letters blaring: TSUNAMI HAZARD ZONE. Harbingers of a future disaster are always in the periphery, staked next to highways, on neighborhood streets, between the crab shack and the chowder house.

A lumbering low-pressure system over the central Mediterranean Sea has been dousing Greece in waves of torrential rainfall over recent days, a weather pattern reminiscent of one that wrought severe flooding in Spain in October.

MADISON, Ohio – Great Lakes communities were pummeled with snow this weekend as unusually warm weather plunged into a lake-effect snow event, expected to continue until Monday.

An intense lake effect snow event was underway Friday, a storm expected to hammer parts of the Great Lakes region, including Upstate New York – plastering lakeside communities with up to 5 feet of snow. Thunder and lightning could accompany the heaviest snowfall, which might come down at rates of 4 inches per hour.

After a couple days of soaking rain, the weather in the Inland Northwest is expected to shift.

As an intense week of weather wraps up for the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, Mother Nature has one last nasty trick up her sleeve: the Fujiwhara effect.

The shallow covering of snow Spokane received overnight into Wednesday morning melted quickly as temperatures rose throughout the day.

Hours after a massive windstorm howled with gusts up to 74 mph in the lowlands, crews in Western Washington were working Wednesday to restore electricity for over 640,000 customers who lost power overnight.

The first round of snow for the season could hit the region this weekend, according to the National Weather Service Spokane.

Tropical Storm Sara is forecast to slog its way into Central America this weekend but lose organization before its remnants make their way into the Gulf of Mexico and get sucked back to the east toward Florida next week.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center said Tropical Storm Sara formed in the Caribbean on Thursday, and long-term forecast models show it could enter the Gulf of Mexico and turn toward Florida’s Gulf Coast. As of the NHC’s 10 a.m. advisory, Sara was located about 205 miles east of Isla Guanaja, Honduras and 50 miles northeast of Cabo Gracias a Dios on the Nicaragua/Honduras border ...

After a gloomy few weeks of late autumn, Spokane may get some sun Tuesday.