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Fraser Winds to pick up Sunday night: Practice run for arctic chill? Wind Advisory Whatcom County

Wind Advisory Whatcom County

Fraser Winds to pick up Sunday night: Practice run for arctic chill?

Scott Sistek October 12, 2025

We’re still a good 6 weeks away on the calendar from when wintry weather could even *think*...

La Niña has returned! Here’s the good news it typically means for the Northwest ski season Snow capped mountains

Snow capped mountains

La Niña has returned! Here’s the good news it typically means for the Northwest ski season

Scott Sistek October 9, 2025

NOAA made it official Thursday: La Niña is here. Skiers and snowboarders probably didn’t even need to...

How the Olympic Rain Shadow creates a literal ‘blue hole’ over Sequim Sequim Rain Shadow Hole

Sequim Rain Shadow Hole

How the Olympic Rain Shadow creates a literal ‘blue hole’ over Sequim

Scott Sistek October 6, 2025

SEQUIM, Wash. — Does Sequim, nestled over on the northern Olympic Peninsula, really get 300 days of...

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