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Remembering the great Columbus Day Windstorm of 1962 Columbus Day Storm Bridge

Columbus Day Storm Bridge

Remembering the great Columbus Day Windstorm of 1962

Scott Sistek October 11, 2025

The weather was active Sunday but it was nothing compared to what was happening 63 years ago...

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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