The calendar still says winter, but grain and fruit crops in Washington may already think it’s spring. From the Skagit to the Palouse, observers with Washington State University are noticing that some agricultural crops are several weeks ahead of schedule—thanks to an unseasonably warm winter.
Washington State University students and faculty dominated awards for research poster sessions and scholarships during the Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers 2015 annual meeting.
While many Washingtonians hoped the unusually warm April Fools’ Day weather was a harbinger of things to come, Mother Nature had other plans.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Just as each of the Three Stooges has his unique personality, so did each month of winter in Washington. December was Curley, with lovable yet unpredictable behavior ranging from mild temperatures to stormy conditions and heavy snowfall.
PROSSER, Wash. – The pundits claim that timing is everything, and never was that more vividly the case than with Washington’s December weather. Despite very mild temperatures early in the month, colder weather made a belated arrival just in time for many locations to experience a white Christmas. Thanks to the arrival of a cold […]
PROSSER, Wash. – Autumn is a time of transition, and never was that fact more on display than this year. The season may include three months, but Washington’s 2012 autumn weather came in only two parts. During September and early October, conditions were dry and summer-like. Wildfires raged, smoke filled the air and skies were cloud-free […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – What a difference a month makes. October clearly lived up to its reputation as a transitional month in Washington, as conditions shifted from warmth, wildfires and frost to heavy winds, rain and snow.
PROSSER, Wash.—A more accurate way to measure cold hardiness in apple and sweet cherry buds and blooms during early spring is under development by researchers at Washington State University Prosser Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center (IAREC). The three-year project, funded by the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission this year, will help Pacific Northwest growers […]
PROSSER, Wash. – Don’t be fooled by the recent stretch of pleasant late-summer weather. Most of Washington’s 2012 summer weather featured conditions that ranged from bad to downright ugly. From the severe storms in mid-July to the raging wildfires and parching heat in August, a great diversity of weather concerns epitomized the summer season.
WSU’s AgWeatherNet Team Tests State-of-the-Art Weather Prediction Model for Freeze Events Washington tree fruit growers are often at the mercy of Mother Nature when it comes to weather. Case in point: the severe thunderstorms of July 20 that, in some areas of south-central Washington, battered apple crops with golf ball-sized hail, leaving some orchards with […]