weather

WSU Extension collects weather data each week, continuing a practice that dates back over 125 years at the same location in Clark County.

WSU’s Lav Khot is the new interim director of AgWeatherNet, which provides weather data and weather-related support tools to improve agricultural production, efficiency, and profitability.

AgWeatherNet has placed a meteorologist at the WSU Mount Vernon Northwestern Washington Research & Extension Center for the first time.

For billions, the rains of the South Asian summer monsoon are a matter of life and death.

Staff at the Washington State University Dryland Research Station at Lind earned kudos for logging 100 years of official weather data that helps farmers and scientists understand the past and prepare for the future.

In June, the National Weather Service presented the Lind Station with the “100-Year Honored Institution Award,” honoring the century of observations made at Lind.

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.

On a lark, when I was a college student I took a class in field biology. It sounded romantic and I was young, so even though it didn’t really make any sense for a geology student to take the senior level class in another discipline, I was there bright and early on the first day […]

Ireland enjoys a mild and stable climate. But even in Ireland there are years that stand out as unusual. Recently a team of researchers led by Harvard’s Francis Ludlow announced results of a study of Ireland’s climate based on the Irish Annals, a body of writings containing more than 40,000 entries.

PROSSER, Wash. — Sometimes you have to see the game to understand what really happened. If ever there was a time when the scorecard failed to capture the essence of an event, it was this winter. “Although Washington’s 2011 – 2012 winter season was fairly average according to the numbers, it was far from a […]

These are the good times. I was driving through the country last Saturday, looking at deer happily chowing down in wheat fields. Everyplace is a drive-through if you’re a herbivore at this time of year.