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Spokane sees snow just in time for Christmas Snow began falling around 5 p.m. on Christmas day. Here's the latest on how much snow we can expect and how long it might stick around! Author: Thomas Patrick Updated: 7:30 PM PST December 25, 2020 SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane has a White Christmas after all!  Flakes started falling around 5 p.m. Dec. 25.  The next weather system moving into the Pacific Northwest waited until Christmas Day to do so. It started with heavy snow over the Cascades during the day before precipitation moved into eastern Washington earlier ...

Weather Classroom: How do eclipses happen and when do we see them? Meteorologist Thomas Patrick covers all the different variety of eclipses we can see, and when the next ones are visible in the U.S. Author: Thomas Patrick Updated: 8:44 PM CST December 14, 2020 SPOKANE, Wash. — Eclipses are my favorite astronomical phenomenon! The relationship between the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon creates these wonderful displays when the shadow of one falls on the other. For the lunar eclipse, it's when the Earth's shadow falls on the Moon. For the solar eclipse it's the ...

Retailers are reporting good sales with just a number of shopping days left until Christmas. Non-essential retail reopened on December 1st and it is expected it will stay open when new restrictions come into place at the end of the month. Retail Excellence says queues are being managed very well and the public has been compliant with public health advice. Retailers on Dublin's Grafton Street say there has been a great buzz in recent days and that the public has been very careful regarding public health advice. During his annual stroll down the capital's main shopping street earlier this week,...

Updated: 4:46 PM PST December 17, 2020 SPOKANE, Wash. — In the Fall and Winter months, the western U.S. tends to experience a weather phenomenon known as a "Atmospheric River." The term itself is self-explanatory. The atmospheric itself can create narrow moisture transport that resembles a river.  The most common variation of this is when tropical moisture from near Hawaii is siphoned by the low level jet stream and is then aimed towards the western U.S. The moisture rich region of the atmosphere then deposits the rain and mountain snow on shore.  This is amplified by the ...

Updated: 6:44 PM PST December 14, 2020 SPOKANE, Wash. — Eclipses are my favorite astronomical phenomenon! The relationship between the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon creates these wonderful displays when the shadow of one falls on the other. For the lunar eclipse, it's when the Earth's shadow falls on the Moon. For the solar eclipse it's the other way around. Think of it this way, the Moon "disappears" during a lunar eclipse, and the Sun "disappears" during a solar eclipse.  But there are different types of both lunar and solar eclipses. On the lunar side, the total lunar ecl...