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Updated: 4:56 PM PST February 4, 2021 SPOKANE, Wash. — Winter in Spokane this season hasn't been terribly cold. With the lowest temperature only been 15 degrees this season, it's been extremely manageable. And compared to the winter's that I grew up with in Wisconsin... this seems incredibly mild by those standards. Winter's in Spokane, when compared to other northern U.S. cities, are actually much, much warmer. The reason for that has to do with different variety of air masses, their origins, and how they're affected by temperatures. There are 4 varieties of air masses, des...

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 ...

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...