KOMO Weather Blog

Funnel cloud caps off stormy 24 hours

Gulf of Alaska to world: Hurricane, schmericane

When fog and sun share the sky

Dude! The sunrise this morning was totally tubular!

Snow cap disappearing from Mount Kilimanjaro

WASHINGTON (AP) - The snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone.

The African mountain's white peak - made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway - is rapidly melting, researchers report.

Some 85 percent of the ice that made up the mountaintop glaciers in 1912 was gone by 2007, researchers led by paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

And more than a quarter of the ice present in 2000 was gone by 2007.

If current conditions continue "the ice fields atop Kilimanjaro will not endure," the researchers said.

Strange, and not so strange, clouds return to skies

Maybe it's just Mother Nature getting in the Halloween spirit.

A new video making the rounds on the Internet shows a spooky looking cloud over Romania:

How much did it rain yesterday? Lots, or not much

Mars has tattoos?

This might look like some fancy print for an expensive couch or maybe the aftermath after your basketball got away from you and rolled across a bed of hot coals (because, we all keep those handy near playgrounds), but this is actually a photo of Mars.

More specifically, a part of Mars that has been dogged by their version of dust devils.

Stormy skies make for beautiful pictures

Late October is the traditional start of the stormy season, and this year has been no different.

Take a look at a few photos of Mother Nature using the sky as her easel as clouds become a more dominant feature.

First up is a great sunset taken by Maia Pereyda from Kennydale on Oct. 19. She says Lake Washington was a smooth as glass and gave it a mirror-like quality to the sunset going on above: