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Weather Blog - October 2012

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  • Watch Hurricane Sandy, minute-by-minute, approach the New Jersey coast

    Oct 30, 2012 at 6:57 PM PDT

  • What makes superstorm Sandy so unusual?

    Oct 27, 2012 at 9:01 PM PDT

  • Seattle's showers Friday may eventually influence 'Frankenstorm' next week

    Oct 26, 2012 at 5:10 PM PDT

  • Northwest shows off all its autumn beauty

    Oct 24, 2012 at 7:12 PM PDT

  • Thunderstorms, cumulus and waterspouts -- Oh, my!

    Oct 22, 2012 at 6:24 PM PDT

  • Orionids Meteor Shower set to light up weekend skies

    Oct 19, 2012 at 7:03 PM PDT

  • New forecasts indicate it'll still be a dry autumn and winter

    Oct 18, 2012 at 6:36 PM PDT

  • Big Texas hail and first Stevens Pass snowflakes

    Oct 17, 2012 at 8:45 PM PDT

  • Lightning brightens the stormy skies over Hansville

    Oct 16, 2012 at 2:40 PM PDT

  • Olympic Rain Shadow struts its stuff again

    Oct 15, 2012 at 8:26 PM PDT

  • World matched record for hottest September -- again

    Oct 15, 2012 at 7:44 PM PDT

  • 50 years later, Columbus Day Windstorm still ranks as greatest

    Oct 12, 2012 at 1:00 PM PDT

  • Unique perspective of Northern Lights from space

    Oct 11, 2012 at 5:56 PM PDT

  • What happened in the other years of extended dry streaks?

    Oct 9, 2012 at 7:02 PM PDT

  • Northern Lights come out on back-to-back nights

    Oct 9, 2012 at 5:49 PM PDT

  • Photos: Harvest moon

    Oct 1, 2012 at 7:29 PM PDT

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Weather Northern Lights peek out in Eastern Washington (Photo Gallery)
By Scott Sistek Published: May 18, 2013 at 9:57 AM PDT Last Updated: May 19, 2013 at 12:55 AM PDT
As we mentioned in the blog Thursday, there's a particularly active sunspot on the sun right now.

It had, as its opening salvo while starting to face the Earth, unleashed a moderately strong solar flare that reached us late Friday, triggering a display of the Northern Lights that reached as far south as Colorado.
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Weather Northern Lights to be visible around the Pacific Northwest soon?
By Scott Sistek Published: May 16, 2013 at 11:33 AM PDT Last Updated: May 16, 2013 at 1:58 PM PDT
The sun has been getting quite active lately, with one sun spot in particular giving off several explosive flares this week, and it could eventually bring some brilliant displays of the Northern Lights to the Pacific Northwest.

Since Monday, Sunspot AR1748 has already given off four "X-class" solar flares -- X being the most powerful class of flares that have potential to disrupt radio and satellite signals. In fact, that flare has given off more X-class flares than every other sunspot of the past year combined, according to spaceweather.com.

Up to this point, the spot has been on a part of the sun not directly facing Earth, so the flares have been directed away from our planet and not really giving us much of an effect.
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Weather Northwest Weather Photos: Showing off our spectacular spring (Photo Gallery)
By Scott Sistek Published: May 15, 2013 at 6:50 AM PDT Last Updated: May 15, 2013 at 4:07 PM PDT
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Weather 'Ice wave' attacks homes in Minnesota
By Scott Sistek Published: May 13, 2013 at 12:55 PM PDT Last Updated: May 14, 2013 at 2:05 PM PDT
You've probably seen video of flash floods before, but for these homeowners in Minnesota, it was a little different this weekend: A "flood" of ice.

A woman on Minnesota's Mille Lacs Lake snapped this video of what some are calling an "ice out tsunami."

"Just sounded like shattering glass," Darla Johnson told WCCO-TV. "It was pushing and breaking and pushing and breaking."
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Weather Mother Nature's mantra for Seattle weather: All or nothing (Photo Gallery)
By Scott Sistek Published: May 10, 2013 at 10:49 AM PDT Last Updated: May 10, 2013 at 1:03 PM PDT
SEATTLE-- Missing: Middle ground. Last seen several months ago. Description: Temperatures of medium build, 60-65 degrees, with clouds that weigh about 2-3 days' worth of rain a week.

Once again, Seattle is locked into a weather pattern that features either a stretch of cool, wet weather or a period of warm, dry weather, with nary a mixture of the two in between.

Friday's sunshine with temperatures rising well into the 70s, if not low 80s in some spots, is extending an all-time record spanning almost 120 years of Seattle history: The first 10 days of May are going to finish warmer than 65 degrees with zero rain in the rain gauge.* The old record for both zero rain to start a month and have all days 65 degrees highs or warmer was eight.
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