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Seattle, now the nation's ice box?
May 28, 2010 at 7:45 AM PDT
How windy is it in Ocean Shores? Now we know...
May 27, 2010 at 8:34 PM PDT
NOAA: Expect a busy Atlantic hurricane season
May 27, 2010 at 6:02 PM PDT
Olympia -- Western Washington's shower magnet
May 26, 2010 at 9:59 PM PDT
75 degrees -- rarer than the Loch Ness Monster
May 25, 2010 at 9:00 AM PDT
"May Not" -- A poem about our rainy month
May 24, 2010 at 8:53 PM PDT
Mississippi River: One indecisive body of water!
May 24, 2010 at 8:44 PM PDT
A "showers and sunbreaks" mix of blog topics
May 21, 2010 at 8:22 PM PDT
Now that's a calm before a storm...
May 19, 2010 at 7:47 PM PDT
Incredible video of hail storm in Oklahoma
May 18, 2010 at 8:34 PM PDT
A double sun halo like you've probably never seen before
May 17, 2010 at 6:44 AM PDT
There's exclusive clubs, then there's the South Pole's "300 Club"
May 14, 2010 at 9:00 AM PDT
Ribbon of colors over California
May 13, 2010 at 8:18 PM PDT
What did the sun get for Mother's Day? A new ring
May 11, 2010 at 12:14 AM PDT
What to do when you see 'FC+'? Run for cover!
May 10, 2010 at 11:17 PM PDT
The clouds, they were a bubblin'
May 10, 2010 at 11:01 PM PDT
Be in awe of Mother Nature, Part 2
May 8, 2010 at 6:23 AM PDT
Ding! Dong! El Nino's (almost) dead
May 6, 2010 at 9:10 PM PDT
A chance to be in awe of Mother Nature
May 5, 2010 at 3:59 PM PDT
Mother Nature doodling? Nah, just a few ships
May 4, 2010 at 1:00 PM PDT
Nashville breaks monthly rainfall record -- in two days!
May 3, 2010 at 4:10 PM PDT

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Weather (New) ''Baked Alaska'': 90-95° temps shatter all-time records

By Scott Sistek Published: Jun 17, 2013 at 11:00 PM PDT Last Updated: Jun 17, 2013 at 11:19 PM PDT

Many people head to Alaska to visit the snow-capped mountains and awe-inspiring glaciers.

Monday, sitting on a glacier might not have been a bad idea.

A major ridge of high pressure brought intense heat to south-central Alaska with four towns experiencing heat never before felt in their record-keeping history.

Weather For 2nd month in a row, Seattle sets obscure all-time weather record

By Scott Sistek Published: Jun 17, 2013 at 11:10 AM PDT

For the second month in a row, Seattle has managed to set an obscure, but all-time weather record. And once again, it goes with the prevailing theme of super nice weather to begin a month, then paying for it as the month draws to a close.

In May, it was the first 11 days with zero rain and being warmer than 65 degrees.

This month, the first 14 days of June have had high temperatures of 68 degrees or warmer -- the first time that's ever happened in the 68 years of Sea-Tac Airport records, according to meteorologist Jason Phelps. That record has since been stretched to 16 days with a chance of the 17th coming Monday.

Weather Photos: Rainbow halos galore around the Puget Sound region Saturday (Photo Gallery)

By Scott Sistek Published: Jun 15, 2013 at 1:51 PM PDT Last Updated: Jun 16, 2013 at 9:24 PM PDT

You've all seen rainbows on those days where it's raining and the sun's out at the same time. But what about those times when you see a rainbow-like halo around the sun or moon?

It's the same physics, really. The halos (or, sometimes known as "sundogs" around the sun) are usually seen when there are high cirrus clouds overhead.

Those clouds are made of tiny ice crystals, which will refract the sunlight much like a prism will and voila! You have a rainbow halo around the sun.

Weather Northern Lights video shows Seattle is perhaps too bright at night?

By Scott Sistek Published: Jun 14, 2013 at 6:44 AM PDT Last Updated: Jun 14, 2013 at 11:18 AM PDT

Don Jensen had a neat idea when the Northern Lights came out in early June: Use Mt. Rainier as a tall dividing line to showcase how the city lights of the Seattle metro area can interfere with viewing the aurora.

But more than that, Jensen wondered if our city really needs to be so bright.

His 17-second video was captured the night of June 6 into the morning of June 7 and shows roughly four hours of night activity over our tallest volcano.

Weather Northwest a refuge for a sweltering nation this summer?

By Scott Sistek Published: Jun 13, 2013 at 7:26 AM PDT Last Updated: Jun 13, 2013 at 1:12 PM PDT

While it's been fairly pleasant around here this spring, summer-like weather has already been well under way in many other parts of the nation.

Denver hit 100 degrees on June 11 -- the earliest 100 degree on record there... by three days! Atlanta hit their inaugural 90 this week, Minneapolis hit 98 in May, parts of Oklahoma are at 100, Livermore, California has already notched 107, Phoenix has been over 108 for a week, and Death Valley has already been over 120!

Back here, we flirted with the upper 80s on one day and have touched 80 on a handful of others, but otherwise, it's been downright comfortable with most days 65-75.

Could that be the building theme of the upcoming summer? Could the Northwest be the refuge from another searing hot summer across the rest of the United States?

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