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'Summer school': Learn how to forecast summer weather
Sep 2, 2010 at 11:00 AM PDT
Balance is restored to the universe, thanks to a green hydro
Aug 30, 2010 at 6:11 AM PDT
Twilight comes to the South Pole (non-vampire version)
Aug 30, 2010 at 5:50 AM PDT
Northeast sets record for hottest summer. Seattle? Not so much...
Aug 28, 2010 at 11:59 PM PDT
Something was in the air at the coast last weekend
Aug 27, 2010 at 9:35 PM PDT
Cool video and cute baby alert!
Aug 26, 2010 at 11:24 PM PDT
Mars as big as the full moon? Bzzzzt....
Aug 25, 2010 at 7:25 PM PDT
The one National Weather Service warning we'd all like to see
Aug 24, 2010 at 12:00 PM PDT
If ever a storm needed a Jaws soundtrack...
Aug 23, 2010 at 12:00 PM PDT
Umm, yeah, I think it's time to put the tarp out...
Aug 21, 2010 at 7:04 AM PDT
Awesome video of meteor shower above Mt. Rainier and aurora from space
Aug 20, 2010 at 11:27 PM PDT
Not your ordinary weather satellite image
Aug 19, 2010 at 12:21 AM PDT
Seattle breaks two all-time heat records Monday
Aug 17, 2010 at 12:30 AM PDT
Do some Sea-Tac Airport observations need an asterisk?
Aug 16, 2010 at 6:48 PM PDT
How hot might it get? Play along at home
Aug 15, 2010 at 6:27 PM PDT
Why we harp not to leave kids, pets in the car on hot days
Aug 15, 2010 at 4:50 PM PDT
How often does it get hot around here?
Aug 13, 2010 at 12:00 PM PDT
Stellar viewing conditions for Perseid meteor shower
Aug 11, 2010 at 12:00 PM PDT
Why has it been so foggy this summer?
Aug 10, 2010 at 12:00 PM PDT
Just how windy is it down south?
Aug 9, 2010 at 10:00 AM PDT
Pictures frrooom spaaaace!
Aug 6, 2010 at 9:36 PM PDT
Skiers rejoice -- La Nina is here!
Aug 5, 2010 at 6:38 PM PDT
Northern Lights, take two?
Aug 4, 2010 at 4:25 PM PDT
Solar eruptions mean be alert for Northern Lights tonight
Aug 3, 2010 at 6:40 PM PDT
Photo gallery of smoky sunlight over Seattle
Aug 2, 2010 at 7:49 PM PDT
What's with the weird sky color Sunday?
Aug 1, 2010 at 9:55 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.

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.

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

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."

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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