The following is an excerpt from a recent article on the Weather West Blog.  California's extraordinary precipitation dipole has persisted into mid-Feb with only slight attenuation Well, it has ...

Deschutes County won’t join others that have asked the state to walk back its map assigning a wildfire hazard level to every ...

The heaviest rain slammed into the region Thursday night into early Friday morning, triggering flash floods and mudslides ...

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A ridge is strengthening along the south coast and will extend further east during Friday as a high moves south of the State. A trough will form near the west coast on the weekend. Partly cloudy.