On Dec. 3, I’ll mark 35 years of writing this weather column for The Columbian — a sentence that still surprises me when I put it on paper. When I filed my very first column back in December of 1990, ...

Given how dry and hot our summers are out here in the Pacific Northwest, especially east of the Cascades, our plantlife (or “fuels,” to use a more technical term in the wildfire fighting community) ...

With autumn officially underway, days of smoke and haze obscuring the mountains will quickly become but a memory. Cooler temperatures and more frequent rain showers will slowly erode the last of any ...