2023 had the warmest December on record for Sea-Tac, Olympia, and Quillayute, with mean daily average temperatures of 45.5°F (7.5°C) in Seattle and Olympia, and 48.0°F (8.9°C) in Quillayute. Graphic: NWS Seattle By Lauren Girgis 4 January 2024 (Seattle Times)...
By Laura Betz, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center11 June 2012 Fires burning in Siberia recently sent smoke across the Pacific Ocean and into the U.S. and Canada. Images of data taken by the nation’s newest Earth-observing satellite tracked aerosols from...
By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com12 May 2011 While record crests of the Mississippi River are creating havoc in the southern US, this is not the only region in the world facing unprecedented flooding. Huge rain events have produced floods in southern...
