Mark Ingalls

The cover photo was taken by Dennis Brown during Saturday morning’s storm. Thanks for sharing, Dennis! Information in this post is accurate as of 8:00 am PDT Saturday.

The Storm Prediction Center has upgraded […]

Monday’s storm over the Columbia Basin produced plenty of lightning and heavy rain. Hermiston recorded 0.51″, the Southridge area of Kennewick had 0.58″, and I even received a report from Beck Road south of […]

On Saturday, the National Hurricane Center started issuing advisories on a new tropical depression that formed to the east of Florida. Early Sunday morning it was upgraded to a tropical storm, earning the name […]

There is a chance of showers for the Tri-Cities in place through Wednesday thanks to a deep low pressure system that is lazily moving across the Western United States. Rain chances drop off significantly Sunday […]

The Storm Prediction Center has placed parts of the region under a marginal risk for severe thunderstorms on Sunday. For the Columbia Basin, this includes areas that are along and east of a line stretching from […]

This blog post is a response to the following question, which I received over on my Facebook page – Tri-Cities Weather:
Mark, I remember all the Easters here in the Tri Cities as being WINDY and COOL. Never […]

This post focuses on tornado statistics in the Tri-Cities and Columbia Basin. For specific details about the Richland tornado that happened on March 31, head over to this AgWeatherNet article that I contributed […]

A ridge of high pressure in place over the region is providing pleasant weather conditions for the second half of this week. Wednesday will probably be the day with the most clouds. This is thanks to northwest […]

Sunday’s wind storm certainly lived up to expectations and in some cases even exceeded them. As usual, Rattlesnake Mountain brought home the prize for highest wind gust – 82 mph. People rarely go up there, though, […]

As the storm system I blogged about yesterday continues to approach, the National Weather Service issued a wind advisory for our area. Not much has changed in the forecast (except a slightly lower chance of rain), […]

Recent snowfall in Washington’s mountains has brought the amount of snow up there to near-normal values for this time of year. Some of this snow even caused the record-setting flood event seen Walla Walla and […]

The weather was fantastic this week across the entire Pacific Northwest! Sunny skies were the name of the game for the entire region – including both Seattle and Portland who had their first sunny days this year! […]

It felt like for a while earlier this month almost every single day was windy, but then it finally let up. Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the wind is coming back! Of course, the wind isn’t all that […]

Yes that’s right, we have a chance of snow in the Tri-Cities. The big weather story this week, though, will be cold temperatures. There’s been a lot of uncertainty surrounding what to expect this week, but it […]

It seems like every day for the past week has been breezy. This is thanks to repeated weather systems that have crossed over the Pacific Northwest every 24-36 hours for the last several days. While these haven’t […]

A cold front will move across the Pacific Northwest tonight, bringing a chance of rain showers. After it passes, we should see clearing skies here in the Tri-Cities and slightly cooler temperatures, but the […]

The average high for the start of January is right around 40°, with the low being about 28°. We can expect high temperatures to slowly decrease toward Sunday, starting off in the mid-50s and ending in the u […]

They say hindsight is always 2020. Well, since it is now 2020, let’s take advantage of it to take a look back at 2019! These weather events won’t necessarily be the most damaging, but they are the ones that caught […]

A change of weather pattern is coming to the Pacific Northwest with a series of wet weather systems. This will bring a consistent chance of rain through Sunday, with the best chance being Thursday afternoon and […]