With fires burning in southern California and no rain in sight for the fire zone, forecasters are keeping a close eye on just how much rain we are getting here

Its delayed arrival may have been influenced by the world's oceans being much warmer the last few years, said Michelle L'Heureux, head of NOAA's El Nino team ... The Hearst Foundations has awarded Washington State University with a $150,000 grant.

A La Niña winter just started, but it isn't expected to last long. National forecasters are already looking ahead to the spring season.

A mother killer whale whose calf died more than two weeks ago has recently been spotted still carrying the newborn's carcass in waters off Victoria.

As the female orca known as Tahlequah once again carries the body of a dead calf through waters near Vancouver Island, for the second time in seven years, researcher Barbara J. King says there's no mistaking the nature of the phenomenon.

Mother orca Tahlequah has been carrying her dead calf, a daughter, for at least 11 days, according to local news outlets. Tahlequah first made headlines in 2018 after taking a different dead calf on a 'tour of grief,

A La Niña winter just started, but it isn't expected to last long. National forecasters are already looking ahead to the spring season.

NOAA map shows when the average coldest day of the year typically occurs in the United States: From the Northern Plains to the Midwest, Southeast and Northeast, the last two weeks of January are typically the coldest time of year. Only some parts of northern Michigan typically are coldest after Feb. 1.

Indiana is set to experience some of the season's coldest weather since the start of winter. How schools decide when to delay or cancel classes.

The fires raging in Southern California have released far more carbon dioxide than all of the state’s climate policies have reduced over the last 20 years. California was concerned with putting solar panels on 2 million houses and closing coal,

Federal agencies say DOT plan for Machias dike likely to have “significant adverse effects” on fish, marsh. Even as a sprawling new multi-town collaboration embarks on a journey to reach consensus around a Machias dike replacement, a federal environmental agency has put up roadblocks to any option other than a bridge.

Victoria receives an average of 661 mm of rain annually, compared with 1,426 mm in Sooke and 1,537 mm in Vancouver