By Nic Loyd, WSU meteorologist, and Linda Weiford, WSU News Three remarkable calendar events unfolded this past weekend — the season’s first snow, a Hunter’s Moon and the end of daylight saving time.
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – Damage caused by snow mold in some eastern Washington wheat fields has surprised a Washington State University plant expert who has studied the fungus for nearly four decades.
By Nic Loyd, WSU meteorologist, and Linda Weiford, WSU News SPOKANE, Wash. – If there’s one thing this winter has demonstrated, it’s that the weather can still turn very cold and snowy in our region.
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – The frigid temperatures, blowing and drifting snow responsible for school delays and road closures in the eastern half of Washington state “is like something you’d see in the Dakotas – not here,” said meteorologist Nic Loyd of Washington State University’s AgWeatherNet.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Photos of the first significant snowfall of the season were taken Tuesday morning at Washington State University Pullman by Dean Hare, WSU Photo Services.
By Seth Truscott, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences DAVENPORT, Wash. – Along a blustery rural highway, foresters from Washington State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are proving that living snow fences – windbreaks made of live trees – can protect Northwest roads and farms from winter’s fury.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Snow brought beauty and slow, treacherous travel to Washington State University Wednesday. More snow and freezing rain are forecast for the Pullman area from noon Thursday through Friday night, according to the National Weather Service in Spokane, Wash.
By Nic Loyd, WSU meteorologist, and Linda Weiford, WSU News SPOKANE, Wash. – Dreaming of a white Christmas? With only a week to go, whether the Inland Northwest still will have snow on the ground is literally up in the air.
PULLMAN, Wash. – It just so happens that when I looked out the window, everything was covered in glittering snow. I watched it fall from the sky and wondered how exactly it formed, too.
By Rebecca Phillips, University Communications PULLMAN, Wash. – Ice-free pavement. “Smart snowplows.” Vegetable juice ice-melt. Cold-climate researchers at Washington State University are clearing the road with green alternatives to the salt, sand and chemicals typically used for highway snow and ice control.