No pun intended. As anybody who has read my blogs from last week knows, the West exists in a dire stage of historic drought. Dry season is deepening across the …

Heat is pervasive, searing, angry. It swells and crashes over us like waves, smothering and suffocating and crushing. If cold is a knife, heat is a hammer. This week, from …

It’s amazing what two months of a persistent atmospheric pattern can do in an environment as fragile as the West’s. In 2017, two months of repetitive, fanning atmospheric river events …

A significant round of thunderstorms capable of producing highly damaging winds, large to giant hail, and scattered tornadoes will be possible across the northern Plains this evening. A synoptic-scale environment …