So far, there has been no impact on monitoring. But the potential is there if the limitations at the federal level continue.

A pair of storms pummeling the Pacific Northwest threaten flooding, avalanches and 'sting jets' – intense and destructive low-level winds.

The first round of firings started Thursday at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a government agency that monitors and predicts weather, climate, oceans, and coasts.

The third powerful atmospheric river storm to impact the Pacific Northwest since the end of last week blasted portions of Washington and Oregon with hurricane-force wind gusts and torrential rain that led to widespread power outages,

The Trump administration layoffs are hitting engineers and researchers at PNNL, Hanford, NOAA, the Bonneville Power Administration and elsewhere.

This winter has been an emotional rollercoaster for skiers in the Pacific Northwest. After what powderhounds dubbed “Dry January,” an atmospheric river just crowned Washington ski resorts the “snowiest in North America,

The system already brought strong winds and several inches of rain to parts of the West Coast and triggered power outages.

The lawsuit alleges the Department of Natural Resources' rulemaking process was “predetermined and inadequate."

National Weather Service forecasts suggest that through the weekend, about 1 to 3 inches of rain will fall around the coast, including around 2 inches for Seattle.

A series of Pacific weather systems delivered 2-4 inches of rain across the coast and much of Western's interior this weekend.

Warm air from Arizona, California, and Nevada has settled over the Pacific Northwest and will help push high temperatures into the mid and upper 60s. “We haven’t seen 65 degrees, 66 degrees since last October,” Storm Tracker 2 Meteorologist Rhonda Shelby said. “We have a real shot at it later today.”