North Central Washington

A spike in local wildfires in the past week has not produced a lot of smoke as they've been put out quickly.

So, what do we do to keep the pesky Mosquitos away?! That answer is best fitted to your lifestyle, but! I did find the best Bug repellants for you to choose so you may get back to enjoying the great North Central Washington summer days!

Unusually warm weather led to an early melt-off of snow, and the ground is drying out more quickly than normal because of continued above normal temperatures.

Meteorologist Steve Van Horn with the National Weather Service says the atmosphere is conducive for the possibility of wet, slow-moving thunderstorms today.

National Weather Service Meteorologist Steve Bodnar says the chance for fires here is much lower, even with incoming hot weather.

The Wenatchee area as well as North Central Washington and the entire Northwest is about to see really hot weather, with temperatures at 20 degrees above normal by the weekend. National Weather Service meteorologist Steve Bodnar says the weather pattern is coming from an area of very strong high pressure...

"We have a weather system coming in from the northern Pacific," said National Weather Service Meteorologist Daniel Butler.

In many people's minds, there's nothing quite as American as baseball, expect apple pie perhaps! And speaking of baseball and apples, those two things also go together in a most interesting way right here in North Central Washington. Now our part of the state hasn't produced nearly as many major league baseball players as the big cities on the Westside, but NCW does have a handful it proudly lays

National Weather Service meteorologist Valerie Thaler says a changing weather pattern is leading to the warmup.

With plenty of party sunny skies with passing April showers in the weather forecast for the days ahead, conditions are shaping up to be perfectly ripe for a little rainbow hunting! Now more often than not, rainbows aren't really something we can search down; the vast majority of them simply appear before our eyes from seemingly out of nowhere...