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    Cyclists brave a light rain for a gray skyline view along Harbor Avenue in West Seattle, Sunday September 12, 2021.
    September 15, 2021 at 6:00 am

    ‘Notable shift to autumn,’ headed Seattle’s way, could spell end for wildfire risk in Western Washington

    The forecast calls for two to four inches of rain in the mountains of Western Washington and about an inch near Puget Sound. “It could...

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    A combine transfers wheat into a grain truck, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, near Pullman, Wash. Across eastern Washington, a drought the National Weather Service classified as “exceptional” has devastated what is normally the fourth largest wheat crop in the nation. WATW201
    September 6, 2021 at 6:00 am

    Drought hit Washington hard and fast. Here’s what it has meant for farmers, wildfires

    The summer's extreme heat wave "squeezed out the sponge" and set up a historic drought in Washington state. Here's how farmers, well watchers and wildland...

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    • Wildfires
    Michelle Flandreau climbs toward Mount Blum during a four-day traverse in the North Cascades. Bare glacial ice can be seen in the background. (Evan Bush)

It’s been a strange season for Washington’s fast-shrinking glaciers 
https://www.seattletimes.com/?p=14119210
    September 5, 2021 at 6:00 am

    In North Cascades, researchers, climbers watch Washington’s snowpack quickly melt, exposing glaciers’ retreat VIEW

    It was a strange season in the Cascade Mountains, with bare ice, historic heat and raging streams. But summer isn't over and the impacts can't...

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    A person hauls jugs of water to their encampment after filling them up in Jefferson Park as wildfire smoke and haze hang over the region during a heat wave, with temperatures in the 90’s in Seattle Friday, August 13, 2021. 217944
    August 27, 2021 at 6:00 am

    Wildfire smoke exposure linked to preterm births, study says

    A study of more than 3 million births in California showed wildfire smoke could be connected to 3.7% of all preterm births from 2007-2012 --...

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    Friday, August 13, 2021.   A kayaker takes in a smokey morning sunrise on Lake Washington off Magnuson Park with a smokey Kirkland in the distance.    217928
    August 13, 2021 at 3:49 pm

    Local officials fret about 'perfect storm' of heat, smoke and COVID VIEW

    As the heat and smoke settled in across the Puget Sound region, COVID-19 cases continued to spike to levels not seen since the winter surge....

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    Firefighters battling the Dixie Fire clear Highway 89 after a burned tree fell across the roadway in Plumas County, Calif., on Friday, Aug. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) CANB115 CANB115
    August 9, 2021 at 4:44 am

    Shrinking glaciers, extreme heat waves, worsening droughts: What the landmark climate report means for Western U.S., Seattle

    The implications that the United Nations panel's report have for the Pacific Northwest are myriad, and they foretell a landscape and ecology forever shifted.

    • Local News
    August 8, 2021 at 11:54 pm

    Seattle Fire divers retrieve man who reportedly jumped from barge into ship canal

    Rescue crews earlier on Sunday searched for a missing paddleboarder in a different section of the ship canal.

    • Local News
    A paddleboarder, believed to be a 46-year-old woman, went missing Sunday afternoon. People on shore called 911 after seeing a paddleboarder fall into the water and never resurface in the Lake Washington Ship Canal just west of the Hiram M. Chittenden locks and Salmon Bay Bridge. Rescue swimmers, divers and a boat crew did not find anyone after an hour of searching.
    August 8, 2021 at 7:49 pm

    Missing paddleboarder prompts search by Seattle Fire Department

    A paddleboarder reportedly fell into the Lake Washington Ship Canal and did not resurface, according to the Seattle Fire Department. The department sent two rescue...

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    Naturalist Jeff Brown releases a fledgling Cooper’s hawk in a Northeast Seattle neighborhood Wednesday, July 21, 2021. The bird likely jumped out of its nest during the heat wave in late June and was rescued by PAWS. 217695
    July 28, 2021 at 6:00 am

    Birds jumped from their nests to escape Seattle’s June heat wave. Some died. Others needed help. VIEW

    Patient #2021-2732, a Cooper's hawk, was one of hundreds that came tumbling down during last month's heat wave, which on June 28 sent Seattle temperatures...

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    FILE – In this Tuesday, June 29, 2021 file photo, firefighters Sean Condon, left and Lt. Gabe Mills, assigned to the Alternative Response Unit of of Station 1, check on the welfare of a man in Mission Park in Spokane, Wash. The special fire unit, which responds to low priority calls, has been kept busy during this week’s heatwave. (Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review via AP) WASPO773 WASPO773
    July 18, 2021 at 6:00 am

    Other regions have specific plans for heat waves. Experts say Seattle, Puget Sound cities need them too

    Seattle did not have a specific plan for heat response, only two of its community centers have air conditioning and only 20% of its public...

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