Northeast winds to peak this afternoon - Fri, 25 May 2012 PST
25 May 2012, 1:06 pm
National Weather Service forecasters said gusty northeast winds should peak this afternoon, and they cautioned campers in the region to take precautions against potentially damaging gusts.

Weather: Chance of storms, but a sunny and hot weekend
25 May 2012, 10:25 am
Today: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 90. Heat index values as high as 95. East southeast wind between 9 and 14 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 70. South ...

More than 600 lose power to Thursday gusts
24 May 2012, 10:51 pm
Ed Carlson doesn’t have access to an anemometer, but he didn’t need one to know that Thursday was a windy, windy day in Columbia County.

Olympia baseball withstands gusts to win sectional semifinal
24 May 2012, 9:08 pm
CLINTON — Olympia High School right fielder Dylan Zindel would be the first to testify from personal experience that there was no such thing as an easy out on a fly ball in Thursday’s Class 2A Clinton Baseball Sectional semifinal game, a 6-1 Olympia win over Champaign St. Thomas More.

Inland NW winds Friday could bring isolated damage - Thu, 24 May 2012 PST
24 May 2012, 12:10 pm
The Memorial Day holiday weekend is expected to kick off with an unusual wind storm out of the northeast on Friday morning, which could bring damaging gusts to narrow valleys near mountains north and northeast of Spokane, forecasters said today.

gusts threaten low scores at Colonial for first time in decade
23 May 2012, 11:04 pm
As the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial gets under way, the forecast calls for winds gusting to 25-30 mph throughout the weekend.

Howling gusts suspend play at Firekeeper
23 May 2012, 6:57 pm
MAYETTA - Wind can, indeed, halt a golf tournament. Once gusts howled to more than 50 mph Wednesday, the second round of the Firekeeper Tradition was suspended around 4 p.m. Second-round play in the Golfweek National Pro Tour event will resume at 8 a.

Wind, copper theft knock out power
23 May 2012, 6:15 pm
gusts of wind and a large copper theft were to blame Wednesday evening for about 3,700 power outages across the capital city and Shawnee County. Officials estimate the monetary damage to a Westar Energy substation struck by copper thieves at $300,000.

Weather: Sunny, getting warmer
23 May 2012, 8:29 am
Today: Sunny, with a high near 87. South wind between 13 and 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 65. South southeast wind between 14 and 16 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 89. Breezy, with a south wind between 14 and 20 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.

Colorado wildfire grows amid erratic wind gusts
18 May 2012, 2:38 am
Hundreds of firefighters worked Thursday to combat a growing blaze that was scorching terrain around a scenic canyon in northern Colorado.