On Dec. 3, I’ll mark 35 years of writing this weather column for The Columbian — a sentence that still surprises me when I put it on paper. When I filed my very first column back in December of 1990, ...

The pre-dawn weather alert and forecast Sunday caught me off guard. The official forecast labeled the day as “dull and dreary.” I should be grateful the meteorologists didn’t add “dismal” into their ...