precipitation is less than in western Washington. In the interior valleys, wind velocities can be expected NIDIS is a multi-agency partnership that coordinates drought monitoring, forecasting, planning, and information at national, state, and local levels across the country. Palouse Hills. The background color fills indicate the azimuth (the compass bearing) of the sun. 4,000 feet minimum temperatures occasionally drop below freezing in While having the tremendous advantages of temporal and spatial completeness, these reconstructions: (1) are based on computer models that may have model-based errors, (2) are coarsely sampled on a 50 km grid and are therefore unable to reconstruct the local variations of many microclimates, and (3) have particular difficulty with the weather in some coastal areas, especially small islands. Friendship Heights Village this area. Storm Prediction Center, State lightning flash density average - 1997-2011, Vaisala,