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Slipping into the shadow

2:33 PM Wed, Feb 20, 2008 |
KGW Meteorologist Joe Michaels

For anyone out there who enjoys a good skyshow, you'll be in luck later tonight. A total lunar eclipse will happen this evening!

What is a total lunar eclipse? It's a bit tricky, but I'll try to explain it. Think of three different balls - one large, one medium, and one small. The large ball is the sun, the medium ball is the Earth, and the small ball is the moon. The light from the large ball, the sun, shines onto the Earth, the ...



More Melting in the Northwest

4:46 PM Tue, Nov 06, 2007 |
KGW Meteorologist Joe Michaels

My story today – about climate change and Mt. Hood’s glaciers – is a story that needs to be told. Mt Hood's shrinking glaciers are just a symptom of a much larger problem.

For more than two decades the debate over climate change and global warming has raged. Is global warming happening? If it is happening, are people to blame? Questions like these have swirled about the scientific community for years, often with murky or inconclusi...



Lucky the elk...not so lucky?

6:29 PM Wed, Jul 25, 2007 |
KGW Meteorologist Joe Michaels

Tonight we aired a story about an elk named Lucky. He was raised by a family...and their dogs...after he was abandoned. Even though that family had good intentions, the result has been a bit disheartening. You can see a picture of this beautiful animal below.
lucky_the_elk.jpg


I went out to Bev Johnson's ranch in T...