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Thursday night, we will start to see improvements on the wind side of things but with clearer skies and northwest breezes, temps crash hard back into the teens for the lowlands, mountains will ...
Winds along the shorelines and even over the open ocean are projected to peak on Friday as the initial Wet weekend: Storm to hammer Northwest with rounds of rain, gusty winds and even some snow ...
As of late Thursday night, 2.18 inches of rain has fallen on Astoria, Oregon, with 3.48 inches drenching Quillayute, Washington, from the storms so far this week. Seattle-Tacoma International ...
“Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” is real science. Here’s how dust, atmospheric pressure and light scattering can help you predict the weather.
Pacific Northwest windstorms, sometimes colloquially known as Big Blows, [1] are extratropical cyclones which form in the Pacific basin, and affect land areas in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and British Columbia, Canada. They form as cyclonic windstorms associated with areas of low atmospheric pressure that track across the North ...
Communities along the Washington and Oregon coastline observed upwards of 2-4 inches of rain from Saturday into Sunday night as the first storm advanced into the region.
Tramontane (/ t r ə ˈ m ɒ n t eɪ n / trə-MON-tayn) [a] is a classical name for a northern wind. The exact form of the name and precise direction varies from country to country. The word came to English from Italian tramontana, which developed from Latin trānsmontānus (trāns-+ montānus), "beyond/across the mountains", [1] [2] [3] referring to the Alps in the North of Italy.
The National Weather Service issues a similar high wind warning (Specific Area Message Encoding code: HWW) for high winds on land. The criteria vary from place to place; however, in most cases, the warning applies to winds of 40 miles per hour (64 km/h) to 73 miles per hour (117 km/h) for at least 1 hour; or any gusts of 58 miles per hour (93 km/h) to 114 miles per hour (183 km/h) on land.