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Winds gusted as high as 85 mph in Oregon and 101 mph were reported off the coast of Vancouver Island Tuesday. The storm dropped to a pressure of 27.82 inches of mercury (942 mb), likely the ...
(Reuters) -A second powerful wind storm, called a "bomb cyclone," will hit the U.S. Pacific Northwest by Thursday evening, even as hundreds of thousands of people remain without power from the ...
The storm weakened as it traveled north into British Columbia, with peak gusts measured at 90 miles per hour (140 km/h). [19] Five people in British Columbia were killed in the storm, [20] and the area suffered $80 million in damages. [21] Stanley Park lost 3,000 trees. A Victoria resident described it as "Just general devastation everywhere ...
The storms were caused by an Aleutian Low's steering current, which allowed low pressure areas from the central subtropics of the North Pacific Ocean to track northeast and near areas of British Columbia, sometimes bringing more than 100 mm (4 in) of rain from each low.
Windy conditions in British Columbia prompted authorities to order evacuations through the Okanagan region and surrounding areas on Sunday, August 15, as wildfires grew in size.Wind gusts reached ...
Hanukkah Eve windstorm of 2006 off the Washington Coast on December 15, 2006, at 2:00 UTC.. 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.
[10] [11] The storm underwent bombogenesis, rapidly dropping its central pressure [12] to a record-tying level of 942 millibars (27.8 inHg). [10] This storm was the first of two storm systems to impact the U.S. West Coast during a 3 day period. The storm was associated with an atmospheric river that dropped large amounts of rain in Oregon and ...
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