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In December 2023, an atmospheric river caused flooding in the Pacific Northwest. [1] Rainfall and temperature records were set in the U.S. state of Washington. [2] Two deaths have been attributed to this flood. [3] One person died in Portland. [4]
Bretz's Flood: The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood. Seattle, Wa.: Sasquatch Books. ISBN 978-1-57061-505-4. Alt, David (2001) Glacial Lake Missoula and Its Humongous Floods (Mountain Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0878424153). Norman B. Smyers and Roy M. Breckenridge (2003).
The Channeled Scablands are a relatively barren and soil-free region of interconnected relict and dry flood channels, coulees and cataracts eroded into Palouse loess and the typically flat-lying basalt flows that remain after cataclysmic floods within the southeastern part of Washington state.
Terrestrial rivers overflowed their banks in northwestern Oregon and throughout Washington, according to the US National Weather Service (NWS), with flood multiple flood warnings still in place as ...
The current weather pattern resembles that which caused disasters in 2020 and 2021. Flood fears rising as atmospheric river of storms line up to hit Whatcom County Skip to main content
Beginning the evening of Saturday, Dec. 2, a Flood Watch issued by the National Weather Service will go into effect for the Chehalis, Newaukum and Cowlitz rivers. "We are going to see a lot of ...
According to a Flood Watch for Western Washington issued by the weather service, Monday and Tuesday will see "excessive rainfall," due to an atmospheric river. An atmospheric river is a ...
Before the system impacted the region, the National Weather Service issued flood warnings for multiple rivers. [4] In parts of the Washington Cascades, over 15 inches (380 mm) inches of water-equivalent precipitation was observed, with over 10 inches (250 mm) on the west slopes of the Blue Mountains. [5]