Posted on 01/14/2021 7:56:21 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
An exceptional atmospheric river rated Category 5 (AR 5) is soaking the Pacific Northwest, bringing flooding rain and strong winds in parts of coastal Oregon and Washington, where up to 8 600 customers were left without power on Tuesday, January 12, 2021. Threats of flooding, mudslides, and avalanches continue into Wednesday morning, January 13, before the moisture flow heads offshore and dissipates.
In Oregon, Portland General Electric reported more than 5 000 customers lost electricity on Tuesday night, while 3 600 were without power in Multnomah County during the severe weather's onslaught. The atmospheric river was classified as Category 5 (on a scale of 1 - 5) by the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes.
"Rain gauges have reported 6-hour rainfall totals between 38 and 51 mm (1.5 and 2 inches) across the higher terrain," wrote the National Weather Service (NWS) in Portland.
The minimum security facility at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville also lost power and was running on a generator, according to a spokesperson for the Oregon Department of Corrections.
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Well cry me an atmospheric river!
Hope it shifts south and dumps a whole lot of snow in the mountains.
Typical PNW winter. Rained harder than a horse tinkling on a ceee-ment slab.
It’s called WINTER in Oregon. ..sheesh
Can it be aimed somehow to take out the BLM/Antifa scum??
atmospheric river
This is incompetency all the way. Because they are not competent in their job they think they are cute by their verbiage.
If it would cleanse the leftist and commies out of our respective states it would be wonderful.
This has been the wettest recorded start to a new year in Western Washington. During the wind storm the night before last... for the first time in 25 years the power went out to all the areas surrounding us, but our street stayed up. I am not even sure how that was possible.
Yesterday morning there were lines at the gas stations that we usually go to caused by people filling up containers for their generators. After having to use the the generator for a day or two every few weeks years ago... I designed an adapter for our generator that I printed with my 3-d printer which controls a regulator I paid $80 for that allows it to run it on natural gas. Natural gas typically costs a third of what gasoline does to keep a generator running.
Now when the power goes out I flick a couple switches and start the generator up. I have a buzzer that goes off when the power comes back on. The generator is 30 years old and makes quite a bit of noise so it is always a relief when the power comes back on. We have had our power off for several days on multiple occassions over the years. Everyone we live near has a generator and most of them are hooked up to natural gas.
If you are someone who spends a lot of time outside in the winter around here this has not been typical. It is the wettest start of a year on record. I have been working outside trying to fix up an old house to sell. This has been a serious hindrance.
Typical January “rain” around here is drizzle 12 hours a day 5 days out of 7. Somewhat depressing at times with the short days this time of the year but nothing that keeps those of us who are native to the region indoors. The last two weeks it has been heavy rain almost every day along with several very windy days.
I am so glad that this morning it is calm and not raining. I have some repairs to take care of before it gets wet again. I will be outside with some tar, roofing, sheet metal, snips, a hammer, drill, nails and screws. We are suppose to be coming into a more normal pattern, except that we have snow predicted next week.
Yeah, I was one of those with a power outage the other night. Power was down only three hours this time, though.
The outage after the high, hot, dry wind in August lasted 30 hours, so this wasn’t much. No forest or grass fires everywhere, either.
So “atmospheric rivers” now have a Category 1-5 scale?
When are they going to start naming “atmospheric rivers”?
Atmospheric River Tombigbee
Atmospheric River Housatonic
Atmospheric River Androscoggin
Atmospheric River Kennebec
Atmospheric River Penobscot
Atmospheric River Athabasca
Atmospheric River Hackensack
Atmospheric River Hiwassee
I am not sure where these guys are getting their info... The National Weather Service reported that we had over 550,000 people out of power in Western Washington the night before last. We have received 20% of the total amount of rain that we normally get in the entire year in the last two weeks.
Remember when it was just called “Weather”?
So what's the generator running on I wonder.......
Had winds over 50 mph South of Metro-Denver last night.
Yet another new term used to cause panic and despair.........
Will it wash the crap off the sidewalk in Sanfransicko? and clean the ‘homeless’?
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