Posted on 12/22/2022 11:58:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
An arctic blast that has sent the Pacific Northwest into the ice box is about to mix with a strong Pacific storm later Thursday and Friday, bringing a recipe for a significant ice storm across northwestern Oregon and western Washington, including Portland and the Willamette Valley, and Seattle and the Puget Sound region, threatening to grind holiday travel to a halt and knock out power to thousands.
Winter storm warnings are in effect across much of the coastal Pacific Northwest, including the greater Portland and Seattle areas for a myriad of winter woes.
For the Portland area, freezing rain accretions are expected to reach 0.2 to 0.4 inches, wind gusts to 55 mph near the Columbia River Gorge and wind chills dipping as low as zero. Around the Seattle and western Washington area, a few inches of snow may precede ice accretions up to a quarter inch.
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Don’t most ice storms, usually tend to be a little on the disruptive side?
Another day... Another ‘Oh my god, we have weather happening’ announcement... It’s called ‘winter’ and it happens every year... According to Al Gore, this winter stuff was supposedly coming to an end like the snow on mount Kilimanjaro... But alas... It’s been 16 years since his dire predictions from an ‘Inconvenient Truth’, and we still have winter and there is still snow on top of mount Kilimanjaro, six years after Al said it would be gone... As a Canadian living in the hinterland of the north... I was truly looking forward to palm trees by now.
That's why they changed it from global warming to climate change.
How’s that solar / wind turbine electricity plan working out in this storm? Times like this, electric power is critical.......
Portland does not have ice storms every year.
Our hydro and nuke power is working just fine, thank you.
and also “significant”! LOL
Daughter’s flight from Oregon has been cancelled. We will see if she can get another one on a different day. I’m thinking the equipment never showed up. Her location isn’t having issues.
Yes, that too. 😆😀🤗🤪
I have about a quarter inch of snow and 23°F. Big deal.
Looks like plenty of wind will be available to spin them turbines..............Oh.😯
Yet another reason I have stopped flying and drive to my destinations even if it takes 2 days.
Oh no....Not snow and ice in summer....oops...watcha mean it’s not summer.
Not every year, true, but I recall pretty good ice storms every few years in the 60s, 70s, and early 80s before I moved out of Oregon in 1985. First you'd have several days of very cold dry air coming down from east of the Cascades and pouring down the Columbia Gorge, freezing the ground god and hard. Then a warmer and wetter mass of air would come off the Pacific, ride up over the cold air, and drop rain. There would be a coating of perfectly clear ice on everything, as much as a half inch thick.
The weight of the ice would bring down tree limbs and wires all over the place. Driving in the hills was really difficult, even with chains. One of my brothers had a pair of hockey skates and he'd go skating on the streets around the neighborhood.
I don't know if ice storms in Portland are less common now, but they weren't rare back then.
Freezing the ground good and hard, not god and hard.
After today, it rains until Jan 6th and maybe beyond. But at no point are any freezing temperatures forecast all temps in high 30s. Any ice the forms in spots will quickly melt.
Sister and her family moved to Beaverton, OR 15-20 years ago. She told the realtor that she wanted a house with air conditioning and was told AC is only needed a handful of times in their area. On the days you need AC, their friends and family want to come over.
My nephew and his wife came to Nebraska in August for my dad’s birthday. His wife couldn’t stand the heat or humidity. She was born and raised in Oregon.
Yep, old school electrical power generation.....
Just imagine how bad it would be if we didn’t have man made global warming threatening spontaneous combustion on a planetary scale
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