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Disruptive Ice Storm Threatens Pacific Northwest With Significant Power Outages, Holiday Travel Headaches
New York Post ^ | December 22, 2022 | Scott Sistek

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Travel; Weather
KEYWORDS: icestorm; pacificnorthwest; poweroutages
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1 posted on 12/22/2022 11:58:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
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a significant ice storm across northwestern Oregon

Don’t most ice storms, usually tend to be a little on the disruptive side?

2 posted on 12/23/2022 12:30:25 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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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.


3 posted on 12/23/2022 1:12:06 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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According to Al Gore, this winter stuff was supposedly coming to an end

That's why they changed it from global warming to climate change.

4 posted on 12/23/2022 1:28:58 AM PST by nickcarraway
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How’s that solar / wind turbine electricity plan working out in this storm? Times like this, electric power is critical.......


5 posted on 12/23/2022 1:30:55 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: jerod

Portland does not have ice storms every year.


6 posted on 12/23/2022 1:39:26 AM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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Our hydro and nuke power is working just fine, thank you.


7 posted on 12/23/2022 1:40:10 AM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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and also “significant”! LOL


8 posted on 12/23/2022 1:57:40 AM PST by shalom aleichem (Sick 'n Tired! Tell us wnat to DO about it!)
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To: nickcarraway

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.


9 posted on 12/23/2022 3:44:15 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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and also “significant”! LOL

Yes, that too. 😆😀🤗🤪

10 posted on 12/23/2022 3:47:47 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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I have about a quarter inch of snow and 23°F. Big deal.


11 posted on 12/23/2022 3:54:55 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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Looks like plenty of wind will be available to spin them turbines..............Oh.😯


12 posted on 12/23/2022 3:59:38 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: jerod

Yet another reason I have stopped flying and drive to my destinations even if it takes 2 days.


13 posted on 12/23/2022 4:36:09 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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Oh no....Not snow and ice in summer....oops...watcha mean it’s not summer.


14 posted on 12/23/2022 4:45:04 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: steve86
Portland does not have ice storms every year.

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.

15 posted on 12/23/2022 4:45:30 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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Freezing the ground good and hard, not god and hard.


16 posted on 12/23/2022 4:47:13 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: nickcarraway

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.


17 posted on 12/23/2022 5:18:30 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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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.


18 posted on 12/23/2022 5:18:54 AM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: steve86

Yep, old school electrical power generation.....


19 posted on 12/23/2022 5:23:08 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: nickcarraway

Just imagine how bad it would be if we didn’t have man made global warming threatening spontaneous combustion on a planetary scale


20 posted on 12/23/2022 5:32:34 AM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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