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The strong wind and ice accumulation in the Portland area resulted in widespread trees being blown down. [4] Over 200,000 customers lost power throughout the state. Eleven people were reportedly killed with victims being crushed by fallen trees, experiencing hypothermia, or being electrocuted by fallen power lines.
A significant, prolonged pattern change will bring multiple days of rain, and possibly lower-elevation snow to the Northwest, including the first snow of the season for Seattle and Portland.
This was the largest two-day snowfall recorded in Seattle since 1972. [49] The Portland metro area was hit very hard by the storm, which brought a mix of snow and ice to the region. [48] 9.4 inches (24 cm) of snow fell at Portland International Airport on February 12–13, the most snow to fall over this city in a two-day period since 1968. [49]
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. They form as ...
The power cuts came as high winds swept across the region, reaching 52 mph (84 kph) at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, according to the National Weather Service's office in Seattle.
Seattle and Portland had the worst air quality observed anywhere on the planet. Wildfire smoke darkened skies Wednesday and Thursday in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle and Portland had the worst ...
The National Weather Service weather radio transmitter on Cougar Mountain near Issaquah went off the air during the storm. [24] An Amtrak Cascades train struck a fallen tree in Silvana, between Stanwood and Marysville, at around 7:50 p.m. The tree pierced the locomotive's windshield but did not seriously injure the engineer or anyone onboard ...
Much of the Northwest is dealing with substantial drought following a hot, dry summer, but AccuWeather forecasters say help in the form of a dose of rain and mountain snow is on the way. A ...