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“Cold air has been locked in the Pacific Northwest for several days, including the Columbia Gorge east of Portland and the Willamette Valley,” weather.com senior meteorologist Jonathan Erdman ...
In addition, strong easterly winds could reach 45- to 60-mph gusts in the eastern Portland suburbs along the cold outflow of the Columbia River Gorge, extending freezing rain threats and dropping ...
The Columbia River Gorge is a canyon of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Up to 4,000 feet (1,200 m) deep, the canyon stretches for over eighty miles (130 km) as the river winds westward through the Cascade Range , forming the boundary between the state of Washington to the north and Oregon to the south. [ 1 ]
Thursday's snowstorm in Columbia caused several traffic accidents, road closures and stranded drivers. The city's first responders have remained working nonstop to assist the situation.
Severe storms of any kind are rare, although snow and ice storms can sometimes occur when surface low pressure systems move south along the coast, inducing offshore flow which advects cold air from the Columbia Basin westward through the Columbia River Gorge, filling the valley to the north of the surface low track. Weather systems sometimes ...
Just south of Biggs Junction, the highway descends from the plateau into the Columbia River Gorge. In Biggs is an interchange with Interstate 84 and U.S. Route 30; immediately north of the interchange is the Biggs Rapids-Sam Hill Bridge over the Columbia River. The river serves as the state line between Oregon and Washington.
As temperatures rise and road salt begins to take effect, ice packs will turn to slush, which also is hazardous for driving, Columbia Public Works said.
In the Columbia River Gorge on the border of Washington and Oregon, the high frequency of gap winds has led to the installation of wind farms, and the large amount of wind surfing that takes place on the Columbia River. Another example is the Koshava wind in Serbia that blows along the Danube River. [1]