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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 ...
“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 ...
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]
Winds in the Columbia River Gorge reached 80 mph (130 km/h), with gusts over 50 mph (80 km/h) in Portland. [5] Cold air exiting the Columbia Basin produced the strong winds through the Gorge and into the Portland metropolitan area and Willamette Valley kept temperatures at the surface below freezing while warm onshore flow aloft created a ...
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 ...
Two hikers survived a night spent lost at the top of a cliff, and a third died in a fall in the Columbia River Gorge during the run of recent sunny weather.
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]
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.