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(Reuters) -A second powerful wind storm, called a "bomb cyclone," will hit the U.S. Pacific Northwest by Thursday evening, even as hundreds of thousands of people remain without power from the ...
Over water, a buoy off the coast of Vancouver Island recorded a gust of 101 mph Tuesday evening. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport gusted to 59 mph Tuesday night. Gusts of 53 mph were recorded ...
"Rain totals through this storm series through the end of the week will be 6-10 inches along the coast from Vancouver Island through Washington and most of Oregon, as well of Northern California ...
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 ...
Highways 4, 14, 18, and 28—all on Vancouver Island—were closed due to debris and downed power lines. On Sartine Island, a gust of 159 kilometres per hour (99 mph) was reported. [15] Interstate 5 was closed due to heavy snow near the Oregon and California border. In California, some areas received up to ≥20 inches (508 millimeters) of rain.
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, [1] Vancouver Island, and Southern British Columbia The Hanukkah Eve windstorm of 2006 was a powerful Pacific Northwest windstorm in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and southern British Columbia , Canada between December 14, 2006 and December 15, 2006.
By Wednesday morning, about 100,000 customers, mostly on Vancouver Island, remained without power. An NBC affiliate in Seattle broadcast images of cars smashed by fallen trees and damaged homes.
On December 13 a strong frontal system impacted the western coast, dropping 77.5 millimetres (3.05 in) of rain on downtown Vancouver, [5] and 67.0 millimetres (2.64 in) at the Vancouver International Airport. [6] Snowfall warnings were also put in place for the Coquihalla, and other high elevation places. [7]