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About 80 miles (130 km) to the north, at Portland, Oregon's major metropolitan area, measured wind gusts reached 116 mph (187 km/h) at the Morrison Street Bridge in downtown Portland. In Vancouver, Washington around 9 miles north of downtown Portland, a peak gust of 92 mph (148 km/h) was observed at Pearson Field.
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 ...
1990: November 22–24, Mercer Island bridge sinking Washington state [7] 1993: Inauguration Day windstorm, January 20. Claimed six lives, [8] 750,000 homes and businesses without power with total damage in western Washington of $130 million. [9] Also caused $500,000 in damage to the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge. [10] 1995: December 11–12 [11]
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.
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.
Winds from the storm gusting up to 61 mph (98 km/h) [30] resulted in power outages for over 170,000 customers, around the Seattle metropolitan area and around Puget Sound. [6] [4] The highest winds recorded in Washington state were 85 mph (137 km/h) gusts on the Long Beach Peninsula. [2]
Seattle and Portland, Oregon, set records Sunday for most consecutive days of high temperatures and authorities in Oregon investigated more possible heat-related deaths. In Seattle, the ...
The Great Coastal Storm of 2007 was a series of three powerful Pacific storms that affected the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia between December 1 and December 4, 2007.