Weather Discussion
11/3/09
Oct Climo
Politics, Weather and Floods
Precipitation Falling Below Dam is Also
Important
Major Expensive Additions
• Another two atmospheric river observatories
• One at the Dam, the other at the town of
Pacific.
• 14 rain gauges (good thing)
• More units not useful for forecasting, but
great for research.
Westport Unit Last
Thursday/Friday
Westport: Sat/Sunday
Special AR Web Sites
• http://www.nwrfc.noaa.gov/special/hh.cgi
• http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/psd2/coastal/s
atres/data/html/wx_cl.htm
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New Facility on Line: RainWatch
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/SPU/
Friday Night “Windstorm”
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Winds gusted to 45 mph at Whidbey Is Naval Air Station and 64 mph at Tatoosh Island. 43 mph at
Port Townsend. 53 mph at Smith Island.
• KING 5 special report
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SEDRO WOOLLEY, Wash. - A wind storm whipped through Western Washington Friday night.
Fierce wind gusts topping 50 mph toppled trees and brought down power lines in the northern half
of Western Washington.
The National Weather Service issued wind advisories and warnings for the Northwest Interior, and
the western Strait of Juan de Fuca.
In Sedro Wolley, traffic lights along busy US 20 were blacked out, along with businesses forced to
shut down on what would have been a busy Friday night.
“It’s too windy,” said the clerk at an AM/PM as he picked up flyers which had blown across the
pump islands. The station was without power for some two hours, before Puget Sound Energy
repaired downed lines.
In Mount Vernon, police cordoned off an area off Kincaid St. where a falling tree ripped the power
lines down. Justina Lemcke was looking out her window when she saw the tree start to fall.
“It was falling really slowly and all of a sudden the line was ripped out of the side of the house,” she
said as she was lighting candles. She’s worried the rest of the tree will come down, “falling on the
cars or house by the corner. I am very nervous about that too,” she said.
KING 5's Jeff Renner is keeping track of the winds, Jim Forman reports from Sedro-Wolley, and
Owen Lei checks on the ferries.
Olympic Pressure Perturbation