What was expected to be one of the strongest storms to hit the northwest U.S. in several decades struck the area Tuesday evening, leaving some residents without power and trees downed across the region. Weather Forecast Bomb Cyclone to Hit in Northwest U.S.
The Weather Prediction Centre has released excessive rainfall threats starting from Tuesday and continuing till Friday as the West’s largest atmospheric river of the season bears down on California and the Pacific Northwest.
The storm system is described as a ‘‘bomb cyclone,’’ used to define when a cyclone rapidly strengthens. Bomb Cyclone California to cause widespread destruction.
According to Richard Bann, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center, the regions with the most intense precipitation will probably stretch from the region south of Portland, Oregon, to the area north of San Francisco.
There could be flash floods in low areas and winter storms in hill areas of the region should be expected. The situation will be quite intensive, and he asked them to take necessary precautions and be aware of this risk.
Gusts of wind stronger than 75 mph (121 kilometers per hour) commonly known as hurricane force were expected along the the Oregon coast, according to the National Weather Service in Medford, and near Seattle conditions for a “mountain wave” were getting shaped, creating large, low elevation wind gust that may trip power outages and fallen trees, said Larry O’Neill from Oregon Climate service and an OSU associate professor.
Trees got downed in some areas with some of them falling on homes and the streets in northwest Washington state. Tuesday night, according to South County Fire, a woman got killed in Lynnwood, Washington, when a big tree fell on her homeless camp.
According to the Seattle Fire Department, a tree also fell on a car in Seattle and briefly pinned the car’s occupant. The agency later clarified the man was in a stable condition.
Late Tuesday more than 600000 houses in Washington State were stated on poweroutage.us to be without power. However, the number of outage reports rose and fell erratically during the evening, as several weather and utility organizations appeared to have difficulty posting updates on the storm because of internet connectivity issues and other technical issues.
Of course, it was not quite clear whether that number was authentic. Over a thousand had been affected in Wyoming while in Oregon more than fifteen thousand had been affected and almost nineteen thousand in California.
According to the National Weather Service in Seattle, at 8 p.m., the highest wind speed was recorded in Canadian waters, blowing gusts of 163 kph off the coast of Vancouver Island.
Tuesday evening there were gusts of up to 127 kph on the Oregon coast, with 124 kph recorded by the National Weather Service in Medford, Oregon, and at Mount Rainier in Washington.
The weather service added that winds in the western parts of Washington were expected to rise as the evening progressed.
In northern California, there were floods and high wind watches; up to 8 inches of rain was expected in the San Francisco Bay Area, North Coast, and Sacramento Valley. The National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center made some predictions regarding the event, including dangerous flash flooding, rockslides, and debris flows.
Bomb Cyclone West Coast is a reminder of nature’s fury and power!
