Weather Discussion 11/3/09

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Weather Discussion11/3/09
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Oct Climo
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Politics, Weather and Floods
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Precipitation Falling Below Dam is Also Important
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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.

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Westport Unit Last Thursday/Friday
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Westport Sat/Sunday
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Special AR Web Sites

• http//www.nwrfc.noaa.gov/special/hh.cgi
• http//www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/psd2/coastal/satres/d
  ata/html/wx_cl.htm
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New Facility on Line RainWatchhttp//www.atmos.
washington.edu/SPU/
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Friday Night Windstorm

• 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
• 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.
• Its 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.
  Shes 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.

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Olympic Pressure Perturbation