ARKstorm Hitting PNW.....now...More To Come | |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27662195 United States 11/19/2012 03:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | now i am NOT saying this storm is as gnarly as what is depicted in the mock-up...however, it is a phenomenon that is most interesting to observe in real-time. boots on the ground pdx: hella rainy, big gusts of wind but not anything i'd think of as mega, don't know how it is on the coast. was really cold yesterday, warmer today. we've had clouds from the south to north for a couple months, with the chem layer heading east. a couple times i noticed sats showing our weather coming from the west and outside the clouds said different....a bit odd. this rain is coming from the west. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27662195 United States 11/19/2012 03:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ....i amend...it's pissing rain out there! wind picking up. pretty impressive gusts and the crows are staying out of the sky, earlier they were doing all kinds of wild acrobatics in the wind but i guess it's gotten a bit rough for them. [link to www.wunderground.com] Active Advisory: Flood Warning, Areal Flood Warning, Areal Flood Watch, Areal Flood Advisory, Wind Advisory (US Severe Weather) Active Notice: Public Information Statement Tropical Weather: Tropical Cyclone Three (North Indian Ocean) Today Rain 57 °F Rain 100% chance of precipitation Tonight Rain 48 °F Rain 100% chance of precipitation Tomorrow Rain 57 | 41 °F Rain 90% chance of precipitation Wednesday Rain 50 | 41 °F Rain 80% chance of precipitation Thursday Chance of Rain 52 | 48 °F Chance of Rain 40% chance of precipitation Friday Chance of Rain 57 | 50 °F Chance of Rain 70% chance of precipitation Wind Speed / Dir 15.9 mph from SE Wind Gust 25.1 mph Wind Advisory in effect until 4 PM PST this afternoon... |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27662195 United States 11/19/2012 03:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i'm guessing 'and beyond...' [link to www.wunderground.com] wundermap sat....at least this is dropping out of the bering sea and not coming from japan. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27662195 United States 11/19/2012 04:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | the rings are going STRONG today! they generally come out of a private/small airport towards beaverton but pretty close to PDX. super glad we have that fema concentration camp on the coast! there are flood warnings up, judging by wundermap's warning chart. looks like a warning of 2 feet over flood stage at nehalem river, near foss, oregon... looking at the warmer water and the cold front from alaska i'm starting to see how we had a tornado warning last night. me, i'm stoked cause i am about to move into a place where there's a massive water filtration system, garden, huge stockpile of food (A QUARTER TON OF RICE????)...and i have my bug out bag. lights just flickered...wonder if we'll lose power today. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27662195 United States 11/19/2012 04:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | PNW....This wx is typical during Turkey day week. We had many power outages onTurkey day from winds & lots of rain. What's different this year? Quoting: Seagal5 what's interesting about this storm is a) the tropical aspect mixing with the cold front dropping out of the bering sea...hence a tornado warning FOR PORTLAND CITY last night. also tornado warnings in the sf bay area the night before. b) this IS an ARKstorm, and it is what usgs and a ton of scientists have predicted as being far more destructive to cali/west coast than even a massive earthquake. Extensive flooding results. In many cases flooding overwhelms the state’s flood-protection system, which is typically designed to resist 100- to 200-year runoffs. The Central Valley experiences hypothetical flooding 300 miles long and 20 or more miles wide. Serious flooding also occurs in Orange County, Los Angeles County, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay area, and other coastal communities. Windspeeds in some places reach 125 miles per hour, hurricane-force winds. Across wider areas of the state, winds reach 60 miles per hour. Hundreds of landslides damage roads, highways, and homes. Property damage exceeds $300 billion, most from flooding. Demand surge (an increase in labor rates and other repair costs after major natural disasters) could increase property losses by 20 percent. Agricultural losses and other costs to repair lifelines, dewater (drain) flooded islands, and repair damage from landslides, brings the total direct property loss to nearly $400 billion, of which $20 to $30 billion would be recoverable through public and commercial insurance. Power, water, sewer, and other lifelines experience damage that takes weeks or months to restore. Flooding evacuation could involve 1.5 million residents in the inland region and delta counties. Business interruption costs reach $325 billion in addition to the $400 billion property repair costs, meaning that an ARkStorm could cost on the order of $725 billion, which is nearly 3 times the loss deemed to be realistic by the ShakeOut authors for a severe southern California earthquake, an event with roughly the same annual occurrence probability. [link to pubs.usgs.gov] click on the picture for the full pdf article. c) [link to www.esrl.noaa.gov] Atmospheric Rivers (AR) are relatively narrow regions in the atmosphere that are responsible for most of the horizontal transport of water vapor outside of the tropics. While ARs come in many shapes and sizes, those that contain the largest amounts of water vapor, the strongest winds, and stall over watersheds vulnerable to flooding, can create extreme rainfall and floods. These events can disrupt travel, induce mud slides, and cause catastrophic damage to life and property. However, not all ARs cause damage – most are weak, and simply provide beneficial rain or snow that is crucial to water supply. [link to www.chinookobserver.com] Atmospheric river about to impact coast Posted: Thursday, November 15, 2012 9:40 am |
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UseLess RepEATER Those who know the least obey the best: G.F. User ID: 24466426 United States 11/19/2012 04:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Raining sideways here in Redmond, WA. [link to sat.wrh.noaa.gov] Last Edited by UseLessRepEATER on 11/19/2012 04:22 PM Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies..... Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. ~H. L. Mencken~ We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ~Plato~ When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. ~Dresden James~ |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27662195 United States 11/19/2012 04:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.nbclosangeles.com] there's a reason they call it the 'ark' storm... Scientists Cite "Atmospheric River" for Near Continuous Rain It has happened before. Consider the winter of 1861-1862 -- it rained for 45 consecutive days By Patrick Healy | Wednesday, Dec 22, 2010 | Updated 9:09 AM PST and in october: So THAT'S why we've been getting so much rain! Scientists find 'atmospheric rivers' in the sky which hit Britain with 1,000 times more water than the Thames Giant ribbons of moist air flowing north from the tropics bring heavy rain Some 'rivers' carry as much water as the Amazon Ribbons blamed for worst 10 winter floods to hit Britain since 1970 Researchers say they are also linked to the country's recent wet summers By Rob Preece PUBLISHED: 13:08 EST, 7 October 2012 | UPDATED: 16:57 EST, 7 October 2012 Read more: [link to www.dailymail.co.uk] Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27662195 United States 11/19/2012 04:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to seattletimes.com] Monday, November 19, 2012 - Page updated at 01:30 p.m. Wet, blustery storms headed for Western Washington It's too early to be definitive, but at least one leading climate model is suggesting very heavy rain could lash the region for several days, beginning Friday. Conditions seem to be setting up for what's called an atmospheric river — a fierce band of precipitation that could unleash 5 to 10 inches of rain in the mountains, Mass said. |
UseLess RepEATER Those who know the least obey the best: G.F. User ID: 24466426 United States 11/19/2012 04:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i'm excited about actually seeing the rivers in the air!!! well on sat at least. definitely want to find more info on this particular situation...i think i shall shat if it's as much water as the amazon river, but i doubt it. who knows! Here's NOAA's forecast for the next 7 days: [link to forecast.weather.gov] Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies..... Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. ~H. L. Mencken~ We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ~Plato~ When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. ~Dresden James~ |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27662195 United States 11/19/2012 04:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: Luisport i couldn't copy and paste off the flood alerts, but looks like one area two feet over, the rest expected to come close...however, that's till friday or current i believe, and we're supposed to get maybe a day's break before more hits. also some good snowfall expected further in. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27662195 United States 11/19/2012 04:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | two active flood warnings in oregon, towards the coast, two in washington. MASSIVE haarp rings over pdx and seawa. [link to www.wunderground.com] |
T Ceti H.C. Radnarg User ID: 27089841 United States 11/19/2012 04:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | might be a good idea to plant hemp everywhere to keep the soil in place...people fuked themselves when they made it illegal with the reefer madness bullshit.. How unfortunate for some rulers when men,women,and children continue to think... Keep repeating the lies loud enough and long enough and just maybe the people will start to believe the lies again and good luck with that...finding your energy open until mars becomes raging aries... |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27662195 United States 11/19/2012 04:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i'm excited about actually seeing the rivers in the air!!! well on sat at least. definitely want to find more info on this particular situation...i think i shall shat if it's as much water as the amazon river, but i doubt it. who knows! Here's NOAA's forecast for the next 7 days: [link to forecast.weather.gov] thanks for that link...washington advisory: CUMULATIVE RAINFALL OVER THE LAST WEEK HAS SOAKED SOILS TO THE POINT WHERE THE WASHINGTON LANDSLIDE RISK LEVEL WAS MODERATE. THE PREDICTED RAINFALL COULD RAISE THE LEVEL TO HIGH. THE HIGHER THE RISK LEVEL...THE MORE NUMEROUS THE LANDSLIDES ARE LIKELY TO BE. AREAS ABOVE 5000 FEET IN ELEVATION AND TO NEAR 3000 FEET IN THE CASCADES PASSES WILL SEE MOSTLY SNOW AND NOT BE AFFECTED. WITH AN ELEVATED LANDSLIDE RISK...RAINFALL INDUCED LANDSLIDES ARE POSSIBLE DURING BURSTS OF INTENSE RAINFALL OR WHEN THERE IS HEAVY RAINFALL OVER A PERIOD OF A DAY OR TWO AS NOTED IN THE FORECAST ELEVATED RISK LEVEL. A GRADUALLY DIMINISHING RISK OF LANDSLIDES WILL CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL DAYS AFTER THE RAIN ENDS. AREAS MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO LANDSLIDES UNDER THESE CONDITIONS ARE STEEP COASTAL BLUFFS AND OTHER STEEP HILLSIDES. [link to forecast.weather.gov] Special Weather Statement SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA 844 AM PST MON NOV 19 2012 |
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samanthasunflower User ID: 14930415 United States 11/19/2012 04:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We had some descent wind earlier, and a large limb did some serious damage to the greenhouse. It's reparable and didn't hit the house, so all is good. Otherwise, it's only good here for the ducks. They are even getting tired of the rain and are going indoors to rest. The river is at it's bank, so I can assume that I'm going to have to deal with what the flood does to the farm again. I'd probably stay dryer standing in my shower then outside. The crazy thing is that this morning there was a lull. The wind stopped, the rain stopped, and the temperature rose quite a bit. I expected to wake up to a cold house, because I didn't bank the woodstove before bed, but it was quite toasty here. I can understand where the tornadoes warnings came from with that weirdness. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 4469103 United States 11/19/2012 05:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Cmon...... You act like this is the end of the world. Its the Pacific Northwest!!! Quoting: PNW2010 4469103 You act like SANDY is ready to hit us. silly, ARKstorms are not regular storms...and i find it fascinating to follow and learn about. run along. Been in the PNW since 1980 and this storm aint shit!!! I'm going to run along and leave you to your fantasy land dreams. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27662195 United States 11/19/2012 05:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i'm not sure what this is but it looks interesting! [link to www.meted.ucar.edu (secure)] Satellite Feature Identification: Atmospheric Rivers Satellite Feature Identification: Atmospheric Rivers Languages: English Publish Date: 2012-03-13 Skill Level: 2 ' Completion Time: 1.00 - 1.25 h Includes Audio: no Required Plugins: Flash Topics: Hydrology/Flooding, QPF/QPE (Precip), Satellite Meteorology, Winter Weather Included in Courses: Review of Aeronautical Meteorology - Africa ....online class on atmo rivs? neat. :) |