It was a busy day Wednesday weather-wise, with several weather warnings issued around the region. Hurricane-force wind warnings were issued for the offshore waters. There were also storm warnings for further offshore and high-wind warnings along the beaches and beach communities.
The winds were really picking up as I wrote this column late Wednesday afternoon. Wind speeds of 50-65 mph were already reported at 4 p.m. along the Oregon Coast and the southern Washington Coast. I’m sure damage reports will be coming in this morning.
Things settle down during the day today as the intense low-pressure system fills over British Columbia. The rapid growth of this system was more typical of winter storms rather than early spring. Our weather has been rather unpredictable in the past six or eight months.
Locally, winds were expected to gust up to 45 mph overnight into this morning. Some of the rain Wednesday came down in buckets and then just spits and spats. More storminess continues into the weekend and beyond, with snow levels dropping this weekend and much of next week.
