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Part of the 2011–12 North American winter. The January 2012 Pacific Northwest snowstorm was a large extratropical cyclone that brought record snowfall to the Pacific Northwest in January 2012. [1] The storm produced very large snowfall totals, reaching up to 50 inches (1,300 mm) in Oregon. [2] A 110 mph (180 km/h) wind gust was reported at ...
Rainy day in Capitol Hill, Seattle.Seattle experiences around 150 days with at least 0.01 inches (0.25 mm) precipitation each year. The climate of Seattle is temperate, classified in the warm-summer (in contrast to hot-summer) subtype of the Mediterranean zone by the most common climate classification (Köppen: Csb) although some sources put the city in the oceanic zone (Trewartha: Do).
The 1996 Pacific Northwest floods were a series of floods in Washington, Oregon, and the Idaho Panhandle in the United States. Large portions of the Columbia River and Puget Sound watersheds were impacted, including the Portland, Yakima, and the Palouse region. The flood was largely caused by warm temperatures and heavy rain falling on ...
The January 13–16, 2024 North American winter storm brought wide-ranging and significant impacts across much of the continental United States, particularly in the Southern regions of the country. Originating as extratropical cyclone over the northeastern Pacific Ocean on January 12, the system, unofficially named Winter Storm Heather by The ...
The 1985 North America cold wave [1] was a meteorological event which occurred in January, 1985, as a result of the shifting of the polar vortex farther south than is normally seen. [1] Blocked from its normal movement, polar air from the north pushed into nearly every section of the central and eastern half of the United States and Canada ...
Across the state, the persistent cold and heavy rains were beneficial in eliminating drought conditions in California for the first time since 2011. District of Columbia. In the early morning of January 31, 2019, Washington, D.C., as measured at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, reached 10 °F (−12 °C).
1990: November 22–24, Mercer Island bridge sinking Washington state; 1993: Inauguration Day windstorm, January 20. Claimed five lives, 750,000 homes and businesses without power with total damage in western Washington of $130 million. 1995: December 11–12; 2000: January 16, 2000; 2002: South Valley Surprise of 2002
Great Olympic Blowdown. The Great Olympic Blowdown, also called the Big Blow, was a compact, intense windstorm that struck the coast of Washington on January 29, 1921. The storm is remembered for the massive number of trees destroyed. At the time, it was the greatest loss of timber in the country, according to the Forest Service. [1]