Today we’ll listen to a clip from the Ship Report archives: part of a talk Columbia River Bar Pilot Capt. Thron Riggs gave at the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, talking about a local weather phenomenon called the Coastal Jet. It involves fast winds close to the coast, creating a counter intuitive situation where ships approaching the Columbia River Bar often find worse weather near shore than they experienced way out at sea.
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