Another storm is heading out way, with the potential to disrupt the flow of ship traffic on the river. This is pretty normal and happens in the winter time. Safety is essential for ships and the people on them.
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After our near-miss with a severe storm that walloped Washington to the north of us, a thunderstorm off the Long Beach Peninsula yesterday spawned a waterspout in the ocean off Long Beach. The waterborne tornado moved on up the coast to Tokeland and beyond. And we have more weather on the way.
Don’t be tempted to feel cavalier about the fact that this round of weather “wasn’t so bad.” It could be next time. Winter on the coast means staying informed and being prepared.
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That dangerous bomb cyclone storm is moving on to the north of us, leaving us with big seas for the next day or so. It was a close call… a storm packing hurricane force winds that somehow missed a direct hit on Oregon and Washington.
Image courtesy Storm Radar.
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An intense low pressure storm called a bomb cyclone is churning out in the ocean a couple hundred miles offshore of the Oregon and Washington coast. While it’s not predicted to make landfall here locally, it will send us some walloping winds, seas and rain.
We’ll talk about what to expect.
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Today a look at a common but oft-overlooked maritime structure – the Quonset hut. First designed and built for the US Navy in 1941, they were styled after a WWI version called the Nissen hut. Once used in military installations during WWII, the Navy sold them surplus to the public after the war, and the rest, as they say, is history.
And we’ll hear what is probably the quintessential artistic work regarding this unusual style of building: Fisher Poet Jon Campbell’s reading of his hilarious poem, “Quonset Hut,” in which he refers to the Quonset hut as being a testament to Rhode Island’s “indigenous school of meatloaf architecture.”
Image: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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A look at today’s complement of cargo vessels on the river.
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