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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Whenever the Columbia River Bar at the mouth of the river temporarily becomes too dangerous to cross because of bad weather, the result a day or so later is a backlog of ships that have been waiting to leave or to arrive. That creates a steady stream of vessels, 24/7, until everything is back to normal.
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Today the bar is on Red status because of the weather, meaning few if any ships will cross the bar today at the river’s entrance.
We’ll talk about how weather matters here, and why it can seem calm off Astoria and be crazy dangerous just 17 miles to the west.
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