Another interesting ship alert, this one for Saturday morning, when the missile telemetry and tracking vessel the Pacific Tracker passes by inbound to Portland. She’s always and unusual sight. We’ll also talk about the rest of our ship schedule for today.
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Today we’ll look at the marine weather forecast and talk a little about wind. Why does the wind come from the west, or some other direction? And a look at ship traffic.
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Today we’ll take a look at ship traffic, and at how the Columbia remains what it has historically been when it comes to cargo: an big export region for raw materials.
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We’ll look at ships on the river today, and also talk about the relationship between wind and waves.
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Today we’ll take a look at ship traffic and talk a little about the fairly standard color scheme you see on the bulk carriers that anchor here.
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We’ve had some interesting weather this week, including a thunderstorm warning that didn’t quite materialize. But along with that storm came bad weather at sea, so difficult that the Columbia River Bar was on red status for the past day or so. That means ship traffic has been halted going in and out of the river temporarily, until sea conditions improve.
Ships will starting moving again today, and that creates some interesting patterns relating to ship transits, in the aftermath of bad weather. So we’ll talk about that today.
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