Ship captains don’t like the coastal jet much. It’s a quirky local weather phenomenon that can cause the weather to get worse the closer approaching ships get to the Columbia River Bar.
Today we’ll hear from Capt. Thron Riggs, who spent many years as a Columbia River Bar pilot, explaining what a coastal jet is.
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Today we take a look at the USS Plainview, a once-innovative, prototype hydrofoil ship design that was decommissioned by the Navy in the 1960s. She ended up sidelined by her civilian owner after plans to make her into a seafood processing vessel didn’t pan out. She remains, partially dismantled, on the shores of the Columbia on the Washington side of the river, a few miles east of the Megler Bridge, beached on private property.
Today we’ll take a look at her once exciting history, and why she remains where she is.
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A look at this week’s weather, which seems poised to take things up a notch in terms of stormy conditions. We’ve got an atmospheric river event coming out way. We’ll see how it shakes out.
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Last weekend a typhoon his western Alaska north of the Aleutians, with devastating consequences for coastal communities there. A reminder to all of us who live on the edge of the world, that most of our weather comes to us from the ocean.
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In the ancient Roman calendar, the Ides of March marked the 15th of that month, and a fateful day in history for Roman Emperor Julius Caesar. In Shakespeare’s play, named for him, the story recounts a historical fact: that Caesar was assassinated on March 15 (The Ides of March) in the year 44 BC.
Thanks to Shakespeare, that term “ides” persists in our culture, but it’s not just March. October has one too. And today is the Ides of October, a day that marks the middle of the month.
We’ll also take a look at our seesawing fall weather, and see who’s on the river today moving cargo.
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While all ships are inherently interesting, we have a few unusual ones passing by on Tuesday. One will visit the Port of Astoria.
We’ll see a new Military Sealift Command replenishment oiler headed to the Portland shipyard, a container ship (we don’t see them as often as we used to) headed to the Port of Portland, and a blue water cruise ship stopping for the day at the Port of Astoria.
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