Strong east winds blew through the Western Columbia River Gorge as high pressure set up east of the Cascades, squeezing through the Columbia River Gorge.
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The episode as NWS PQR wrote it up.
Strong east winds blew through the Western Columbia River Gorge as high pressure set up east of the Cascades, squeezing through the Columbia River Gorge.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Portland, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 15, 9:24 PM PST, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED National Weather Service Portland OR 924 PM PST Tue Nov 15 2022 Updated short term discussion and aviation discussion .SYNOPSIS...High pressure will remain over the Pac NW this week, maintaining mild days and chilly nights. Breezy easterly winds today through early Wednesday, then easing winds. The next chance of rain will be Sunday and into the early part of next week. && .UPDATE...Thursday...Increased forecast sustained winds and wind gusts on Thursday over the western Columbia River Gorge, eastern portions of the Portland metro, and the West Hills area in Portland. Model guidance is in good agreement that the pressure gradient from Troutdale to the Dalles will be slightly stronger on Thursday when compared to today. The NAM suggests the gradient will peak around -8.3 mb early Thursday morning before decreasing to around -6.0 mb by the late afternoon. Forecast NAM soundings at Troutdale show sustained winds around 40 kt at 1000 ft AGL. Overall, expecting winds to be a bit stronger on Thursday when compared to Wednesday with gusts as high as 40-45 mph in the Wood Village, Fairview and Troutdale area and along the West Hills in Portland. Gusts to 70 mph are likely in the Corbett area with gusts as high as 80-85 mph likely at Crown Point. East winds will continue Thursday night into Friday but should gradually weaken. -TK .SHORT TERM...Tonight through Friday...A clear Rex Blocking pattern can be seen in IR/Water Vapor Satellite Imagery today and with deterministic and ensemble models show very little deviation in this blocking pattern as it slowly moves further east through Wednesday/Thursday. This will result in dry, mild days and chilly nights. Cross-Cascades gradients have weakened slightly and are currently around 5 to 7 mb. This is resulting in easterly winds in/around the west Columbia River Gorge of 25 to 40 mph with gusts 45 to 60 mph. As the blocking pattern moves further east/southeast, gradients will continue to weaken. This will result in easterly winds slowly weakening through Wednesday. As mentioned previously, Wednesday into Thursday there will be a brief transition as the ridge axis is elongated and pushed eastward as a shortwave low from Canada moves into the region. While this will not really impact the overall pattern of dry, mild days and chilly nights, it will bring in some slightly cooler arctic air as well as some cloud cover. As this shortwave trough moves across the Cascades, the pressure gradient will re-strengthen and result in breezy east winds returning. At this time the gradients are expected to be a bit stronger with around 7 to 9 mb across the Columbia River Gorge. Also, given the blocking pattern there are some air stagnation concerns through Thursday. However, as mentioned previously easterly flow is expect to weaken by tomorrow and as such will increase the chances for more widespread air stagnation concerns as valley inversions strengthen under persistent high pressure and increasing subsidence. However, the time frame for the elevated concerns is expected to be less than 48 hours as a shortwave trough dropping down along the Cascades bringing stronger easterly winds to the Gorge and Cascades Thursday. Friday, models have an upper level ridge returning with easterly winds continuing across the area. Overall, the synoptic pattern will change through the remainder of the week, but will result in minimal changes as dry, mild days along with chilly nights are expected to persist. Easterly winds will diminish over the next 24 to 36 hours, but will return towards the end of the week. /42 .LONG TERM...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...The stretch of dry and mild weather with frosty mornings will continue into the weekend as guidance remains in good agreement on the upper level ridge persisting over the West Coast through at least Saturday. Both deterministic and ensemble solutions continue to hint at the breakdown of the ridge in the Sunday-Monday timeframe, albeit with a high degree of uncertainty regarding the details of how the pattern will evolve thereafter. Cluster analysis shows the ECMWF and CMC as most bullish on the transition as 70-80 percent of the respective members depict zonal flow or even a more troughy pattern developing by early next week. This yields increasing precipitation chances heading into Sunday and early next week, with the bulk of individual ensemble members across model suites depicting at least some measurable precipitation at PDX by Monday/Tuesday. Stuck close to NBM mean for the official forecast given the scarcity of specific details, with precipitation chances returning to the area on Sunday and increasing through early next week. Snow levels look to climb to around 4000-5000 ft as the precipitation arrives, likely keeping any winter weather impacts limited to the Cascade passes for now. /CB && .AVIATION...06Z TAFs: High pressure remains over the region with dry, northerly flow aloft which will veer back to northwest Wednesday. Widespread VFR conditions expected through Wednesday with mostly clear skies. East winds will continue through the Portland metro tonight as well as downsloping offshore along the coast. Winds will also continue to remain strong at around 1500-2000 ft AGL with gusts to around 40 kt. Prepare for gusty winds up to around 25 kt in the Gorge and spill over area east of KPDX. In the central and southern Willamette Valley, will lighter north to northeasterly wind. Winds will likely lighten enough a chance for fog development late tonight near KEUG and KHIO after 12Z Wednesday. Latest HREF shows near 30% chance near KEUG of visibility less than 1/2 mile. Another offshore flow pattern expected to develop beginning Thursday morning, potentially bringing stronger east winds than the last 24 hours. For detailed Pac NW aviation weather information, go online to: http://weather.gov/zse KPDX AND APPROACHES...VFR under clear skies and east winds expected for the next 24 hours. Gusts around 15 to 20 kt may still occur for the next few hours, however will ease to around 6-8 kt by 09z. Lighter east winds expected through Wednesday night. /Kriederman && .MARINE...A thermally induced surface trough along the coast will continue to weaken over the next 24 hours while high pressure remains inland east of the Cascades. This will maintain offshore winds through Wednesday before pressure gradients weaken and winds become light Wednesday night. East winds will be gusty at times, especially out of coastal gaps through tonight and into Wed morning. Offshore winds again increase on Thursday and likely persist through Friday. Seas will generally hover around 4 to 6 ft at 12 seconds through the end of the week. A northwest swell arriving later on Wednesday may build seas up to 7 to 8 feet at 15 seconds through Thursday morning. /DH && .PQR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OR...None. WA...None. PZ...None. && www.weather.gov/portland Interact with us via social media: www.facebook.com/NWSPortland www.twitter.com/NWSPortland
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
East wind gust to 94 mph recorded at Crown Point (DW6193), and to 78 mph at Corbett (CW2664) .
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