Probably part of global warming

Winds here in Astoria took the wires going to my neighbors home down. Unfortunately it was my trees that allowed this to happen. Took about an hour to solve the problem. We are having high tides at this time, King Tides they are called and the Columbia River was as high as I have ever seen it in over twenty years. Will be interesting when the ice melts and the ocean level goes up.

One can see thius river at: <a href="https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-128.92,43.41,1421/loc=-129.831,43.195" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="forumlink">[earth.nullschool.net] this site shows the winds over the entire planet. If one clicks on the earth with the three lines after it they can see different aspects of the weather. I use this all the time to see what is happening over the world.

Washington State also is getting torrential, hammering rain and howling winds gusting to 60 mph (97 kph).

Northwest storms set rainfall records

November 15, 2021

"An atmospheric river — a plume of moisture that stretches across the Pacific and near Hawaii — has been aimed toward the region since last week, said Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik, an agricultural meteorologist at Washington State University. Beginning Thursday, a trio of storms tapped into that moisture and hammered areas north of Seattle and on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula with driving rainfall.

"We were super hot and dry in the summer, and the switch flips. It definitely matches what the climate models show for the future around here — hotter, dryer summers and wetter winters,” Boomgard-Zagrodnik said. “Our infrastructure isn’t designed for that.”

"Floodwaters rushed through several Northwest towns, including Hamilton, Washington, along the Skagit River about 65 miles northeast of Seattle.

“It’s 100 percent flooded,” Mayor Carla Vandiver said of the town core. Vandiver traveled through the streets of the 300-person town Monday morning by boat, capturing the scene on her cellphone.

[nbcnews.com]

News said Skagit river was 37 feet over flood markers.

Are you ok up there?