[or-roots] timing of the front

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Leslie:  Five Gold stars to you re your meteorological analysis.
I can award these stars as I am a retired Certified Consulting  Meteorologist.
--
Bob Goodman 
USAF Retired 
University Place, Washington

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From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net> 

> Carla; 
> 
> You are forgetting that storms move in a front, in Western Oregon generally 
> speaking our "weather" comes from the Southwest and moves thence in a 
> northeasterly direction, so a storm that you saw in Canyonville at two pm 
> and moving at 50 mph wouldn't reach Portland until six pm, and mind you that 
> is a fast moving storm, my partner and I had a job in Springfield this 
> summer and often we would leave the coast in a rain storm, arrive at the job 
> site in good weather and up to three hours later the rain would catch up to 
> us. Also assuming that the front doesn't pause along the way, I know of a 
> couple of storms in my life that have done that and really raised heck where 
> they paused. 
> 
> Les C 
> 
> 
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] typhoon 
> 
> 
> I'm a little puzzled by your post...it sounds as though you are describing 
> the storm hitting at night. In the area of S. Oregon where I was living at 
> the time (Canyonville on the I-5 corridor) the storm was mid to late 
> afternoon. It blew through and was gone in fairly short order although it 
> was somewhat windy through the evening and night following. We all stood at 
> the window (not such a bright idea in retrospect) of the English Classroom 
> in Canyonville High School and watched big pieces of metal roofing cartwheel 
> down the street. It seems that we really didn't feel the brunt of the storm 
> because damage in our area was relatively minor...trees down and power out 
> (but that happens every winter); damage to farm buildings, etc. The storm 
> seemed to follow the S. Umpqua River with damage greater in that area. My 
> grandparents lived near LaCenter, Washington and their farm lost a huge old 
> barn that was solid and in good repair when it blew down. So it would seem 
> to me that the storm was much stronger as it came along the Columbia River. 
> 
> Carla 
> 
> 
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