Bomb cyclones have made headlines this month
Mann
Last week, a massive Pacific storm, which was referred to as a “bomb cyclone,” battered the western regions of Washington, Oregon and Northern California. In fact, there were two bomb cyclones last week that left as many as 600,000 residents without power. The system last Friday was not as intense as the one from Nov. 19. From the Tuesday storm, winds were as high as 85 miles per hour in western Oregon and near 100 miles per hour off the coast of Vancouver Island in western Canada. The wind gusts were as high as hurricane-force winds. A Category 1 storm would have sustained winds of at least 74 miles per hour. Around a foot of rain was also reported in parts of Northern California near Sacramento resulting in area flooding. My relatives who are in Roseville, Calif., which is northeast of Sacramento, had over 3.6 inches of rain in one day.
Despite the severe conditions along the coastlines of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California, the impact from those storms across the Inland Northwest were not as strong. However, the storm system late Friday and Saturday dropped near-record rainfall across North Idaho that took our November precipitation total in Coeur d’Alene to above-normal levels.
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