Southall, or South Pole?
It’s not quite the North Pole, but Bob Southall of Ocean Shores has a nice little North Slope of Alaska gig: “I work in Prudhoe Bay for BP at the upstream point of the Trans Alaska Pipe Line. My position is Camp and Security Manager. I am operating 8 camps that house 2000 workers a night. The operation is 185 miles north of the Arctic circle.”
He’ll be back in the Shores to warm up in early January. Meanwhile, I asked if he could send any “cool” photos.
“The picture is when I was doing an inspection on a gas line to one of the camps. It happened to be 45 below zero that day.”
289 Christmas: White, or Wet?
Seems like an easy answer, but you never know . . . Here’s what weather.com says, for our area
Tonight
Dec 20
Closing soon: Pittsburgh weather
The string of days with the temperature deep below freezing, more akin to Pittsburgh than the North Beach, is about to end. Starting tomorrow: rain, rain, rain, lows creeping up to the high 30s. (“Winter WonderSand” photo below taken Sunday, near the Taurus approach.)
How low will it go?
Weather.com says tonight’s low will be 19. NOAA says 21. Your prediction?
Winter called
He said, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!”
Lows: Tonight, 28°; Sunday night, 23°; Monday night, 21°; Tuesday night, 23°; Wednesday night, 27°.
Arnold Samuels is off to Hawaii for a vacation. Please join me in a jealous wave . . .
Cold: REALLY Cold
Lows well below freezing in the next days and nights, but no rain for the North Beach, says weather.com:
Today
Dec 4
31°
Hoquiam: 2nd wettest November ever
NOAA doesn’t break out our area; weather.com says Ocean Shores had 21.3 inches this November, which looks about right, based on the Hoquiam report from NOAA:
TOP TEN WETTEST NOVEMBERS AT HOQUIAM 21.17 2006 18.53 2009 18.03 1990 17.22 1995Read more...
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Surf’s up
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SEATTLE HAS ISSUED A HIGH SURF ADVISORY… WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PST THIS EVENING. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS IN THE OFFSHORE WATERS EARLIER TODAY HAVE GENERATED 19 TO 21 FOOT WAVES . . . SEAS WILL GRADUALLY SUBSIDE LATER THIS EVENING. ..IT IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TO FISH OR OBSERVE WAVES FROM ROCKS DURING HIGH SURF CONDITIONS. UNWARY BEACH WALKERS CAN BE CAUGHT OFF GUARD AS WAVES SUDDENLY RACE FARTHER UP THE BEACH THAN NORMAL.
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(yet another) High Wind Watch
Issued by The National Weather Service 10:13 am PST, Sat., Nov. 21, 2009… HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING… STRONG WESTERLY WINDS MAY DEVELOP ALONG THE CENTRAL COAST THROUGH THE CHEHALIS GAP AND INTO THE SOUTHWEST INTERIOR SOUTH OF OLYPMIA LATE TONIGHT AND INTO SUNDAY MORNING… WITH SUSTAINED SPEEDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH AND GUSTS TO 70 MPH. WINDS WILL EASE SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
A HIGH WIND WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR DAMAGING WINDS. HIGH WINDS CAN TOPPLE TREES… DOWN POWER LINES… AND DAMAGE SOME STRUCTURES.