Pacific Northwest Braces For More Atmospheric Rivers And Flooding

Strong atmospheric river expected to hit Thursday, dumping more rain on Portland

The weather service has issued a flood watch for northwest Oregon and southwest Washington from early Thursday to early Saturday.

Flooding, Oregon power outages forecast as next storm to hit Thursday

Yet another atmospheric river will slam Oregon and the Willamette Valley on Dec. 18, bringing potential flooding, landslides and power outages.

Washington infrastructure begins to fail as atmospheric rivers continue pummeling the state

Several levees have failed, more than a dozen highways are shuttered and one person is dead in Washington state as atmospheric river storms continue to pound the region and test its infrastructure.The state’s dams and levees largely held up during the first wave of storms last week, but the rain has kept coming, so some have started to get overwhelmed.At the same time, a patchwork of low-lying areas across western Washington remain filled with s…

Pacific Northwest Braces For More Atmospheric Rivers And Flooding

Parts of the Pacific Northwest brace for more flooding and another round of atmospheric rivers.

Pacific Northwest Storms Intensifie Causing Widespread Alerts And Travel Disruptions

A barrage of Pacific storms is compounding flooding damage and keeping travel conditions volatile across the Pacific Northwest, with western Washington at the center of overlapping hazards: flood watches and river warnings, debris slides, mountain blizzard conditions, and high winds driving power outages. Local officials and forecasters are warning that even short “breaks” in rainfall are not providing meaningful relief because soils are saturat…