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Weather easing up for holiday

By Dave Kern
Published: November 23, 2009, 12:00am

Local meteorologist predicts dry roads from Calif. to Canada

If you’re on the road Wednesday, Chris Collins promises good weather.

“I can’t think of a better travel day,” Collins said. He is a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Portland.

“It’s going to be dry from the coast to east of the Cascades and from the Canadian border all the way south,” he predicted.

How about those headed to California for Thanksgiving?

“No problems at all. It will be dry,” Collins said.

One caveat: Collins said there will be the possibility of snow in the Cascades on Thursday night and Friday.

“If we were going to have all this active weather, it’s nice we had it the week before Thanksgiving,” Collins said. “That could have been a real headache to travelers.”

There were headaches here at home as some 3,700 customers lost electricity early Sunday morning when winds hit 50 mph.

Mick Shutt of Clark Public Utilities said 1,089 customers in the Gaiser Middle School area lost power from 2:59 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. He said 2,549 customers lost power in the area of Northeast 119th Street and Northeast 172nd Avenue from 2:36 a.m. until 3:50 a.m.

Also, Shutt said, there were scattered outages Sunday in Washougal, La Center, Amboy, Yacolt, and Woodland.

Cowlitz County officials reported many outages.

Vancouver weather expert Steve Pierce said a strong Pacific storm raced ashore near Astoria early Sunday morning.

“Several areas around Clark County reported winds in excess of 50 mph at the height of the storm, causing trees to fall and power to fail. Portland International Airport reported its first 50-plus gust (from the south) since December 2006, while Vancouver’s Pearson Field recorded 43 mph,” Pierce wrote in an e-mail.

A gust of 72 was reported at Ocean Park on Washington’s coast.

Pierce said so far this November, 4.3 inches of rain has been recorded at Pearson Field. That’s not nearly as soggy as November 2006, when Pierce said 13.31 inches were recorded at Pearson. That set a November rainfall record.

So, if the wind and rain caused you consternation over the weekend, Collins said, “We’re going to quiet down for a while.”

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