'Forget El Nino': Stormfest to hit West Coast
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Accustomed to mild El Nino winters with below-normal snow packs, the West Coast is due for a successive pounding of wind, wetness and white stuff at higher elevations, according to University of Washington weather expert Cliff Mass.
"Forget El Nino. StormFest about to hit West Coast," University of Washington weather expert Cliff Mass wrote Thursday on his blog.
"Things often calm down after January 1 during El Nino years . . . but not this year, with the U.S. West Coast from Central California to Washington about to be pummeled by a series of storms. Rain, snow, wind. Plenty for everyone."
The storminess extends to the Great White North. The Trans-Canada Highway through Rogers Pass in the Selkirks, between Revelstoke and Golden, was closed early Thursday for avalanche control and due to a multi-vehicle crash.
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