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11/04/06

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First Storm Set to Wow Oregon Coast

Stormy Nye Beach, Newport

(Oregon Coast) – A wild weather warning has been issued by the National Weather Service for the north Oregon coast for Saturday, but it seems it has already started smacking the central coast on Friday. Powerful winds and large waves are expected for the region this weekend, caused by an unusual weather phenomenon – a major hurricane-like storm - that’s parked off the coast about 900 miles.

In turn, it’s expected to bring out a few more tourists than a turn in the weather would chase away.

Monster waves near Depoe Bay

A high wind watch has been issued for the region between the southern Washington coast and Tillamook from Saturday morning through the evening hours. The area may see winds around 40 miles an hour, but gusts could hit as high as 60 miles per hour.

Newport resident Melissa Haines said the windy weather hit the central coast already. She experienced some of it on Thursday night. “I slept so well that night,” Haines said. “I always sleep really well when it’s stormy out.”

Yachats

In Yachats, Yachats Wine Trader manager Marsii Charron said the wind and rain has been pounding that part of the central coast all day and has been making a spectacle at the wine bar. “I have only had locals, maybe the only people crazy enough to brave the storm,” Charron said. “I have been slow for a Friday night. Hopefully it picks up on Saturday. But the storm watching from the wine bar is fantastic right now.”

The culprit is a rare subtropical storm, which usually does not come into existence this high in latitude. Scientists say the storm has hurricane characteristics. It looks like one from the satellite images, it has a cloudless eye, an eye wall of thunderstorms and winds around 50 knots. It is so powerful that it would normally be named if it had been in one of the routinely monitored hurricane basins. Because it formed outside the territory of any of the organizations which regularly monitor these storms, it was not named. The storm has been referred to as “Storm 91C” by the U.S. Navy.

On the north coast, residents and tourists there are getting ready for the action, though it is quite calm there on Friday night. Wayne Chase, manager of The Tides hotel in Seaside, told BeachConnection.net: “There’s nothing on the storm yet.”

“Quiet here tonight - mild and a few folks walking around,” said Mike Exinger, owner of Zinger’s Homemade Ice Cream in Seaside. “I spoke to a few in the store this evening. They knew high winds were on the way, and said, ‘Hey, that’s the coast…we expect it this time of year.’ ”

The weather event is expected to begin enormous waves as well. Officials are urging extreme caution about heading to the beaches. They also say that even though now is prime time to go clamming on Oregon’s beaches, the waves will likely be stormy swells and too dangerous for such activity.

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