Red Flag, Black Square

[Pilar]

Or is it the other way around?

One of these flying at the Coast Guard boat shed means storm, two means Hurricane.

BTW we have hurricane winds everytime the wind gets above 70kts. Tough place, Oregon, we don't bother with naming hurricanes and go through several every year!

The following is a very much less than ideal forecast ....

FZUS56 KPQR 081625
CWFPDX

COASTAL WATERS FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OREGON
830 AM PST FRI MAR 8 2002

COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE SHOALWATER WASHINGTON TO FLORENCE OREGON
AND WESTWARD 60 NM

PZZ250-255-270-275-082230-
COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE SHOALWATER WASHINGTON TO FLORENCE OREGON
AND WESTWARD 60 NM
830 AM PST FRI MAR 8 2002

GALE WARNING LATE TONIGHT AND SAT

:shocked: STORM :shocked: FORCE WIND POSSIBLE OVER THE OUTER WATERS SAT

TODAY
W WIND 20 KT...TURNING SW 15 KT THIS AFTERNOON. WIND
WAVES 3 FT. NW SWELL 8 FT AT 10 SECONDS.

TONIGHT
SW WIND 15 KT...TURNING SE AND RISING TO 35 KT LATE.
WIND WAVES 3 FT BUILDING TO 6 FT. W SWELL 8 FT AT 10 SECONDS...
BUILDING TO 10 FT LATE. RAIN DEVELOPING.

SAT
S WIND 45 KT...POSSIBLY 55 KT OVER THE OUTER WATERS.
COMBINED SEAS BUILDING TO 20 FT WITH DOMINANT PERIOD OF 8
SECONDS. RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES IN THE AFTERNOON.

SAT NIGHT
S WIND 45 KT BECOMING SW 25 KT EARLY...THEN RISING
TO S 35 KT LATE. COMBINED SEAS 17 FT.

SUN
S WIND 35 KT EARLY...TURNING SW 20 KT. COMBINED SEAS 15
FT.

MON
S WIND 35 KT. COMBINED SEAS 15 FT.

TUE
S WIND 20 KT. WIND WAVES 4 FT. W SWELL 19 FT.


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National Weather Service
Generated 2114 UTC, Friday, Mar 08, 2002
Document URL http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/fmtb.../pz/pzz250.txt

[fishchaser]

Guess we wanted the rain so the fishing would get better. Well, we got is coming now. It's OK, we need it and plus the nets are going to be in for 24 hours at a time now, so let it rain a blow out all the rivers so the netters won't get as many as we will. :grin: ( I can be mean sometimes)