What a Storm! More on the way but not as bad here...
December 26, 2024
I hope that your Christmas was filled with Love, Peace, and Joy. I think that we can all agree that Christmas 2024 was "electrified." Looks like highest wind threats are done until next year (but could still see 20-30 mph gusts through Sunday). As predicted here, highest wind gusts last night across the area were 37-40 mph at Cottage Grove / Creswell. Eugene Airport recorded a 45 mph gust. See circles on map below - found a 114 mph wind gust at Silver Butte Falls which is 3973' in the mountains southwest of Canyonville. I also found on ODOT's highway sensors a 112 gust on hwy 97 in La Pine and 115 mph on hwy 97 halfway between Crescent and Klamath Falls.
Since yesterday to 12:30pm today (Thur Dec 26), 0.75"-1.50" of rain has fallen across the area, more on the way.
LIGHTNING EVENTS: A line of heavy showers and thunderstorms formed just offshore at 11:30pm and traveled east through the area to 2am. Leroy McManus' weather station in Saginaw has a really cool lightning sensor on it and he reported 71 lightning events, but this was likely picking up activity from the entire area from the coast to east of the Cascades. Lots of cloud-to-cloud lightning made for spectacular displays if you saw it.
WE'RE NOT DONE YET! Three more very wet storms through Sunday will bring 2-4" of more rain and wind gusts possibly up to 20-30 mph. Looking dry on Mon Dec 30-Tue Dec 31 with maybe another medium strength storm coming in Wednesday (New Year's Day).
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