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As a firehose of rain, known as an atmospheric river, continues in western Washington and Oregon into Wednesday, small streams and rivers will become raging torrents and pose significant threats to lives and property. The atmospheric river has already turned deadly as a man was swept away along Johnson Creek near Portland, Oregon, Monday. AccuWeather meteorologists reserve the term atmospheric river for the most extreme rain and snow events when a long plume of moisture is directed from the ocea
The tops of 20,000-foot volcanoes were thought to be uninhabitable, until baffled scientists started finding freeze-dried mouse mummies there.
Computer models and meteorologists at the Mount Washington Observatory expect winds to reach at least 100 mph as Hurricane Lee passes several hundred miles off to the southeast. Due to upslope winds and a wind tunnel effect through the mountains, higher elevations are custom to seeing stronger winds than surface locations.
The results could help understand the effects of climate change at extremely high elevations, researchers say.