Great Coastal Gale of 2007 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Great Coastal Gale of 2007 was a series of powerful Pacific storms

Extratropical cyclone

Extratropical cyclones, sometimes called mid-latitude cyclones or wave cyclones, are a group of cyclones defined as synoptic scale low pressure weather systems that occur in the middle latitudes of the Earth having neither tropical nor polar characteristics, and are connected with fronts and...

that affected the U.S. state

U.S. state

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s of Oregon

Oregon

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and Washington and the Canadian province

Provinces and territories of Canada

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of British Columbia

British Columbia

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between December 1, 2007 and December 3, 2007.

The storms on December 2 and 3 produced an extreme long-duration wind event with hurricane-force

Beaufort scale

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wind gusts of
up to 137 mph (61.2 m/s) at Holy Cross, Washington on the Washington Coast and 129 mph (57.7 m/s) at Bay City, Oregon

Bay City, Oregon

Bay City is a city in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,286 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water....

on the Oregon Coast

Oregon Coast

The Oregon Coast is a region of the U.S. state of Oregon. It runs generally north-south along the Pacific Ocean, forming the western border of the state; the region is bounded to the east by the Oregon Coast Range. The Oregon Coast stretches approximately from the Columbia River in the north to...