Another storm is heading out way, with the potential to disrupt the flow of ship traffic on the river. This is pretty normal and happens in the winter time. Safety is essential for ships and the peopl

After our near-miss with a severe storm that walloped Washington to the north of us, a thunderstorm off the Long Beach Peninsula yesterday spawned a waterspout in the ocean off Long Beach. The waterbo

That dangerous bomb cyclone storm is moving on to the north of us, leaving us with big seas for the next day or so. It was a close call a storm packing hurricane force winds that somehow missed a dir

An intense low pressure storm called a bomb cyclone is churning out in the ocean a couple hundred miles offshore of the Oregon and Washington coast. While its not predicted to make landfall here loca

Today a look at a common but oft-overlooked maritime structure the Quonset hut. First designed and built for the US Navy in 1941, they were styled after a WWI version called the Nissen hut. Once use

A look at todays complement of cargo vessels on the river.

Whenever the Columbia River Bar at the mouth of the river temporarily becomes too dangerous to cross because of bad weather, the result a day or so later is a backlog of ships that have been waiting t

Today the bar is on Red status because of the weather, meaning few if any ships will cross the bar today at the rivers entrance. Well talk about how weather matters here, and why it can seem calm of

Today we take a look at our seasonally rowdy weather forecast, which already has the Columbia River Bar on Red status this morning, meaning ship traffic is halted across the river entrance until condi

Every year around this time, I do a show about an enduring maritime tragedy: the sinking of the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975. The incident, where the ship was lost i