On November 19, 2024, a rapidly intensifying “bomb cyclone” slammed the Pacific Northwest. This storm toppled trees onto transmission lines, damaging substations, leaving feeders, poles and spans of wire in transmission corridors impaired.
By the next morning, more than 750,000 homes across Western Washington were without power—one of the largest outages the region has seen in decades. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has cautioned that as the climate warms, storms of this kind are expected to become more intense, with greater moisture in the atmosphere and energy pushing farther inland.
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