We have a Pacific storm going on with the "Pineapple express" which we normally don't get by March, but we have wind gusts of 50 MPH and tonight for 3 hours, got an inch of rain. About 2 inches all day. OK, strange conditions off the R8 and outdoor antennas. First of all up and down the dial I am getting (I call it a coastal effect), a hissing and places with weak distorted audio from 500w local KSWB 9 miles away. I don't hear it on a portable, but I do get the noise. Atmospheric I am sure. Lots of Pacific stuff like Tonga 1017, Marshalls 1098, Fiji 558, 639, 684, etc, but a lot of noise from the storm or the pressure system. I have heard this before but not as intense. NO crackling of anything like this, just with hissing across the band and garbled audio mainly affecting LW & the lower part of MW. The higher in frequency the less it is. I remember driving across the bridge from Warrenton into Astoria one morning in the 70s with a storm and all I got across the radio dial (AM) was a howl. Infact it wiped out the locals and I was less than a mile from KAST 1370! It almost seemed like the steel piping on each side of the bridge was acting like a cap of something. As soon as I got off the bridge the noise disappeared. Many odd things have happened here on the coast through the years that I have never been able to explain. Again, I just call it the coastal effect. Do any of you engineers have any explanation for such things? By the way, as soon as this storm passes, the noise will be gone. It always does.
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