Whatcom Community College classes scheduled for 5 p.m. or later on Tuesday, Jan. 17, are being canceled because of bad weather and road conditions.
The bad weather is prompting Western Washington University to close its libraries at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
Skagit Valley College also is shutting down its operations and canceling all classes and activities for Tuesday night.
No word yet on the class schedules for Wednesday. The colleges will make that call early Wednesday morning, usually by 6 a.m.
Admitidly not strictly weather related,occurences of rogue waves also known as killer waves are huge and spontaneous ocean waves that occur far out at sea, and are a danger even to tankers.In oceanography, they are technically defined as waves whose height is more than twice the significant wave height (SWH), this measurement is dependant on observing a series of waves to determine the largest third of waves. Therefore rogue waves are not necessarily the largest waves found at sea; they are, rather, large waves for a given sea state.