Pinpoint Alert: Strongest wind of the season possible Saturday night
Heavy rain and strong winds will impact Western Washington this weekend, potentially causing power outages.
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Heavy rain and strong winds will impact Western Washington this weekend, potentially causing power outages.
By Thursday morning, most of the rain will be gone, although a few isolated showers could linger during the day.
Rain arriving Wednesday night is likely to be just the start of a very soggy change in our weather pattern.
The upper-level low responsible for Friday’s showers will weaken and move away, allowing the showers to quickly diminish Friday night. That kicks off a stretch of cool but mainly dry weather through the weekend and into the first part of next week.
After a foot of snow at Paradise and a couple inches at Snoqualmie Pass, the more active weather will be winding down somewhat into Thursday.
Another weather system moving into Western Washington through tonight and Wednesday will bring even colder air than we’ve seen so far. By late tonight, snow levels will start to fall in the mountains as precipitation increases.
By late Tuesday and Tuesday night, another weather system moving in will increase onshore breezes (mainly in the 15-25 mph range), with rain also increasing late.
The 0.03″ of rain since midnight at Sea-Tac Airport pushed the monthly rain total for Seattle (officially) to 0.33″, knocking us to second place for driest October on record.
Washington has been short on rainfall at the start of fall, with many areas west of the Cascades seeing their driest start to October since 2022.
Temperatures will be cool to start Thursday, in the 40s.