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Waethur - the worst spell of weather in a long time

Quite the wind storm last night and we are not out of the woods yet. From Cliff Mass this morning:

Brief Post Mortem
There were branches and even some trees down on the Burke Gilman bike trail this morning...so I knew something had happened. Here is a summary of the strongest winds over the past 24 hr. Big winds (70-90 mph) at some exposed mountain locations (they call it Hurricane Ridge for a reason!). Lots of 30-45 mph gusts in the lowlands and 50-70 mph along the coast.

The 48-h total precipitation ending 11:48 PM last night from Seattle Rainwatch shows the big differences over the lowlands (this is not valid over the mountains or south of Olympia). Some locations got to 5 inches or more. And there was a well-defined rainshadow NE of the Olympics.

And a picture is worth 1,000 words:

And we are not over yet... Posted by DaveH at September 30, 2013 5:43 PM