daily update 11/29/2006

Current Temp: 28.4ºF
Current Temp Trend: steady
Current Humidity: 98%
Current Humidity Trend: steady
Current Condition: heavy snow/sleet
Today's High: 31.3ºF
Today's Low: 15.8ºF
Today's Humidity High: 98%
Today's Humitity Low: 54%
Today's Weather: Increased clouds. Snow flurries for the afternoon, evening brought heavy snow, sleet, some freezing rain, then more snow and sleet. Around 11pm winds picked up out of the east and the temprature dropped. We now have 6 inches of drifting snow/blowing snow, with a layer of ice on top of it from freezing rain, it has now gone back to heavy snow with some sleet mixed in here and there. So much for their prediction if it warming above freezing by midnight.

daily update 11/28/2006

Current Temp: 17.6ºF
Current Temp Trend: droping
Current Humidity: 95%
Current Humidity Trend: steady
Current Condition: high clouds
Today's High: 27.9ºF
Today's Low: 17.6ºF
Today's Humidity High: 98%
Today's Humitity Low: 82%
Today's Weather: Partly Cloudy, Very cold.

*Special*
Winter Storm Watch has been issued by the National Weather service of Seattle for the entire western washington region. 1-3 inches possible starting Wednesday night through Thursday. Accumulations are not exact, due to the unpredictability of how long it will take for the northern marine air of this next system to move in. They do know it will stop precipitating before tempratures rise above freezing. Lows tonight are expected to hit single digits.

As I was driving up Hwy 522 from Shoreline today, going accross the Snohomish River the temp reading in my car was 10ºF. In Shoreline it was 16ºF at around 8:30pm It was 20.3ºF when I pulled into my driveway at 10pm.

All roads are solid ice. Sand helps but only in spots.

daily update 11/27/2006

Current Temp: 27.9ºF
Current Temp Trend: steady
Current Humidity: 97%
Current Humidity Trend: rising
Current Condition: overcast, lightly snowing
Today's High: N/A ºF
Today's Low: N/A ºF
Today's Humidity High: N/A
Today's Humitity Low: N/A
Today's Weather: *Winter Storm* Continuations of this seasons' first winter storm. Currently 2.5" inches of snow on the ground. The predicted low tonight is 11ºF. Tomorrow's High is not expected to break 20 degrees. 1.5 inches of the snow accumulation is new as of today. Monroe, Wa about 7 miles west of here recieved 7" of new snow tonight. Bellingham got 15" of snow so far sense our cold snap.

Current forcast calls for snow showers ending Tuesday morning. Then clearing and very cold. A new storm will move in Wednesday evening and dump another round of snow through friday. I am now processing these daily updates from my new location in Gold Bar, Washington. It is one of the small towns located along the Skykomish River in the Cascade Mountains off of Steven's Pass Hwy.

Winter Storm Warning

At 6:45pm the national weather service issued a winter storm warning for North King County and Snohomish County due to a convergance zone developing. 3-5 inches additional tonight and another 2-3 tomorrow.

new forcast

They finally issued a new forcast. Aparently a convergance zone is developing and now 4-8 inches of snow is possible in the puget sound convergance zone, Northern King County and Snohomish County is included in that. Between now and tomorrow morning.

todays snow storm update

Snow is falling heavy now, theres over an inch on the ground, it's the real heavy wet stuff. Tree limbs can be heard breaking left and right outside at any given time. Power has been flickering as well. This is in shoreline, Washington. Trees are very weighed down right now.

Significant lowland snow

Today the forcast was the typical of a snow event, snow and rain mixed showers.

Well it of course turned all the way to snow, they orginally predicited it wouldn't until the bulk of the moisture was over us later tonight. Well I'm sure now the predicted 1-2 inches will be more like 4-6 inches. It's snowing hard now for the past 20 minutes and already a trace is on the ground down here in Shoreline, Washington.

In Goldbar, it snowed all night but did not stick. There was a trace in spots. Wind was gusting at about 40-50 mph however. Temprature is hovering around 30-34 degrees right now and all night. I will post more updates as this storm progresses.

Late entry but it's here none the less...

November 6th, 2006 we had a pineapple express storm system move through, one of the most intense types of it's kind. It dumped over 10 inches of rain in the mountains, it was so warm that almost all precipitation in the mountains was rain. The Skykomish River in Goldbar crested at a record shattering 23.94 feet. Previous record was set on November 24th, 1990 at 22.49 feet.

Today, we have a seris of pacific storms moving in bringing high winds to the entire region and large amounts of snow in the mountains. theres 3 feet of snow up there now and another foot to two feet is expected by tomorrow noon.

I am still in the process of settling in at my new place and should be able to start daily updates again. Sometime in December I'll have a full weather station set up, they've come down alot in price over the past couple of years. It'll be a simple array with a anometer (records wind speed and direction) a rain gauge, berometer, humity and temprature as well.

Pacific Storm one after another...

We just had a warm pacific storm blow through dumping alot of rain and generating alot of winds.

Now we have a much more powerful storm blowing in, dumping 6 inches of rain in the lowlands and 10 inches or more in the mountains, Flood watches and Wind warnings are in effect. Heres what the national weather service statements are, I'm just saving them for records.

WGUS66 KSEW 060001
FFASEW

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
401 PM PST SUN NOV 5 2006

...EXCESSIVE RAINFALL TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT COULD LEAD TO MAJOR FLOODING IN WESTERN WASHINGTON...

THE LEADING EDGE OF A EXTREMELY WET WEATHER SYSTEM MOVED INTO WESTERN WASHINGTON THIS AFTERNOON. RAINFALL RATES WILL PICK UP OVERNIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING WITH THE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN IN THE MOUNTAINS BEGINNING TONIGHT AND CONTINUING THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. BY TUESDAY...RAINFALL TOTALS OF 2 TO 6 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE LOWLANDS WITH 6 TO AS MUCH AS OVER 10 INCHES POSSIBLE IN THE MOUNTAINS. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL IS EXPECTED ALONG THE SOUTH SLOPES OF THE OLYMPICS AND IN THE NORTH CENTRAL CASCADES. THIS AMOUNT OF RAIN WILL PRODUCE RIVER...AS WELL AS...URBAN FLOODING. THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR MAJOR FLOODING ON MANY OF THE RIVERS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE SKAGIT...SNOQUALMIE...SNOHOMISH...PUYALLUP AND CARBON.

WAC009-027-031-033-035-041-045-053-057-061-067-073-060800- /O.EXT.KSEW.FA.A.0008.061106T0600Z-061107T0600Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ CLALLAM-GRAYS HARBOR-JEFFERSON-KING-KITSAP-LEWIS-MASON-PIERCE- SKAGIT-SNOHOMISH-THURSTON-WHATCOM- 401 PM PST SUN NOV 5 2006

...FLOOD WATCH NOW IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM PST THIS EVENING THROUGH MONDAY EVENING...

THE FLOOD WATCH IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR

* PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON...WEST CENTRAL WASHINGTON AND WESTERN WASHINGTON...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...IN NORTHWEST WASHINGTON...CLALLAM...JEFFERSON...SKAGIT AND WHATCOM IN WEST CENTRAL WASHINGTON...KING...KITSAP...LEWIS... MASON...PIERCE...SNOHOMISH AND THURSTON IN WESTERN WASHINGTON...GRAYS HARBOR.

* FROM 10 PM PST THIS EVENING THROUGH MONDAY EVENING

* HEAVY RAINS WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT AND PERSIST THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. THE RAIN RATES WILL TAPER OFF ON TUESDAY. BY TUESDAY RAINFALL TOTALS OF 2 TO 6 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE LOWLANDS WITH 6 TO AS MUCH AS OVER 10 INCHES POSSIBLE IN THE MOUNTAINS. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL IS EXPECTED ALONG THE SOUTH SLOPES OF THE OLYMPICS AND IN THE NORTH CENTRAL CASCADES. THIS AMOUNT OF RAIN WILL DRIVE MANY RIVERS ABOVE FLOOD STAGE MONDAY. IN ADDITION...IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THERE WILL BE WIDESPREAD URBAN FLOODING MONDAY DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS.

A FLOOD WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR FLOODING BUT FLOODING IS NOT IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. MONITOR THE WEATHER AND BE READY TO ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.

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FELTON WEATHER.GOV/SEATTLE

WWUS86 KSEW 052048 CCA
SPSSEW

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
100 PM PST SUN NOV 5 2006

WAZ001-503>519-061730-
WESTERN WASHINGTON
100 PM PST SUN NOV 5 2006

...A VIGOROUS PACIFIC FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL ARRIVE BY TONIGHT AND REMAIN OVER THE REGION THROUGH MONDAY...

A STRONG WEATHER SYSTEM WILL IMPACT THE REGION IN SEVERAL IMPORTANT WAYS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. THIS STORM IS ASSOCIATED WITH STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS AND A STREAM OF MOISTURE THAT EXTENDS INTO THE SUBTROPICAL PACIFIC. THIS WILL BE THE WETTEST IN THE RECENT SERIES OF FRONTS TO AFFECT THE REGION. HEAVY RAINS WILL ARRIVE THIS EVENING AND PERSIST THROUGH THE DAY MONDAY AS THE FRONT STALLS OVER THE AREA. 24 HOURS OF UNUSUALLY HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED IN THE MOUNTAINS. A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE RIVERS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON.

A DEEP LOW PRESSURE CENTER OFFSHORE HAS A LARGE AREA OF GALE AND STORM FORCE WINDS. THE SYSTEM WILL BRING GALES TO THE COASTAL AND INLAND WATERS TONIGHT AND MONDAY. IT WILL BE WINDY ACROSS THE LAND AREAS AS WELL...WITH SOUTHERLY WINDS TO 30 MPH AND LOCAL GUSTS TO 50 MPH LATER TONIGHT AND MONDAY.

LARGE OCEAN SWELL WILL BUILD MONDAY...REACHING THE COAST BY TUESDAY. HIGH ASTRONOMICAL TIDES WILL COMBINE WITH THE HIGH SURF INCREASING THE RISK OF COASTAL FLOODING TUESDAY.

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The Skykomish River that is in my backyard is currently at 10ft. Flood stage is 15 feet. It's predicted to reach 19 feet. Record is 22 feet set in 1990. If it gets up to 23 feet I'm flooded. I hear Hwy 2 gets closed in Sultan at 21 feet. I'll be watching this storm very closely.