Power outage.

This morning the neighborhood experienced a power outage starting about 2:15am. City light only had one crew on the night shift and they were currently dealing with a bigger power outage in Lake Forest Park. The power outage was due to a very large tree limb falling and detaching the primary feeder from the insulator and it landed on the transformer shorting it out. This was about 3 houses east from the weather station.

Power was restored around 5:15am. I booted the server and everything is back online now. Any data between 2:15am and 5:15am was lost.

Weather update.

Well it snowed most of the day Sunday. Here in Edmonds it was freezing rain briefly in the morning. At the weather station it stayed snow all morning and day. Total snow accumulation on the ground here in Edmonds is now 9 inches. Depth seems to vary a lot locally from neighborhood to street corners. Another storm is expected Tuesday night with daytime highs all week barely breaking 32 degrees, some thawing will be likely but I doubt enough to clear things up.

Here is a picture I took last night about 11:30pm of the I-5 Foot bridge over pass at NE 195th St. in Shoreline.


More can be found in the gallery.

Snow events log thus far...

Wednesday 12/17/2008: South sound and north sound (north of Everett) Got the majority of the snow. In the evening a band of showers moved south and dumped about an inch of snow across Edmonds and Shoreline.
Thursday 12/18/2008: Convergence zone developed over Downtown Seattle stretching through the east side. Those areas got the bulk of it, but it snowed lightly from Shoreline through Everett. Nothing more than a dusting for accumulation Between Shoreline and Everett.
Friday 12/19/2008: Mostly cloudy and cold. The high was about 27 degrees F.
Saturday 12/20/2008: So far, cloudy through out the day, low of 13.3 degrees F. High of 23.9 degrees F. Snow started falling about 3:15pm. It is expected to continue through out the night with 5-12 inches of snow by morning. Currently moderate snow and 22.1 degrees F. Stay warm, I'll post another update tomorrow.

Another cold morning.

We had another cold morning this morning.
My Shoreline station recorded 17.1ºF for a low around 7am.
My wireless radio shack thermometer at my apartment in Edmonds recorded a low of 19.2ºF.

National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm watch.
Between Shoreline and Marysville we are expecting a total possible accumulation of 7-8 inches it looks like. Currently there is a trace amount on sidewalks and lawns left over from the weekend's storm. Still a lot of icy roads around Shoreline, Edmonds and Everett. Drive careful!

Lowest temp in years

I've already broken the lowest temperature sense the Weather station has been recording. It has been online sense October 2007. So far the low is 20.5ºF. I suspect we'll see 17-15 degrees for a low this morning. We'll see, goodnight and stay warm!

Outage today

Shortly after 1pm today the weather server lost power breifly, as it is not yet on a backup battery it had to wait until I got off work to get powered back up at 4:30pm. Unfortunatly all data, wind speeds, rain, etc during that time frame was not recorded.

First Lowland Snow in forcast

Looks like our first chance at Puget Sound lowland snow is in the forecast. Currently they're saying Rain will start changing over to snow on the higher hills Friday night the 12th. Snow Saturday and snow showers saturday night with sunny but very cold temperatures on Sunday, highs in the upper 20's. Lows in the low 20's. I'm excited!