Friday, April 7, 2017

Big Storm Coming Today


Today we have a very powerful storm coming our way.  To quote Cliff Mass: 

“It is probably the most powerful April storm to approach the Northwest coast during the past half century.”

The latest models have us in the 50+mph gust range.  The NWS is very confident with this forecast.  As I come across information I will post it here through the day.  Feel free to comment.

8:00pm
Power is on again thanks to the hard work in dangerous conditions from the PSE linemen!
 
6:00pm
Power is out....  Running on generator....

3:30pm
A little update from Scott Sistek... Looks like this could last a while. The wind died down here and now it has picked up again.... Just had a 43mph gust.... 

 

12:30pm
Cliff Mass: "All hell is about to break loose around western Washington as a very strong April storm moves into our coastal waters."

He Updated his blog with some very interesting information...



12:00pm
Just had a 46mph gust.  Took the flag down to protect the flag pole.

11:00am
For anyone that has to deal with the Hood Canal Bridge today, here is a link that gives relatively current weather so you can watch the trends. It appears to be updating every 10 minutes, although it stopped updating at 10:18... Hood Canal Bridge Weather
 

The wind has been dead calm here until the last few minutes. I can see white caps up Admiralty Inlet and we just had a 29mph gust... Not much, but things are changing.

10:00am:

9:10am:  Just got word from my sister in-law in Beaverton.... Power is out all over and the wind is smokin'....


9:00am:
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