Saturday 7:30pm update: we’re still on track for a rainy, gusty overnight! The system is crossing the Olympic Peninsula, about to hit the Sound…seems to be running a tad ahead of what we thought. The leading edge of the rain should be here by 9pm, with the strongest rain a bit behind that.
Just to be clear, this should be more of a gusty storm for the Plateau, rather than a full-on wind storm. This is nothing like November 2024! Still expecting the strongest gusts to be around 40-45 mph around 10pm, as the band of heavy rain moves through…otherwise, we’ll still be pretty breezy thru the rest of the night, gusting in the 20-30 mph range.
However, like I mentioned the other night - since this is the first decent storm of the season, there may be more impacts than we’d have later in the season. Aside from more leaves to rake up tomorrow, the winds may bring some branches down, and cause scattered outages. Probably worth keeping phones charged.