I mentioned it in another thread, which I should update.
I’ve lived in the Puget Sound region most of my life, and today is pretty crazy. Second rainiest day in Seattle since 1945. The commute tonight is going to be nightmarish. Tons of roads closed due to flooding. Flood watches on almost all of the rivers in Western Washington, too.
https://www.king5.com/article/weather/weather-blog/seattle-2nd-wettest-december-day/281-001171e1-ddd8-4249-b19d-651bec672b12
LeeAbe
4496
Commute was normal tonight from Seattle to Bothell on rainy day. Meaning it sucked. It takes 30+ minutes to get the 5 miles from the park and ride to my house when it rains like this.
We get our fair share of rain here, but it usually lets up, but its been nonstop for about 36 hours. I kind of like it. (Outside of the damage it’s doing).
Only thing I saw was standing water on the road to the ferry terminal in Edmonds.
It was quite bad flying into SeaTac last night. The baggage system flooded and failed, thus departing planes couldn’t get luggage, so they didn’t leave. Arriving planes had to sit on the tarmac with no gates to go to. We sat for 90 minutes, though we heard others were over 3 hours. Then the wait for bags and the giving up. Had to catch the last ferry and abandon the bags. Yay rain!
Seattle/Western Washington-area peeps. We’re going to have a pretty serious cold front move in early next week. The highs Tuesday and Wednesday will be in the 20s. Any kind of precipitation will translate into snow, but there’s also the potential for very icy conditions if the moisture is already on the ground when it freezes.
Cliff Mass says these are the coldest temperatures that we’ve seen in at least 6 years.
Suggest you stock-up this weekend.
Same thing here in Michigan this weekend. I arrived home to find a winter storm warning starting tonight, and all the local news showing stories about people buying generators and stocking up on food. Kinda amusing, really…in a normal year, you’d expect west Michigan to shrug off a mid-January snowstorm. But since there’s been basically no winter yet this year, everyone’s panicking. Fortunately, I am prepared to sit around the house and do absolutely nothing, for several days if necessary.
Nesrie
4502
My neighbor and I were just discussing this. I guess I will have to go to the grocery store this weekend. I’ve been avoiding it since before the holidays. I just didn’t want to go!
There saying inches here… but what really perked the ole ears up is that before that is rain followed by 20 degree weather which equates to rolling-skating, with your car.
Yeah. Thank god I work remote from home.
Nesrie
4504
Me too!
But I still need get real food in the house. Can’t eat Christmas candy and crackers and cheese forever. If it goes much below 20… might have some pipe issues. I guess I better fish around for potential spots for that.
fdsaion
4505
Meanwhile its going to be 70° and raining on the east coast as that same system moves through
CraigM
4506
Work sent out some reminders about that. Everyone is all worried about that here.
Meanwhile I look forward to running outside in the snow. Love it!
But, yeah, they’ll probably close the office if it does snow here. Crossing from the Willamette to the Tualatin valley in those conditions is… dangerous.
We’re supposed to have six inches of rain in St. Louis by the time the weekend is over. It’s also 60 degrees. The weather is so freaking weird these days.
Yeah, I’m worried about it. At our new place, getting to the yard with the dogs is a bit over 20 feet across the deck, followed by a half dozen steps.
LeeAbe
4509
Cliff Mass is saying the roads will be warm enough and the snow light enough that the commute will be fine Monday morning. That sucks.
It’s not really a snowstorm they’re worried about, but the .5" of ice they were predicting which does have the ability to take trees and lines down and knock power out over a wide area for several days (along with being a huge road hazard of course). I remember a bad ice storm we had back in the 90s which left us without power for a week.
Here in Southern Mid-Michigan it’s just been a whole bunch of rain with temperatures sitting right at 32 degrees Fahrenheit for most of the day. Nothing was frozen when I went out earlier, but as the night goes on I’m sure that will change.
It’s been a very warm Winter so far for Michigan. There were insects flying around outside on Christmas. Needless to say, that’s outrageous.
I’m down in L.A. this weekend, but my wife on Bainbridge Island has stocked up and assumes she’ll lose power. Looks like it’ll be a rough week in the NW.
LeeAbe
4512
Looks like it is going to be just fine, just cold.
65 degrees in Albany yesterday and again today.
We went out hiking in the woods north of Boston, MA (65F temps!), and there were plenty of people in shorts and T-shirts, and the woods were mobbed. Normally on the popular trails we might only see a few die-hard dog people walking their furry buddies on a cold winter day (for us that’s 20F), but there were over a hundred cars parked illegally on the service road near the parking lot yesterday (which is the largest for the woods, and fits ~ 50-60 cars.)
