Right now we now have a really vigorous entrance passage, with a really intense chilly entrance.
For instance, right here is a picture from the Langley Hill radar (close to Hoquiam) at 5 PM. The arrow factors to an intense slender chilly frontal rainband, with purple colours indicating torrential rain! Such intense fronts break down into wave-like undulations.
Amazingly, high-resolution climate prediction fashions had been in a position to predict this function however had been a bit too quick (see the forecast for 3 PM). Climate fashions have come a great distance.
The Nationwide Climate Service was so nervous about this chilly entrance that they put out a flash flood warning for the south Sound space (see under)
The rainfall over the previous 24 has been substantial, with some places getting over an inch.
The wildfire season in western Washington is now over.
And sure, there may be much more to return over the subsequent week.
Curiously, our rainfall for the 12 months is sort of precisely regular now in western Washington.
Right here is the cumulative precipitation plot since January 1 at Sea-Tac, with the inexperienced line exhibiting this 12 months’s complete and the brown line exhibiting climatological values. The moist spring balanced the dry summer season/early fall.
Similar with Hoquiam
Curiously, the jap slopes are nicely above regular; (see Wenatchee under). Not solely was the spring moist, however they’d regular summer season precipitation.
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Additional cooling is predicted for subsequent week, with a number of days not getting above the excessive 40s. Actually a surprising change from every week in the past
