October 21

Clean those gutters and storm drains – front's moving in NOW

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This just in from the National Weather Service in Seattle:

A front will bring heavy rain and wind to Western Washington this evening through early Wednesday….

1 to 2 inches of rain is expected for the interior lowlands. Expect strong southerly winds throughout Western Washington.

And it doesn’t stop there. On Monday Cliff Mass posted:

An atmospheric river, a warm current of large amounts of water vapor, will be approaching our region starting later tomorrow (Tuesday), but it will be coming from a less frequent direction: the west. And the result will be the heaviest rainfall to strike our region since last winter.

Finally, a number of the modeling systems are predicting that a deep low pressure center will approach our coast on Saturday morning.

It will take a few days for the solutions to stabilize…but this is worth watching….

The latest run is in…and it is getting more threatening for western Washington! This is valid 5 AM Saturday. Only a 108 hr forecast…close enough that you got to be concerned. 985 hPa low. This would be a major windstorm folks.

And by 10 AM Saturday, the low moves north of Puget Sound after crossing the Olympics…the most threatening windstorm path. I am going to COSTCO tomorrow to buy batteries.

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  1. Clarification: the leaf piles are not scooped up and taken away; rather the leaves are blown into the street; to clog up storm drains.

    Spelling: First sentence, first ‘graph…should be “are yet two reasons leaf blowers should be banned.”

  2. The damage to the effectiveness of storm drains, and the cost of cleaning them out, to ensure there’s no backed-up standing water, is yet another reasons leaf blowers should be banned.

    That’s especially true for the leaf blowers being used to clean up commercial property, such as that upon which sets Group Health Northgate. Having watched workers using the noisy, dirty two-stroke engine-equipped anachronisms most contractors insist upon using, it’s a wonder how the city of Seattle, gets by as it does.

    If this winter is a wet one, and the drains get clogged in the north-end, much of that can be blamed on the continued use of leaf blowers; with no leaf clean-up after the leaves are blown into piles.

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