Watch for spectacular “spray” tomorrow on Beach Drive

Mother Nature’s elements are lining up for quite the show after mid-night tonight & through Friday afternoon. A marine forecast calling for near gale force winds combined with tides ranging from 6 to 10 feet is the recipe for huge spray coming off Beach Drive bulkheads. Unlike last December’s storm which flooded several homes along the coastline, tomorrow’s tides are several feet...

Wet and Windy and…of course… Waves

The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Advisory through 4:00 am Wednesday morning. We’re currently heading towards a low tide. However at around 3:00 am, an 11 foot tide is predicted with high tide of 11.2 at 3:45 am Wednesday.  The National Weather Service has the winds peaking around midnight, which looks to be around 6:00 ft and should hopefully be a “non-event”. Here is the Puget...

Tis the Season for Wet and Windy Winter Weather

Monday’s storm was probably one of the worst we’ve personally experienced in our seven years living on Beach Drive. I was surprised to see how many neighbors were hit hard.    We typically get an extra dose with having a low driveway and neighbors  with lower bulkheads. This is one of the reasons why we put together our “barking dog” reports… just warn when we are doing...

December 17, 2012 Storm Updates

Not a catchy title – sorry about that! I’m going to continue to update this post with the wild wind and waves we’re experiencing with this storm. I will continue to update this post with the newest information “on top” – under this intro.   Tides: 5.5 at 2:22 pm and 9.5 at 7:22 pm. High Wind Warning in effect until noon today. 11:50 update:  I’m guessing this video...

Updated Forecast for Tonight and Monday Morning

SEATTLE/BREMERTON AREA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…SEATTLE…BREMERTON…SILVERDALE… FEDERAL WAY…KENT 330 PM PST SUN DEC 16 2012 …WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 4 PM PST MONDAY… …COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY FOR MINOR TIDAL OVERFLOW IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM TO 11 AM PST MONDAY... TONIGHT…RAIN. BECOMING WINDY OVERNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 30S TO LOWER 40S....

This weekend’s King Tides become a Royal Pain?

West Seattle Herald recently wrote about the King Tides that will be topping out at 13 feet along our shoreline this weekend…  So called King Tides (a non-scientific term) simply refers to the very highest tides. They occur when the earth, moon and sun are aligned at perigee (when the moon is closest to earth) and perihelion (when the earth is closest to the sun), resulting in the largest tidal range...

Low tide neighbors get exposed!

Two days of low tides offered some great sights along a couple of West Seattle beaches. Starting with the beach off of Emma Schmitz Viewpoint, found this Stingray looking critter on it's back and set him back in the water before the birds made a meal of him! then found these gooey looking dudes hanging off a rock about 200 yards out… Click here for an album of other photos taken off Beach Drive. Then...

Another wind storm coming Sunday

Weather forecast can and do change.  At 4:30 this morning, we issued a "barking dog" report which basically means that we're preparing to possibly flood or lose power because of high winds, tides and waves slurping over the bulkhead.  A "barking dog" would be like your neighbors friendly retreiver who howls when he thinks something may be wrong – sometimes he's right,...

Low Tides this Week

We just passed today's low tide of -2.05 a few moments ago at 9:17 this morning.   Here's the rest of the week's low tides: Wednesday, July 13 at 10:05 a.m.: -2.4 Thursday, July 14 at 10:50 a.m.: -2.46 Friday, July 15 at 11:33 a.m.: -2.25 Saturday, July 16 at 12:13 p.m.: -1.78 Note: that's a bald eagle on the rock on the...

Extreme Low Tides

Check out the tides that we will enjoy this week: Monday, June 13: 11.76 at 2:18 am -2.24 at 9:34 am 10.82 at 5:08 pm 7.07 at 9:59 pm Tuesday, June 14: 11.58 at 3:04 am -2.94 at 10:20 am 11.5 at 6:00 pm 7.22 at 11:00 pm Wednesday, June 15: 11.32 at 3:52 am -3.24 at 11:04 am 11.9 at 6:45 pm 7.14 at 11:56 pm Thursday, June 16: 10.96 at 4:40 am -3.17 at 11:48 am 12.07 at 7:27...

How Are You Celebrating our Over-Due Seattle Sunshine this Weekend?

It looks like we're finally going to have some nice spring weather…just in time for summer!   From various forecasts, it looks like we're going to enjoy temps in the mid to upper 70s.   For added warm weather fun, we have some low tides too!   Today's low tide is a -2.38 at 1:15 p.m. and will be up to 11.78 at 8:44 tonight.  On Sunday, the low tide is a -1.99 at 1:58 in...