This windy rainy day should be enough to remind us of how serious our winter weather can be.  The Seattle of City along with King County and Puget Sound Energy have teamed up to create a website to help bring awareness to what the public can do (and not do) in nasty weather.

We do our best with "barking dog reports" to let you know when we’re preparing to hunker down at our home.  Now’s as good as time as any to make sure you have what you need in the event of a big storm where we possibly lose power or flood.   Perhaps you’d like to adopt a drain to help out the streets in our neighborhood?

Just watching the evening sNews and caught an email from West Seattle Blog addressing tonights weather.

Seattle Forecast:

TONIGHT…PERIODS OF RAIN TURNING TO SHOWERS OVERNIGHT AND BECOMING WINDY. LOWS NEAR 50. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH BECOMING SOUTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.

TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE MID 50S TO LOWER 60S. SOUTHWEST WIND 15 TO 25 MPH DECREASING.

Marine Forecast:

…SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING…

TONIGHT…S WIND 10 TO 15 KT…BECOMING SW 20 TO 30 KT. WIND WAVES 1 OR 2 FT…BUILDING TO 3 TO 5 FT AFTER MIDNIGHT. RAIN IN THE EVENING…THEN SHOWERS AFTER MIDNIGHT

More like a whimper, or as Steve Pool said on tonight’s weather report on KOMO-4, consider this a "knock on the door" of weather to come. 

From KOMO’s site (5:30 pm update):

"So for tonight, we’re expecting a solid drenching of rain, with a burst of moderately breezy winds toward dawn as the front passes….maybe a few exposed spots like Alki Beach in the 40 mph range"

Puget Sound Marine Forecast:

…SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM PDT SATURDAY THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING…

SAT…S WIND 10 TO 15 KT RISING TO 20 TO 30 KT IN THE AFTERNOON. WIND WAVES 1 OR 2 FT…BUILDING TO 3 TO 5 FT IN THE AFTERNOON. SHOWERS.

SAT NIGHT…SW WIND 15 TO 25 KT…EASING TO 10 TO 15 KT AFTER MIDNIGHT. WIND WAVES 2 TO 4 FT… SUBSIDING TO 1 OR 2 FT AFTER MIDNIGHT. CHANCE OF SHOWERS.

Seattle Forecast:

TONIGHT…RAIN. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. VARIABLE WIND TO 10 MPH.

SATURDAY…SHOWERS. BECOMING WINDY IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS AROUND 60. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH INCREASING TO 20 TO 30 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.

SATURDAY NIGHT…WINDY IN THE EVENING. MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. LOWS NEAR 50. SOUTHWEST WIND 20 TO 30 MPH DECREASING TO 10 TO 15 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.

Our Next Tides:

• Sat, Oct. 4 @ 2:18 am:  -0.4
• Sat, Oct. 4 @ 9:37 am:  10.5
• Sat, Oct. 4 @ 3:08 pm:  7.3
• Sat, Oct 4, @ 7:51 pm:  9.2

Hopefully this just serves as a reminder to be prepared for foul weather…and nothing more.

Tis (the beginning of) the season! 

NOT!

Lot’s of thunder rolling around West Seattle right now along with a nice summertime down pour of wet rain and hail.

Power out in North Admiral

This must be January…it can’t be June!   Here’s the latest from the Puget Sound Marine Forecast:

…GALE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING…

TONIGHT…SW WIND 25 TO 35 KT…BECOMING NW 10 TO 20 KT N OF SEATTLE DURING THE EVENING. WIND DIMINISHING LATE TONIGHT. WIND WAVES 3 TO 5 FT EASING TO 1 TO 3 FT LATE. SHOWERS

Our high tide is an 11.8 at 11:21 p.m.  It should be a fun evening!

I don’t know about you but I am ready for a sunny summer.

Update/6:19 pm:  the Beach Drive weather station is currently reporting gusts up to 44 mph.