West Seattle Weather Watch: Wind advisory and flood warning

January 6, 2009 at 9:56 pm | In Safety, West Seattle news, West Seattle weather | 6 Comments

Keep the flashlight at bedside, just in case – this is the wind advisory renewed by the National Weather Service a little more than an hour ago:

…WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST WEDNESDAY…

A STRONG STORM WHICH IS BRINGING HEAVY RAIN TO THE MOUNTAINS IS ALSO CAUSING STRONG WINDS ACROSS THE URBAN CORRIDOR FROM TACOMA NORTHWARD TO EVERETT INCLUDING THE SEATTLE AREA. EXPECT SUSTAINED SOUTH WINDS OF 20 TO 30 WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. THESE WINDS WILL CONTINUE OFF AND ON THROUGH THE NIGHT AND DIMINISH WEDNESDAY MORNING.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS OF 45 TO 57 MPH ARE LIKELY. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN SNAP SMALL TREE BRANCHES…TOPPLE SMALL OR SHALLOW-ROOTED TREES…AND CAUSE LOCAL POWER OUTAGES.

A flood warning also is in effect through Thursday morning for possible “small stream” and urban flooding. We’ve just been out for a drive around some of the usual areas where this hits first – no trouble yet but if heavy rainfall continues as expected for hours to come, could be a different situation by morning.

12:28 AM UPDATE: We’re working on some other stories so we’re keeping watch on weather too; midnight readings from the NWS included 30 mph sustained/40 mph gusts at Alki Point (K91S on our favorite hourly list). Nothing on the City Light online list of outages.

1:14 AM NOTE: 34 mph speed, 44 mph gusts at Alki Point at 1 am.

6 Comments

  1. @8:15–lots of water flowing down California toward Harbor Ave.

    Comment by angelescrest — January 6, 09 10:00 pm #

  2. Lights flickered here in Gatewood about 5-10 minutes ago. Please, no…

    Comment by Stuart — January 6, 09 10:03 pm #

  3. Yeah, here too, and we’re just south over the “border” between Gatewood and Fauntleroy … The 7 1/2-hour outage night before last was just plenty for us, thank you very much …

    Comment by WSB — January 6, 09 10:35 pm #

  4. Just drove from Gatewood to Alki (and back). All power on. Alki has a steady 25 to 30 mph wind blowing – although I believe the gusts are stronger up here on the hill. Large puddles are starting to form on street corners.

    Comment by Lou — January 6, 09 10:47 pm #

  5. There were only 8 houses without power – 37th off Morgan ish and it is now back on! :)
    Guess I don’t have to eat all the ice cream now.

    Comment by R26 — January 6, 09 11:13 pm #

  6. Thanks for the update. It wasn’t big enough to be on City Light media radar so I was somewhat in the dark, pardon the pun. Here’s hoping we’ll make it through this one without anybody else going out …

    Comment by WSB — January 6, 09 11:23 pm #

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