(First two photos by James Bratsanos)

4:08 PM: A bit of a headwind for that tug on Elliott Bay, as seen above – but we’ve escaped without too much overall weather drama here on the peninsula this afternoon, and the sun and blue sky have made appearances.

Even a rainbow:

(Photo by Jerry Simmons)

But as we first mentioned in the morning traffic/weather watch, there’s another wind alert for Tuesday pm. This afternoon it was downsized from a High Wind Watch to another Wind Advisory – and it’ll kick in a little earlier, 4 pm tomorrow, with maximum gusts possibly around 45 mph. (Read the new version here.)

ADDED 6:42 PM: We’ve had it easy compared to people along flooded rivers around Western Washington. King County leaders and weather authorities held a mid-afternoon briefing after the Green River levee breach; WSB contributor Anne Higuera watched it in case of information relevant here too – here’s her summary:

Impacts from the relentless rainfall of the last week aren’t letting up, with a levee breach on the Green River this morning (shown above in King County Sheriff’s Office aerial video), water ponding on some approaches to the West Seattle bridge and a traffic tangle for anyone heading south of 405 into the Kent Valley, where a portion of Highway 167 is closed. And there’s more: Wind advisories for today and tomorrow and more rain in the forecast through the end of the week. At a news conference this afternoon about the levee breach, King County Executive Girmay Zahilay called it a “very serious and emerging situation.”

Repairs are already under way on the Desimone levee, near Olympic Avenue South in Tukwila. The King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks had been monitoring that area, so when a stream of water started flowing out, they were able to act quickly to order evacuations and start working on a fix. “It’s not typical to have these levees have this much water behind them for this long, which is why we’re paying close attention,” said Director John Taylor. Right now the county is using a variety of resources, from National Guard troops to drones and the county’s Guardian One helicopter, to monitor levees throughout the area for potential trouble spots. No one was injured in the breach, and those who evacuated should stand by, says county Emergency Management Director Brendan McCluskey. “Once we can safely let people go back in, we’ll let them know.”

For everyone else, the standard warnings apply, to not drive through standing water or on roads that are closed, and to take common-sense steps given the conditions. “We are not done with this event yet,” said Reid Wolcott with the National Weather Service. “This is one small event in a greater disaster going on across the Pacific Northwest.” Wolcott, who is an NWS warning coordination meteorologist, pointed to the current Wind Advisories calling for gusts up to 45 mph. “That does not sound like a lot, but our soils are not normally this saturated. We have a very high risk of trees coming down.” There’s also an active flood watch issued, along with a special weather statement about potential landslides.

The website www.kcemergency.com will be updated with any new alerts from King County’s Office of Emergency Services. Seattle’s Office of Emergency Management has not issued any alerts since last August.