We have had a little bit of everything today. This mornings commute started off with a nice wake-up call for many of you as a strong squall moved through Western Washington bringing heavy rain, hail, lighting, and thunder. That lasted for about 2 hours and what were we left with? Partly Sunny day. Crazy.
As for the rest of tonight, rain will continue to dominate over most of western Washington as another round of rain is making landfall. It will pick up in intensity tonight and then taper to just showers by midday tomorrow. Tomorrow’s highs will be in the upper 40s.
Thursday night into Friday will feature another disturbance passing through to give us some more rain which will taper off Friday afternoon. We’ll squeak by dry Friday evening into Saturday morning. Highs will be in the mid 40s both days.
The real soaker (as if today wasn’t enough) will be this weekend. A very wet pattern is shaping up that is typical of Spring time, a pattern called a “pineapple express” where lots of moisture is driven our way for a prolonged period of time, usually associated with warmer temperatures. It looks like this is shaping up for the weekend but fine details of where the bulk of the moisture will go have to be left out because models do not have a great consensus for now. This needs to be monitored because many of our local area rivers could reach flood stage with a prolonged period of rain. For now I would say that you should expect some pretty heavy rains for both Sunday and Monday. That could also carry into Tuesday but we’ll know for sure in the next couple of days when more higher resolution models can be looked at.
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