The yellows are some very noticeable (intense) rainfall and the red is raining cats and dogs, very very heavy rain and probably hail. That "line" of heavy rain there is a classic representation of a front and actually, that back edge where there is no rain, the boundary between the rain and lack of it is where the front lies. It's pretty neat to see it in radar around here because it is typically quite hard to see it.
Now that wasn't the only rain from yesterday that bumped up the total rain in the guage yesterday. In fact, we broke a record at Sea-Tac yesterday with 1.47" of rain, a daily record. Today's record (the 10th) is only .87" and were are up to .48" already this morning at 8:54 as i'm writing this. I think it is possible we break another record today. But last night another round of rain moved in that I found quite impressive.
I happened to be going to bed around this time and lets just say I was awakened a few times during the night. This is probably the rain that pushed us over the record yesterday and bumped up our total rainfall for today just this morning.
We can expect a brief lull in between systems this afternoon as most of the rain is done, but the wind will continue through this afternoon. It will be breezy around the sound and some stronger winds in the Northwest Interior and the San Juans. That was Storm #3 last night in a series of 10 STORMS that are aimed at us over the next 2 weeks. Friday looks like the calmest day of the week with just scattered showers and some sun-breaks. Friday night is when Storm #4 moves in and #5 is expected Sunday. Scattered showers Saturday and Monday and #7 is aimed for Tuesday. Now the 10 Storm scenario was made with some longer range forecast that I'll call "unreliable" at that length (15 days). Not that the data is wrong, but it is extremely hard right now to forecast that far out (In a decade, maybe it won't be that hard to do). But for now #8 may scoot south. It still looks quite wet though
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