weather advisory for tomorrow

[rwx]

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
1135 AM PST TUE DEC 19 2006

WAZ001-503>519-201945-SAN JUAN COUNTY-WESTERN WHATCOM COUNTY-SOUTHWEST INTERIOR-EAST PUGET SOUND LOWLANDS-WESTERN SKAGIT COUNTY-EVERETT AND VICINITY-SEATTLE/BREMERTON AREA-TACOMA AREA-ADMIRALTY INLET AREA-HOOD CANAL AREA-LOWER CHEHALIS VALLEY AREA-OLYMPICS-EASTERN STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA-WESTERN STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA-NORTH COAST-CENTRAL COAST-WEST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES AND PASSES-WEST SLOPES CENTRAL CASCADES AND PASSES-
1135 AM PST TUE DEC 19 2006

...A STRONG FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH WESTERN WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY NIGHT..

A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WAS STARTING TO DEVELOP FAR OUT IN THE PACIFIC TODAY. THE LOW PRESSURE CENTER WILL DEEPEN RAPIDLY TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE LOW PRESSURE CENTER IS FORECAST TO TRACK TOWARD THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS WEDNESDAY NIGHT...SO THE EFFECTS OF THIS STRONG LOW WILL JUST BRUSH OUR AREA. HOWEVER...THE ASSOCIATED FRONT WILL STILL BE STRONG AS IT MOVES THROUGH WESTERN WASHINGTON. THIS FRONT WILL REACH WESTERN WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY
NIGHT.

EXPECT RAIN TO DEVELOP ON THE COAST WEDNESDAY MORNING...SPREADING THROUGH THE INTERIOR IN THE AFTERNOON. RAIN AND WINDY CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS WESTERN WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

ON THE COAST AND IN THE NORTH INTERIOR...EXPECT SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH. FOR THE REST OF THE INTERIOR INCLUDING PUGET SOUND AND THE SOUTHWEST INTERIOR EXPECT SOUTH WINDS AROUND 20 MPH WITH LOCAL GUSTS TO 40 MPH WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

Comments

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Oh dear Gods - not again.

Hey, here's our merry weather watch!

[geeklibrarian.livejournal.com]

WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
Issue Time: 3:15PM PST, Tuesday Dec 19, 2006
Valid Until: 11:15PM PST, Tuesday Dec 19, 2006
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WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING
THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
Urgent - Winter Weather Message National Weather Service Portland OR Issued By National Weather Service Seattle WA 315 PM PST Tue Dec 19 2006

Greater Portland Metro Area-Greater Vancouver Area- Including The Cities Of... Hillsboro... Portland... Oregon City... Gresham... Vancouver... Battle Ground... Washougal

... Winter Storm Watch In Effect From Wednesday Morning Through Wednesday Afternoon...

The National Weather Service Has Issued A Winter Storm Watch... In Effect From Wednesday Morning Through Wednesday Afternoon.

A Storm System Will Move Into The Area Wednesday Morning Bringing Rain To The Metro Area. The Precipitation Is Expected To Be Freezing Rain From About I-205 Eastward. Significant Ice Accumulation Is Possible Wednesday. The Shallow Layer Of Sub-Freezing Air Is Expected To Scour Out Late In The Afternoon With The Freezing Rain Changing Over To Rain.

A Winter Storm Watch Means There Is A Potential For Significant Snow... Sleet... Or Ice Accumulations That May Impact Travel. Continue To Monitor The Latest Forecasts.

Awesome

[madcap-allie.livejournal.com]

I can't wait 'til all the data from this winter comes in. Here's what's going on in the "other" box: we've got a moderate el nino, but no one was really willing to make any bets about its affect on the weather when it started shaping up this fall.

Oooh, look! We made NOAA's "significant global extreme events" for November 2006! I bet we're on again for December, too, at this rate.

[bbcaddict.livejournal.com]

THIS WEATHER REPORT WAS SO URGENT WE HAD TO TYPE IT IN ALL CAPS.


Al was right.

[rwx.livejournal.com]

the reporting device is so old that it only has one case.

[bbcaddict.livejournal.com]

I have this wonderful image of an old man in a billed headband with a pencil in it hovering over a teletype machine and hobbling into the newsroom... :)

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

It's cold as heck down here, although mostly clear. Will you people please get your weather in order so that we can return to normalcy?

[keyne.livejournal.com]

This, via someone else on my friendslist, was worth a read. Thoughts?

http://kuruzansuz.livejournal.com/167223.html

[rwx.livejournal.com]

This contains a lot of bad advice, largely because it doesn't involve being prepared beforehand, relies on cell and internet being working during a disaster, relies on gas being available at all, driving when the roads are bad, and etc... It strikes me more as someone who is saying what they did to survive this particular storm and writing it up as general advice than good advice.

If this storm had been a little more widespread, it would have caused problems on a much larger scale, a lot of the stuff they recommend wouldn't have worked out so well. Another way to put this is that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and they seem to be recommending quite a lot of cure.