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[solarbird]

National Weather Service has updated its windstorm warning:

THESE HIGH WINDS WILL CAUSE FALLING TREES AND POWER OUTAGES ARE LIKELY. THERE MAY BE DAMAGE TO SOME STRUCTURES. THERE IS A HAZARD FROM FLYING DEBRIS TONIGHT. PEOPLE SHOULD RUSH TO COMPLETION PREPARATION FOR HIGH WINDS...LOOSE OBJECTS AROUND THE YARD SHOULD BE SECURED...BOAT MOORINGS SHOULD BE CHECKED.

(Courtesy NOAA/NWS)

I guess I should take the strawberries in.

Also, KUOW had a guy from UW's atmospheric sciences department saying that if there are really large trees south of your bedroom, don't sleep there tonight - winds will be in large part from the south, blowing north, and trees will be coming down. Damn. (Murknet side note: our power lines? Immediately north of an assortment of large trees, quite tall enough to take them down.) 90mph+ gusts in the Straits, 50-60, maybe even 65 in the Sound, where we are. The best part is that there's a Seahawks football game tonight downtown. That should be hy-larious. 160 yard passes, ho!

So far, it's just very, very rainy, and dark enough that the streetlights have turned back on. There's no real wind yet, the rain's mostly vertical; that part's not supposed to get here until tonight.

Of course, given the nature of weather around here, it could all very well peter out to an assortment of light breezes, with no adventure at all.

Quite the autumn we're having, isn't it?

Comments

[firni.livejournal.com]

The weather has been annoying, to say the least. I'm not even bothering to pick up the assortment of branches all over my yeard, left over from yesterday and from the snowstorm.

Although, with all the evergreen snapped off in the driveway and yard, it's beginning to SMELL a lot like Giftmas.

[solarbird]

I'm not even bothering to pick up the assortment of branches all over my yeard, left over from yesterday and from the snowstorm.
Maybe they'll blow into somebody else's yard. Problem solved!

I didn't mention, but the UW climate sciences guy said while it'll be strong, the peaks won't last for more than three or so hours at any given location. So.

[firni.livejournal.com]

Plenty of time to knock a few trees into my house, I'm sure.

[solarbird]

Apparently there's another older windstorm called the Columbus Day Windstorm that had gusts of 150-200mph in the straits.

This isn't going to be one of those.

[firni.livejournal.com]

Wow, I can almost SEE my barometer drop in real-time.

[aerialscribe.livejournal.com]

I wonder if our bad weather is related to this:

Geomagnetic storm incoming

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008392.html

If your local forecast is for clear skies tonight, and your distance from the equator is the same or greater than ours, get outside and look up. You may get to see an aurora. Trust me, it's worth going to some trouble to see.

[cow.livejournal.com]

Huh. All of the downed trees I saw this morning fell from west to east.

[solarbird]

The first downed thing (a rhody) and the first downed actual tree (an oak, I think?) both fell in the predicted pattern. It's just probabilities.