SEATTLE – It was a wet and gusty evening for Halloween in the Pacific Northwest. Showers let up for a bit overnight, but another round of heavy rain returns for Saturday morning. 

It was a wet and gusty evening for Halloween in the Pacific Northwest. 

What’s next:

Another round of heavy rain will push across western Washington early Saturday through mid-morning. 

Another round of heavy rain will push across Western Washington Saturday through mid-morning. 

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A Flood Watch will be in effect for parts of western Washington Saturday for heavy rainfall. We could see 3-5″ of rain for the lowlands through Saturday night. Potential for stream and urban flooding will increase as well.  

A Flood Watch will be in effect for parts of Western Washington Saturday for heavy rainfall. 

Winds will also pick up again Saturday morning through the evening hours, with gusts up to 45 mph. The strongest gusts will be midday around the central Puget Sound. 

Winds will also pick up again Saturday morning through the evening hours, with gusts up to 45 mph. 

A Wind Advisory will be in effect early Saturday through the evening for strong wind gusts and the potential for area impacts. 

A Wind Advisory will be in effect early Saturday through the evening for strong wind gusts and the potential for area impacts. 

Saturday will be a little milder with highs in the low 60s. Widespread moderate to heavy rainfall to start Saturday, but showers will be more scattered into the afternoon. A Puget Sound Convergence Zone is possible into the evening for the central Puget Sound. 

Saturday will be a little milder with highs in the low 60s.

Showers will taper into Sunday with afternoon sunbreaks. We will see light snow at the higher mountain passes. A bit of dry time Sunday into Monday, but another round of rain returns Monday afternoon into Tuesday and then again for the end of the week. 

Showers will taper into Sunday with a morning round and some light snow at the higher mountain passes. 

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Seattle Reign head coach Laura Harvey says she has leaned on artificial intelligence (AI) service ChatGPT to help inspire her tactics in the NWSL this season.

The 45-year-old former Arsenal coach said she casually started testing the chatbot’s women’s soccer knowledge, before quizzing what ideas it might have for individual teams.

“One day in the offseason, I was writing things into ChatGPT like, ‘What is Seattle Reign’s identity?’ And it would spurt it out. And I was like ‘I don’t know if that’s true or not,’” Harvey told the Soccerish Podcast.

“And then I put in, ‘What formation should you play to beat NWSL teams?’ And it spurted out every team in the league and what formation you should play. And for two teams, it went ‘You should play a back five.’ So I did. No joke, that’s why I did it.”

Harvey made the admission after being asked how she had evolved over the course of a two-decade coaching career, but she had never started playing a ‘back five’ of defenders until this season but her coaching team went on a “deep dive” to evaluate its benefits, with the tactical setup used on multiple occasions this term.

“I’d never really done a lot of research on it,” Harvey added of the formation. “I’d never really, like, invested into how it could be played in the women’s game. I’d only ever really seen it from afar, you know, watching men’s games really.

“It was always sort of talked about as a way to see games out. You know, (you go ahead) and get into a back five and stop people from scoring, was sort of how, like, a back five had been talked about for me.”

With one match remaining in the regular season, the Reign are fourth in the 14-team NWSL, in a play-off spot, with 10 wins from 25 matches. This marks a vast improvement from last season, when they finished 13th.

Harvey, who previously coached the Reign between 2013 and 2017, rejoined the club in 2021. The Brit has won three NWSL Shields with Seattle and The Women’s Cup in 2022.

The City of Seattle has worked to get Seattle Police Department (SPD) recruitment numbers back up, incentivizing a starting salary of $103,000 and a signing bonus of $7,500 for new officers.

SPD currently has 1,200 sworn officers and 631 civilian employees, according to the city’s website. That’s up from only having 424 active officers, the lowest staffing levels since at least 1957, in April 2024.

“Numbers are up. It’s a good thing. It’s amazing what a contract can do,” Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG) President Mike Solan told “The John Curley Show” on KIRO Newsradio Wednesday.

Earlier this month, the City of Seattle reached a new collective bargaining agreement with the SPOG, which represents all Seattle police officers.

Under the agreement, police officers will receive a retroactive pay increase of 6% for 2024 and 4.1% for 2025. Officers will get an additional 2.7% increase in 2026, and the 2027 increase will range from 3% to 4%, depending on the Consumer Price Index.

Solan told KIRO host John Curley the two typically go without a contract for around three years, but this time it was over 12 years before a deal was made.

“To me, it’s unacceptable. But I credit the Harrell administration for recognizing that we’re in a public safety quagmire, as I usually refer to it, and they thought outside the box, and they got serious at the table. And we did as well, our contract team, and we put a deal together that I think the constituents across the city will want to have more cops,” he said.

Watch the full discussion in the video above. 

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