Seattle, WA
Seattle weather: Puget Sound stays dry for now, but winds pick up Thursday
Temperatures dropping barely to finish out the week
FOX 13 chief meteorologist Lisa Villegas has the newest forecast.
SEATTLE – Wednesday appeared fairly spectacular across the Northwest. Highs slowly warmed into the low to mid 50s across the area.
SeaTac hit 51 whereas simply northeast down the street in Seattle, the Sandpoint neighborhood landed at 55, which is above common.
We’re forecasting one other chilly in a single day with areas of freezing fog creating for folk via parts of the South Sound.
Enable for additional time on the street in Pierce County when out early tomorrow.
Thursday will appear to be a repeat of Wednesday besides we’re mixing in some gusty winds into the forecast.
Winds will decide up in a single day for the foothills of Puget Sound as a system digs into the jap portion of Washington. This may open the door for not solely winds, however mountain snow throughout the jap Cascades.
A Wind Advisory will stay in impact via Thursday night for the foothills of the Cascades.
We anticipate areas like Monroe, Gold Bar, North Bend, Maple Valley, Black Diamond, Enumclaw, Bucky, Bonnie Lake to expertise the strongest easterly gusts early Thursday morning. By late afternoon/early night peak winds will subside and chill out making this a reasonably short-lived wind occasion.
Please watch out in these areas as we may see timber and limbs down together with some energy outages.
And though the North Sound shouldn’t be underneath wind advisory, we’re forecasting potential peak winds of 20-40 mph for Western Whatcom County.
The forecast stays fairly quiet via the weekend, however change is looming within the Pacific. That good higher ridge of excessive stress that is been retaining us dry lastly breaks down permitting for a sample swap.
By late Sunday into early Monday, a system pushes inland delivering gentle to average showers for the lowlands with some snow for the mountains.
A stronger entrance will blow via Tuesday retaining widespread rain within the space. And sure, we’re monitoring a number of different techniques as we push into the Thanksgiving vacation. Keep tuned!
Excellent news for snow fans—a number of ski resorts will open later this week.
Crystal Mountain is ready to open Friday with Mission Ridge opening Saturday. Take pleasure in!
Have a terrific remainder of the week all! ~Erin Mayovsky, FOX 13 Forecaster
*We’re monitoring the dry streak! No precipitation in sight till late Sunday into early Monday. So, at this level it seems to be like now we have a shot at tying the document.
