Number One
Reset your counters, because on Friday Beckers reported never-snow deposits on cars in Shoreline. For those out-of-town readers, Shoreline is a suburb about 15-minutes-with-no-traffic north of downtown Seattle, which puts it well within the Seattle metro area, and, heck, since Beckers commutes there for work the Shoreline weather affects a significant portion of MPL’s readership, so we’re counting it. Never-snow season is here…maybe a week or two early, but pretty much right on time.
Yeah, it’s November, which means two out of every three days feature cold temperatures, 30 mph winds gusting to 50 mph all night and day, hour after hour after hour of steady, cold rain, and just a few hours of “daylight.” It’s a joy. I doubt I’ll make it through tonight or tomorrow with electricity, and when the storm season started last week, I saw this fun report in the paper last Sunday, November 8th.
The forecast calls for another wet, windy storm late tonight through Monday, with gusts up to 50 mph.
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That translated into up to 1 ½ inches of rain over 48 hours and high wind gusts.
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[I]n Westport, unusually large ocean swells of up to 23 feet hammered the town’s jetty on Saturday, flooding the marina district with up to 14 inches of water, said Westport police Officer Chuck Cunningham.
On Saturday afternoon, 20-foot swells were coming in 17-second intervals, forcing businesses to put sandbags at their doors. The biggest problem, Cunningham said, was caused by cars driving through the flooded streets, causing wakes that topped the sandbags.
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Burke, the meteorologist, said the next storm should dump about a half-inch of rain in Seattle and several inches in the mountains.
The most unusual element of the recent storms, he said, was the “lineup” of thunder and lightning Thursday night. Except for that, the weather has been predictable for fall in Seattle.
“Everybody is always surprised by the fall, and yet it comes every year,” said Burke.
That last sentence pretty much sums up the three-way hate-love-hate triangle I have with Seattlites and the Seattle weather. They’re all like the abused partner in a relationship, convinced that if we could just see the real Seattle we’d see that it’s really wonderful weather here.
Tags: never-snow, Seattle, weather
November 17th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
It should be counted- it was, no doubt, at the root of Friday’s obscene traffic. At the very least, it was enough to cause high-pitched worrying by Shoreline Safeway employees and significantly impact their capacity to scan and pack groceries.
February 1st, 2010 at 8:04 pm
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