Surprised to see the NWS increase the wind gust forecast for OLM this morning. We'll see if it verifies. There's likely to be a pretty significant amount of power outages around here if we get gusts to 50. PSE is already reporting 17,000+ without power as of 0840.
It's very dark outside but no rain and no wind. It's eerie - almost feels like the calm before the storm. Excited to see if this overperforms or underperforms later today.
It is quite dark, dreary, and ominous looking outside this morning, not to mention blustery. No tree damage yet but leaves are flying everywhere. I think this storm might surprise us a bit, but we'll see what happens.
Precipitation hits during the warm period on Friday. I would hope that it waits a little bit until after the cooldown starts on Friday night to prevent any rain issues.