No... the wind has been very strong in places. Look at the outage map posted. That tells you where the strongest winds have been focused. Guessing right now there are 500,000+ without power in western WA across all the utility companies. This is just PSE which doesn't serve the city of Seattle.

Everyone else went to do their hair or something. We were up chatting for a while, so I'm a little out of the loop. Good to see some frost next week on the GFS and a nice little trough.

Winds down a bit now!

I feel like I am going nuts.

56 is pretty pedestrian by Willamette Valley standards, but much of that is due to the open topography. The Columbia Gorge routinely sees wind gusts over 100 mph and then of course places like Cape Blanco have recorded gusts in excess of 130 mph on numerous occasions. I guess high winds just are not very common in Western Washington.