Wind Warning: Another Night of 75 MPH Gusts

— from National Weather Service —

[Editor’s Note: UPDATED: 5:30 p.m., Thursday, December 11, 2014.)

SAN JUAN COUNTY-WESTERN WHATCOM COUNTY-SOUTHWEST INTERIOR-
WESTERN SKAGIT COUNTY-EVERETT AND VICINITY-TACOMA AREA-
ADMIRALTY INLET AREA-HOOD CANAL AREA-LOWER CHEHALIS VALLEY AREA-
WESTERN STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA-EAST PUGET SOUND LOWLANDS-
BELLEVUE AND VICINITY-SEATTLE AND VICINITY-BREMERTON AND VICINITY-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FRIDAY HARBOR...BELLINGHAM...BLAINE...
LYNDEN...OLYMPIA...LACEY...TUMWATER...CENTRALIA...TOLEDO...
MOUNT VERNON...ANACORTES...SEDRO-WOOLLEY...BURLINGTON...EVERETT...
EDMONDS...LYNNWOOD...MARYSVILLE...ARLINGTON...TACOMA...LAKEWOOD...
PUYALLUP...SUMNER...PORT TOWNSEND...PORT LUDLOW...HOODSPORT...
BRINNON...MONTESANO...JOYCE...CLALLAM BAY...GOLD BAR...ENUMCLAW...
NORTH BEND...BUCKLEY...BELLEVUE...KIRKLAND...REDMOND...ISSAQUAH...
SEATTLE...SHORELINE...FEDERAL WAY...KENT...BREMERTON...SILVERDALE
311 PM PST THU DEC 11 2014

...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST FRIDAY...

* SOME AFFECTED LOCATIONS INCLUDE...SEATTLE...BELLEVUE...
  TACOMA... OLYMPIA...CENTRALIA...EVERETT...WHIDBEY ISLAND...
  PORT TOWNSEND...AND BELLINGHAM.

* TIMING...HIGH WINDS ARE LIKELY TO FIRST DEVELOP ACROSS GRAYS
  HARBOR...THURSTON...PIERCE...AND LEWIS COUNTIES AFTER 4 PM THIS
  AFTERNOON. THE REMAINING LOWLANDS INCLUDING PUGET SOUND AND THE
  NORTH INTERIOR WILL HAVE HIGH WIND GUSTS DEVELOPING AFTER 6 PM
  THIS EVENING.

* WIND...SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST INTERIOR
  AND PUGET SOUND WILL RAPIDLY RISE TO 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS
  TO 60 MPH THIS EVENING...THEN GRADUALLY EASE LATER IN THE
  EVENING. AREAS FROM ADMIRALTY INLET NORTHWARD WILL HAVE SOUTH
  TO SOUTHEAST WIND OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 65 MPH...
  SLOWLY EASING AFTER MIDNIGHT. STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR ALONG
  SHORLINES AND LOCATIONS EXPOSED TO SOUTHERLY WIND. WINDS WILL
  DIMINISH ACROSS WESTERN WASHINGTON BY DAYBREAK FRIDAY MORNING.

* IMPACTS...WINDS THIS STRONG WILL TOPPLE LARGE TREES.
  WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES ARE LIKELY TO OCCUR GIVEN THE
  SATURATED SOILS FROM RECENT HEAVY RAIN. STRONG WINDS COULD
  IMPACT THE EVENING COMMUTE...ESPECIALLY FROM SEATTLE
  NORTHWARD.