WeatherWatcher: Weekly Report: Sunday's Wind

Forecast

Moderate Windstorm

Last week's data

Forecast: After a stormy weekend we will have a calm week of partly-mostly sunny skies and clear, cold nights as a ridge of high pressure steers the jet stream well to the north of us. Our calm weather will be short-lived however, as Thursday transitions back to the stormy pattern once again and renews our rain storms. Highs will probably be around the 50°F mark with lows in the 30's, low temperatures will moderate to the 40's after Thursday.

Moderate windstorm: Late Saturday night and through Sunday morning a wind storm pushed through the area. The storm was strong enough to prompt a High Wind Advisory for the greater Seattle area including Shoreline and Lake Forest Park. Some reports mentioned a high wind warning was issued, but I never saw the warning, only an advisory. I suspect the warning was hyped or mis-reported. This was actually our second strongest storm so far this 2014-2015 winter season, topping at a 40 mph gust Sunday morning. Our strongest storm so far was the December 11th storm of 52 mph. Power outages were smaller and more scattered this time around.

Last week's data:

High temperature: 52.3°F (Friday)

Low temperature: 34.0°F (Wednesday)

Rainiest day: 0.36 inches (Thursday) 

Total rainfall: 0.48 inches

Warmest day: 47.3°F (Sunday)

Coldest day: 36.6°F (Thursday)

Average temperature: 42.9°F

Station historic average: 39.8°F

We're still sitting at warmer than normal temperatures, which I'll talk about in a future report. Below is the daily high and low temperature graph for the month so far. Low temperatures are particularly higher than normal.

January 2015 Daily high and low temperatures.
Graph by Carl Dinse

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