After major dumping of snow, atmosphere finally drying out

NWS still has an advisory up until 10 pm for East Puget Sound Lowlands - up to 3" more snow possible. I think they're finally erring on the conservative side for us🤔.
After reviewing the radar however, the atmosphere looks to finally be drying out. It's been a long stubborn process. Wet snow mixed with rain through much of today. I don't think poor Wilderness Rim in North Bend ever did switch over to rain😨.
Overnight I expect rouge showers, possibly as wet snow, but with light south easterly winds and cloud cover we should stay above freezing all night, so I don't expect more than a little extra slush come morning.
Wednesday should be mostly dry.
For Thursday I'm going on **high wind watch** with gap wind gusts to 40+ mph. Looking like early morning hours Thurs. You may be woken if you have vinyl windows with a bedroom facing east. Our house sounds like a creaking ship when these winds howl. The winds we'll be triggered by a fairly potent low dropping down from the gulf of Alaska and will sit due west about 500 miles of our coast about that time. That's the right proximity to begin pulling on high pressure from over in E. WA. From a precipitation stand point it looks like the storm will just graze us. It also isn't going to draw in super cold air from the Frazier B.C. gaps. We could see a few wet snow showers later Thursday but not expecting much at this point.
Longer range the models aren't picking up anything of major significance yet, but we do look to stay much cooler than normal for mid-February.
That's all for now
Stay warm, stay safe

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