Valentine's Day Wind!

As expected the cascade foothills (including susceptible communities from Gold Bar to the Columbia Gorge) had quite the gap wind event today. For Snoqualmie and North Bend, notable easterly winds arrived late last night and peak gusts arrived right on schedule this morning (~6 am). NWS finally came out with an ex post Wind Advisory about 6:15 am, but our top winds (~45-55 mph) had come and gone by then. Conditions still remained very windy all day with gusts frequently reaching 40 mph until afternoon.

As it turns out, today's wind event was likely the second strongest of our 2018/2019 stormy season so far. Here's the unofficial top ranked as monitored from a few personal wunderground anemometers located around Snoqualmie Ridge (tried to weed out extreme readings):

Date Gust Direction
01/08/19 58 mph E
02/14/19 56 mph E
01/06/19 53 mph S
01/16/19 47 mph E
01/11/19 47 mph E
12/20/18 46 mph S

There were no reported power outages that I could tell from PSE's map, likely due in large part to our trees having been well stress-tested this winter.

Extended Forecast:
For the next five days I don't see anything significant (wind or snow events for the lowlands). Maybe a few wet flakes. Sunday and Monday look to be the driest. However, looking further out I don't yet see a major shift away from the below normal temperatures.