Here at the Stranger Weathercenter, we looked out the window and checked Cliff Mass’ blog, and now you may consider yourself informed that a major storm is coming over the next couple days! Cliff is using ALL CAPS [bolds are mine, I must earn my keep!]:

A VERY serious storm is going to hit the Northwest during the next two days—one that will cause flooding and coastal wind damage. And the urban areas are doing to experience a deluge.

He also has deployed the word “hammered,” and notes that “Seattle will get nearly 4-5 inches [of rain] if this forecast verifies.”

Over at the National Weather Service, we have a Wind Advisory, Flood Watch, AND a Hydrologic Outlook. Get your galoshes out!

21 replies on “Major Storm Coming!”

  8. Gonna be great weather to ski after.

    Check your drains to make sure they’re not clogged by leaves – the last major winter storm with major downpour cost me many thousands of dollars when it clogged my roof top drain.

  9. @7 global warming side effect – more energy in the system, larger oscillations, means more 100 year weather events on a local and global scale.

  10. From the Seattle Public Utilities website:

    Storm season is underway and Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) is offering a limited number of free, filled sandbags to households or business owners in flood-prone areas. If you’ve experienced, or come close to, flooding, you may consider using sandbags.

    Sandbags don’t seal out water, but can help redirect the flow of water and protect property from debris. Sandbags must be used with caution because it is illegal to divert water to your neighboring properties.

    SPU is making up to 25 sandbags available to households or businesses at four locations listed below starting Saturday, October 15, 2011. Sandbags are heavy (they weigh about 40 pounds each), so be sure either you, or someone you bring with you, can lift, carry and load the sandbags into your vehicle.

    Sandbag Pick-Up Locations:

    Delridge Community Center
    4501 Delridge Way SW Seattle, WA 98106

    Helene Madison Pool
    13401 Meridian N Seattle, WA 98133

    South Park Neighborhood
    731 S. Sullivan Seattle, WA 98108

    Meadowbrook Community Center
    10517 35th Ave. NE Seattle, WA 98125

    You can pick up your sandbags at any of these locations, any time of day, while supplies last. Sandbags will be left outside for public pick-up. To make sure there are enough sandbags available for all those in need, please limit your supply to 25 sandbags per address.

  11. @7, @10, if you read Cliff as far back as yesterday you’d learn something about the “100-year” term and what it actually means. Which is not “every 100 years on average”.

  12. Bethany Jean, you couldn’t correct his typo while you were bolding the phrase? I mean, did you read it before you copied & pasted?

  15. Elaborating on @12 and what Cliff Mass said yesterday, a “100-year flood” is for a specific river or location. If you add up the number of potential locales then you should expect to have a “100-year flood” every 4.5 years or so. Which is pretty much exactly what we have. If global warming is having an effect yet (and it will eventually), it’s not showing up in the numbers yet.

  16. @13: I did read it, and I used to be a copyeditor, and that “d” just snuck right by me! The shame. So, now that we’ve discussed it, is the thing to do just correct it? Sic it? Leave it for posterity, who can also read our discussion of Cliff’s grievous error and my grievous failure to detect it? Quandary. I’m going to sleep on it—let me know what you think.

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