Brief Post Mortem

There were branches and even some trees down on the Burke Gilman bike trail this morning...so I knew something had happened.   Here is a summary of the strongest winds over the past 24 hr.  Big winds (70-90 mph) at some exposed mountain locations (they call it Hurricane Ridge for a reason!). Lots of 30-45 mph gusts in the lowlands and 50-70 mph along the coast.

The 48-h total precipitation ending 11:48 PM last night from Seattle Rainwatch shows the big differences over the lowlands (this is not valid over the mountains or south of Olympia).  Some locations got to 5 inches or more.  And there was a well-defined rainshadow NE of the Olympics.

The forecast worked out quite well, both for precipitation and wind.  The air was quite unstable after the system went by and there are reports of a tornado at the Frederickson Boeing plant in Puyallup, Washington. (see pic)