West Seattle Weather Watch: Gusty night begins

Top-of-the-hour weather conditions from the National Weather Service include gusts up to 38 mph at Alki Point (K91S, in this roundup). (ADDED 10:30 PM: Here’s the Beach Drive weather station page, thanks to BDB.) The latest “forecast discussion” also mentions snow levels potentially as low as 500 feet on Saturday night, which means a big temp drop at some point, considering it’s upper-40s out there now. ADDED 11:07 PM: Top-of-the-hour gust at Alki Point now listed at 50 mph. No power outages right now but if anything major happens, here’s the City Light page that will list them. ADDED 12:27 AM: First “flickering” here in Upper Fauntleroy – the wind’s just intensified, too. ADDED 2:07 AM: 51 mph for the Alki Point top-of-the-hour gust, this time.

Sage K January 5, 2008 (12:39 am)

No power outage yet, but my lights did flicker enough to make some electronics need to be reset.

T January 5, 2008 (1:44 am)

Too windy to sleep, the gusts seem pretty strong to me. Here’s a cool map from the National Weather Service where you can mouse over different weather stations: “National Weather Service NWS Seattle”

Anne January 5, 2008 (8:16 am)

Lots of City Light action on our street-39th & Morgan.The transformer was burning for about 45 minutes around 1:45 this morning giving us a spectacular light show! Now there are 4 big rigs in front -we have power but don’t know about those south of us.