Seattle weather: Wet, breezy Tuesday

I'm Chief Meteorologist Brian McMillan. Let's talk about this active weather day that we're seeing out there. Right now we have an atmospheric river pointed right at us. And with that, we're getting a steady stream of rain here throughout the day. It's like a fire hose of water getting pushed right here into western Washington. We've also seen on the edge of this a couple of lightning strikes earlier today popping up over Oregon. November so far has been mostly warmer than average. Our high temperature yesterday was 55 degrees. We average low to mid-50s this time of year, so we're running a little bit above that. We're going to be much warmer. As we get into tomorrow, but today is going to be very similar to yesterday. On top of that, we had a half inch of rain yesterday. We've got certainly more than that today, and that'll help boost up our totals here. We averaged over six inches for the entire month of November. This is typically our wettest month out of the entire year in Seattle. All right, let's get to our wind alerts. We have two of them to show you here. One along the coast is a wind advisory. Gusts up to 50 miles an hour possible as we get into the afternoon and early evening in particular. And it'll likely be strongest out that direction. But we could see some really strong winds up over Whidbey Island, the San Juan Islands, western Whatcom County, and most of western Skagit County as well. Gusts could reach up to 50 miles an hour up that direction as a wind advisory is in effect. All right. Here's a look at your Tuesday. We're going to continue to see steady rain until we get towards your evening commute. Then that really starts breaking up into showers as the system lifts its way north. So South Sound, you're going to get dry before everybody else. Then we get into your overnight period and into Wednesday. There may still be a few lingering showers out along the coast and over the Olympic Peninsula, but most of the bulk of the action is going to be well offshore. So we'll be looking drier for your Wednesday around the Puget Sound area and for your Thursday as well. You can see, yeah, there is a time here on Wednesday where it may impact the Olympic Peninsula. But most of that stays far enough west to not impact the Seattle area. If you're up towards Bellingham, you'll likely see some showers around the evening commute, too. Thursday is going to be very similar. But with the rain that we're seeing today, we could see at least one river rise. That's the Skokomish. That's the one that we see. Salmon swimming over the roadway, right? That's the one that floods, really, whenever we get a pretty significant system. And sure enough, we are expecting minor flooding along the Skokomish through tomorrow evening. Your outdoor report, if you have something to do outside today, take that dog on a walk, go on a run yourself, or do some yard work. I would hold off until tomorrow, if you can. Otherwise, you're going to need that raincoat, because it is going to be wet during the daylight hours today. Highs today. Central Sound, mid to upper 50s. I'm expecting South Sound to get into the mid to upper 50s as well. And heading up to the North Sound, we'll be into the mid 50s. You can expect rain showers all day long. For the coast and the straits where it gets windy, we're looking at temps in the mid to upper 50s out that direction too. Our sun will set tonight at 4.39 p.m. And coming up in just three weeks, we will have our first sunsets at 4.20. The earliest sunsets that we get all year long happen between December 8th and December 13th this year. Our sun will set at 4:18 p.m., very, very early. All right. Here is that all-important seven-day forecast, my friends, and as we get into tomorrow, we're going to be on the warm side of this next system, so warm front coming through, and with that, we're going to be at 65 degrees for a high. That would tie the all-time record for tomorrow, and that record was set back in 1990. Thursday looks a little bit cooler, still dry for most of us, and then we get into Friday through your weekend. We're going to bring back showers. We're going to bring back those breezy winds each day. As we see a series of frontal systems moving through through the weekend, it will be cooler too. We're going to get back down close to average as we get into early next week. All right, hang in there with all this rain. It'll be drier and warmer tomorrow.