Seattle weather: Breezy, wet weekend ahead

Good Thursday evening, everyone. I'm meteorologist Claire Anderson in the Fox 13 Weather Center. A calm day today, but stormy conditions return. Heading into our Friday, we've got scattered showers and breezy conditions, especially out along the coast and in the Pacific Northwest starting to end the week. Now, coastal impacts, that's one of the main things we're watching with high surf out towards the beaches along with some Tidal and coastal flooding, so we'll be watching that very closely. And then into this weekend, atmospheric rivers set up with wet and breezy conditions, especially Saturday night into Sunday with some widespread gusty conditions. So let's talk about temperatures, because I do want to start there. Yesterday, we saw record highs for western Washington. Today, another warm day, well above average, upper 50s to low 60s. Seattle SeaTac 68 up in Bellingham again today, 50 for Wenatchee, low 60s out along the coast. For today, mostly cloudy skies. It's been a really mild, pretty nice day. But things start to change here into tomorrow as we see our next approaching system. You can see an offshore there, a next upper level low. This is also connected to atmospheric river. Moisture looking at our atmospheric river for tomorrow. Again, we see a push of moisture heading into tomorrow. But what I'm really watching is Saturday. Look at that plume of moisture going all the way out into the Pacific, moving inland Saturday into Sunday. Pretty wet conditions there. So let's talk about those impacts because of these storm systems rolling through. Coastal flood advisory for higher tides and tidal overflow around the Puget Sound. So any of those waterways as well as out towards the beaches. That's tomorrow morning through noon. And then highest Surf advisory, large breaking waves again. That is noon Friday all the way through 7 a.m. Saturday. Also, coastal flood warning up towards San Juan County. So even more flooding expected. Looking at our futurecast for tonight, dry conditions, but by tomorrow morning, those showers move further inland, a wet start to the day. Scattered showers throughout the day Friday, some pockets of heavier rain, breezy winds as well. Heading into Friday night into early Saturday, scattered showers, even a sunbreak, but showers increase throughout the evening hours. So here's 5 o'clock, scattered showers, but look at this rain moving in Saturday night into early Sunday. That's where we're going to see a lot of moisture. Scattered showers Sunday with some lowering snow. Snow levels and more rain into the evening. Now, let's talk about how much rain we're talking about. This is Thursday night into Friday, again, and then Friday night into Saturday. That's when we start to see more of that rain. So about half an inch to an inch possible, some of those higher spots, especially out towards the coast. Wind-wise, we do start to see things pick up out along the coast late tonight throughout the day. Friday, gustier conditions across the Puget Sound through Friday night. And, of course, Saturday gets gusty as well. Futurecast showing those scattered showers continuing Friday, Saturday, wet and breezy conditions slowly cooling with a few more showers to start next week.