“And take a look at the water vapor imagery Friday morning from a NWS satellite (it shows the amount of water vapor in the middle to upper troposphere),” says UW meteorologist Cliff Mass, “…a strong current of water from guess where? Hawaii!”
To think that some people have to pay hundreds of dollars to fly to Hawaii, and we get it for free. Here’s KOMO’s Scott Sistek on the short-sleeved high predicted: “It won’t be a sunny, beach-combing kind of 60, but I don’t think many will care. Just stop the rain for a while and let the sun fans pretend it’s mid-April for a day.”
If you want to duck out of this balmy mist for some reason, Mass advises you to just drive south, as the bulk of the moisture is headed just north on its way to drench Vancouver Island this weekend. Areas of southern B.C. could get five to ten inches!
That puts them far ahead of Seattle, which had an unusually rainy/not-very-rainy February, with 18 days of rain and just 1.58 inches to for it.
Weather geeks can stay out of the rain by attending the Pacific Northwest Weather Workshop, today and tomorrow at NOAA Western Regional Center. The theme is “advances and challenges of communicating weather information,” which you can read more about here.
