Snow along Hood Canal; winds along Pacific coast plus Port Townsend

  • Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:09pm
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Advisories for significant weather conditions along either side of the Olympic Peninsula have been issued by the National Weather Service. Please be careful out there.

Hood Canal

…WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST WEDNESDAY…

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SEATTLE HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM

WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW…WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST

WEDNESDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

* SOME AFFECTED LOCATIONS…SHELTON…POTLATCH…HOODSPORT…

BRINNON.

* TIMING…LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT…TAPERING OFF AFTER

MIDNIGHT.

* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS…FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES AWAY FROM THE

OLYMPICS…LIKE THE SHELTON AREA AND TO UP TO 8 INCHES CLOSER TO

THE OLYMPIC FOOTHILLS…LOCATIONS SUCH AS HOODSPORT AND BRINNON.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

A WINTER STORM WARNING IS ISSUED FOR THE LOWLANDS WHEN 4 INCHES OF

SNOW OR MORE IS LIKELY WITHIN A 12 HOUR TIME PERIOD.

West End coast, Admiralty Inlet areas

…A WEATHER SYSTEM ARRIVING TUESDAY WILL BRING GUSTY WINDS TO

THE COAST AND NORTHWEST INTERIOR TUESDAY…

SAN JUAN COUNTY-WESTERN WHATCOM COUNTY-WESTERN SKAGIT COUNTY-

ADMIRALTY INLET AREA-NORTH COAST-CENTRAL COAST-

1023 AM PST TUE FEB 28 2012

…WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS EVENING…

* SOME AFFECTED LOCATIONS…HOQUIAM…FORKS…BELLINGHAM…

FRIDAY HARBOR…OAK HARBOR…PORT TOWNSEND.

* TIMING…WINDS WILL INCREASE TODAY AND CONTINUE INTO THE

EVENING THEN TAPER OFF OVERNIGHT.

* WIND…SOUTHEAST WINDS 20 TO 35 MPH WITH POSSIBLE GUSTS 40 TO

50 MPH.

* IMPACTS…SMALL TREES AND BRANCHES MAY FALL CAUSING LOCAL

POWER OUTAGES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH OR

GUSTS OF 45 TO 57 MPH ARE LIKELY.

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