An area of steady rain is moving into Western Washington as of Tuesday night. This is part of a return to a stormy pattern to round out 2020 and begin 2021.
Expect rain and breezy weather to continue through early Thursday.
The rain forecast through 4 PM Thursday (New Year's Eve) from the UW WRF Model is below.
Expect 0.5-1.3 inches of rain through New Year's Eve. That's not all...a whole lot more rain is coming for the beginning of January. It looks like 2021 will kick off with some active weather.
Wednesday and Thursday will also be breezy to windy across the Puget Sound area, strongest on the coast and north of Everett. The 4-model blend of wind forecasts for Puyallup is below.
Winds will increase early Wednesday morning and stay breezy through midday Thursday. Peak gusts will likely be 25-40 mph.
This seems like a fitting way to end 2020, which has been an exceptionally windy year. For those of you who like stats, we have had nearly 45 days with 25+ mph winds in 2020! That's 20-30 more days than in 2019. Crazy!!!
I'm sure you're wondering about the forecast for the night of New Year's Eve into New Year's Day. It looks like we'll have a break (of sorts) from rain and wind for the 11 PM-1 AM hours.
Rain will lessen and likely be more of the showery variety and winds will lessen to 10-20 mph during 11 PM-1 AM.
As we begin 2021, more rainy, windy, and mountain-snow producing systems are in the cards.
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