Flood Watch for Whatcom County

Flood watch
National Weather Service Seattle Wa
324 pm pst Mon Jan 5 2009

A warm weather system will drape itself over Western Washington for about two days...Tuesday afternoon through Thursday morning this wet system will bring copious rain to the area.

The National Weather Service in Seattle has issued a * Flood Watch for portions of western Washington...including the  following counties... Grays Harbor...Clallam...Jefferson...Skagit...Whatcom...King...Kitsap...Lewis...Mason...Pierce...
Snohomish...Thurston.

* From Tuesday evening through Friday afternoon

Rain will fall over western Washington beginning Tuesday afternoon and continuing into Thursday. Rain will be heavy at times in the mountains...along the coast...and over the southwest interior and lower Chehalis valley. The cascades and Olympics will get 5-10 inches with some southwest facing slopes 15-20 inches. Perhaps 6 Inches will fall on the coast and sw interior. The Seattle area could see 4 inches over the two days and northern lowland areas will get an inch or two.

This sums to a real flood potential...both for river flooding and urban and small stream flooding. This flooding will be driven by heavy rain that has been consistently present in numerical models. Some flooding seems certain...and major flooding is possible on Some rivers.

Precautionary/preparedness actions...

Monitor weather forecasts in case conditions change. If you live near a river...prepare for flooding now.

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