I look out the window trying to look across the Sound and Credence Clearwater comes to mind: “Who’ll stop the rain?” Well, it certainly isn’t going to stop today or tomorrow but maybe by Sunday as this slow-moving cold front moves across the Salish Sea. By late Saturday and into Sunday a weak ridge of high pressure will build over the area which will give us an offshore flow that will bring cooler and dryer weather to the area for the big holiday.
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As we have noticed this fall, the jet stream will channel yet another series of storms into California and maybe as far south as Mexico. The surface forecast chart for the 23rd of December shows this very clearly. The good news is that we will enjoy fairly benign conditions for probably the rest of the year. Then it will be time to start planning for the Big Seattle Boat Show which starts on the 24th of January and runs through the 1st of February.
Enjoy the big holiday and every once and a while pop down to the marina to check on the boat. Have a good one and go Huskies!
Ed. Note: And go Hawks.
Bruce has raced and cruised the Pacific Northwest his entire life. He earned a Bachelor’s of Science from the University of Washington in Biological Oceanography and learned meteorology “to keep from getting kicked around on the race course.” Bruce spent nearly two decades as Associate Publisher for Northwest Yachting Magazine, retiring in mid-2015, and was the chairman of the board of trustees for the Northwest Marine Trade Association in 2014. (photo of Bruce driving Playstation is a bit dated, but cool)