Big Wind
We had our first large wind storm today. The barometric pressure at our house got down to 29.33″ - not too shabby. I went down to Alki with Zach at around 5pm to check out the wind and waves. There was a guy down there with an anemometer recording sustained winds of 35 to 40 mph with gusts as high as 55. On the radio we heard that Alki Point recorded a gust of 66 mph - Wow!
Zach had a good time in the wind and others got a good laugh watching walk around.
The many faces of Zach in the windstorm
And some shots of the waves
We lost power for about 90 minutes. Definitely not as bad as the December 2006 windstorm, but this one did have a pretty decent punch. From a rain standpoint there wasn’t much, just under .20″. The storm front seemed to get blown apart so rain wasn’t a big part this time. Unlike last December where the wind was preceded with some of the heaviest rain we’ve seen up here.