Winds for several more days for western WA, probably getting to E WA now too.

[uppityperson]

NWS says it will be windy for the next several days. All of the Port Townsend area (that I know of) lost power for a couple hrs last night. I haven't gotten out to see if our 2 leaning trees are down yet, and NWS says it will stay windy for a few more days. A couple more systems are coming through. What with the snow melting and saturating the soil, this can = trees down. So, Happy New Yr, be watchful.

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sew/

We lost 1 big tree onto our shop, cousins had 3 drop on their house couple yrs back with the Big Windstorms. Santa brought me a chainsaw for my car's emergency kit last yr. Very cool.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/394137_windstorms31.html

Essentially it all means a repeat, though with lighter gusts, of Monday's breezy weather that toppled shallow-rooted trees and snapped branches, causing power outages in the North Seattle area and suburbs. The strongest winds in the eastern Puget Sound-area lowlands are expected to carry 25- to 35-mph winds, possibly gusting to 50 mph. Seattle, however, is expected to feel winds between 17 and 24 mph, gusting to more than 30 mph.

Rain remains in the forecast through the rest of the week, with high temperatures in the low to mid-40s.

A wind advisory is issued to warn people when sustained winds of 30 to 39 mph, with gusts of 45 to 57 mph, are likely, capable of snapping small tree branches or downing shallow-rooted trees.

The Western Washington wind advisory covers the Seattle, Bremerton, Tacoma and Everett areas and western Skagit and Whatcom counties. Also covered are the Admiralty Inlet and Hood Canal areas, San Juan County, the lower Chehalis Valley and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The Seattle-area winds are arriving in advance of a strong Pacific front expected to move onto the Washington coast around midnight. A high-wind warning is in effect for the north and central coast, where sustained winds of 40 mph could gust to 60 mph, the weather service said....