Batten Down The Hatches!

"Fasten your seatbelts, folks, it's gonna get bumpy!"

From the National Weather Service's Seattle, WA, Forecast Office:

Special Weather Statement

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA 

351 PM PDT SUN MAY 3 2009  

WAZ001-503>512-042300- 

SAN JUAN COUNTY-WESTERN WHATCOM COUNTY-SOUTHWEST INTERIOR- EAST PUGET SOUND LOWLANDS-WESTERN SKAGIT COUNTY-EVERETT AND VICINITY- SEATTLE/BREMERTON AREA-TACOMA AREA-ADMIRALTY INLET AREA- HOOD CANAL AREA-LOWER CHEHALIS VALLEY AREA- 

351 PM PDT SUN MAY 3 2009 

...VERY WINDY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THE WESTERN WASHINGTON LOWLANDS MONDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING..  

A DEVELOPING STORM SYSTEM IN THE CENTRAL PACIFIC IS EXPECTED TO DEEPEN TO AROUND 980 MB AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE WASHINGTON OFFSHORE WATERS TOWARD NORTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. 

A STRONG FRONTAL SYSTEM ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LOW WILL MOVE THROUGH WESTERN WASHINGTON MONDAY NIGHT.  A STORM AND FRONTAL SYSTEM OF THIS MAGNITUDE IS MORE TYPICAL OF LATE FALL OR WINTER THAN OF EARLY MAY.  

AT THIS POINT IT APPEARS THAT SOUTH WINDS OF 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL DEVELOP MONDAY NIGHT AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS ON TUESDAY. MANY DECIDUOUS TREES ARE NOW LEAFING. SO WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE MAY BREAK SOME LARGE BRANCHES AND POSSIBLY TOPPLE A FEW TREES. LOCAL POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE.  

$$  ALBRECHT 

WEATHER.GOV/SEATTLE

I was thinking about calling this "Algort!  Klaatuu, Borada Necktie!" but was able to refrain at the last moment...