Seattle weather: Stormy weekend with heavy rain, wind

Good Friday evening everyone. I'm meteorologist Claire Anderson in the Fox 13 Weather Center. Get ready for an active weather weekend. We're talking about showers and breezy winds through this evening as well as Saturday and Sunday. We're also talking about some coastal impacts along with high surf out towards the coast at our local beaches as well as some flooding concerns. Coastal flood advisory is in effect as well. Here's the silver lining. We dry out heading Heading into the middle part of next week with some cooler temperatures back into the forecast. Now speaking of temperatures, it has been so warm. We've had three days now of record highs in Seattle. Seattle's high temperature for the day is 61. The record is 62. So we've still been very above average here this last week. Now looking at November so far, we've only had two days below seasonal average. The rest of these temperatures have just been so nice and mild. Looking ahead to our conditions for this weekend, though, this upper level low will bring in more showers as we see atmospheric rivers. Moving in, look at these showers here all the way from Vancouver, B.C., all the way down into northern California, all part of this same system, bringing plenty of rain and, of course. Wind looking a little closer here today. We did see more scattered showers moving through. Nothing too heavy. Rainfall totals have been mainly under a tenth of an inch. Heavier rain is expected tomorrow night, though. With that, a flood watch does remain in effect for the Skokomish River down in Mason County. Minor flooding is expected with that peaking Sunday morning. So watching that pretty closely for you there. Also, coastal flood alerts. Now that expired at five o'clock this afternoon. We do see high tides and tidal overflow. But a surf warning out towards the coast through noon on Saturday with large breaking waves. And then we also have a coastal flood advisory up into the San Juans for Saturday as well. Futurecast through the rest of this evening. We do see more showers out towards the coast into tomorrow morning, even a few sunbreaks here and there. But more rain in store, especially Saturday evening. Heavier rain out towards the beaches. Wind's going to pick up as well. This will be seeing some of those heavier showers moving up into the Cascades with a little bit lower snow levels. Scattered showers Sunday, more post-frontal showers, so some sun breaks, pockets of heavier rain, as well as some breezier conditions through Sunday. How much rain are we talking about? Well, the heaviest rainfall won't be until Saturday night. We've got a tenth of an inch around the Puget Sound area, a little bit more out towards the coast, but look at Saturday night into Sunday. That's where we see almost an inch of rain across the Puget Sound, more out towards the coast, so definitely a wet weekend ahead. Looking at our winds, so winds do pick up into our Saturday morning, a little breezy across the region. 20 to 30 miles per hour from Bellingham down through Everett, Seattle, Olympia. Stronger Saturday night out towards the coast. Wind advisories in effect. And that continues into early Sunday morning and throughout the day. Wind advisories 4 p.m. Saturday through 4 a.m. Sunday. San Juan County and as well as out towards the coast. So those wind gusts up to 55 miles per hour. Temperatures tonight mid to upper 40s. Tacoma, Seattle, Everett. So another mild evening. Tomorrow, temperatures slowly cooling down. By no means is it cold, but still, compared to what we have been seeing, 57 for Seattle, Tacoma 56 for Olympia, 55 for Wenatchee, upper 50s for Bellingham. Your extended forecast, so we slowly cool down into the weekend, still seeing scattered showers, breezy winds, Saturday, Sunday, a few showers, Monday, we start to see some drier conditions here heading into Tuesday and the end of next week.