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Stormy wet Capitol Hill tonight, sunny warm Capitol Hill tomorrow

Check your basement. Check the trees. Enjoy a walk in the rain even though it makes you look like a wet rat. Make it through tonight’s thunderstorm:

SHORT TERM…THE PUGET SOUND CONVERGENCE ZONE HAS BECOME QUITE ACTIVE THIS EVENING WITH SOME THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHEAST KITSAP…SOUTH SNOHOMISH…AND KING COUNTIES. CELLS ARE TRACKING ESE ALONG THE CONVERGENCE ZONE AS THEY REFORM NEAR POULSBO. WHILE THE CELLS HAVE SHOWN SOME TENDENCY TO SHOW VERY WEAK ROTATION AT TIMES…ROTATION HAS NOT BEEN CONSISTENT THROUGH MORE THAN ONE LEVEL AND HAS NOT TENDED TO PERSIST FOR MORE THAN 2 VOLUME SCANS. ONLY A FEW STRIKES OF LIGHTNING HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THE CONVERGENCE ZONE…ALL THIS EVENING AND IN KING/SNOHOMISH COUNTIES. RADAR DATA SHOWS 0.25 INCH HAIL WITH THE CELL AROUND WEST SEATTLE AT 810 PM AND KBFI HAS HAD SOME SMALL HAIL…BUT CELLS HAVE NOT SHOW A TENDENCY TO SHOW MUCH VERTICAL DEVELOPMENT SO REPORTS HAVE BEEN RARE.

And you’ll be fine:


WHILE WE HAVE HAD A WET MAY SO FAR…TOP THREE WETTEST AT SEATAC SINCE RECORDS BEGAN…WE HAVE HAD NICE DRY SPELLS. THE NEXT RATHER PROLONGED DRY SPELL WILL BEGIN LATE WED AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. THE WARMING TREND WILL BE GRADUAL WITH LOWER 60S WED…MID AND UPPER 60S THU…AND NEAR 70 FRI.

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