WEST SEATTLE WEATHER: Rain’s stopped! Here’s some of what it left behind

The rain has stopped – for a while. For the first time in two days, the National Weather Service has recorded an hour in Seattle with no more than a trace of rain. Despite 3+ inches Friday alone, no major problems in our area – but it’s definitely left its mark. Above, a reader just texted that photo of trees down across the bluff trail at Lincoln Park that leads to/from Colman Pool. (Slide risk is high because of the rain, so be watchful if you’re near a slide-prone slope.) Below, what Longfellow Creek looked like from the SW Yancy footbridge at midday:

Here’s how the creek looked Friday, as tweeted by Mark from a point a short distance south:

@westseattleblog Longfellow Creek near Dragonfly Pavilion pic.twitter.com/EJIXRxmUCC

— Mark Tiedemann (@pdxmark77) December 20, 2019

We’re off now to enjoy the break in the train by covering Alice‘s winter-solstice sunset watch (a quarterly tradition even when the sun doesn’ show up).

HS December 21, 2019 (5:33 pm)

That was just too much rain. Usually I’m good with the rain here but this was harsh.

Byebye December 21, 2019 (7:14 pm)

Too much rain. Moving to Cle Elum.

Soaked December 21, 2019 (7:32 pm)

Wow, that was wet.

Evan December 21, 2019 (9:50 pm)

Any comment from SDOt about how the 35th and Avalon intersection faired this storm? When I drove by today, massive standing water by the bus stop. I thought water drainage improvements were part of the replacement project?

WSB December 21, 2019 (10:38 pm)

Wish we’d heard about that so we could have checked it out. Hope someone called it in if it was impeding getting around – might have been a clogged drain.

Jim December 21, 2019 (10:48 pm)

The rain the past few days was quite wonderful. Today was such a delightfully quiet and wet solstice that finished with a remarkably colorful sunset. Hooray!

sbre December 22, 2019 (12:02 am)

I like how clean most of the streets and sidewalks are after such a prolonged and heavy downpour.
While biking home along Harbor Ave last night the water coming down the hill in the drains was so strong that every hole in the man-hole covers had streams of water shooting 6″-8″ up into the air, and the river of water coming down California Way was so deep I thought I saw salmon spawning up-hill!!
Okay, so I’m kidding about the salmon, but the other reports are true!

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