Results tagged “rainshadow”

As Cliff Mass was pointing out during our monsoon yesterday, Sequim (pronounced "skwim" for the newbies) sits in a rain shadow and gets less rain, more sun. But before you move, owners of this Seattle house, check out the neighborhood--KOMO has a story on Sequimmers' distaste for lavender and fuschia paint. The extra sun doesn't seem to be translating to sunny dispositions.

Seattle is being followed by a rain shadow, rain shadow, rain shadow, but most of the rest of the state is not so lucky. A friend of ours just snapped this picture of the Cowlitz River down in southwestern Washington--"Yes, that's an 80-foot tree heading downstream," he added in the caption. Meanwhile, exit 72 from I-5 (that's the Napavine offramp--go Tigers!) was closed earlier today because of water over the roadway. On Twitter [#waflood] the talk is that I-5 at Centralia/Chehalis *coughfloodplain* will close around midnight (check here). [UPDATE: I-5 is closed--Amtrak is also not running from Seattle to Portland.] Not for the first or last time, of course--the twin cities got drowned in December of 2007.