Some folks are wondering if we are in for more high water. Well the Olympic side tribs are dropping but the upper Chehalis has not crested at Porter. So by the time the Chehalis crest reaches tide water the Olympic tribs drop will mean it will be about what we have now. It will take a week or more for all the standing water to recede so it is going take a bit to get back to normal, whatever that is. As ugly as all this was on the coast if we had the flows we have now the 10th through 13th with the 10.7 to 10.6 tides it would have made our current misery look good! We dodged the bullet called a perfect storm thankfully.

The long range forecast looks a lot better for the rest of January not a lot of rain and above average temperatures until the last week of the month, yeah ! February returns to below average temperatures with only 6 days of the month not raining. One never knows about the total of the forecast rainfall but it looks like a bunch of rain/snow days and I imagine they will make things interesting.

So it is clean up time for a couple of weeks then round two of this winter which looks to different but just as ugly as round one we just experienced.

The only good thing I can think of with this weather is the snow pack!
https://www.king5.com/article/weather/sn...55-2c1667ab68e5