It’s Friday evening - my favorite time to nerd out on the weather!

It’s Friday evening - my favorite time to nerd out on the weather! Certainly no shortage of weather shenangins impacting the west coast this weekend, including a Tropical Storm warning for Tijuana/San Diego/LA for the first time since 1939.

Locally, on Whidbey, we finally got that relief from the heat in the form of seabreezes and cooler temps today, with some areas about 20 degrees cooler than they were yesterday.

Regionally, the same system ushering in the relief here today was causing extreme fire weather in British Columbia, with existing fires in BC “blowing up” today, and a handful of new starts up north.

Unfortunately, it seems the smoke is coming for us, and it’s looking like Sunday we’ll be under generally gross amounts of smoke with an AQI pushing unhealthful levels. Not what I want to type tonight, but the good news is it seems short-lived, with a westerly surge expected Monday and Tuesday next week.

I’m curious if we see a solid westerly surge Sunday down the strait into Coupeville maybe we get lucky and see some clearing?

Will need to update on that tomorrow.

Weather officials are issuing strong warnings for Red Flag conditions in the Cascades this weekend, but even without local fires we may see some pretty extreme smoke this weekend from BC (Sunday mainly).

Will update tomorrow (Saturday) on the smoke situation…

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