Wild weather

North of here is getting snow, south of here is getting high temperatures. From Seattlle station KOMO:

Wild storm brings heavy rains, snow, damaging winds and record heat around Puget Sound
A strong warm front brought a wild day of weather across Western Washington on this first day of winter Monday, complete with record springtime warmth, record rains with widespread urban street flooding, strong winds, and lowland snowfall(???) -- all in the same region!

Heavy rains caused widespread flooding of local roads in the Puget Sound area, with snow snarling traffic in the far northern reaches of the state, and wind toppling trees in the South Sound.

In Lynnwood, "widespread flooding" was occurring over major roadways in the area, including 44th Ave. West.

And to the North?

Meanwhile, on the north side of the storm, the system is drawing in cooler air from British Columbia making for a more traditional winter entrance along the Northern Olympic Peninsula -- where it was snowing around Port Angeles and across much of Whatcom County and the San Juan Islands.

And the temperatures?

Seattle warmed to 59 degrees, smashing the record high of 56 degrees set in 2005 with nary a peek of sun to be had. It reached 60 in Tacoma and 61 in Puyallup and Renton(!!!).

No lightning. Convergence zones usually bring lightning. This area is still just a couple hundred out.  Puget Sound Electric has just under 12,000 outages, Oregon, 6,200 and BC Hydro continues to bring it home with 72,300 household outages. A dark and stormy night indeed.