Steady rain continues through most of the area Wednesday morning, with most of the rain being light to moderate with pockets of heavy rain.
We had gusts overnight in the 30, 40, and 50 mph range, however, the strongest wind gusts are over.
At around 1 a.m., the National Weather Service said the peak gusts around that time were 66 mph in Hoquiam, 54 mph in Olympia, 51 mph at Whidbey Island, and 46 mph in Bellingham.
As of 4 a.m., more than 9,500 customers were without power across Western Washington. Most of those were in Lewis and Mason counties, but just an hour later, that number had dropped to 4,000.
We’ll continue to see breezy to windy weather with gusts at the coast and north closer to 50 mph, but the rest of the area will mainly have gusts in the 20 and 30 mph range with the occasional gusts touching 40.
The wind will continue to ease Wednesday morning but will stay breezy to windy on a more normal level around 10 to 30 mph. The steady rain will end later this morning, but we’ll quickly have increasing showers that could be heavy at times with some isolated thunderstorms.