Whatcom County<\/a><\/p>\nThe forecast: What to expect <\/p>\n
The rain will be tapering into tonight and while we could have a few light showers or sprinkles early tomorrow and through the day Friday, there won\u2019t be significant added precipitation after this evening for the area.<\/p>\n
Still, we have many rivers in flood with the following rivers still in major to record flood stage:<\/p>\n
Nooksack River at Ferndale: Cresting late this evening perhaps just shy of recordSkagit River at Mount Vernon: Cresting about a half foot over the 1990 record level around 4 am Friday, but still in flood stage until late Friday eveningSnohomish River near Monroe: Crested about 8pm this evening then falling into FridaySnohomish River at Snohomish: Holding around record flood level through 7 am Friday, then falling out of flood stage Friday nightSnoqualmie River near Carnation: Crested earlier this afternoon, falling out of flood stage Friday morningCedar River at Renton: Cresting in record flood stage around 4 am Friday, but staying in flood stage into early next week from releases from Chester Morse LakeWenatchee River at Peshastin: Cresting late this evening and falling out of flood stage Friday morning<\/p>\n
Other rivers are in flood stage but all rivers will be falling \u2014 some faster than others \u2014 into the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Expect a drier day on Friday with some afternoon sunshine possible. Saturday will be pretty nice with a bit more afternoon sunshine after some morning clouds and patchy fog. Highs will be mild in the 50s.<\/p>\n
Rain showers will move back in on Sunday with hit-and-miss downpours, but then we\u2019ll be looking ahead to another atmospheric river affecting the region Monday and Tuesday. <\/p>\n
This next atmospheric river looks to be weak to moderate and nothing comparable to the event we just went through, but with 1-2\u2033 of rain in the lowlands and 4-7\u2033 in the mountain through the first half of next week, we will likely have problems. <\/p>\n
Rivers will still be running high in spots and the ground saturated, so we\u2019ll see rivers rising into Tuesday and Wednesday. <\/p>\n
Right now, the greatest concern could be on the Skagit and Snoqualmie rivers but peaking around moderate flood stage \u2014 nothing close to the record flooding we\u2019re seeing now.<\/p>\n
Late next week, we could see a turn toward cooler weather which could start putting mountain precipitation down as snow instead of flooding rain.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Washington is experiencing record-breaking flooding. Governor Bob Ferguson declared an emergency as a result. He\u2019s predicting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-344014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}