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10/09/2007: "No Wind Storm After All"

Brendan Cowan, the Emergency Management Director for SJC had sent out a warning that according to the National Weather Service in Seattle, a gale warning for the San Juan Islands and surrounding waters had been issued, but it did not come to pass

The forecast was for Tuesday (10-0-07) afternoon with winds forecast to be in the 40-45mph range, with gusts up to 70mph. It is expected to stay gusty well into the day on Wednesday.

The winds were the result of a major depression that had developed in the Pacific. Fortunately the center is forecast was to pass well to the west of the outer coast, sparing Western Washington from the full brunt of the storm, and that is the way it turned out. For a sense of what this storm might have looked like if it had come ashore in Washington, look at this summary of the 1962 Columbus Day windstorm.