Puget Sound autumn weather - - usual pattern starts with the best weather of the year: sunny warm days with cool nights and some morning fog burned off by mid morning. Then, after a few weeks to get us really liking the weather and being able to enjoy it without the throngs of summer tourons tourists, a change happens, sometimes abruptly but it's often subtle. The fog lingers longer and clouds begin to slip in and the clear cool nights that started it all disappear, but moderate the day-night temperatures... cooler days warmer nights... the "partly cloudy" changes to "cloudy" and then "overcast" followed by "heavy overcast" then some misting accompanies the morning fog and stretches across the day...

When we get used to (sure) the misting and come to ignore it in our comings and goings, some nights will have showers... no big deal unless you have to be out in it. Then, the night showers become day and night showers and here comes the wind and heavy rains... and more heavy rains and still more heavy rains.... but we do get some breaks where the heavy rain turns to misting and even that clears for some breaks in the clouds known here as "sky breaks" and so on... Today, fell into the sky break category (I did see a shadow though) but this was the scene for a few days down at Seabeck.

Seabeck was founded as a logging community with a saw mill that produced timber and ships to carry it to build San Francisco and Santiago, Chile back in the 1860-80's. The mill burned and because almost all of the giant trees were gone, they moved the mill to a different location and Seabeck became a ghost town. A public marina was built a few decades ago but was destroyed by the storm that also sunk the Hood Canal Floating Bridge. It was rebuilt but was again destroyed by another big storm. Again, it was rebuilt but much smaller and hasn't been kept up very well afterward. It was bought a few years ago and mostly dismantled with only this condemned pier remaining waiting for all the hoops they now have to jump through before building on or beside the water.

This image was recorded from inside my van out of the very heavy rain falling at the time.