Recap of last nights storm

 Last nights storm went, well, kind of as expected. There was a decent amount of lightning in the evening around Salem and the Willamette valley. A strong cell moved over the central puget sound, and there was some lightning with that. Later in the night into this morning  peak gusts were around 70 on the coast, with localized gusts up to 85. In the interior areas, gusts were 50-55 mph with isolated gusts up to 60 reported at Boeing field. PSE reported as of 6:15 AM, 107,000 customers were out of power, most coming from the eastern peninsula. Also, that is only PSE, so there is many others out from different energy companies also. Possibility for some more wind this morning, but winds should subside mostly by noon. I Will publish a forecast this evening. Thanks for reading.

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