Does today's rain means tomorrow's bad viz?

[carlk3]

We'd love to dive Edmonds tomorrow. The exchanges will be great. The latest weather reports look good.

But will today's heavy rain mean bad viz everywhere tomorrow?

(I don't have a good understanding of how predictably rain one day effects viz the next.)

- Carl

[BillZ]

It shouldn't too bad - Edmonds isn't very prone to river runoff. It's a long ways from the Snohomish and it gets quite a bit of clean water coming in through Admiralty Inlet.

The furthest south that I've seen significant (chocolate milk) runoff is at Possession Point.

[Rockfish]

Other than storm drain outflow our rule of thumb when diving Everett - Mukilteo is 3 days after a big rain like we just had the viz will be bad. Edmonds is kind of a crap shoot sometimes great sometimes not. Having said that I think that you would be OK with the viz on Tuesday.

Enjoy the dive!

Mike

[carlk3]

Thanks & thanks! We are planning on diving tomorrow (Tuesday). Now, I'm hoping the winds -- predicted to be 9 mph from the S at Noon -- won't be cause too much surf.