Yes, JAWS.is approaching the Northwest coast as I write this blog. The view from space is scary and unusual for this time of the year. It looks like a November satellite image.And the Langley Hill radar this morning is picking up on the approaching rain bands .The latest high-resolution UW WRF model forecast shows the rain coming into Puget Sound this evening--earlier on the coast and to the southwest.During the next few days, western Washington and Oregon should be wetted down, with potentially several inches in the high elevations of the Olympics, north Cascades, and mountains of southern BC (see below...total accumulation through 5 PM Friday). The heaviest rain will be overnight tonight, but there will be plenty of showers tomorrow.Remember the movie JAWS? There were several sequels...and this situation will be no different. JAWS2 will move in on Sunday--here is the 48 h total precipitation ending 5 AM Monday. The NW part of the state gets hit hard.Because another upper level trough will come through the region.Unbelievably, the latest model runs promise JAWS3 between July 19 and 22. It will have even bigger (or wetter) teeth.You may notice that the heaviest precipitation of all the JAWS storms is over western and NW Washington, exactly where the suggestions of local drought are being made (see latest drought monitor image). Let's see whether they update this image.Extended forecast models have been predicting this abnormally wet situation for at least a month--which is of great satisfaction to those of us working on longer term prediction.