Puget Sound Weather Resources
Current Conditions and Forecast
The US government, commercial services and the University of Washington among other provide many types of weather reporting. Sites not listed here may add themselves to our directory. See Weather in the Services section.
National Weather Service
The US National Weather Service (NWS) is part of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA). Visit their sites for current information and additional satellite views and raw current weather data. The geostationary satellite page (http://www.goes.noaa.gov/) has lots more images from other angles plus time-lapse MPEG movies you can download. HOWEVER...
Ed.: That's the good news. The bad news is that NOAA apparently has a crack team of specialists whose sole job is constantly to change web addresses to keep us off balance (conspiracy theorists take note). As a consequence, the SP has been forced to elliminate "hot linking" to NOAA in favor of the following samples, and all the links go to the NOAA site, where you can select many other data formats.
A less charitable interpretation is that under the present administration (2026) NOAA is being repositioned to discontinue free access and to sell its imagery to private companies that will then add wholly superflous fees for access, all in exchange for political favors. That cost would force small publishers like the SP to discontinue services like this page and drive you further into the embrace of yet another giant corporate cabal. (See previous reference to conspiracies. 
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Tired of it? A list of your congressional representatives can be found here. (You might also be kind enough to let us know, too, after you send them a scathing denunciation.)
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA often has event-related weather information on
their site.
(We tried putting a nice graphical link here to take you directly to the correct page at FEMA, but like many government agencies, FEMA appears to have people whose job it is to move their URLs and graphics around, seemingly at random. We take this to be a make work project, which is reasonable since the US has so few emergencies and the world so few disasters with which we could help. On the bright site, those people are not out mugging citizens on the streets of DC or their home towns.)
WA State Dept. of Transportation
WSDOT operates low power radio stations at many mountain passes. These are typically at AM 530 kilocycles. They also broadcast traffic information and construction schedules.
