The National Weather Service has issued a high wind and heavy rain warning for the Puget Sound area, including Whidbey Island, starting tonight and going into Saturday.

At this point it is uncertain exactly where this storm will hit the coast.

The Weather Service says it is the remains of tropical typhoon Songda, which is the third of three major weather systems that will impact the northwest.

"So much intense weather is going to hit us, that I don't know where to start", writes Cliff Mass, a professor of meteorology at the University of Washington.

Western Oregon will see stormy weather the rest of the week and through the weekend.

Wind are supposed to taper back Friday with the arrival of another storm, with winds 11 mph to 13 mph, with gusts up to 24 mph and 0.5 inch to 0.75 inch of rain. If it tracks off the coast into Vancouver B.C. (66% chance), we will still be impacted by significant winds, likely higher than the first storm.

The approaching storm, he wrote, may have an "unbelievably strong pressure gradient around it".

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Thursday will also be very wet with 1-to-2 inches of rain for the Puget Sound lowlands, 2-to-4 inches for the Cascades and Olympics and five inches or more for the south facing slopes of the Olympics.

Thursday night's storm and the blockbuster feared Saturday are embedded within what's known as an atmospheric river - a 3,500-mile-long plume of moisture sourced from the tropics.

Snohomish County PUD is warning customers to expect "widespread power outages" from both systems.

The National Weather Service forecasts sunny skies with a high temperature of about 61.

There is a Flood Watch for the Skokomish River Thursday afternoon through Friday afternoon.

However, the agency warned that falling leaves could plug storm drains and worsen urban street flooding.