Cliffs Blog Weather Massive: Light Snow and Cold. Next: The potential for snow on Thursday morning
Forecast models performed quite well over the past day, with cold air and light snowfall yesterday and this morning.
Light snow fell yesterday in the northeast of the Olympic Peninsula, with a strip extending north of Kitsap and Camano Island. And this morning, it snowed very lightly on Puget Sound (see image below). A few outbreaks are happening right now, but they will soon be over.
Bellevue, Courtesy of Dr. Peter Benda
Last night’s lows in the west ranged from the mid-20s around Bellingham to about 30F west of WA and Oregon away from the water. Teenagers are common in eastern WA, with some single digits entering the terrain. But the coldest temperatures were in the valleys of the highlands of eastern Oregon, where one station got up to 1C.
Now the air is cold enough for snow to fall all over the area, but precipitation will essentially end as higher bottoms provide an increase in away movement.
The winds from the Fraser River valley last night were unusual, with speeds up to 55 knots (63 mph) in Bellingham. Watch the winds at 1 a.m. this morning…. a strong cold air is coming out of the narrow Fraser River Gorge. Wind chill near 0F.
Today will be a dry, cold day with highs above 30 degrees Fahrenheit to the west and 20s east of the Cascade Peak. Currently, the sun is too strong to be cold during the day.
But tonight, with the sun setting and the earth radiating into space in a cloudless sky, temperatures will plummet, with lows in the 20°C lower west and the only digits being around 10 degrees Fahrenheit in the Columbia Basin (see Wednesday’s 8 a.m. forecast below from a national mix of models). I spoke with the city of Seattle’s emergency managers about opening homeless shelters.
Minimum temperature at 8 a.m. Wednesday Produced by NWS National Blend of Models (provided by WeatherBell).
But the threat of lowland snow isn’t over yet!
An area of weak turbulence will move south across the region early Thursday. At this time, models are predicting some light snowfall in northwest Washington, but little in central and southern Puget Sound (see snowfall predictions for the 24-hour period ending at 4pm). Thursday).
We need to watch this closely – small mistakes can move the snow.
Temperatures will warm up to near-normal this weekend. Models show this.
But there is an even stronger predictor of warming temperatures and springtime, one that false spring watchers at the Seattle Times should tell a story (see below). The appearance of garden supplies at local supermarkets.
