Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
Good evening everybody! I hope ya’ll are having a great Sunday thus far. I know I have. Why, you ask? It’s been snowing like crazy in the mountains. Stevens Pass reports 20 inches of new snow over the past 24 hours, while Snoqualmie pass reports 19. All of this has made for some very dicey […]
Snow is really coming down over the Cascades right now! Snoqualmie Pass is currently “chains required on all vehicles except all-wheel-drive,” and Stevens is only slightly better with chains required on trucks and traction tires required for all vehicles. And the top of Alpental looks downright stormy. As the radar below shows, a cold front […]
Well, the new model runs are in, so I thought I’d give another forecast on the snow (or lack thereof) expected for Monday morning. Each individual model has changed little over the past several runs, but the different models show vastly different scenarios. The American model (GFS) paints a couple inches on the higher hills […]
It has been 735 days since we saw snow in Sea-Tac Airport. Since our last snow, same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide, Donald Trump became president, CO2 levels permanently passed the 400 ppm threshold, and Michael Phelps won five more gold medals. There is a chance our snow-less streak could finally come to an end this week. But […]
Thanksgiving Week is, on average, the stormiest week of the year for the Pacific Northwest. And luckily for storm geeks and snow lovers across our region, Turkey Day 2016 will live up to its stormy reputation as a cyclone bringing strong winds, heavy rain, and heaps of mountain snow slams into the Pacific Northwest. That’s […]
Good news, winter weather lovers. Snow is returning to the Cascades, and it’s doing so in a big way. Snow will start impacting the Olympics and Coast Mountains of British Columbia early Tuesday morning as a wet cold front swings through the area. Snow levels will hover around 3-4000 feet, but all the passes – […]
After the warmest first half of November on record, snow has finally reached the Cascade passes. An upper-level trough directed cool, unstable air into our region last night, giving us showers (particularly in the mountains) and a Puget Sound Convergence Zone that enhanced snowfall around Stevens Pass. Over the past 24 hours, Snoqualmie Pass has […]
It’s been 211 days since we last saw snow at Snoqualmie Pass. And while we are not going to see snow there today or tomorrow, forecast models are finally showing accumulating snow down to pass level in the extended. And I could not be more happy! We’ve seen incredibly warm temperatures recently due to a […]
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 6:15 pm It was a bad week for the snow-lovers of the Pacific Northwest. Over the past couple days, we’ve had very moist and relatively mild flow coming into our region from the WSW. The result? Heavy rains on the Olympics and Northern Cascades, with much lighter precipitation in the Seattle […]
Monday, January 25, 2016 1:24 pm A car submerged in snow. Photo taken 23 January 2016. Credit: Wikimedia User Aude Last week in Seattle was pretty stormy, capped off by a very wet Thursday storm that set daily rainfall records throughout Western Washington and major avalanche danger on the Cascades. However, this storm was just […]
