Snow in our immediate future? Possible, say the weather forecasters

  • Wednesday, February 16, 2011 2:17pm
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Here is an advisory issued this afternoon for the North Olympic Peninsula by the National Weather Service:

SAN JUAN COUNTY-WESTERN WHATCOM COUNTY-SOUTHWEST INTERIOR-

EAST PUGET SOUND LOWLANDS-WESTERN SKAGIT COUNTY-EVERETT AND VICINITY-

SEATTLE/BREMERTON AREA-TACOMA AREA-ADMIRALTY INLET AREA-

HOOD CANAL AREA-LOWER CHEHALIS VALLEY AREA-

EASTERN STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA-WESTERN STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA-

NORTH COAST-CENTRAL COAST-

115 PM PST WED FEB 16 2011

…SHOWERS WILL LOCALLY DRAG SNOW LEVELS TO THE SURFACE IN THE

LOWLANDS THROUGH THURSDAY…

SHOWERS ARE ROTATING ONSHORE AROUND A COLD UPPER LEVEL LOW SITTING OVER

THE OFFSHORE WATERS. WHILE TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWLANDS ARE

MARGINAL FOR SNOW…HEAVIER SHOWERS ARE DRAGGING THE SNOW LEVEL

DOWN TO THE SURFACE.

A BAND OF SHOWERS THIS MORNING GAVE SOME SNOWFALL TO THE SOUTHWEST

INTERIOR LOWLANDS FROM LEWIS COUNTY SOUTHWARD. AT 1 PM…WEATHER

OBSERVATIONS FROM HOQUIAM AIRPORT AND A REPORT FROM THE GRAYS

HARBOR EMERGENCY MANAGER INDICATED THAT SNOW SHOWERS WERE FALLING

DOWN TO SEA LEVEL IN HOQUIAM AND ABERDEEN…AND ARE GIVING BRIEF

ACCUMULATIONS…INCLUDING ON ROADWAYS.

THESE SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO ROTATE INTO WESTERN WASHINGTON

THROUGH THURSDAY. SPOTTY BRIEF SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF AN INCH OR

TWO ARE POSSIBLE. THE BEST CHANCE OF SEEING SNOW SHOWER ACTIVITY

WILL BE DURING THE LATE NIGHT AND MORNING HOURS.

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