Good Thursday evening.
I'm chief meteorologist Mike Everett
here in the King 5 newsroom.
And you may be wondering why
I'm wearing my yellow jacket.
Because it's cold. Temperatures
already sub freezing in many spots,
and we'll be getting down into the teens.
Yeah, a little bit of a breeze to it and that
feels like temperature of the wind chill.
Looks like it will get down into
the low teens in some spots.
In fact, let's dig right into this story.
We will start off our story in Bellingham
tonight, where it's already cold,
but it's not snowing and it's not windy.
We are tracking a system that
will be moving through here.
In fact, I'll give you the details.
Right now,
chilly tranquility overnight into Friday,
our next system moves in along the coast.
This one's pretty interesting.
It looks like it'll kind of
brush up along the coast,
but most of the moisture will
head down towards the South.
We'll talk about the implications
there in a moment,
but plan for some flurries to fly
across the Seattle Metro during the
second-half of the Friday evening commute.
I'm not expecting big accumulations.
We'll take a look at that in a moment too,
but it could be enough to kind
of disrupt the traffic pattern.
Looks like we'll be looking at some
low level rain and snow potential that
will last through into the weekend.
So this is Seattle and right now
it is about 9:50 on Thursday night,
so about 10 minutes to 10 already
below freezing.
And look at this temperatures,
well everybody's below freezing.
Bellingham that we were just
looking at a moment ago,
currently 19 degrees Winthrop is 5
below 16 and Ellensburg that 33 on
the coast seems balmy in relativity.
So satellite and radar showing a
whole lot of nothing going on.
We are seeing some light flurries that
are trying to push into the base of
the Cascades and some light showers
that are along the coast taking a look up.
Towards the mountains, kind of hard to see,
but I-90 as it stands right now is passable.
The roads are bare and wet.
Looks like there's a lot of
snow piled up on the side.
And Stevens Pass,
which is opening for business tomorrow,
it looks like it's got some snow
that's piling up there as well.
In fact,
I was seeing White on the roads
last time I took a look at it.
Speaking to Stevens Pass,
this is the rotating camera,
and it looks like they got plenty
of snow for their opening tomorrow.
In fact,
if you take a look at some of
those rooftops there,
there are new accumulations of about a foot.
And yeah,
those trees look like they've
all been flocked.
It's going to be a great weekend.
Get up there.
So as far as snow accumulation goes,
not expecting a whole lot overnight,
maybe a little bit of orographic
snow that'll push into
some of the foothills there,
but not expecting much.
Now as this next system moves through,
looks like it will favor the Olympics
and the northern portion of the Cascades.
So if you want to head up to Baker,
looks like they will have about
a foot of fresh white waiting
for you when you get there.
So take a look at this.
This is our next weather system,
and what's different about it is it kind
of just comes up and kisses the coast
and then heads down towards the South.
What's great about this is
as it continues to move.
Down, it's gonna bring it in again.
Abundant moisture help build
that snowpack along the Sierras,
but I'm seeing snow that will fly into
the Intermountain W what's significant
about that is that during a lenina,
the Intermountain W will
sometimes get moisture starved.
So to be able to share some of that
moisture with them and help them build
the snowpack in places like Nevada,
Utah, Idaho,
and even portions of Colorado,
even New Mexico is a good thing.
Taking a look at future radar.
So as that system moves by,
you'll start to see the cloud cover
moving in 8:30 in the morning maybe.
And light flurries flying,
especially up towards Snohomish
County and over the Olympics.
This is right after lunchtime,
so right around 1:30,
we're seeing those showers pushing in along
the coast that will be heavy at times.
And then we get to about 5:30.
And this is when we start to see
some snow that will be flying
again basically across the central
portion of Puget Sound and then
really fills in Friday night.
That's why it's looking like Baker
in the Northern Cascades will
really benefit from this system,
whereas it looks like Crystal and
Snoqualmie kind of get a miss from this one,
but there will be some wrap
around moisture on Sunday.
In fact, as we advance into Saturday,
well, this is Saturday morning around 7:30,
we see a little clearing taking place.
And then boom, right around Sunday,
midday, we see that next round moving.
That could bring some snow,
obviously, to Snoqualmie and Stevens.
And it looks like it will bring a rain
snow mix to Seattle, Tacoma, Everett,
this is right around 1:30 in the afternoon.
So it looks like we'll see some
inclement weather there,
but nothing that I'm expecting to
be too stormy.
So lowland snow,
snow accumulation.
Well,
Shelton and Bremerton looked like
he could pick up close to 5 inches
by the time we get to Saturday.
And even out towards the coast,
we'll be looking at some light
returns there too. Did I mention cold?
Yeah, it's going to be cold tonight.
In fact,
a lot of these overnight lows are
probably already outdated because
so many of these temperatures
are below what we're seeing.
I would say that these are probably
the overnight lows for Saturday
morning instead of Friday.
High temperatures tomorrow look
like they will be trying to get
in the upper 30s and lower 40s.
That's typical for this time of year.
So after a very chilly start,
we will see a bit of a warm up Friday
temperatures get into the upper 30s.
In Seattle on Saturday,
we'll do something very similar.
We'll see that rain snow mix on
Saturday that lasts into Sunday.
And it looks like we catch a little bit
of a break on Monday where we'll get
a visit from the sun and then another
system pushes through on Tuesday.
We're still about three weeks
out from the beginning of winter,
but it most certainly looks and
feels like winter out there.
So keep yourself warm,
keep yourself safe and keep
looking up in the King 5 newsroom.
I'm chief meteorologist Mike Everett.
Have a great night.