Well, the worst of the snow is
over and now the cleanup begins.
Freezing cold temperatures
could make for a messy commute
home from work today too.
And Adam, will you explain to
our viewers what you were telling
us earlier about it freezing and
being careful with ice tonight?
Yeah, so temperatures
gonna drop below freezing.
And I saw a lot of people out there
earlier today when we had temperatures
that dropped all the way down into
the upper 20s and a few spots,
and that was because we had
that air mass move on through.
And then things really started to.
Chill on down now also,
people get out there.
Started to shovel some of that
snow that was slushy at the time.
So good news for them.
They got it out of the way
while it was lighter.
Gonna be a little more crusty tomorrow
as we really start to cool things down
and officially start the winter season.
That's at 11:48 tomorrow morning.
We'll have sunrise at 7:55 after tomorrow.
Guess what? Our days, they get longer.
Or at least the daytime hours get longer.
Seatac airport.
You can see skies right now.
Cloudy.
Maybe a few flurries out there.
And for many of us here across
Western Washington,
no flurries.
Though across Hurricane Ridge,
looking live from there at all
the sunshine and even a few peeks
of sunshine as we get ready to
end off the day here to Westport,
right along the coast of Washington,
here in Seattle, down into the 20s,
now we're at 29,
that north wind coming in at 9 mph.
We're sitting in the upper 20s in Bremerton,
a low 30s in Tacoma, 19 at Bellingham,
27 in Mount Vernon and then
more the low 40s in Hoquiam Up
30s right now for forks.
So that air mass cooling down,
you factor in some of the wind that we have.
Around which is not gonna
be terrible into the night,
but it does still add a bit more that chill.
So up around Bellingham down
to 7 for wind chill,
mid 20s around Tacoma down this way,
central South Sound that the
winds should lighten around 5
mph if not even less than that.
But it is going to be something that
we'll have to keep an eye on for as
we go into the night with temperatures
dropping as much as they're expected to.
So there is the main band of precipitation.
That system heading South there is
taking a lot of the moisture with it,
the very few.
No place that we have generally
confined to more of the foothills.
And then we have it looks like
one band of snow that's up here,
light snow falling across Hwy
2 for Stevens Pass.
Hopefully we can get things up
and running again with that.
And then the farther S you go,
you can see generally that's rain
if you're gonna be traveling along
Hwy 5 going on here into the night.
So winter storm warnings,
those are still in effect for the Cascades.
That's going to be until 4:00
AM tomorrow morning.
Additional snows will be up
to about 6 inches.
So we still have a little ways to go and
still going to be some issues with that,
especially if you were planning on traveling.
Maybe hopefully tomorrow across the
passes central and S Cascades are
gonna be the ones hit with this looks
like the farther N you go things are
pretty limited as far as moisture and
then you go farther South and West
and this is where we have a winter
storm watch that is not in effect
yet but it is has been issued for
our next system that comes in later
into Thursday and will be impacting
spots heading on into Friday as well.
Now this is for the South Coast
and heading across more of the
Portland metro area that Columbia
River Gorge oftentimes holds a lot
of really cold air and as the.
Warmer air is trying to come through with
some of that moisture kind of locks in
and helps to create some of that ice.
So that's where they could be seeing
up to 1/2 an inch of ice and yes,
some of the snow as well.
This is going to be moving our way,
so we'll see what the National
Weather Service decides to do as
we get closer to that event on into
Thursday night and into Friday.
But it does look like it's gonna be
more of an event Thursday night for
us as opposed to through as opposed
to during the day on Thursday.
Tonight flurries still kind of round,
some lighter snow showers up here
across the passes and throwing,
throwing across the Cascades.
By tomorrow morning at 8:00 AM,
we do see that a lot of that has begun
to taper on off and there will be kind
of off and on hit or miss flurries
throughout the day on Wednesday.
But it's really not until we get back
into Thursday that we start to see
those returns showing up on the radar,
future radar showing South Coast again
initially seeing some snow as that
moisture is coming in and then we
really start to see this next round
of moisture pick up in intensity and
there is a lot of precipitation with it.
So it's going to be a wet system
initially snow,
then the pink that you see right there,
that's where we can see sleet.
Perhaps some freezing rain and that
could be a pretty big concern for us.
But what's gonna be helping is that
there's a lot of warm air coming in
and it's coming in at a rapid pace.
So it could help to kind of scour
all of this out of here and start
to change this over to rain.
And that's what we're expecting,
but it might be a little after the
morning commute heading on into Friday.
So something to keep an eye on for.
Of course we'll keep you updated as
we go throughout the next few days.
Here's your 7 day forecast,
29 tomorrow, 27 on Thursday.
Then things warm up over the holiday
weekend with highs in the mid to upper 40s,
nearly 50 on Christmas.