Let's take a live look at
Snoqualmie Pass this afternoon
where it is really snowing there.
The paths expected to see between one
to two feet of snow today and tomorrow.
Meteorologist Adam Claybon joining us now.
So Adam obviously snowing in the mountains,
but what can we expect here in the lowlands?
Ohh we can expect snow here too.
There's gonna be a variable that's
probably could throw a wrench into some
accumulations and where we could see it.
Warm nose of air coming in from the South
gonna start to switch things over to rain
as we head into early tomorrow morning.
So I'm going to try to
show you how that will.
Start to play into the forecast
as we go into that time,
but what we do expect is that this
will be a more widespread of it
as far as accumulating snowfall,
especially from what we had back on
yesterday and last night and we're
under this first alert weather
event until tomorrow afternoon.
The system is going to blast on
out if you're once that is gone.
We do expect those very cold temperatures
to settle in behind slows areas that
do see snow could create some slick spots,
plus it's just going to get downright cold.
We can have some hazardous driving
impacts that go along with that and we
still have more winter weather to come.
Later into the week.
So we'll get into that here in a second.
First,
Westport you can see the skies are
cloudy and here across the South
Coast probably gonna keep things
in the majority form or major or
mostly in the form of rain there.
While up here across areas
such as Snohomish County,
we do expect to see a little more
of that snow start to come down.
And eventually,
yes,
it looks like that will be generally in the
form of snow up across the Homesh County.
But again that one knows of here
could play a role up that way too,
where we are going to see that
line kind of back and forth.
Be here around Seattle,
we're currently at 33 degrees
and with that temperature,
of course you might have some
light snow that is falling,
maybe even mixing in with some rain.
But as far as impacts on
the highway or the roads,
not too much of an impact with
temperatures staying above freezing,
just keep an eye out for some
of those bridges and overpasses
once we go on into the night.
We're at 30 in Bremerton right now
at 36 and Renton at 36 in Puyallup
and 35 in Olympia while you go
farther north and that's where
you have a bit more of those 20s,
even teens,
Bellingham right now sitting at 16.
The reason when you factor in the
wind feels like a bone chilling 1
degree 28 in Seattle right now at
32 for your wind chill in Renton.
So our system is arriving now.
We're starting to see that moisture
here impacting some parts of Western
Washington and namely it looks
like the North Coast here through
parts of the Olympic peninsula,
right through the Strait of Wanda
Fuca which is now beginning to fill
in here across some parts of the San
Juan Islands and up across Whatcom County.
Generally some pretty light
snow and flurries up that way.
The same can be said here across parts
of Puget Sound which the moisture.
The deepest moisture,
not quite here yet as you go farther
South and West we are starting to get
some of that snow to break out here,
but we are going to see that
the warmer air will take over.
So here closer to areas such as humptulips,
we probably will start to see
that switch over to maybe some
more rain as we head deep into the
night as the system will start to
ramp on up here across the region.
But we have that supply of colder
air from that high pressure system
farther to the north that is going
to keep things really cold here and
cold enough to support that snowfall
here as we go over the next 24 hours.
Winter Storm warning in effect.
At 7:00 PM Tonight will last
until 7:00 PM tomorrow.
We have areas here shaded in the pink
color that are going to be under this.
Now, the lowland areas,
we're talking about two,
perhaps up to 8 inches of snow where
we get some of those sweet spots,
mountains, one to two feet of snow.
But it's farther S here where we
expect that warmer nudge of air
to really take over that we are
going to limit some of the amounts.
We're talking 2 to 4 inches here
across parts of Mason County,
around Thurston County,
South Sound and heading up around
parts of Pierce County as well.
So putting that into motion,
you can see not really seeing this fill
in a lot until we get into 9 maybe.
10:00 PM tonight.
So you still got a few hours here
around Puget Sound before that happens
then I wanted to show you this as
some models are coming in recently
they've been showing a little more
this warmer nudge of air coming northward.
So that is switching things over to rain
here across some parts of King County,
maybe even extending N into Snohomish County,
while probably the areas here across Skagit,
welcome County will see the worst.
There's been this blast on out of
here as we go into the afternoon
hours and we're starting to quiet
down beyond that point.
Here's your 7 day forecast at
29 for your Wednesday.
We'll see temperatures.
In the mid 20s on Thursday.
Maybe another large system coming in
late Thursday night into Friday that
could provide a wintry mix at first swim,
then switch over to rain.