Hey there everyone.
Happy Thursday, KING5.
Meteorologist Adam Claybon here on
this getaway day for some which are
trying to get out and head home.
For others, maybe just trying to
get some last minute stuff done.
Heading into the holiday weekend,
it's looking like it is going
to be an interesting forecast
tonight and into the day tomorrow.
That will be the big part of really
the next few days as we have this
ice possibility with freezing
rain heading on in a lot of cold
air locked in across the area.
But at least we saw a little
sunshine here early this morning.
It's some high clouds.
Beginning to filter in right now.
Beautiful. Look at Tacoma,
Mount Rainier off into the distance here.
Seattle.
Yeah.
You're noticing cloudy skies now
firmly in place and that's going
to be locking in that colder air
saying up across Hurricane Ridge.
Now we are seeing some return showing
up on radar up over the Olympics.
I wanted to show you this
one because as of right now,
it looks like the air mass extremely dry.
And that means a lot of what it's
going to be falling initially,
probably going to evaporate before it
hits the surface here where we are.
So we're going to have to saturate
that atmosphere.
Stevens Pass saw things required
for the time being and across
Snoqualmie Pass too,
but it's here there and and White
Pass that we're expecting things
to turn snowy first possibly icy
and state icy for a little while
as we lock in some of the cold
air there out along Westport.
We could see some wintry weather
here as we still have a really
cold air mass in place.
And then as we take a look it looks
like our Billingham camera is down,
but we are seeing that conditions are
fairly fairly cold there and as we
go across some areas here closer to
Seatac airport all of that. On off.
So let's go ahead and continue on.
Here's a look at your current
temperatures sitting in the upper
teens and lower 20s Now these numbers.
A bit warmer than what models
were showing earlier this morning.
Is that to say much?
Because we're still well below
freezing and still have a lot
of that cold air to try to warm
up as the system arrives.
Now check out the winds.
They're coming in out of the E 515 mph,
so we still have that.
And that will bring down some
of your windchills into the
single digits and lower teens.
So we're still more of a situation
currently that you're having to really
dress for the really bitterly cold air.
Now much worse of the cold air is.
Off towards the east,
as you can see,
all of that diving down even
into the center of the country,
Oklahoma City at 33 degrees
right now Dallas is at 17,
Houston still holding on at 55,
but they'll be cooling down
here pretty shortly too.
So here's the timing.
The rest of the day,
if you're trying to get out,
I think you're fine here around Puget
Sound and really maybe even the first
couple of hours of the overnight.
It's not probably until about 10:00
PM that we start to see in areas
farther S around South Sound affected,
and then around midnight here
close to Central and North Sound.
There's a satellite radar picture.
I did tell you that we do have some
radar returns showing up on there.
It looks like it's snowing,
just not quite getting all
that down to the surface.
Deeper moisture where you see
some of those wider colors
showing up off of the coast,
that's where we're initially
going to start to see some of
this come in initially as snow,
eventually turn that over to more of the
freezing rain as we go into the night.
And a couple of systems lined
on up behind that,
which is going to help to keep the
rain going into the holiday weekend
as we start to warm up and possibly
even bring in some flooding concerns,
Winchell advisories.
Fill out until 10:00 PM and
we're expecting those wind chills
as low as 5 degrees below 0.
I think we're safely above 0
and most of those spots now.
Winter storm warnings start up at
2:00 PM this afternoon along the
South Coast and heading generally
down there across the Portland
metro area and a lot of Oregon.
And then up this way we have a
winter storm warning or watch,
sorry,
that we'll start up at 4:00 PM
and that will last until tomorrow
afternoon or tomorrow evening heading
into tomorrow night with Western
Washington up possibly up to three inches,
especially as you go from I think north of.
Get up around Everett and northward
will have that profile in the
atmosphere that will keep a lot
of this in the form of snow areas
farther South and I'm thinking more
SSS King County heading into more
Pierce and Thurston counties where
we have the better opportunities of
seeing some more widespread freezing rain.
So let's get into it right now.
Here it is right at 6:00 o'clock.
We're starting to see the South Coast
being impacted by some of the snow,
freezing rain that's showing up,
that fills in.
But you can see that the timing
is right around midnight tonight.
Let me see if I can.
Back that up for you getting
around not here we go,
9:00 to 10:00 o'clock South Sound
starting to see initially some
of that freezing rain you can
see right along more the Central
Coast to Hola Humptulips actually
maybe even getting this into the
form of a rain pretty quickly.
North Coast,
South Coast still dealing with the
colder air firmly in place there.
And then we continue on as we go
on into the night past midnight
into early tomorrow morning
where we're dealing with some of
those areas of snow and freezing
rain. Now let's surround Seattle.
That's going to be the area
that I think we could.
Be kind of a back and forth
between maybe sleet and snow,
maybe some freezing rain that might
help to limit some of the icing we get.
But I think for sure South of there
is where we have the opportunity
of seeing some of the biggest
impacts as well as the better
chances of that freezing rain.
Now we'll continue on into
the afternoon 1:00 o'clock,
I think we're safely above freezing
and we're starting to notice things
quieting on down with the freezing
rain and we're switching everything
over to more than just liquid rain by
that point and heading into Friday
night and then we got a couple of more.
Systems go through as we head
into the upcoming weekend.
I do want to point out though,
right here through the passes,
we're still going to have a lot of that
cold air kind of locked into place.
So get ready for more icy travel here.
Snoqualmie and for Stevens Pass,
White Pass too,
as we're not going to be quite
done with the wintry weather,
even though we might switch
over from that snow.
But still dealing with
that freezing rain now.
Lowland snow accumulations,
I told you,
it looks like from Everett northward
is the better opportunity of getting
some of the accumulating snowfall,
especially up around Skagit and Walkham.
Counties,
no big worries about huge icing up there.
We could see a little bit,
but looks like it is going to be more
of a snow event for us over into
those parts and then across the passes.
Pretty good snows are going to be
coming with us as we're expecting
about maybe 6 to 12 inches of snow
on through the next couple of days.
So let's get into those temperatures
because that's going to be key
this afternoon.
Temperatures holding steady into the mid 20s,
we start to head into tonight.
Here we are at 2:00 o'clock tonight low 20s.
I think the models might be
a little chilly with this,
but either way if we're talking about four,
even 5 degrees warmer,
we're still below freezing.
So we're still dealing with icing
and that's continuing on into
tomorrow morning around 7:00 o'clock.
Now by the time we head into
about 9:10 o'clock,
probably even better around 11:00 o'clock,
you see those numbers
right at around freezing.
We're gonna start to improve there.
Not a complete cut off of some of
the icy conditions that we have,
but once we do start to safely
make our way above freezing,
travel should be a lot easier
here around Puget Sound.
Just still dealing with some
of those passes which will be a
little icy and also some of those
higher terrain areas as well.
Highs today are going to be in the 20s,
farther N just generally cloudy skies.
No,
no big worries about impactful
weather here for this
afternoon as you go South looks like
more highs in the mid to upper 20s
across South Sound and looking at your.
Forecast tonight.
Check out those temperatures.
They're warming.
Those numbers actually a little off.
I think that's more for what
we're expecting tomorrow afternoon
heading into tomorrow evening,
so keep that in mind.
Here's your 7 day forecast,
24 for today,
jumping temperatures back above freezing
at least heading into the afternoon,
evening tomorrow,
and then much warmer through the
holiday weekend and into the
upcoming work week for next week.
So I just did want to go over all of that.
I did want to stress too that
freezing rain has no trash.
At least with snow we have the ability
to have some sort of traction,
but those bridges and overpasses,
sidewalks through all things that
you want to keep an eye out for.
If you will be out early tomorrow
morning or even late tonight,
maybe even try to hold off
on tonight if you're going to
be traveling past midnight.
Power outages is going to be a
concern with some of the heavier rain
and ice weighing down power lines,
possibly some of those branches
if we get to see some of those.
With the colder air mass in place,
of course I'm not going to feel great at all.
So those are all things to consider.
Kind of get into your hot end,
to the back of your mind as well,
that if it is going to occur or
if it does happen for you,
that you'll have a plan that you'll be
able to have some way of staying warm.
We'll keep you updated as we head
into the evening and into the night.
We'll give you the latest details on
what will be happening if we do see
any changes to the models and where
we could continue to see possibly
some of the worst impacts as we
head throughout the next 24 hours.
Take care.