Good Friday evening.
I'm chief meteorologist Mike Everett
here in the King 5 studios in Seattle,
where it is currently raining outside.
It's just after 9:00 PM and we've been
tracking that moisture that's been moving up
from the South and the southwest interior.
In fact, let's get right into it.
We'll take a look at the go 17 satellite.
Now, at first glance, first of all,
you can't see the Pacific Northwest,
and you'd think that we're about to
tap into another huge moisture plume.
But if you look up towards the top there,
you'll see that there's a frontal
boundary that's going to act as a
plunger that's going to basically drive.
This system down towards the
South over the next 24 hours.
So that actually takes a lot of
that moisture and distributes it all
the way up and down the West Coast,
including the Intermountain W I'll tell you
what the implications are there in a moment,
but as we take a look at a 2 hour late
radar loop on this Friday evening,
some of those heavy rains that we were
tracking along the coast have now dissipated.
Right around 5-6 PM we actually saw some
very heavy rain that was slamming into
the southwestern corner of the Olympics.
Looks like Hwy 12 is kind of the
dividing line there between Aberdeen
and off towards Shelton where we are.
And we're keeping a very close eye on
Hood Canal and the Kitsap Peninsula
tonight because that's where we expect
some of that heavier snow to accumulate,
about 2 to 5 inches in the lower
elevations and possibly up to 8
inches in some of those foothills.
We'll take a look at those numbers too.
Now,
in the short term,
it looks like we are getting a warming
influence from Puget Sound that's keeping
things as rain over top of Seattle Metro.
But virtually everybody else has
got some flakes flying right now.
So that's one of the interesting
things about the night.
We do expect some flurries to fly.
We're not.
Expecting much in the way of accumulation,
temperatures will stay just above
the freezing mark.
Now that said, from Olympia to Seattle,
it looks like we could see about
a trace to an inch.
Everett to Bellingham about
one to three inches.
Kitsap Peninsula again in the lower levels,
about 3 to 6 inches.
Some of those foothills
could get up to about 8.
Cascades pick up about 2:00 to 5:00 and the
Olympics clean up with about 8 to 16 inches.
So a lot of the resorts,
in fact all of our resorts are open now.
So they'll be a little bit of
icing on the cake on Saturday.
But as that system moves away,
some wrap around moisture will bring.
Some bonus snow anyway,
I think from about four to
7 inches between Stevens,
White Pass and Snoqualmie,
here's what it looks like in the big picture.
That system kind of tumbles
down the coast and away
from us. So we get a gorgeous
sun break on Saturday afternoon.
Some of that wrap around moisture on Sunday,
and then this thing moves down and
gives us a little bit of a rest.
But that will take into next week.
In fact, Monday and Tuesday
should be relatively calm.
Some color on the map, in fact.
We've got a winter storm warning
in effect for the Olympics.
But immediately off towards the east,
there again, Hood Canal.
Kitsap, Mason,
Jefferson counties we are expecting
that snow to be heavy at times on
Friday night into Saturday morning
and a winter weather advisories
in place along the I5 corridor.
Again, it's going to be more bark than
bite with a lot of flakes flying but
not a lot of accumulation happening.
We put it into motion here again overnight,
Friday into Saturday.
Things are active,
but even in the middle of the night
we start to see some of that clearing
as the system starts to pull away.
So early 6:30 on Saturday morning,
we'll see a rain snow mix up towards
the Canadian border in Skagit and
welcome and then the clearing.
Takes place.
Do yourself a huge favor and head
out and take a look around between
about 10:30 and the time the sunsets
right around 4:30 the Olympics.
The Cascades are going to be beautiful
with all that fresh snow on it.
If you're a photographer it's
going to be your kind of day.
Sunday we start to see that wrap around
moisture move in again and brings
another rain snow mix to the region.
But it will be fairly short lived.
By about 8:00 PM it starts
to pull away again.
So again,
not expecting much in the way of
accumulations but could make the
roads slippery out there for sure.
High temperatures on Saturday.
Will be in a comfortable range.
In fact right about where they
should be this time of year.
We'll be in the low to mid 40s and your 7
day forecast shows again an active weekend,
but nothing that's going to be
too particularly crazy out there.
Roads will be slippery and
then as we go into next week,
Monday and Tuesday look quiet,
already tracking another storm
system midweek that looks like
what we should be seeing.
Some rain down low and
some mountain snow up high.
We'll keep you posted as it
gets a little bit closer.
Make sure you keep yourself warm,
keep yourself safe and keep
looking up and keeping 5 newsroom.
I'm chief meteorologist.
Frank Everett have a great weekend.