Hey there everyone. Happy Friday.
KING5 meteorologist Adam Claybon
here to talk about this cold air
that's going to be sticking with
us at least for another night and
into the earlier part of Saturday.
We're still in first alert
weather mode because of that,
might have to extend it even further out
because when we got some more low land
accumulating snowfall that is on the way.
We're going to get into the details of that
plus talk about just the overall pattern,
how it's looking wintry on into not
only just this weekend, but for a
lot of next work week as well today.
It doesn't look wintry.
It lays a lot of sunshine is out there.
It is shining brightly and it's a beautiful
look right now as we look live in Seattle.
Let's go over to Everett now and you
can see same story there off into the
distance and look at the Cascades,
some of the mountains that are showing
up to some of those parts out.
Bellingham.
We have clear blue skies here,
winds finally starting to come
down after the breezy,
breezy time we've had here over
the past two days.
Westport.
We got clear skies out towards
the coast as well.
Looks like the waves not quite
as violent as they were.
Earlier into the week lapush few
clouds out into the parts there
but overall lots of sunshine and
just really cold air as our school
that side looking at Grandma fall
shows you Mel Pilchuck off into
the distance the snow coming in
the mountain there and then a
beautiful scene looking across.
They'll call me pass a lot of very
blue crisp skies there as we head
into our afternoon and looking at the
mountain tops and they are covered with snow.
So let's go ahead and get into it again.
First alert weather that is now through
Saturday and we're talking about maybe.
Saturday night and may have to
extend it into early Sunday.
And yes,
the colder temperatures are gonna
be around at least through early
tomorrow morning.
But we have rain and snow and
probably the majority of that will
be snow early on into Saturday
night as we'll start to pick
up some accumulations there.
And we're talking about for a
lot of the Puget Sound area.
The coastal areas may be starting
off as you know eventually started
to see things switch on over to
rain as this is going to be a
different animal than what we saw
earlier into the week.
Now this morning's lows were the coldest
we've seen so far here throughout the week.
Drop down to the teens and the
lower 20s down to 22.
That temperature out at Seatac Airport.
That is a new Daily Record low
beating out the old record of 24.
And overall today 38 degrees for a
high looks like Saturday we'll see
those rain and snow chances late,
but a good chunk of the day
actually going to
stay fairly quiet. So 43 degrees.
If you have any early plans into the
afternoon, you should be fine there.
It's into the evening into the overnight
hours that we'll see those areas of snow.
Yes, some rain mixing in initially and then.
For that rain to come on into the earlier
part of your Sunday as some warmer
air tries to find its way in here,
but that will decrease
throughout the day on Sunday.
So thankfully it looks like
more of an overnight event.
But still if you're going to be out
during that time that you're going
to want to keep an eye out for.
Colder air is continuing to dive
in across the country below zero,
across more the northern tier back
into Montana, North and South Dakota.
Seeing here we're on the western edge of it,
but a lot of cold air is across
the West Coast and that it starts
to extend all the way down to San
Francisco now 4543 in Las Vegas,
even Los Angeles 52, that's chilly for them.
Phoenix at 58 right now and that
is diving southward and starting
to head farther to the east.
So we'll start to see things ease a
little bit with the chill that we have
so far as our current numbers here
as we get closer to the noon hour.
We're in the upper 20s to low 30s.
Numbers are gonna feel even cooler though,
because of that wind that's still out
there now, not quite as much wind,
but still any bit that we do have.
It's going to make it feel like
we're in the 20s and still up there
around Bellingham Lane, Linden,
we're talking about teens for those
windshields as winds have come down
to around 10 to 15 as opposed to being
up closer to 40 up into those parts.
But most spots right now are sitting
at 10 or maybe less mph.
Now for today,
we're going to keep things relatively
quiet with high pressure that's in control.
You go farther to the South,
yeah,
there's that system that impacted us
earlier into the week with some of that snow.
It's down into California and it's lowering.
There's snow levels and they're going
to see some snow and some locations
that usually and typically don't get to
see the snow into some of those parts,
but a lot of rain for them.
As I zoom in,
you can start to see how that white
spreads out just a bit more into
some of the coastal ranges there
of some of the mountains,
and that continues to extend all the
way down around the Los Angeles area,
getting more into the foothills
and more so I would say into the
mountains there into some of those.
Parts.
Now today,
yes,
temperatures are going to warm up slightly.
So I wanted to give you that hope at least.
And the sunshine that's gonna help out,
we're up by about two or
three degrees from where
we were at this point yesterday.
But overall, we're still talking
about an afternoon that's going to
be about 10 to 15 degrees cooler
than where we should normally be.
And then once the sun sets again,
we're falling quickly back into
the 20s for those overnight lows.
Now looking at future temperatures,
here we are into this morning,
we're going to see that temperatures
warm back up into the mid to upper
30s by the afternoon and then
once we head just around that.
Sunset time or a little before we're
falling back near or just above that
freezing point later into the night.
Evening plans, you have upper 20s, lower 30s.
This is going to be a little
different from last night.
Last night we had more of the winds,
so wind chills were in the teens.
This go around,
I think we'll keep wind chills in
the 20s for a lot of locations and
then we'll cool down eventually.
Around the low to mid 20s by
early tomorrow morning,
by tomorrow afternoon.
Check out what happens with the temperatures.
We're starting to climb a little bit
back above that freezing point and
we get back into the 40s in a lot of
locations late tomorrow afternoon,
4:00 to 4:30.
Now once we head into the nighttime hours,
I wanted to point this out right here.
We're going to keep an eye out for
that moisture as it comes in and
as it's already impacting areas,
especially across the North Coast.
You can see here closer to Port
Angeles and Quill Ute,
our temperatures quite a bit
different than what you're seeing.
Closer to Puget Sound. Why is that?
Well,
we have the moisture moving in
a lot of that dry air in place.
That's going to help to cool the
air mass once we start to factor
in and we start to introduce
some precipitation to it.
And that's why temperatures will drop.
The same case will be for
us farther to the east here,
closer to Puget Sound once we start to
get the moisture in later on into the night.
So the moisture comes in and the
temperatures they start to drop and we
are going to be close to that freezing point.
So any sort of snow that we get will be
more of the sort of wet and slushy variety.
As opposed to dry and really
getting rock hard and icy,
but we are going to have a few
slippery spots later into Saturday
night and early Sunday morning.
So that will be the time that you
want to keep an eye out for maybe
some of those slick areas to develop.
By 6:30 heading into Sunday morning,
you can see again temperatures.
Near, if not above the freezing point.
So that will help us out as far
as the road conditions,
especially once the sun begins to rise.
And we'll continue on into the
afternoon with temperatures in the mid
to upper 30s kind of here and there,
some low 40s starting to pop up.
And with the convergence zone action,
whatever sort of shower activity we have,
that might help to draw down a
little bit of that cooler air into
the upper part of the atmosphere
to create just a bit more of that
snow as we go later on into the day.
But I think the accumulation should
large in part be coming to an end now
as we look at that on future radar
you can see for the rest of today.
Clear skies, quiet.
Then we headed to tomorrow morning, 10:30.
Still quiet here across all of Wall Street,
Western Washington.
By tomorrow evening, 5:00 PM.
That's where you can see out
along those coastal areas.
We're starting to see that moisture arriving,
colder air in place,
as well as that really dry air mass,
plus the moisture that's going
to help to drop temperatures down
closer to that freezing point.
It's the process we call evaporative
cooling now as we go later on
into tomorrow night by ten,
10:30,
then everywhere here looks like
it's going to be crossed.
With some of that snow and guests generally
just know maybe some rain mixing in,
but those areas that probably won't
see as much right here across the
northeastern clip of the Olympic
Peninsula and then around parts
of Camano and Whidbey Island,
which will get blocked by the mountain
chain right there by Vancouver Island.
And then getting blocked by some
of the Olympics as well as this
moisture starts to move on through.
So amounts are going to be limited
in those locations.
But overall,
we're expecting maybe 1 to 3 inches
to come through for most locations.
And then by early Sunday morning,
5:00 to 6:00 o'clock certainly to see
at least the widespread chances of
snow and rain beginning to come to an end.
We'll still keep some spotty chances
into later tomorrow afternoon now
or into Sunday afternoon, alright.
And then you can see by the totals
we're going to keep those amounts
generally less than three inches.
Areas farther to the north maybe
not seeing as much with less of
the moisture around.
That includes us closer to Bellingham too,
as we'll see a lot of the moisture
kind of wrung out by some of the
higher terrain over Vancouver Island.
Plus you can see that.
Farther South you go, I think around Tacoma,
maybe some blocking because of the
Olympics with some of the moisture there.
But anywhere between 1/2 an inch,
an inch, maybe 2 inches will be possible.
And then it's all going to be
dependent on how that moisture
really tracks once once it arrives.
I think the overall thing,
what we're trying to get to you
here is that we're expecting to
see between an inch to three in
most spots here around Puget Sound
over the Kitsap Peninsula,
maybe a little higher around Hood Canal,
and then we could see some higher amounts.
They are closer to the North Coast depending
on how temperatures hold up once we head on.
Here into the evening for tomorrow
and heading on into early Sunday.
And then once we get beyond that point,
here we are, Monday and Tuesday
seeing rain and snow chances around,
a lot of the deep moisture heading southward.
So that will probably save us from any
sort of significant accumulations.
If we are to see any of that at all,
we'll go into Wednesday.
We got a slight break there.
I think we'll keep things dry
heading into Wednesday before we head
back again heading into Thursday,
it looks like more of those rain and
snow chances coming through yet again,
probably more rain than snow
heading into that point.
And if you wanted any help
here it is right here,
spring not too far away.
March the 20th less than a month and that
will begin at 2:24 PM it's coming guys.
Today's forecast we top off in the
low to mid 30s farther to the north,
but plenty of sunshine that's going to help
out and lighter winds farther north as well.
Highs getting close to the 40 degree
mark might hit that around Monroe,
Issaquah,
North Bend,
but I think generally mid to upper 30s
around possible parts of Seattle areas.
Farther S it looks like more than
mid to upper 30s with a few low 40s
around those parts as well and your
forecast as we go into the night.
Looking to be another chilly one with
lows dropping down into the mid 20s,
some low 20s farther South as will be
farther away from some of the clouds
arriving later on here into the evening.
And then probably keeping things just
a bit warmer farther to the north.
Here's your forecast that we're still in.
Yes,
that first alert weather mode for
today and heading into the day
for tomorrow looks like Sunday.
Those chances of rain and snow will
be getting out of here fairly quickly
into the morning and then we'll go on
into Monday and Tuesday next Thursday,
seeing more areas of rain and snow yet.
Again in the forecast as the Witten pattern.
It does look to continue.
So big story will be that you
need to keep an eye out if you're
out Saturday night also.
Another thing too is then you
need to keep yourself warm here.
I know it's going to be warming
up slightly later into the night,
but you're gonna still bundle up
and layer up too as we head on
into your evening and then on into
your early and Saturday morning.
But we're going to get through it.
Everyone will eventually start to get
to that spring and we'll eventually
start to see things warm back up.
Take care and have a fantastic
Friday and a wonderful weekend
and we'll talk to you later.