Recent Stories with tag snow shadow

Our Whidbey Island correspondent provides this winter wonderland view, confirming this Seattlepi.com story, "Whidbey Island faces snow days." Islanders are expecting between "1 and 3 inches of snow" to accumulate today, with perhaps another inch coming Thursday.

Here in Seattle, roadways are mostly bare and wet--after graupel yesterday and some wet snow for the commute home, we're in a snow shadow cast by the Olympics. In this morning's post, the UW's Cliff Mass suggests that while snow is on the way, at least today it won't be cold enough to freeze during the afternoon commute: 

The models indicate that during the day the flow approaching the region will weaken and turn more southerly....that will open Seattle to snow showers, and as the low moves south, northerly flow will push southward. But not yet. Last night the NWS was going for a hard freeze of this stuff later today during the commute home. Looking at the situation now I believe that is highly unlikely.... (more)