Snow teaser . . .More to Come?
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
NOWCAST- Rain turned to wet snow this evening in most parts of Clark County with sticking snow generally above 500 feet although I had enough to turn my grass white and top of cars etc here at Salmon Creek. Pretty wet though. Seattle NWS mentioned earlier today about the deformation zone dropping down from the Islands off BC. Look at the very short trajectory. The band of coldest air and resulting wet snow was going to end up someplace! You could see this on Sat Pix, don't know why TV forecasters didn't pick up on this one. I thought the band would come right over us while looking at things at 3pm. Good call by SEA NWS. They said somewhere in western Washington could get wet snow. But as always, a difficult call when marginal conditions exist. I think it is only a tease to a much better chance of snow over the weekend if the cold air and moisture line up just right. If so, we could be talking several inches before we transition to warm and wet conditions the first part of next week. Stay tuned it will be exciting! Meanwhile showers Thursday and possible snow showers again tomorrow evening perhaps. Drier and chilly on Friday and Saturday, wow, we'll see!I guess if you call 1/8-1/4 inch of wet slushy snow on the ground is measurable snowfall, then November 28 will go down as our (mine) first snow. I have had reports of 1/2 inch to 2 inches of snow from Ridgefield to Yacolt tonight so far. Prune Hill got sticking snow and most higher elevations. One last batch of heavier precipitation was moving through at 8:30 with the coldest temps here in Clark County as some PDX locations warmed up with rain.
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-- posted by Pat Timm @ 8:30 PM,
