A Look Into The Storm

 It's been an incredibly ordinary and boring winter so far in the northwest. While the east has seen multiple rounds of cold and snow, particularly in December, the west has remained abnormally warm and dry. Seattle has not recorded even a trace of snow so far this winter and has barely seen any freezes. It doesn't look like this will be changing any time soon as we head into another period of dry and warm weather. After two systems passed by midweek, we started to warm up yesterday. Saturday should remain dry with highs in the upper 40's to low 50's. Then rain moves into the area on Sunday, in the form of yet another atmospheric river. Thankfully this will not be like the ones we saw last month. It looks to be much weaker and slightly disorganized. Nevertheless, it should rain for much of Sunday, continuing into Monday. As the rain tapers off into Tuesday, Seattle should see upwards of 1.25 inches of rain, higher amount in more northern areas. BC and Vancouver Island i...

 Happy New Year!! The first full week of the new year looks like it's going to be an active one with a pair of strong systems diving down from the gulf of Alaska.  The first front moves in tonight bringing the usual lowland rain and mountain snow. A particularly chilly lowland rain as this system is moving in from the northwest, temperatures will hang in the low 40's for most of the day tomorrow with occasionally breezy weather in the morning as the front passes through. The mountains will get absolutely hammered with snow, good news for the snowpack! This first system should bring 3/4 of an inch of rain to most of the lowlands and up to 16 inches of snow for the passes, higher where a CZ forms tmrw evening.  On the heels of this, another strong cold front enters the area come Wednesday morning. This one looks more potent as it is already entering a somewhat unstable airmass behind the previous front. Some of the Hi-Res models depict a squall line crossing the area early ...