Dismal Winter Continues

 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 in particular could see some pretty hefty totals of rain. With the temperatures warming up, avalanches might become a concern in the passes.



After Tuesday, things will continue to warm up significantly. Seattle and Portland will see temperatures in the upper 50's on Tuesday. This will be the warmest day of the week as on Weekday a ridge should setup over us bringing lots of inversion days. This would mean being socked in the fog for most of the day, with some sun in the afternoon. Lows could get down into the upper 30's due to the inversion and highs will remain in the 50s.

For cold and snow fans, the extended forecast doesn't look too good right now. However, if the ridge that sets up over us this week can retrograde into a more favorable position for us in Alaska, that may give us a better shot at seeing some cold air later in the month. One can hope!

As always I will keep you posted on any changes!

Until then good night and have a good weekend!

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