snow_wizard

I'm cautiously optimistic. That stream of stuff along the Olympics is really impressive. I want this one.

Looks like a steady stream of showers training along the north slope of the Olympics now. That should all dump down into the Puget Sound Basin in the coming hours.

This one looks more impressive. We will see I guess.

That is some genuine hail. I've seen it that large once and that was quite some time ago.

Looks like it made another jump south.

What's the wind direction?

That blob coming down the Strait could make the game very interesting in a little bit.

I noticed the radar is showing a shower in your area (an area that doesn't normally get picked up on the Seattle radar). Must be pretty high topped.

I was just going by radar.

Wow!

She's a beauty!

The flow becomes progressively more NW as the evening wears on. The million dollar question for my area is can the zone hold on long enough. It'd down to I-90 in Seattle now.

The models were off on the timing of the zone. They had it fading at the time it's just getting good. Huge advantage since we have colder air now. Maybe all of King County can get in on it, but I'm still far from sure on that. Nice to know the Zone is still too complicated for the models to resolve accurately. I like to know surprises are still possible.

Really nice area of snow coming down the Strait that is probably going to energize the CZ even more.

The stakes are high with this C-Zone. It's really getting it's act together now. Slowly sagging south.

I'm thinking this two week period (last Sunday through next Sunday) will be top 3 for two week average in the period of record. Big time stuff.

Radar shows the flow is rapidly becoming more northerly now. Let's hope everyone in the general Seattle area can score something before it dries out.

The weird thing is we still manage to do very well some winters in spite of them.

The 18z GFS is much colder than the 12z late in the week. A surface low tracks pretty favorably for lowland snow, but the model is surprisingly dry with that low for some reason.

I sure hate the Olympics in these cases. Still some chances coming up for King County though. A bit of a wildcard is when the flow becomes more northerly later this evening. We'll have to see if any showers might still be in play at that time.

Mason County is filling now. Showers are hooking around the south end of the Olympics. Should be fun to see how this all comes together.

Looks like the trajectory may become more WSW and allow showers to make it to south King County. Still wondering what is going on with that C-Zone. All models say it should be alive for hours yet.

Truly impressive one week anomaly map for the NW.

Wow! The down sloping east of the Cascades has destroyed the cold air over there. Getting to be that time of year now I guess.

The C-Zone is breaking down, but the models insist on one between 1 and 4 this afternoon. It might rekindle a bit later. At any rate there are ton of cold showers off the coast and some people are going to score.