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Seattle Snowfall Totals For Early February Cold Waves


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With the coming possibly historic cold spell I thought it would be fun to take a look at how much snow cold waves in the first half of February typically produce. I only included significant events that produced at least several days of much below normal temperatures. The data is from Seattle except for 1884, 1887, and 1890. 1884 and 1887 were from Tacoma, and 1890 from Port Blakely (Bainbridge Island).

 

1884 - 9.0" (month later had a 24" snowstorm)

1887 - 13.5"

1890 - 14.5"

1893 - 30.5 (cold wave was a continuance of a cold snap that began in late Jan)

1899 - 6.1"

1900 - 0.6"

1910 - 4.0" (much more in outlying areas)

1916 - 35.4" (this really shouldn't be included due to being the end of a long event, but it's fun to look at)

1923 - 17.4"

1929 - 7.0" (continuation of cold weather that began in late Jan)

1933 - 1.0"

1936 - 5.8"

1939 - 0.4"

1948 - 2.2"

1949 - 13.1"

1956 - 6.4" (9.4" for the entire month)

1985 - 5.7" (much more in outlying areas)

1989 - 5.8"

1990 - 9.8"

 

A few interesting things to note...

 

1. None of the events had no snow

2. The last 4 events all had decent amounts of snow

3. 1994 and 1995 didn't make the grade for intensity and or duration of cold

4. 2006 and 2011 were too late in the month for this comparison

Death To Warm Anomalies!

 

Winter 2023-24 stats

 

Total Snowfall = 1.0"

Day with 1" or more snow depth = 1

Total Hail = 0.0

Total Ice = 0.2

Coldest Low = 13

Lows 32 or below = 45

Highs 32 or below = 3

Lows 20 or below = 3

Highs 40 or below = 9

 

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