January 29, 2022

Forecast: January 29th, 2022

By Conor Finneran

Good evening Huskies!

Weather conditions in western Washington this evening are fairly tranquil, and seasonable, with typical wintertime rains moving over the northwestern part of the Olympic Peninsula, and temperatures in the mid to upper 40s. Although we do have rain approaching our area, all eyes in the weather world have been on the powerful hurricane-force extratropical cyclone that has dropped snow in excess of 2 feet in some places in the Northeast. In Boston, 23.5 inches fell, making it the sixth biggest snowstorm in history for the city, and with snow still falling in the area, that number may even go a bit higher. The highest snowfall total so far from the storm appears to be in Sharon, Massachusetts, where 30.4 inches was recorded.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tomorrow we’ll see our first truly rainy day in a quite a while! Rain throughout the day will be mostly light, but quite steady, with as much as a quarter of an inch falling in Seattle.  Precipitation will be a bit heavier in the mountains and along the Olympic Peninsula, but as temperatures will remain cool, there shouldn’t be any real concern for flooding like we saw with our slew of atmospheric rivers in the earlier part of the winter.

Week 5 of classes (can you believe its week 5 already!) will begin on a showery note, with scattered rain showers present both Monday and Tuesdays. Temperatures will be quite cool, with highs only reaching into the low to mid 40s. Overnight Tuesday temperatures will plunge near freezing, and as our next round of light precipitation moves in, we may see a brief period of non-accumulating light snow early in the morning Wednesday! Unfortunately if this snow does occur its likely to be very brief and will switch to rain quite quickly, but considering how long it feels since our December snow event we’ll take what we can get!

Wednesday through Friday look to follow a similar pattern to the first half of the week, with slightly cooler than normal temperatures, light rain, and minimal sun.

On a brighter note, with February right around the corner, the weather in Seattle is bound to get drier and sunnier! February receives on average about 2 inches less rain than January, and despite being 2 days shorter than January, Seattle gets on average 40 more hours of sunshine in February than in January!

Have a great rest of your weekend!

Reach forecaster Conor Finneran at theuwdawgcast@uw.edu or on Twitter @conweather