February 26, 2024

Thunder ⛈️ and Snow ⛄ ? 👀🤔😳

Last updated 12:00 PM, Monday, February 26th, 2024

By Annabelle Tjio and Nick Shepard

Happy last week of February/Week 9 of Winter Quarter, Huskies! We hope your spring registration and start of the last push towards finals week have gone as smoothly as yesterday afternoon’s cold frontal onshore push. Temperatures and dewpoints have dropped precipitously and in the last day, and will remain below average through at least the remainder of the week.

Part of the fun with yesterday’s cold front comes in the part of atmospheric and instability following its passage. Below you can see a satellite image of some of the convective cells as they tracked on shore this morning, behind the front.

Unusually, our region is also under a thunderstorm outlook from the Storm Prediction Center, which remains valid through Tuesday morning.

Along with the unusual outlook starting off this week, the passes will be experiencing their own unique outlook of extreme snow levels accumulating especially throughout the end of this week. Below is the predicted snowfall in the passes with the highest in this snapshot reaching up to 40″ in Mt. Baker and 38″ in Stevens Pass. So, if you were thinking about traveling east, it’d be a good idea to rethink those plans.

As for the conditions we’ll be expecting in the lowlands, our high temperatures will be in the usual mid-40s, but our lows for those first two days of this week will be particular cold. You may see some mixed precipitation of snow and rain due to these conditions and some winds on Wednesday that’ll drive our rainy weather more on the heavier side.

We’ll likely stay a little to warm to see any snow accumulations, but if you see a snowflake, take a picture and send it to us on one of the mediums listed below! Have a fun time braving the rain🌧️ snow🌨️ cold🥶 and wind🍃!

Reach forecaster Annabelle Tjio and Nick Shepard at theuwdawgcast@gmail, on Twitter @TheUWDawgcast, or on Instagram @uwdawgcast.