'Snowfest' coming to our mountains; later the lowlands?
The best description of this week's Northwest weather is to paraphrase the famous line in All About Eve from Bette Davis: "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride."
Nowhere more than in the mountains. In an advisory late Tuesday, the National Weather Service warned: "Heavy snow likely to maintain hazardous travel conditions across the north and south Cascades." Three words of admonition if you unfasten your seatbelts in the mountains: "Dangerous avalanche conditions."
The lowlands will be dicey, too. Says the Weather Service: "River flooding continues on many rivers into Wednesday with additional heavy rainfall through tonight."
And that's just the beginning. Then it gets cold. The likelihood is a "snowfest" in the mountains, in words of UW atmospheric sciences professor Cliff Mass, with several feet of the white stuff piling up. What happens at the end of the week? "Very clod air will be moving south into Washington next Sunday. Plenty cold enough for snow. All that is needed is moisture. Gasoline without the match," Mass wrote Monday on his weather blog.
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