We are now experiencing one of the most active weather periods in a while.
It started with several feet of snow in the Cascades and its eastern slopes, which closed all cross-Cascade passes and dumped record snows from Ellensburg to Wenatchee (where the ALL-TIME record 24-h snow record–about 2 feet– was broken). The regional snowpack is now way above normal.
Near Wenatchee Thursday Afternoon Courtesy fo Tom Callahan
Then we have one of the strongest warm fronts in years, bringing rapid temperature rises and turning the snow to freezing rain in the passes and the eastern Cascade slopes.
Precipitation? HUGE amounts (see below, click to expand) of up to ten inches over southwest Washington that caused river flooding, particularly for the Chehalis.
And this event ends today with a very strong cold front, behind which a damaging surge of strong westerly winds will move down the Strait, followed by strong winds descending the eastern slopes of the Cascades.
All followed by a calm, dry weekend as high pressure builds aloft.
I will talk about all of this in my podcast, as well as describe the controls of varying types of precipitation: from rain to snow to freezing rain to sleet.
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