Crippling amounts of snow for southwestern Washington

By Robert On January 18, 2012 · 2 Comments

Cascades could see several feet by end of the weekend.

Though Seattle missed the brunt of the storm, well over a foot of snow fell across Mason, Lewis and Thurston Counties, says this article on KOMO News.

Snow totals between 15 and 20 inches were not uncommon from Olympia southward.

A spotter in Chehalis, Washington, reported 16 inches of new snow Wednesday morning with 21 inches on the ground.

“The Cascades could see several feet by the end of the weekend, maybe even approaching 70-80 inches of new snow in the central Cascades.”

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Storm-slams-parts-of-region-with-over-foot-of-snow-137580338.html

2 Responses to Crippling amounts of snow for southwestern Washington

John the 1st says:

January 18, 2012 at 10:47 pm

Stay safe brother. And stay warm.
Toni Reita says:

January 18, 2012 at 2:26 pm

Ahhhh yes, I was just introduced to the new wind chill factor tables, couldn’t have anything to do with global warming could it? Trying to massage the temps to make them appear warmer, so why not create a new method of calculating? Like radiation, don’t measure it and it doesn’t exist!

Bellingham reported 50 mph winds and 16F, reporters claimed this brought wind chill temps down to near 0, but using traditional calculations, the actual wind chill factor is -30…..but that wouldn’t jive with the media hype would it now?

Here east of the Cascades, we got well over 3′ of snow or an entire years worth in about 1.5 days! Too busy shoveling to actually measure!