Weather Eye: ‘Crazy’ weather continues; snow, rain affect various elevations
By Patrick Timm for The Columbian
Published: February 12, 2019, 6:02am
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Sinclair Lewis once said, “Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.” Well I tell you that winter certainly has taken up shop here in the Northwest. Remember those 50-degree days back in December? Such good times.
After a ton of hype about being snowed in on social media, it gets rather confusing. To put it simply, the weather is acting crazy. Crazy weather. Snow to rain back to snow.
The National Weather Service in Portland Monday issued a winter storm watch for Clark County for Monday night and early today. A watch means something could develop but not certain. A warning means it is about to happen.
We had a warm front move through raising the temperatures into 40s eliminating any threat of snow in the lowlands. The cold front was forecast to sag southward over us Monday night with heavy rain.
Huge pancake-size flakes that weigh the trees and power lines down is not what we want. So, we will be glad with all rain.
Our friends in the northern part of state have be buried by snow. Fortunately, warmer air was speeding up I-5 Monday, slowly turning moderate to heavy snow in parts of Puget Sound to rain. At least we don’t have a foot of snow on the ground waiting to soak up several inches of rain.
We stay on the cool side of things this week with snow levels running higher but still a risk for some to see rain change back to snow somewhere the next few days.
I’m ready for spring, aren’t you? The wintery weather takes a toll on weather folks and I’m sure some of you.
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