This is the webcam from one of our local ski areas Stevens Pass that we frequent. The 2 inches of rain we got drenched with down here in the last 24 hours translated into heavy snow for all of the Cascade Mountain Range. Check out the clock tower on the right, it is crowned with a good 5 to 6 feet of snow on the top and we are expecting another 2 feet in the mountains by Monday night!
Down here in the lowlands we are sogging through yet another day of heavy rain, this is the wettest winter I can remember since I moved here!
UPDATE:
Seattle finished up the month with 11.65 inches of rain, making it the wettest January since 1953 -- home of the original rain streak -- when they had 12.92" of rain. (That stands as the wettest month ever in Seattle.)
Overall, this month ranks as the third-wettest month ever, just another heavy shower behind the 11.85" that fell in December 1979.
Update 2: Feb 4 Yes it got a little windy here and it wasn't just the Seahawk fans roaring.....
High Winds Wreak Havoc In Western Washington
UPDATED: 7:57 am PST February 5, 2006
SEATTLE -- Winds as strong as 78 mph downed trees and power lines across Western Washington and Oregon Saturday, leaving at least 160,000 homes and businesses in the dark. The gusts subsided as darkness fell. The State Patrol reported a Kalama woman -- 38-year-old Ingrid J. Davis -- died while driving near the Wahkiakum-Cowlitz County line in southwest Washington when a tree fell on her car. Traffic had to be diverted off some roads in the region because of flooding, shifting or sinking asphalt, falling trees or downed power lines. The storm forced closure of the floating bridge that takes State Route 520 across Lake Washington east of Seattle for the first time in nearly seven years. Crews reopened it early Sunday morning. High water, heavy winds and a mudslide prompted a 48-hour shutdown of passenger rail service north of Seattle. Washington State Ferries shut down the Port Townsend-Keystone ferry run connecting the northeast tip of the Olympic Peninsula and Whidbey Island because of choppy waters on Puget Sound. Seattle's zoo shut down because of concerns that winds would topple trees.
