Too Warm

While the passes are getting hammered with snow right now (chains required at Snoqualmie), the lower atmosphere is too warm to get snow down to near sea level.  Snow is being reported at higher stations (e.g., Paine Field in Everett) and over NW Washington, but around Seattle it is nearly all rain.
Peter Benda sent a picture at his house at 1170 feet near Bellevue...about 1.5 inches there.

And you pick up snow on I 90 east of Issaquah.

Light snow around Bellinghan

The snow level is around 400-500 feet now around Puget Sound.

We knew the temperatures were marginal, with the predicted precipitation intensities sufficient to bring the freezing and snow levels down to  a few hundred feet..   However, the precipitation has been lighter and thus the atmosphere stayed warmer near the surface.

The latest radar (7AM) show only light precipitation and the back edge of the front is already crossing the coast.  Just a few light showers offshore and most of those are going to the southeast.

Well,  at least everyone was warned about this possibility.

from Cliff Mass Weather Blog http://ift.tt/2mrVCtV