November 22

Tonight's coming winter storm

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Update 8:30 p.m.:

All Seattle schools and facilities closed Tuesday Nov. 23.

All Seattle Public Libraries opening Tuesday Nov. 23 at 1 p.m.

King County Metro Transit is keeping buses in all areas on snow routes for Tuesday morning. Buses will be crowded and significantly delayed, perhaps even worse than Monday due to the road conditions. If those conditions severely deteriorate overnight, Metro may have to cancel entire bus routes in the morning.

The snow shovels are flying out the door at Maple Leaf Ace Hardware. So is the ice melt, sand and toe warmers. And sleds.

Ace is hoping its regular resupply truck can get over Snoqualmie Pass late this afternoon. In any case, at 4 p.m. the store still had storm-fighting supplies, and will be open until 7 p.m.

At 4 p.m., however, side streets are getting dicey again. The relatively good driving conditions early this afternoon are  starting to freeze up. Roosevelt Way Northeast, though, is being kept sanded and plowed by the city and remans in good shape as the evening commute looms.

As the aftenoon – which featured children on sleds and dogs prancing in the snow – ends, snow depth, as measured on top of the official Maple Leaf Life snow-measuring car, is nearly 3 inches.

All Metro buses remain on snow routes. The city transportation department’s 22 plows and three flusher trucks are applying anti-icing material to those routes.

There is no announced change in garbage pickup because of the weather, although there will be no pickup on Thursday, the day most Maple Leaf residents put out their garbage and recycling, because of the Thanksgiving day holiday.

The current forecast calls for snow largely ending by 7 p.m., with up to 4 inches on the ground. But it also calls for wind gusts of up to 40 mph, a low temperature here around 24 degrees AND maybe another inch or two of snow by morning.

And Tuesday? Sunny…but not above freezing. Winds drop to maybe 6 mph. But temperatures drop, too, to perhaps 18 degrees  Tuesday night.

MONDAY AFTER 5 PM...THE WIND WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE AS THE
TEMPERATURES DECREASE. ALSO...AS THE SUN SETS...WET
ROADS WILL LIKELY FREEZE OVER THIS EVENING CAUSING VERY
SLIPPERY CONDITIONS. GUSTY WINDS NEAR 40 MPH COULD RESULT
IN LOCAL POWER OUTAGES...THUS CONSIDER ALTERNATIVE ...
BUT SAFE ... SOURCES OF HEAT. OTHERWISE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE
PLENTY OF EXTRA WARM CLOTHING OR BLANKETS.

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