Cliff Mass is promising to update his weather blog tonight with further details, but he’s already saying:
It really looks like there will be some lowland snow late Saturday into Sunday…but not the heavy, widespread variety.
Because Maple Leaf is the third-highest hill in Seattle – 466 feet outside the Blue Saucer on Roosevelt Way Northeast – and because we’re not far from the convergence zone that often forms around the King-Snohomish line, that likely means us.
Here’s part of the special weather statement the National Weather Service/Seattle released this afternoon:
A COLD FRONT WILL CROSS WESTERN WASHINGTON EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. THE AIR MASS IS EXPECTED TO BE COLD ENOUGH SO THAT SNOW LEVELS WILL LOWER BELOW 500 FEET. SCATTERED RAIN OR SNOW SHOWERS WILL BECOME MORE PREDOMINANTLY SNOW SHOWERS SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. THESE HIT AND MISS SHOWERS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE SPOTTY SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF TWO INCHES OR LESS ACROSS WESTERN WASHINGTON. AREAS WITH MORE PERSISTENT SHOWER ACTIVITY LIKE THE PUGET SOUND CONVERGENCE ZONE COULD HAVE LOCALLY HIGHER ACCUMULATIONS AS WELL AS AREAS WITH A LITTLE ELEVATION.
