This Weekend May be a Snowy One - Warmer Next Week

We have not had much snow at all this winter, besides the two events that brought us snow in the night/early morning hours in late December and two weeks ago, both events brought us a couple inches of snow.

This weekend is looking very exciting still, but it's still not for sure just yet. For the Northern counties it's almost a guarantee, but for Snohomish County, it's still very up in the air, but I am putting it in the forecast now. Some models are showing lots of snow, the American (GFS) model shows almost 8 INCHES of snow in the Southwest Snohomish County area, but the European model (ECMWF) is showing less. That is why the forecast is still up in the air for now, we should have more info tomorrow evening.

Friday looks much like Thursday, a few showers, but a bigger chance of a sun break than Thursday. Cold air from Canada will invade the area tomorrow night into Saturday morning, dropping temperatures into the upper 20s and low 30s during that time. One more confusing thing that's still up in the air about this event is how much cold air we will get in our area, we just don't know yet, but I'm putting upper 30s for highs on Saturday, and low to mid 30s for Sunday.

Now that we went over the weekend event, let's talk about next week. Monday looks warmer and dryer as we start the new week, with highs in the mid to upper 40s, and partly cloudy skies, any snow that fell during Saturday and Sunday should melt Monday. Tuesday highs will bump into the upper 40s with more partly cloudy skies. Wednesday still looks warmer and dry, with highs in the low to mid 50s.

Beyond Wednesday looks to stay at about 50 degrees with showers Thursday and Friday.

I will most likely issue a Winter Storm Watch tomorrow night if models continue to show snow. As a snow fan, I hope this happens, hopefully even get a snow day on Monday, if this happens.

Thanks for reading :)
- Southwest Snohomish County Weather Blog