Heading to Chilly

Let’s peek ahead at what March wx may present between now and the Spring Equinox.  Hot Mug time.

Dry break on tap today, with the next system charting for early Tue morning.  Not a super wet one, but it may be breezy - mainly over NW WA & southern Vancouver Is.  Turning dry again on Wed and on through the rest of the week.  

For the weekend of Mar 8,9, a Pacific storm has been charting to impact the far NW corner of WA, along with central Vancouver Is. with plenty of moderate rainfall for a couple of days.  Wet City there, but the rest of the PNW should stay dry this coming weekend.

Showers are likely to pop up over the Cascade Range Mon afternoon Mar 10 as a cooler air mass works inland off the eastern Pacific.

Enough with the regional dry stuff.  Here’s comes the wet cycle and notably COOLER TEMPS —>>  by Tue Mar 11 a long-lasting chilly westerly flow will shove moisture into the PNW, along with relatively low snow levels - below the passes, maybe even teasing a few flakes out over the higher areas of the coast range, both states.  Later on Wed Mar 12, temps will drop another few degrees, with plenty of moisture continuing to fall on through Thu the 13th.  Possible for rain/snow mix at the surface in many locations.  Foothills likely to get a ‘dusting' of The White.   

A strong Pacific storm arriving around midnight Thu Mar 13 is suggested by some model solutions - if verified, it will turn WINDY in Oregon, with cold air drawn from the east over the Puget Sound generating fairly low elevation snow or snow/rain mix.  We’ll monitor this closely.  Continued wet through that weekend, Mar 15,16.

As noted, a wet, chilly cycle is charting for Mar 11 on through the first day of Spring, March 20.  Great addition to the PNW snowpack is foreseen at this time.