Since
President’s Day is February 19, 2018, I’m dedicating this weather update to the
19th President of the United States: Rutherford B. Hayes.
Winds
will pick up on Friday. But Mother Nature is saving her biggest show for
Saturday.
It will
be rainy Friday, with wind gusts to around 20 MPH.
Saturday
will have winds in the 20 MPH range, rising to as high as 40 MPH in the
afternoon and evening. It will remain a bit gusty overnight, before settling
down Sunday morning.
Then, it
will get cold. Snow is in the Sunday forecast, with accumulations in the
lowlands of about a half an inch. Around Lake Cushman, the forecast is for an
inch or more.
How cold:
- By
Sunday night, overnight low temperatures will be dropping into the upper
teens.
- Monday’s
overnight low will be in the mid-teens.
- Tuesday’s
overnight low will be in the low 20’s.
It’s not
confirmed, but there may be some strong winds with the cold temperatures. The
cooling and winds are related to a breakout of cold weather from British
Columbia’s Fraser River Valley, called the “Fraser Outflow.”
A Winter
Storm Watch for the higher elevations of the Olympic Mountains is in effect
from Friday night Through Late Saturday.
Here are
the bullet points:
- Weather
system is on the way, with weekend rain, wind, and snow.
- Up
to an inch of rain Friday through Sunday morning.
- Winds
Friday, up to 20 MPH.
- Wind
Saturday, starting with gusts between 17 to 22 MPH, increasing to 23 to 28
MPH in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as near 40 MPH.
- Sunday:
half an inch of snow in the lowlands of Mason County; an inch or more in
the higher elevations.
- The
coldest weather of winter so far: Sunday and Monday overnight lows in the
teens.
- All cross-Cascade passes will be affected by winter travel conditions: wind and heavy snow.
