Snow This Week? Not So Much

The possibility of snow that whipped local newscasters into a panty-bunching frenzy is becoming less and less likely. In a blog post today, Cliff Mass lays down for us the delicate circumstances it takes to produce snowflakes in the city:

Forecasting snow over the western Washington and Oregon lowlands is a subtle game. To get snow, everything needs to set up right...and as I have noted before, it is easy for us to be mild and wet or cold and dry, but to be cold and wet takes some doing around here.

Mass goes on to explain some shifts in graphs and models and troughs and stuff. The conclusion: Maybe maybe a show flurry here and there, but the latter half of Friday and all of Saturday looks to be sunny as of right now.

Mass, tease that he is, says the weather holds "all kinds of interesting possibilities for Sunday." This includes the possibility of snow, "but that will have to wait for another blog."