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If there's any good news in this, it's for skiers and snowboarders--Cliff Mass expects "1-2 feet snowfall at pass level and above by Friday." But he also says that despite considerable uncertainty in the models, there's perhaps a 50-60 percent chance of snow on Thursday morning. This is due to a cold front to arrive Wednesday night, an "upper trough," and that damn convergence zone. Stay tuned for our interview with Mass later this afternoon!

Yes, it's snowing again, though at least downtown, it's not sticking--but it's still enough for the fools to use their umbrellas. Thankfully, the precipitation should turn to rain later today. If you ski or snowboard, you might want to take a sick day soon: between 8 and 16 inches of snow are forecast for the Olympics today, while the Cascade passes may get 3 to 9 inches of new snow. This should be the end of winter for now: forecasters are predicting mostly cloudy but dry conditions on Wednesday, followed by partly sunny skies on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday with daytime highs in the mid-40s.

Via WSDOT's Twitter, we hear that a winter storm watch predicts two feet of new snow for the Cascades by tomorrow evening. Not coincidentally, Stevens Pass will be closed for 20 minutes Wednesday "sometime between 8 a.m. and noon"--sounds like they're sending Comcast out--for avalanche preparedness work. It's always good to be prepared for avalanches, because otherwise people die. Alpental is reporting a 74-inch base up top--that's crazy. Two weeks ago they didn't have a base.

Dawdy tipped us off about the snowball throw-down on 15th Avenue East on Saturday night--it was Liberty vs. Smith denizens and it...was ugly. Especially for cars trying to thread their way between the opposing parties. There's also an escape attempt on skis that goes horribly wrong. Once again we repeat: the streets aren't safe in this condition. Better to stay inside.

Ski season is, thankfully, here and Seattlest couldn't be more excited. In fact, even though our friends are completely lame and won't go with us, we're off to Crystal tomorrow to take advantage of cheap lift-ticket prices (and cause we're jonesing). For a variety of reasons though, we don't own any of our own equipment and are not yet ready to buy our own stuff. So before heading out to catch some early-season slope action,...