A freezing rainstorm left the streets by Seattlest HQ white. It's since morphed into a light snowstorm that will make our half-mile trip to the video store a winter adventure. more ›

We've been amazed recently about how right the weather forecasters have been. It still gets a little sketchy when they're talking about a few days out, but when the subject is tomorrow or later today and they say it's going to start snowing at this time and it will come down with such and such intensity for whatever duration and deposit x number of inches of white stuff at 5th and Pine downtown while the winds blow at a specified speed and the air is a specific temperature - When they say things like that they've been absolutely right, and frankly, it's sucked. When are they going to predict 60 degrees and sunny and be right? "They" the weather cabal or whoever. But, yesterday it seems like they weren't right because there's not a lot of snow in Seattle and we're at the office, which is great - We can't take any more snow or wind or tsunami days at home and we're tired of hearing from other parts of the country about what a mild winter we're having. more ›

At the Weather Underground there's a weather advisory for Wednesday night: more ›

You may have thought it was safe to stop lugging the Gore Tex jacket everywhere now that it's late March of one of the mildest winters on record, but, as we've found out over the last few days, that kind of mistake can leave you wet and freezing. Seattlest was actually caught out under-dressed this weekend and had to resort to the dreaded emergency sweatshirt purchase. And we got off easy! The hapless travellers who headed for the passes this weekend with those filthy and bothersome chains on the garage floor really sufferred. Not only were they slipping and sliding over the Cascades, but they recieved tongue lashings from tow truck drivers on every local news broadcast imaginable. At least our new hoody is a private shame! more ›