— from National Weather Service —
Winter Storm Watch
What: Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 3 to 5
inches possible.
Where: Portions of Northwest Washington.
When: From Sunday afternoon through late Tuesday night.
Additional Details: Travel could be very difficult to impossible.
A winter storm watch means there is potential for significant snow, sleet, or ice accumulations that may impact travel.
Continue to monitor the latest forecasts.
In checking our specific weather patterns for the next few days, on wunderground.com, I find that the National Weather Service’s forecast isn’t speaking to us on Orcas. If any, the snow will be 1-3 in. There will be less wind, and even some sunny patches. The precipitation will depend on the temperature, which will warm up as the week progresses.
It isn’t good to feed scare-weather to us, if it doesn’t apply. We know that the wind is our biggest threat, as witnessed these past few days; and it’s impact on any of us depends on where we live in relation to the direction of the wind.
Here in West Sound on the hill, there were lots of waving trees, but only small branches fell. We’d be interested to hear from others as to how they fared.
We can all learn from these accounts.
UW is a better source and breaks the forecast out by region.
https://a.atmos.washington.edu/data/zone_report.KSEW.html
Looks like weather to me.. funny white stuff and Lots of it!!
Ed Andrews, bless your heart! Thank you for the great link.