Today we had the first real blast of cold weather in the Puget Sound lowlands. The weather folks have been predicting a cold winter for us and the mountain ski areas have been open since Thanksgiving weekend (the definition of an "early start" around here).
A little weather wisdom for this area: Our typical snow pattern is a cold high develops at the end of a typically rainy pattern leading to snow followed by clear and cold weather. Or a water filled low comes as the cold high leaves the area giving us snow followed by rain. We expected snow at the beginning of this cold snap but it didn't arrive in time for the high to develop so instead today was a clear day (after a morning of freezing frost) and snow is expected later in the week with a quick turn to rain. (The only time we get a longer period of snow is when the Canadians leave some water in the wind that the high brings down from the north but usually they dry it out first.)
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| View from the Portuguese bridge (we have fresh river water on top of the salt water so we do see skim ice at times) |
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| Looking across the marina before the fog lifted |
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| The white is from the freezing fog. Mt Baker in the distance after the fog lifted. |
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| We drove up to Snoqualamie Pass where there was real snow. |
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| Jarvis frolicked in the snow but seem a bit confounded about where he could sit and not get a cold tush. |
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| Road to Alpental ski area. |
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