BS: How is weather in Seattle area?

Subject: BS: How is weather in Seattle area?
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jan 12 - 01:48 PM

We have nothing but some good rain, which they described as mist on the weather report. A couple inches of slushy snow overnight but it is gone. Only school in the state open today they say. mg

Subject: RE: BS: How is weather in Seattle area?
From: open mike
Date: 18 Jan 12 - 02:26 PM

looks like lots of winter storm, avalanche and other warnings!
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sew/

Subject: RE: BS: How is weather in Seattle area?
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Jan 12 - 03:11 PM

My daughter and her husband live in Redmond about 20 miles outside Seattle. She says they got perhaps two inches of snow- being from southern California they are quite disappointed.

Subject: RE: BS: How is weather in Seattle area?
From: Deckman
Date: 18 Jan 12 - 03:34 PM

Hi Ebbie ... We're in the Everett area, about 20 miles north of Seattle. Yesterday we got a foot of snow yesterday and another 6 inches this morning. It was soooo cold last night I had to get up at midnight and .... come in the house! bob(deckman)nelson

Subject: RE: BS: How is weather in Seattle area?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 18 Jan 12 - 03:50 PM

I thought Finns laughed at 16 inches of snow...I mean, I can see putting on a sweater, but coming inside? mg

Subject: RE: BS: How is weather in Seattle area?
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jan 12 - 08:46 PM

We ain't had nothin' yet. Heck, it's 36 F. outside.

Subject: RE: BS: How is weather in Seattle area?
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Jan 12 - 08:53 PM

Your experience, Deckman, is about like that of a friend of mine. She lives in Edmonds and says that they have 9 or 10 inches of new snow.

Subject: RE: BS: How is weather in Seattle area?
From: Deckman
Date: 18 Jan 12 - 10:14 PM

By tomorrow it will be 9 or 10 inches of OLD SNOW!

Subject: RE: BS: How is weather in Seattle area?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 04:13 AM

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-19/boeing-microsoft-face-seattle-snow-as-flights-canceled.html

Subject: RE: BS: How is weather in Seattle area?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 04:13 AM

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/recordsetting-seattle-snow-tot/60444

Subject: RE: BS: How is weather in Seattle area?
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 12:51 PM

This morning's forecast for the region is downright scary- heavy snow and then ice as it warms. And I haven't heard from my daughter yet...

Subject: RE: BS: How is weather in Seattle area?
From: MAG
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 06:39 PM

Portlans has lots and lots and lots of rain

place I just moved from is in a state of emergency, w/ freezing rain, black ice, its one highway closed, airport closed, widespread power outages

and some of them wondered why I left -- I try not to snerk at others' missfortunes --

Subject: RE: BS: How is weather in Seattle area?
From: Crowhugger
Date: 21 Jan 12 - 02:29 AM

Oh you lucky Pacific Northwesters, I'm thoroughly envious! I absolutely love having plenty of snow. Winter is SUPPOSED to be my well-earned break from doing doggie-laundry, as in loads of towels. So far this "winter" has included only two 2-day stretches of frozen ground and one 2" snowfall. The rest of the time even if it didn't rain there was great humidity which caused heavy enough dew to result in muddy feet (not heavily muddy, but still enough to dirty up a lot of towels). Tomorrow will be another day of cold enough to keep the snow, then it's forecase to warm up and rain, darn it all.

To explain: Most days I take the pack-let (our 3 dogs plus sometimes another 1 or 2 of friends) for a 1.75 hour or longer trek through woodland and meadow trails, usually including some time at the creek--they all have webbed feet and love water play even in colder weather. Those wet dogs somehow always pick up a LOT of dirt on the way back to the dogmobile, which dirt of course turns to mud on contact. Two of ours have "sticky" hair i.e. mud (and everything else) sticks to it in a big way. The eldest has fur that sheds a lot of mud and other delights, but nothing sheds the black humus-y muck found at the bottom of the wooded ravines where we walk. Our blond doodles come out of there looking like black-faced (and black-footed) sheep. And both the friends' dogs also have the "sticky" type of hair that collects mud.

That's a LOT of daily dog hosing when it's warm enough to do so, or doggy-dipping when it's cold enough to require using lightly warmed water in buckets from indoors. Either way I use a lot doggy drying towels after our walks.

You can count for yourself how many clean feet, bellies, bums and chins it means to me when we get and keep good snow cover. Plus, the dogs LOVE the stuff, becoming like puppies again every time there is fresh fall.

[Sigh.] Lucky you. If you don't have to drive far in it.

Subject: RE: BS: How is weather in Seattle area?
From: GUEST,MG
Date: 21 Jan 12 - 02:55 AM

wE try really hard not to drive in it..we suck at it..lbut the roads get really icy and are hilly and filled with Midwesterners who tell us we don't know how to drive on the snow as they slide backwards down the hills. mg

Subject: RE: BS: How is weather in Seattle area?
From: Crowhugger
Date: 21 Jan 12 - 07:53 PM

LOL...