Hello everyone!

Today will feature periods of rain and snow depending on your location. Coastal areas will start as rain and snow but go over to all rain around 11. Inland areas start as all snow and go over to freezing rain around noon and rain around 1. A trace of ice is possible. For the foothills, Expect mostly snow with a period of freezing rain. Snow could accumulate 2-4″ along with .1″ of ice. For the mountains, all snow is expected with 3-6″ of accumulation.

All precip moves out tonight leaving mostly cloudy skies for Saturday morning. Saturday, things cloud up again ahead of a much more significant storm. Precip with this one should start Saturday around 3.

Precip type is where things get very tricky with this storm. each model run has varied wildly between heavy rain, snow storm, or ice storm. Right now, I expect heavy rain along the coast with a myriad of p-types as you head inland.

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Above is my best guess of what will fall and how much this weekend. I will update this tomorrow. Flooding could become a big issue at the coast where 3-5″ of rain is expected. Keep in mind, ice jams are still in place from January’s thaw. Up north, more snow will be added to the pack and when it all comes flooding down, it will not be pretty. Thankfully, only more snow is in the 7 day up there. Ski resorts will be very happy.

More rain/snow early next week and another potential for a significant rain/snow storm arrives later next week. Expect light precip Tuesday in the form of rain at the coast and snow inland. Heavy precip makes a return Thursday into Friday next week.

-Jack