The Weather Eye is strained into the mystic future while cold air gathers in the far northern regions. We talked about colder weather and maybe snow the other day, but immediate attention is focused on the mountains.
By this time next week, I expect the Cascade mountains to have piled up 3 to 6 feet of new snow. With frigid air aloft it will stay there for a while. Nice powder snow for winter sports if you can get there. Snow levels briefly rise above the passes Monday then crash. By now the word of potential cold and snow here in the lowlands is everywhere. From TV news to social media to those wintry icons on your smartphone. You can’t escape it.
The only thing I can tell you with 100 percent certainty is that we are heading into a cooler weather pattern with plenty of snow in the mountains. Snow levels will begin to lower with each passing weather system. Our concerns here locally will begin late Wednesday and beyond.
Computer forecast models have many solutions without a consensus for here in Clark County. For example, some models give us cold rain or maybe a snow mix late next week with highs in the upper 30s and low 40s to even 50 degrees. Others have temperatures in the teens and maybe single digits if you can envision that, with of course snow. It boils down to where the track of the coldest air settles in.
