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Seattle Snowmageddon 2019 – Part 2

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Seattle is packing our entire winter into two weeks this year. It has snowed again. Twice.

The “potentially significant” storm arrived on Friday and it started snowing in the afternoon. The temperature where I live was hovering right around freezing and the snowfall wasn’t that heavy, so not much was sticking and roads remained wet and bare.

But as night fell the temperature dropped and the clouds unloaded big time. I woke up early Saturday morning to almost 6 inches of fresh snow. Wow.

With deeper snow than last week, and it not being as cold, driving was looking to be trickier this time through the wet and heavy white stuff. And I wasn’t feeling at all enthused about clearing off my car. But I couldn’t resist. I wanted to go out and see the sights because we only get this much snow in the city once every decade or so.

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Winter Came to Seattle!

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We’ve been having a mild winter in Washington, giving every indication we’d have no meaningful lowland snow at all this year in the western half of the state. Even the mountains haven’t had much snow because it keeps warming up to above freezing after the storms move through.

Until now. Canada sent us a blast of arctic air and the Pacific Ocean sent us a low pressure system with moisture. They hooked up over Western Washington and had snow babies.

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Free Admission to the Volunteer Park Conservatory

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The admission fee for the Volunteer Park Conservatory is small ($4 for adults, $2 for youth, under 12 free), but it’s enough to push the Conservatory down on the things-to-do list for a lot of people. Now’s your chance to visit without having to pay. Admission is free until February 28th.

The free admission comes courtesy of the Bennet-Shear family. The children made a generous donation to celebrate their parents’ 40th wedding anniversary. The children grew up nearby and often walked to the park and toured through the conservatory, which was free to enter until 2013. What a neat way to honor their parents and benefit the community!

The Conservatory is open 10 am to 4 pm every day except Mondays.

To see my post about the Conservatory click here.

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