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Seattle Snowmageddon 2019 – Part 2
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.
Winter Came to Seattle!
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.
Total Lunar Eclipse 2019
Readers who have been with me since 2015 may remember I had a less than successful outing photographing the lunar eclipse in September that year. All of my pretty bloodmoons were blurry and I was sooo disappointed. You can see my post about that experience here.
I had to wait until 2018 to try again. But alas, clouds. No eclipse viewing for Seattle that time.
The next total lunar eclipse was this last Sunday, January 20th. Not a good time of year for clear skies in Western Washington, and the cloud cover forecasts in the days leading up to the event were offering little hope.
But wonder of wonders, there was some clearing. It ended up depending on where you were as to whether it was completely cloudy, partly cloudy, or mostly clear. I totally lucked out in north Seattle where it was mostly clear.
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