Seattle weather: Snow fades away for now, but extremely cold temperatures take over

SEATTLE – What a wild climate day throughout the area!  

Our excessive in the present day for Sea-Tac occurred this morning with a studying of 42, however quickly after a chilly entrance hit the world dropping temperatures rapidly.  

Let’s get proper into our climate and site visitors headlines transferring ahead:  

In a single day count on bone-chilling temperatures blanketing the North Sound. Bellingham will dip into the one digits with a low of 9!  Yikes! 

Roads will proceed to be very harmful with compact snow and ice in all places.  

Should you thought Tuesday’s highs had been chilly, Wednesday and Thursday promise to be even colder with highs solely within the 20s and overnights within the teenagers. 

Once more, in a single day, every little thing freezes and a few areas will kick the break day with fog or freezing fog. Enable for additional time whereas on the roads. 

This is a peek at our morning low-temperature development by way of subsequent week: We’ll heat from the kids this week and again into the low to mid-40s to start out subsequent week.  And bear in mind, our common seasonal low temperature is 37 for this time of yr. 

We’re extending our Climate Alert by way of Wednesday due to the winter storm that blew by way of.  And although our “Winter Storm Warning” drops off very early Wednesday for the Cascades, move journey will proceed to be tough at instances.  

With the blast of Arctic air, a “Wind Chill Advisory” will keep in place by way of about 10 a.m. Wednesday as Island communities in Western Whatcom County will expertise beneath zero “Feels Like” temps.  We’re forecasting a wind chill vary between zero to as chilly as 15 beneath for these areas.  

Different communities might be very chilly as properly, however simply not as bone-chilling as Bellingham north throughout the Canadian border. 

This is a have a look at 3 p.m. skies tomorrow.  We count on a largely to partially cloudy day. Filtered sunshine is the theme Wednesday with clouds growing Thursday. 

Highs each Wednesday and Thursday solely land within the mid to higher 20s for the Seattle space. Anticipate colder highs to the north. 

As we shut out the week, one other spherical of winter climate comes our manner late Thursday evening into early Friday. Sure, extra snow forecast for essentially the most northern tier of the state alongside the I-5 hall and over the Cascades into the jap slopes of the foothills. However for a lot of the space freezing rain is a giant concern.  

Try our futurecast mannequin highlighting Friday at 5 a.m. Most of Western WA is in pink, and that signifies a frozen wintry combine attainable. These circumstances won’t assist already frozen roadways. Beginning the day within the mid-teens will show to be treacherous for everybody making an attempt to commute to work or get last-minute vacation purchasing completed. 

Know the roads earlier than you go! Be sure that to obtain our FOX 13 Climate App that can assist you navigate your day.  

We’ll see one other large sample shift as we heat up this weekend into subsequent week.  We’re conserving tabs on a attainable atmospheric river hitting the area! Keep tuned! 

Have a terrific evening all!  Keep protected and heat!  ~Erin Mayovsky, FOX 13 Forecaster

*Monitoring journey circumstances throughout the area.