Seattle Area & Snoqualamie Week Beginning Feb/5/2017

Looking out the second floor window in Sumner, WA on Monday morning, it looks like we got about 3-4 inches of accumulated snow overnight. However, the main thoroughfares seems to be moving as normal.

 

As of 09:00 local time Monday, both EB and WB sides of Snoqualamie are closed with no estimated time or day of reopening. I would love to be a bird high on a pole watching the follies at the TA in North Bend, WA today.

Certainly the "via Portland" option is becoming more viable, even for loads originating from or bound to Minnesota and similar northern points along I-90/I-94 but I've not yet looked at Pendleton to Nampa conditions, or Wyoming I-80 conditions yet but I suspect they may be very bad too in the days to come, at least until after mid week.

You can be sure Pocatello to Bozeman is a bear too given all the snow they're getting and forecast to get in the Yellowstone and south-central Montana area.

http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/wwd/winter_wx.shtml

 

WSDOT is done with avalanche control and hopes to have snow removed and both sides open by around 14:00 Monday. But chains will probably be required still, I suspect.

 

It snowed 4 inches down in the Sea/Tac area overnight, so yes it did. Snow threat for under 500 feet is probably over for the time being however the mountains will likely get more snow through at least Tuesday afternoon

 

Just happend to check snoqualamie status ... closed all Wednesday night both directions. The snow just won't stop there. At least donner area is getting a temporary reprieve this week.

Meanwhile. Trucks trying to avoid Snoqualamie by routing south through the Columbia river gorge must deal with the follies of the ODOT and I-84.

It's almost like Oregon is mad about all the extra traffic and had a hissy fit and said "fine. Good luck driving on our mal-kept roads. We'll teach you."