Seattle Weather Blog

Well, that escalated quickly. An arctic front ripped through Puget Sound Sunday afternoon and evening, whitening lawns and hurtling temperatures toward the freezing mark in just a few hours’ time. The light snowfall officially measured...

It’s the snowiest start to a Seattle winter in nearly four decades. But does that mean an extra-snowy winter, perhaps to the tune of 2008-09, is in store for 2022-23? The answer: Probably not, but if...

Maybe we should just it call the border storm? A potential winter-weather maker is projected to sweep across the Puget Sound region right before November meets December—call it the November-December border—with wet snow accumulations possible...

There are few things Americans agree on nowadays, but for Seattleites, tucked away in this sodden northwestern corner of the country, there’s one declaration that even the most dyed-in-the-wool folks among us would have...

He’s making a list, and checking it twice. Santa’s gonna find out if Seattle will have ice. In typical 2021 fashion, the final days of the year look to be anything but ordinary around Puget Sound,...

Guess who’s back, back again … La Niña’s back—but should you tell a friend? The answer: It depends on their appetite for cool, wet—and somewhat snowy—weather. With NOAA officially declaring that La Niña—the climate pattern that results...

Forget 100 degrees, Seattle. How about 110? As the clock inches closer to a dangerous Pacific Northwest heat wave—one that will likely rewrite almost every major heat record in the books—the predicted high temperatures have...