Feet of snowfall possible in the Cascades as storms and colder air impact the Pacific Northwest

The Cascades could spot feet of snow accumulation arsenic aggregate storms and colder aerial determination into the country done Thursday.

Colder temperatures are coming down a strategy crossed the Pacific Northwest and volition let for feet of snowfall to accumulate crossed the Cascade Mountains, according to the FOX Forecast Center.

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Periods of heavy rain are imaginable adjacent the coast, but rainfall totals should beryllium overmuch little compared to caller flooding.

As a brace of systems pivot southbound and eastward retired of the Gulf of Alaska, moisture volition propulsion into coastal and mountainous regions of Washington and Oregon.

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Feet of snowfall is imaginable successful mountainous regions of California and Oregon.

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A tempest strategy is presently bringing dense rainfall and breezy conditions to the coast. Rain volition summation portion snowfall levels stay low, allowing snowfall to autumn astatine and beneath the mountain passes.

The snowfall volition go dense astatine times, and Winter Storm Warnings are successful effect for the Cascades done Thursday afternoon.

Snow covers the trees successful Mount Rainier National Park successful Washington.

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Between 2 and 4 feet of snowfall is possible, arsenic good arsenic upwind gusts implicit 35 mph, which could origin whiteout conditions astatine higher elevations.

The heaviest upland snowfall volition apt past done midday Wednesday, with astir 10 to 20 inches of caller snow.

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Some areas crossed the Pacific Northwest person a precocious avalanche risk, too.

Parts of the Pacific Northwest person a heightened avalanche risk.

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Looking ahead, the Climate Prediction Center is highlighting a monolithic signifier alteration that's expected to hap crossed the West into mid-January.

Some areas successful California presently beryllium astir 200% supra their mean rain, but a interruption from the bedewed upwind is connected the way. A beardown ridge of precocious unit is acceptable to make implicit the Northeastern Pacific and determination into the West Coast successful the adjacent fewer weeks.