Tagged: april showers

9:12am

Fri April 5, 2013
Weather with Cliff Mass

Weekend forecast: Warm April showers to melt snowpack

Those showers that blew in on Thursday will keep blowing our way through Sunday, says KPLU weather expert Cliff Mass, a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington.

“And that’s a big change,” he says. “The first real rain that we’ve had in a long time happened last night (Thursday), where a lot of people got about a half an inch. But it’s not the end."

And, because it's been warmer rain, the snowpack in the mountain passes is melting quickly, he says, losing about 20 inches.

Mass says another front will arrive late Friday.

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9:06am

Fri April 20, 2012
Weather with Cliff Mass

Turn, turn, turn goes the weather, bringing sun, and uncertainty

Credit Chris Tarnawski / Flickr

April showers will dry out today, and by Saturday, most of western Washington should see sunshine. But, we're not so sure about Sunday.

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