Let’s keep this short tonight. Homework calls, life is busy, but so is the weather. Today was actually a mostly dry day. I woke up (as did anyone reading this haha), but I woke up to some frozen slush on my windshield and light snow falling around 7AM. The majority of the day ended up dry for Salem and the mid Willamette Valley with ample sunbreaks warming us to the mid 40s.

These showery patterns are extremely difficult to forecast when we have regular temperatures, but throw in colder air, and it gets even more complicated. For instance, Lincoln City had a little snow last night, and the Grand Ronde area, but locations with higher elevations farther north had none. Really depends who gets the heavier showers, so know that I’m doing my best. 🙂

Highlights

Early Wednesday morning provides our second and slightly better shot at seeing snow here in the valley this week. Keep in mind widespread accumulation is still very unlikely, but a few more neighborhoods will wake up to slushy snow either on the ground or at least in the air than this past morning. Here’s two estimated radar images for Wednesday at 8AM and 10AM:

What stands out to me is a concentration of snow showers will occur somewhere in the Willamette Valley between 4 and 10AM – earlier for locations on the west side of the valley. Despite the slightly better snowfall chances for Wednesday morning, snowfall maps do not look all that impressive. Here’s total snowfall through 10AM Wed:

This map doesn’t exactly inspire the sledder in me lol. Seems like 1 – 3″ above 1000′, and nothing to an inch below that. Scattered showers continue through the remainder of the day with a few sunbreaks in between. High of 45°.

Wednesday night and Thursday morning we do it all again. I’ll do my best to provide another update later tomorrow in regards to Thursday morning.

Friday now looks to stay dry with a cold and frosty start, and sunny afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s.

Saturday could end up being dry too with rain maybe holding off until Sunday, but more details in my next post.

Take care, and happy Wednesday!