WeatherWatcher: Week ahead, lots of rainfall

Get out your umbrellas - lots of rainfall ahead

• Forecast
• Last week's data

Forecast: More rain on the way starting Tuesday night and ending in showers Thursday. Due to partial clearing at nights I'm expecting lows to dip into the mid-30's both Tuesday morning and Thursday morning. It's possible a heavy shower could move through Thursday morning bringing some mixed rain and snow, or very wet snow down to the inland areas of Shoreline or Lake Forest Park. No accumulations are really expected, not something I would worry about. Friday will start drying out for our first full day of spring. The weekend looks mostly dry with highs in the mid-upper 50's, lows in the low 40's or upper 30's. Areas in the open could see slight frosting from radiative cooling in the morning hours on some mornings from now through the weekend.

Last week: We had a lot of rain last week, and really this month so far. The switch from clear skies to winter weather was flipped in February and now nature has been making up for our dry winter in a big way. Mountain snow pack has surpassed 100% of normal in most locations when I checked last week, all threats of a drought for the Northwest are diminished. Total rainfall for the month of March to date is 5.86 inches, this is in 2 weeks and 2 days time!

High temperature: 59.7°F (Wednesday)
Low temperature: 36.1°F (Wednesday)
Rainiest day: 0.89 inches (Saturday)
Total rainfall: 1.58 inches
Warmest day: 51.2°F (Sunday)
Coldest day: 44.9°F (Tuesday)
Average temperature: 47.3°F (5.9°F warmer than normal)
Station historic average: 41.4°F 

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