After thunderstorms in Washington and Oregon on Wednesday night, more rounds of storms are on the way through the weekend, with snow coming for high elevations.
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00:00So we have rain into Seattle and Portland, any semblance of thunderstorms should be mainly on the way out.
00:06It's mainly rain and just some mountain snow at this point, but we do have some areas under winter weather advisories here.
00:12Western Oregon into parts of California and then also this is going to fuel that northern edge of the Midwest here.
00:20Snowstorms, snow and ice there, winter weather advisories associated with that are in effect.
00:24But we also have some strong winds out there, high wind warnings buffeting the coast of Oregon
00:28and into the mountains there, also into parts of Northern California into the Siskiyou's as well.
00:33So it's a pretty active storm system and this is going to continue to bring widespread rain and some mountain snow
00:39tonight through Friday, kind of the final stage of this storm.
00:42We started warm with record warmth in advance of it, we're going to end colder.
00:46Tonight we're dealing with widespread rain in Portland, 50 for your low, 47 into Medford with showers.
00:52Helena still 41 with showers there, Bismarck staying above freezing as well.
00:55So the warmth has been displaced into the plains, but Friday still wet.
00:59We got rain and this is when the snow levels drop low enough for a transition over to snow and accumulating snow at that.
01:06Now, Snoqualmie Pass, you're only around 3,000 feet and change.
01:09You're not going to see much more than maybe a light dusting of snow mixed with rain.
01:12Stevens and White Pass is 1 to 3 inches of snow for you.
01:15Santee and Pass could see 6 to 12 inches of snow though.
01:18Willamette Pass, 5 to 10 inch snowfall.
01:21Government Camp, 2 to 4 inches of snow there in northern parts of Oregon.
01:25So winter's not over there.
01:26And then Saturday we begin to see this roll east and it's going to be a colder, snowier time into parts of the northern Rockies.
01:33Another storm follows this one.
01:34This is going to be a little more robust even farther south into California on Sunday into Sunday night with some mountain snow as well.
01:41So the break on Saturday is only going to last so long there in the Pacific Northwest.
01:45Meanwhile, farther south you can see we're dealing with dry weather across the San Joaquin Valley.
01:50Friday, still dryness south of I-80.
01:52A couple of lingering showers into San Francisco.
01:54A little bit of light rain at times into the high ground of Utah.
01:57But with snow levels high, it's mainly rain as opposed to snow until we get into Saturday.
02:01And that's when some places like Alta and Snowbird will see a little taste of some spring snow for the ski crowd.