Winter Weather — Central Cascade Foothills, Washington

2004-01-06 to 2004-01-07 · Central Cascade Foothills, Washington

Wider weather episode

During the evening of the 6th, most of the snowfall changed to freezing rain over western Washington. This caused most of the nearly 150,000 power outages. It also wreaked havoc with the airlines, Alaska and Horizon cancelled about 2/3 of their flights. In some places, like the Shelton area, schools were closed for a third straight day.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 5382420. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.