Heavy Snow in Waterville Plateau, Washington

Heavy Snow January 12, 2016 – January 13, 2016 · Waterville Plateau, Washington

What the National Weather Service wrote

Snow began around 4 pm Tuesday and ended or decreased substantially in intensity at around 10 am Wednesday January 13,2016. A Coop observer reported 7.5 inches of new snow at Waterville, WA from this storm system.

The wider storm

A low pressure system with a well maintained moisture tap moved up in a warm southwest to northeast path over Eastern Washington. It overran the cold air in place at lower levels of the atmosphere and spread snow from west to east which did change to some freezing rain then rain for some lowland locations.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 607756. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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