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Break out your spring long underwear, Capitol Hill

Happy spring. Some weather sites are forecasting ice pellets on Friday. If you are smart, young and rich, consult the top CHS sunshine destinations and get on a plane. The rest of us are about to live through this:

A RIDGE OF HIGH PRES IN JUST OUTSIDE OF THE OFFSHORE WATERS IS    MOVING EAST AND APPEARS THAT IT WILL RESULT IN STRONG POST FRONTAL    PRESSURE GRADIENTS LATER TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY. VERY WINDY    CONDITIONS APPEAR ON TRACK TO HIT THE AREAS ADJACENT TO THE STRAIT    OF JUAN DE FUCA AND AROUND WHIDBEY ISLAND LATER TONIGHT AND FRIDAY.       

THE AIR MASS OFFSHORE IS QUITE MOIST AND UNSTABLE. THE STRONG    UPSLOPE FLOW PROMISES TO GIVE HEAVY SNOW TO THE MOUNTAINS WITH 1-2    FEET LATER TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. THE HEAVY SNOW MAY HANG ON IN    THE MOUNTAINS THRU THU NIGHT OR EARLY FRI. THE 00Z NAM12 SOLUTION    CONTINUES TO SHOW FREEZING LEVELS FALLING TO BELOW 2000 FEET LATE    TONIGHT AND A LITTLE FARTHER LATE THU NIGHT INTO FRI MORNING. THE    MAIN PRECIPITATION PERIODS ARE WITH THE POST FRONTAL SHOWERS THU    MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON…THEN WITH A SECONDARY COLD OCCLUSION    THU EVENING AND THU NIGHT. WHILE TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWLANDS WILL    GENERALLY BE ABOVE FREEZING…WET SNOW ON HIGHER HILLS IN HEAVIER    SHOWERS LOOKS LIKE A GOOD POSSIBILITY. SUFFICIENTLY HEAVY SHOWERS IN    THE CONVERGENCE ZONE AND IN THE FOOTHILLS TO THE CASCADES MAY RESULT    IN SOME LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS OF AN INCH OR TWO…MAINLY ON GRASSY    SURFACES ON HILLS ABOVE 500 FEET…LATE THU NIGHT OR FRI MORNING    WITH THE SECOND SYSTEM. 

Thank a lot, National Weather Service. Volunteer Park tops out at 453 feet so we’ll probably see a few April flakes.

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