Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Convergence Zone Snow in April!

Bellevue, WA snow around 8 PM at 200 ft ASL.Picture courtesy of Julia Ziobro

Today we had a strong convergence zone and with cool air aloft the answer was that in the heavier convergence showers the snow level was determined to the surface over some of the lowlands.

This morning dawned with a spectacular convergence zone over the north Sound.

Just beautiful.

Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Is it Loss to Blow Over the Lowlands?

Several of you get asked the voltage for cold and snow this weekend, and this morn the National Weather Service put out a particular statement regarding the hypothesis of a switch to more winter-like conditions.And today, I got several calls from the media about it.And yes, the local TV stations are already talk about it online and on air.It is never just to get excited about snow too early-there are a few ways to get snow in the lowlands and so many ways for it to go wrong.