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I just did a double take when I looked at my station and it was reporting nearly 23°C!
The airport is at 18°C but personal stations around the city are all between 18 and 24!
It is April 5th!!
Spent a half hour pushing 3" of very heavy, very wet snow off my car just now
Car sits centered on the ridge line of a 2-story condo, hard up against the north side, so it doesn't get any direct sunshine four months out of the year
If I don't get the snow off today while I can move it and it freezes hard overnight (32-33F degrees forecast) I'll have my car entombed in 3" of Cascade Concrete tomorrow
So...
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Snoqualmie Pass WA I-90 Pass report
Elevation: 3022 ft / 921 m
Travel eastbound
Chains required on all vehicles except all wheel drive, Oversize Vehicles Prohibited.
Travel westbound
Chains required on all vehicles except all wheel drive, Oversize Vehicles Prohibited.
Conditions: Compact snow and ice on the roadway.
Weather: Light snow
UPDATE: Stevens Pass US Hwy 2 now open, chains required
Last updated Saturday, March 14, 2026 10:25 AM PDT
Here: https://wsdot.com/travel/real-time/mountainpasses/Snoqualmie
Stevens Pass WA US Hwy 2
Temperature: 27°F / -3°C as of 4:26 PM 03/13/2026
Elevation: 4061 ft / 1238 m
Conditions:
US 2 is currently closed at MP 55, 9 miles West of the summit and at MP 85, at Coles Corner, 14 miles West of Leavenworth, due to heavy traffic and severe winter weather.
The pass will remain closed overnight and will be reassessed in the morning. No detour is available.
Weather: Snow
And no detour *is* available: Snoqualmie Pass I90 is closed, so Eastern Washington is a trip up the Columbia River gorge out of Portland OR on I84
Here: https://wsdot.com/travel/real-time/mountainpasses/stevens
UPDATE 2:45 pm PDT
And now Stevens Pass US Hwy 2 is closed
Travel eastbound: Pass Closed
Travel westbound: Pass Closed
Gotta get to Eastern Washington?
The Colombia Gorge east out of Portland OR looks like about it...
Snoqualmie Pass WA I-90
Pass report
Elevation: 3022 ft / 921 m
Travel eastbound: Pass Closed
Travel westbound: Pass Closed
Weather: Snowing hard
Conditions: Compact snow and ice on the roadway.
I-90 Snoqualmie Pass is closed both directions
Westbound is closed at milepost 106 Ellensburg, Exit 85 Cle Elum, and Exit 70 Easton.
Eastbound is closed at milepost 34, 18 miles west of the summit near North Bend. due to multiple spinouts and collisions this will be an extended closure lasting most of the day.
Here: https://wsdot.com/travel/real-time/mountainpasses/stevens
I mean, do people have lobotomies when it snows, or what?
Just saw somebody in a very late-model 2-door sporty coupe, maybe an Acura, maybe a BMW 7-series, drive out the dead end street right outside my office windows and turn right onto the road into town.
His entire right-side windows were entirely -- entirely -- covered with snow
Maybe an inch-plus on the roof
He's not going to be able to see *anything* off to the right side of him -- nothing -- no passenger-side mirror either
"I know it's snowing but I'm driving straight ahead and I know exactly where I'm going. Why would I need to see anything out to my right side?"
Good lord...
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