Chance of snow to follow overnight windstorm, National Weather Service says
An overnight windstorm that produced scattered power outages in the Olympia area is now set to be replaced by cold weather and a chance of snow, according to the National Weather Service in Seattle.
About 1,300 Puget Sound Energy customers were without power Tuesday morning, including in Thurston County, according to PSE’s outage map.
Winds picked up Monday afternoon and then gusted for hours during the night, according to National Weather Service data recorded at Olympia Regional Airport.
From about 8:30 to 11 p.m. Monday, the area received sustained gusts of more than 20 miles per hour. A peak gust of 35 miles per hour was recorded just before 9 p.m., followed by gusts of 30 miles per hour or stronger later in the night, the data show.
Now, get ready for cold weather. Tuesday’s daytime high temperature is expected to reach 44 degrees, but the Olympia area is not expected to see 40-degree weather again until Saturday. In between, overnight lows will dip into the low 20s and daytime highs are not expected to escape the upper 30s.
A combination of moisture and cold weather could produce snow, according to the National Weather Service.
There’s a chance of snow Tuesday night, Wednesday and Wednesday night. It is expected to be partly or fully sunny Thursday and Friday, then moisture and a chance of snow returns Friday night into Saturday.
Saturday’s daytime high is expected to be 43 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
This story was originally published February 21, 2023 at 10:04 AM.
