The blizzard could dump up to 14 inches of snow Wednesday, making it the heaviest snowfall in the area in decades, the National Weather Service reports. Seattle was already hit by a snowstorm on Sunday that continues to drop snow over parts of the town.
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| Pedestrians walk across a hill in Seattle during a snowstorm, Sunday. (Ted S. Warren/AP) |
The city was last blanketed in that much snow on Jan. 27, 1969, when 14.9 inches of snow fell on a single day. The area also saw that much snow in November 1985, but it fell over two different storms.
“It will be snowing everywhere on Wednesday. Not showers, but heavy, widespread snowfall all day,”
Chris Burke of the National Weather Service told the Seattle Times.
Seattle won’t be the only city touched. Weathermen are calling for snow as far south as Lake Tahoe in California, where the snow-free ski slopes have become such a concern, Native Americans dance the traditional “Round Dance” on Sunday, asking for snow, the California newspaper Sierra Sun reports. Meterologists expect six feet to fall on the mountains by Wednesday.
It has been a far less white winter this year than in years previous. According to the National Weather Service, nearly half the country was covered in an average of six inches of snow at this time in 2011. This year, only 32 percent of the country has snow on the ground, with an average snow depth of only two inches.
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