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Here are a few photos I took in Snohomish, Wa today as the Snohomish River crested just below moderate flood stage. This was around 7 feet lower than the peak of the flood back in December.

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I was thinking about heading out for one more snow chase tonight. But, we’ve been grinding hard this week and I need a good night of sleep. Gotta accept my limits. Sorry everyone, but thanks for riding along the last few days! 03-13-26

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❄️ I’m eyeballing a pattern that finally has the potential to deliver some substantial mountain snow to Washington state. It is still a ways out, but data has been trending positively toward a snowy pattern for the mountains starting Sunday Night-Monday March 8-9th. It is far enough out that there is still time for it to trend better or worse. I am encouraged that the models have been holding pretty steadfast so far though.

Before that timeframe though, the mountains will get a little snow tomorrow on Wednesday through Thursday, March 4-5th. There will then be some weak systems Friday through Saturday that will bring some light lowland rain and light mountain snow as well.

Long story short though, I’m more interested in what I’m seeing early next week. If you are a skier or snowboarder or just want our snowpack to improve for summer, start doing your snow dance!! As of now I am planning on doing a snow chase and associated livestream in Monday with how things are looking. The pattern may stay active beyond Monday March 9th, but that timeframe is a bit too far out to have high confidence in what will happen. Stay tuned!
#wawx #weather #washingtonstate #winter
Posted 4:40PM March 3rd 2026
-Benjamin Jurkovich

2 months ago | [YT] | 66

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Built my son’s first snowman this morning in Lake Stevens, WA! In case you missed my livestream of the event this morning, here’s the link youtube.com/live/3ZCbf000kpQ?si=7QgpK1kKvh_qfxnY

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YES!

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Had a successful northern lights chase January 19-20! I’ve got some time lapse material that I plan to put together from this.

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2 months ago | [YT] | 145

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Go hawks! Currently I’m working on putting together a bit more of a long for video using a lot of the extra flooding footage I captured. I could just upload it all as one big b-roll clip, but I think I want to put some more work into it instead. This channel will primarily be used for livestreaming storms in Washington state and occasionally elsewhere. When there’s is really interesting weather on the horizon, I will do forecast style videos. When we get into quiet times, similar to now, I will work on doing recaps of storms I’ve chased. Let me know if any of you have any feedback or suggestions. Thanks everyone!

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Well, I hate to be the bearer of less than pleasant news. Unfortunately after this weeks fresh mountain dumping of snow, the snow levels are about to rise this weekend and into next week. It is looking more likely that we may have another.. **trigger warning..** atmospheric river/Pinapple Express in our future. I know, everyone is tired of those words, especially after December. But unfortunately this is something we should discuss.

Saturday night through Tuesday night is the timeframe when this is possibly going to occur, with Monday looking the rainiest. The snow level at Stevens Pass is likely going to climb to over 6,500 feet, and rain will be falling at pass level. Attached is a map showing 72 hour rain totals from Saturday at 10am through Tuesday at 10am from the European model. This is not a great look for our snowpack. River flooding? Maybe, but it’s still a bit far out to be sure. A lot of snow has fallen in the lower elevations of the foothills. My concern, is that a decent amount of snowmelt will occur in tandem with this rainfall. The National Blend of Models shows less rain totals, which still wouldn’t be great for the snowpack but would pose less flooding concerns. Hopefully it ends up being just another couple rainy days with no issues.

And then after that, we going to get more mountain snow again, right?! 😀 Right?! 🫠… well 😐… not for a while. Temperatures in the mountains are likely to stay elevated for some time… it might even get downright balmy up there for a bit.

So, if you ski or snowboard, I’d recommend enjoying the fresh powder sometime Today-Saturday if you can make it up there. I’ll monitor the upcoming pattern, and hopefully we won’t have to talk about flooding concerns. But, if we do, we will try our best to communicate about it and cover it of course. Shown in the first graphic is the European model rain totals for the time period discussed. *Written on 01-09-26* #Weather #wawx
- Benjamin J

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