{"id":512417,"date":"2026-03-09T05:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/512417\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T05:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:40:11","slug":"heavy-mountain-snow-expected-wednesday-kiro-7-news-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/512417\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy mountain snow expected Wednesday \u2013 KIRO 7 News Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">The mountains could finally get some much-needed snow this week, but you\u2019ll want to steer clear of driving through the passes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">KIRO 7\u2019s meteorologists are calling for a Pinpoint Alert Day on Wednesday because of an atmospheric river that could bring heavy snow, causing significant travel issues. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">It\u2019s one of several storm systems expected to make its way through Western Washington this week. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Spotty showers into Monday morning. There could be some wet snow mixed in a few showers but no significant accumulations expected, except in spots from near Bothell to Arlington east along and north of US 2, where brief accumulations *could* occur. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wawx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#wawx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6qic6X0xEB\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/6qic6X0xEB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Morgan Palmer (@MorganKIRO7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MorganKIRO7\/status\/2030780871658119670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">Pinpoint Chief Meteorologist Morgan Palmer is predicting that we could see one to three feet of snow from Tuesday evening through Thursday in the mountains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">In the lowlands, we\u2019ll turn to milder rainfall on Wednesday, and rain could be heavy at times. It\u2019ll also be breezy to windy with wind gusts over 30 miles per hour likely. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mountains could finally get some much-needed snow this week, but you\u2019ll want to steer clear of driving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-512417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}