Okay, so I know that for a lot of you, the photos to the right look like a light dusting. Here in Seattle, though, a place as far north as Portland Maine but blessed with mild Pacific air, snow is a major thing. It's the hills.

The lack of forecastable weather in any season but summer doesn't help with the snow nerves of PNWers, either.

There is this thing called the "Puget Sound Convergence Zone" (great link for weather geeks, BTW) that forms and falls away. It can pop up, shift with the wind and dissipate suddenly. Whatever is currently happening is usually more intense in the "convergence zone".

For instance, no one forecasted the snow in the photos until it was happening. It was supposed to - and did - snow overnight farther north of the city. But the PSCZ popped up and shifted south. So it snowed here (and still is spitting some though temps have gone up a bit) in the middle of the day.

Woot!