Bonney Lake sees snow. Why it’s ‘a little bit unusual’ and what’s next
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- Snow fell in Bonney Lake, which a meteorologist acknowledged was a “bit unusual.”
- By mid-April, it’s typically too warm for snow in lowlands, Melissa Gonzalez-Fuentes said.
- The isolated snow came as near-freezing temperatures mixed with showers, she said.
Snow fell in Bonney Lake on Wednesday night as near-freezing temperatures and high precipitation rates created conditions perfect for weather not typically seen in the lowlands this time of year, according to the National Weather Service.
“Some people did wake up to seeing a little bit of snow,” NWS meteorologist Melissa Gonzalez-Fuentes said Thursday.
The snowfall was driven by a weather system in Everett that banked downward. It brought precipitation to the Bonney Lake area, where temperatures Wednesday night were around 33 to 34 degrees.
“With that kind of shower activity down in that area, with the temperatures being kind of around freezing, it could fall down as snow,” Gonzalez-Fuentes said.
While Gonzalez-Fuentes acknowledged it was “a little bit unusual” for snow in the lowlands at this point in the spring, because “usually we’ll start warming up around this time,” it was also isolated.
“It wasn’t anything super widespread or anything,” she said.
Dry weather returned Thursday and was expected to remain through Friday before a new weather system was forecast to bring rain to the Tacoma area on Saturday, but “nothing too intense,” Gonzalez-Fuentes said. After a reprieve from wet weather Monday, more rain was anticipated beginning Monday night and continuing into the middle of next week, she added.
