UW Emergency Management

March 27, 2019

Snowpocalypse 2019: A podcast describing this freak event in Seattle

fireandiceWant to really understand why our 10+ days of snow, ice and record cold weather in early February 2019 was so unusual?  Click here to be taken to a 12-minute podcast detailing why this series of February storms were so unusual for Western Washington and how many records were broken.  Courtesy of our local FOX-13 television station, this podcast has interviews with local officials, weather experts, and just plain old residents recalling our winter anomaly.   Was this a freak series of storms…. or is it yet another sign that climate change is real and impacting us today!?