A cold front brought snow levels down through the mountains, and moisture to enhance snowfall along the Cascades, particularly in the North Cascades.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS SEW wrote it up.
A cold front brought snow levels down through the mountains, and moisture to enhance snowfall along the Cascades, particularly in the North Cascades.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Starting in the mid afternoon on March 12th, moderate snow started at Mount Baker with 11-12 inches accumulating by the early morning hours of March 13th. Light snow accumulations still continued into the 14th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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