6 hours Ago By The Daily News [email protected]
The Lower Columbia is expected to see up to an inch of snow through Wednesday afternoon. The National Weather Service in Portland has issued a winter weather advisory for the area — as well as the Portland Metro lowlands, Greater Vancouver Metro area and more — from midnight through noon Wednesday. The advisory warns roads, especially bridges and overpasses, will be slick.
State road updates in Washington state can be viewed at wsdot.com/travel/real-time/map , and at www.tripcheck.
com for Oregon. In Longview-Kelso specifically, meteorologists forecast a chance of snow showers after 1 a.m.
Wednesday at 200 feet of elevation with less than a half inch of accumulation. The Rocky Point area in Kelso, for instance, sits at about 243 feet of elevation. A 90% chance of a mix of rain and snow is expected Wednesday during the afternoon at 1,000 feet of elevation, with another half inch of possible accumulation in Longview-Kelso.
Little or no snow is forecasted to accumulate Wednesday night and into Thursday morning, though a mix of rain and snow showers is likely in the cities. The Daily News, Longview, Wash. Get the daily forecast and severe weather alerts in your inbox! {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.
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