What has been the snowiest winter you have gone through in Washington State? (Seattle: apartment complex, home)

[Mopac1980]

IMO the snowiest winter I can remember living through is the Winter of late 1992/early 1993, I remember it snowed constantly that winter.

[Hemlock140]

Originally Posted by Mopac1980

IMO the snowiest winter I can remember living through is the Winter of late 1992/early 1993, I remember it snowed constantly that winter.

That was my first winter here, and I didn't find it that bad. The worst was when we got 24" here in Sammamish over almost a week, in 1996. I also remember the storm of 2008 withe the bus having over the freeway, and then 2010 when I worked from home 2 days because of the 8" we got.

[509]

78-79 Coeur d'Alene Lake froze over....-25 for weeks.

85-86 Lots of snow and cold. Early closure to upland bird season.

92-93 Tons of snow and cold

96-97 Four feet of snow in Wenatchee by Jan.1 and then it stopped snowing

01-02?? Lots of snow....

then mild, mild winters until now. There was a cold snap somewhere around 07, but didn't last long...-15.6 outside Leavenworth.

[Thom52]

1985, our first year in the Seattle area, 9 inches of snow on Thanksgiving...just to get things started.

And we had just moved from the Bay Area in CA, so no snow driving experience.

[Mopac1980]

Originally Posted by Hemlock140

That was my first winter here, and I didn't find it that bad. The worst was when we got 24" here in Sammamish over almost a week, in 1996. I also remember the storm of 2008 withe the bus having over the freeway, and then 2010 when I worked from home 2 days because of the 8" we got.

Was it in early 1996 because I remember it flooded really good in Eastern Washington State in February of that year, that was the year when it got down to 15 below and then 60 above a week later.

[notnamed]

This one.

[Seacove]

Quantity - easily the winter of 1996, specifically late December, when people abandoned their cars on 405 because they became so hopelessly stuck. The whole metro shut down for days. That was a lot of snow! Frequency - Maybe 2008?

[Seacove]

Seattle gets a lot of ribbing from the country when we shut down due snow but the reality is we don't have the snow plows it would take to clear everything and it doesn't happen often enough to buy them. Besides, those rare snow events bond everyone that stays home making Seattle snow driving videos.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dooKpdIwwR4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZCyQ3emQg

[PS90]

I was a kid for everything before the winter of '96-'97, but for that winter I was in Wenatchee, living at an apartment complex in East Wenatchee. I remember the plow-piles being as high as the two-story rooftops.

2008 (or maybe it was 2009?) was the winter that saw multiple roof cave-ins in Spokane, although I was in Wenatchee at that time, and the snow depth wasn't nearly as bad as what Spokane got that year.

Here in Colville this winter, there's more snow than in the last 2-3 years, but nothing extreme. We have about 2 feet on the ground. What has been extreme here is the frigid temperatures. I can't remember this many nights below zero in a single winter, ever.

[notnamed]

Originally Posted by Seacove

Seattle gets a lot of ribbing from the country when we shut down due snow but the reality is we don't have the snow plows it would take to clear everything and it doesn't happen often enough to buy them. Besides, those rare snow events bond everyone that stays home making Seattle snow driving videos.

You've apparently got enough to spare to send some down to the Portland area to help with this foot of snow we got heh.