Latest Update at 11:00 a.m. Thurs. 2.24.11 (below)

I am *not* getting anything done!  My excuse is the "snow event" that we're supposed to be getting... I just don't see it.  The satellite water vapor images show a pretty distinct band of "no water vapor" over us and to the north.  This sorta matches with the patches of blue sky overhead and the fairly consistent lack of snow shown in the highway cameras up and down the I-5 corridor, all the way to Canada.  

 But I don't pretend to be a meteorologist...  heck, I had to look it up to make sure I was spelling it correctly (and to make sure that I wasn't referring someone who predicts meteor showers...).  So, I'm sure that we'll get our weather event... I just can't see how it's going to develop in the satellite pics.  

3:11 p.m. Update:
Scratch that.  I went out for a quick walk right after posting, and there were teeny tiny flakes just starting to come down.  Now, 30 minutes later, it is definitely snowing. The satellite water vapor image still shows minimal moisture overhead, so that's new insight into using that image. 

5:30 p.m. Update: 
After a brief period around 4:30 where it looked like things were going to let up, the preciptation restarted as tiny ice drops and has dusted the ground and rooftops white.  It's getting dark, and harder to tell now whether it is still ice or has turned to rain, but it is still coming down as a fine steady sprinkling of something.  Glad I don't have to go out on the roads tomorrow. 

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 23, 2010 -  7:00 a.m. Update
Well, nothing happened overnight, and I'm still not seeing a source of water vapor on the satellite images... not that I have any expertise in interpreting those at all, of course.  It's still cold, so the grass has kept its ice.  Any of the hard surfaces, like fence tops, appear to have lost theirs.  The sky is dark and grey, more than it was during yesterday's snow, actually.  So we'll see what happens...

8:45 p.m. Update
Oh my.  We has snow.  Lots of it, and it's coming down consistently.  I have no idea when it started. Guess that's what I get for monitoring it via the computer pages instead of the window.  My excuse:  I fell down an Jonathan Coulton rabbit hole at 6:00 and only came up for air just now...

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 24, 2010 - 7:15 a.m. Update
Seattle appears to continue to be mostly in the snow shadow, and we didn't get nearly the amount that I'm reading other areas (like Renton) got.  There's maybe a little more than an inch.  The grass is sorta covered, and the roads are white; not really enough to even be pretty.   

11:00 a.m. Update
Every time I've written that it's snowing, it's stopped.  So this time I'm just going to look the other way and pretend that I don't see it....