The NOAA dropped this bombshell of a forecast for Mt. Rainier, WA which may see up to 122″ (10+ feet!!!) of snow before the weekend is over. Satellite image via weather.gov:

The bulk of the snow should fall by Saturday — the current forecast is calling for up to 60″ of snow by Saturday morning, an additional 49″ through Saturday night. However you wanna do the math, that is a lot of snow.

If you are venturing out to get some of that goodness, be careful. It’s early season and risk factors are high: conditions will be shit because it is also supposed to rain heavily at lower elevations, and high winds up to 60+ mph are also forecast through much of the weekend. Right now, it looks mostly wet according to the webcams at the National Park Service:

See the detailed forecast from the NOAA,here: Mt Rainier Snow Forecast.

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