Despite a cool and quiet start to the week, in a matter of hours, the forecast will become busy and quite chaotic.
With widespread heavy lowland rain, near or at freezing temperatures, and unseasonably low snow levels, officials with Washington State’s Department of Transportation are cautioning drivers across Washington to plan ahead, take things slow, and prepare for the winter-like weather.
Summer Derrey with the Washington State Department of Transportation told us that when it comes to the first major snowfall of the season on our mountain passes, it’s time to be, “a little bit more concerned about your driving, to be a little bit more aware, more than anything just knowing that is when we typically see more wrecks.”
In fact, it’s crashes and driver behaviors that are the leading cause of closures on Snoqualmie Pass. From 2022 to 2023, WSDOT revealed that crashes and human behaviors accounted for 122 hour’s worth of closures, whereas avalanche control accounted for only three hours. Derrey added that whether or not you’re familiar with the closures that are prone to the Pass, it’s worth reminding folks that when these closures happen, “sometimes drivers are just stuck in their cars for hours waiting for the pass to reopen and there’s a lot of process in terms of reopening it,” adding “... knowing that, I would be prepared for just about anything mother nature throws our way on Snoqualmie pass.”Statewide pass conditions.
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