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	Podcast:		Weather With Cliff Mass
	Episode:		Despite weekend rain, November shaping up to be very dry — with no mountain snow
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:05:54
	Publish Date:		2019-11-15 13:35:04
	Description:		It was just over a month ago that an early snow storm hit the Cascade Mountains, stoking the hopes and dreams of Northwest skiers for an above average season. “October 8-9 th , we had enough snow that it was messing up travel across the passes,” said KNKX weather expert Cliff Mass, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington. “Now unfortunately most of that has melted. And we’ve gone into a very dry pattern.” He points to the record dry spell that ended last week, in which the region tied a record with 14 consecutive days of no precipitation in early November. “And right now, November is way below normal — we’re almost two and a half inches below normal at Sea-Tac, so it’s been a very dry period. And our latest computer simulations suggest that November as a whole will be dry,” Mass said. He says the precipitation we get over the weekend and into next week won’t make much of a dent in that trend. “None of it is going to be that heavy. It looks like we’re going
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