Seattle has recorded (at Sea-Tac airport since 1948) single-day snow totals of 7 inches or more on around eleven different occasions since 1948.
And 21.5 inches was measured on February 1, 1916! There were reports of snow drifts to 5 feet with that crippling storm.
It will be interesting to see where this week’s storm lands on this list. As an additional point of reference:
[Clicking on this image will take you to it’s source on the Weather Channel site.]
And here’s a snap of Cherry Street in downtown Seattle during the “Big Snow of 1880:”
It looks a lot different now:
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