SPOKANE, Wash. — It's been a warm start to the winter season, with December being the warmest since 1979 in Spokane. For area mountains, they are running way behind normal in terms of snowpack. The snowpack in eastern Washington and North Idaho is only about 45-60% of early January averages.
What we need is both cold air and plentiful moisture to arrive in tandem to give the mountains a heavy snow event. That is exactly what's in the works, with a cold front that passed Thursday night, and the moisture hitting Friday into Saturday.
Lookout Pass is expecting about 4-8" of snow, and that goes for most of the Inland Northwest mountains. The Cascades, meanwhile, could get 12-18" by the end of the day Saturday.
As for lower elevations, Spokane should see anywhere between 1-3" of snow while Coeur d'Alene and North Idaho can expect 2-4".
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