“There are some folks out there here in the Puget Sound area that are not going to do well in the cold weather we have coming up. The next couple of nights are going to be downright cold,” said Washington State Climatologist, Nick Bond.
February 22, 2023 at 6:40 pm PSThave opened up all across the region.
Lynn Utter with We All Belong says they filled about 350 beds last winter. By the end of this February, they will have filled about 650 beds. And the shelter will be open for at least 10 more days this season compared to last.The King County Regional Homelessness Authority took over tracking Seattle-King County data in 2022 and says it’s activated cold-weather response protocols three times so far this year, once more than this time last year.
“It is the third winter in a row with La Nina,” Bond said. He says that while it has happened before, it is rare for three La Nina winters in a row. “It has stacked the deck for colder weather,” he said. Looking at how many days hit 28 degrees or lower at Sea-Tac International Airport, it was much more common in the 1970s to see 13, 15, or even 35 days of cold weather hitting that threshold.
Data shows in recent years, winters have brought more instances of snow 1 inch or more at Sea-Tac Airport. That happened six times in 2019 and 2022 and five times in 2017.
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