LIVE UPDATES: Ice storm shuts down Sea-Tac runways, closes roads, halts transit - KIRO Seattle

WESTERN WASHINGTON — Freezing rainfall successful areas of Western Washington has shut down each but 1 runway astatine Sea-Tac Airport, suspended nationalist proscription and caused roadworthy closures amid icy conditions.

The Washington State Department of Transportation said each drivers should hold non-essential travel due to the fact that of icy conditions crossed the area. Officials said determination were excessively galore collisions and spinouts to report.

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“Our crews are inactive moving the roads but we suggest holding disconnected until upwind conditions improve,” WSDOT said.

“The heaviest freezing rainfall has moved on, but airy freezing rain/wintry premix volition proceed done the morning. Temps astatine the aboveground should beryllium supra freezing astir luncheon oregon into the aboriginal afternoon. Even airy freezing rainfall means ice,” KIRO 7 Meteorologist Nick Allard said astatine 7:20 a.m.

LIVE UPDATES:

8:28 a.m. “Sound Transit’s 1 Line is moving with insignificant delays but it’s a skating rink to get to/from the stations! Stay enactment unless perfectly indispensable until things commencement to thaw out.”

8:08 a.m. All Kitsap Transit work remains canceled.

7:58 a.m. WSDOT’s Snoqualmie Pass Twitter relationship said drivers readying to transverse I-90 should hold their trips, if possible. East of the acme determination is drifting snowfall and mediocre visibility. West of the acme has freezing rain. There is dense snowfall astatine the summit.

7:47 a.m. U.S. 2 is closed betwixt Gold Bar and Index owed to downed trees, freezing rainfall and icy conditions.

7:45 a.m. All metropolis of Renton recreation programs and facilities are closed Friday. Facility closures see Renton Community Center, Don Persson Renton Senior Activity Center, and Highlands Neighborhood Center. Recreation facilities volition re-open connected Dec. 28.

7:30 a.m. Most King County facilities volition beryllium closed Friday owed to upwind conditions. They volition reopen connected Tuesday, Dec. 27.

7 a.m. All Metro Transit work remains suspended owed to icy conditions, including buses, h2o taxis, on-demand and the Seattle Streetcar. Next update astatine 10 a.m.

6:57 a.m. One runway astatine Sea-Tac Airport has reopened aft being deiced. Operations volition proceed to beryllium constricted depending connected upwind conditions.

6:52 a.m. Freezing rainfall and precocious winds has caused powerfulness outages successful the eastbound areas of Snohomish County. Outage map: OutageMap.SnoPUD.com. About 5,400 customers are without power.

6:41 a.m. I-90 betwixt I-405 and and SR 18 reopened.

6:40 a.m. Pierce Transit work is delayed until 10 a.m.

6:24 a.m. All Community Transit work to Seattle and section work wrong Snohomish County is suspended owed to hazardous roads.

6:23 a.m. The Washington State Department of Transportation said each drivers should hold non-essential travel due to the fact that of icy conditions crossed the area.

6:12 a.m. Community Transit routes 130, 196, 116, 101 and Swift Blue work are paused until further notice.

6 a.m. The Lower Spokane Street Bridge is closed owed to a clang and icy conditions.

5:56 a.m. All Alaska and Horizon departures retired of Seattle and Portland are canceled until noon owed to icy runway conditions.

5:35 a.m. All Community Transit work into Seattle is suspended owed to hazardous roads. Local work successful Snohomish County volition continue. The Zip Shuttle suspended until noon. Find details at this link.

5:30 a.m. Washington State Ferries said work has been suspended connected the Seattle-Bremerton way and the Port Townsend-Coupeville route. There is one-boat work connected the Fauntleroy-Vashon-Southworth, Seattle-Bainbridge, Edmonds-Kingston and Mukilteo-Clinton routes.

5:30 a.m. Start of Pierce Transit work present delayed until 7 a.m. When routes begin, they’ll beryllium connected snowfall routes.

5:21 a.m. All Pierce Transit routes are connected a 2-hour delay. Once work starts, they volition beryllium connected a snowfall detour.

5:10 a.m. Sea-Tac Airport said each runways are closed indefinitely arsenic crews proceed to deice surfaces.

4:20 a.m. King County Metro canceled each autobus work suspended owed to ice. Metro said its adjacent update would beryllium astatine 7 a.m.

“Metro buses are incapable to permission autobus bases owed to deteriorating and unsafe roadworthy conditions. We regret the interaction connected our riders. We volition adhd work arsenic soon arsenic it is harmless for customers and employees,” Metro said.

3:35 a.m. All lanes of Interstate 90 closed betwixt I-405 and SR 18 from icy roadworthy conditions that caused aggregate collisions and rotation outs. Troopers counsel radical to enactment location if possible.

2 a.m. Runways astatine Sea-Tac Airport closed aft the airfield received a dump of freezing rainfall that rapidly solidified into ice. Hundreds of flights are canceled.

FORECAST

The tempest is close connected way with the forecast and a batch of occidental Washington is seeing freezing rain. Almost each temperatures sensor is beneath freezing, which means if you spot rain, presume ice. It’s liquid precipitation falling connected thing astatine oregon beneath freezing and instantly turning to crystal oregon freezing rain.

The rainfall volition taper a spot implicit the adjacent mates of hours, but until late-morning to astir mid-day, temperatures volition beryllium beneath freezing. Even arsenic we lukewarm up astir midday, with spotty rainfall determination could inactive beryllium immoderate pockets that are beneath freezing.

We person pockets of snowfall successful and astir the Hood Canal country and northbound of Everett, but besides immoderate pockets of freezing rainfall mixed in.

“The flimsy lull successful precipitation volition assistance this morning, but delight retrieve that if you spot rainfall presume ice!” KIRO 7 Meteorologist Nick Allard said.

This day temperatures volition lukewarm into the upper-30s with spotty areas of conscionable rainfall showers; however, determination could inactive beryllium immoderate pockets of airy freezing rainfall mixed in. The Cascades volition beryllium a messiness with freezing rainfall imaginable each time and perchance aboriginal Saturday.

Bottom line, from present done astir midday, immoderate rainfall could autumn arsenic freezing rain.

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Snow and freezing rainfall volition summation done the passes Friday day and past into Friday nighttime with the imaginable for important interaction there. More than a half-inch of crystal is imaginable astatine Snoqualmie Pass by Saturday morning, causing large question disruption.

East of the Cascades, immoderate airy icing is apt precocious Friday and Friday night, but past expanding snowfall and freezing rainfall Saturday into Christmas Day.

Over the weekend, portion immoderate freezing rainfall and snowfall are apt from the passes eastbound Saturday and into Christmas Day, westbound of the Cascades, we’ll person dense rainfall astatine times. This rainfall could origin municipality flooding from blocked tempest drains and, eventually, stream flooding. This menace of flooding from a abruptly warmer and precise bedewed upwind signifier (with respective atmospheric rivers possible) volition proceed done adjacent week.

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