SEATTLE — The entire western Washington region will see very cold, sometimes extreme temperatures as a storm system continues moving through the state through the weekend.
Many locations will saw numbers below or well below freezing early Friday morning, which will continue through Sunday.
According to NWS Seattle, the forecast low of 14 degrees for Sunday morning would be the coldest temperature in Seattle since Nov. 14, 2010.
If the temperature drops below 14, it would be the coldest temperature in Seattle since late December of 1990, when the low hit 12 degrees on three different days. The coldest temperature Seattle has seen since record-keeping began was back on Jan. 31, 1950, when the temperature was a frosty 0 degrees.
For context, the 2022 low in Seattle was 18 degrees, recorded on Dec. 22. That number came just a few days before the ice storm that caused car crashes and painful falls throughout the city.
Seattle's maximum temperature forecast for midnight Friday to 6 a.m. on Saturday is just 18 degrees. That will be one of the warmer temperatures per NWS, as Arlington and Bellingham are forecast to see a high of 10 degrees in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Blaine will see a high of 11 at that time, whereas Enumclaw, Mount Vernon and North Bend are forecasted to have a maximum temperature of 12 degrees.
On Sunday morning, the lowest maximum temperatures will be in Arlington and Enumclaw (14 degrees). North Bend's projected maximum high is 15 degrees, while Woodinville will have 16 degrees.
Remember that these are all projections based on available weather data, and the numbers could change as the storm manifests over the area.
The coldest times, according to NWS, will be from Friday morning through the end of the day Sunday into early Monday.