![]() ![]() This is less snow than for any place eastward across the continent of the same parallel of latitude. ![]() "Based on 56 winters of official records (our) annual winter snowfall is but 11.2 inches. The 38 year veteran of the Weather Service served up a warm cocoa of statistics for his Seattle Times readers. Fisher published a testament of Puget Sound's usual mildness. Willis Sayre notes in his 1936 book, This City of Ours: "Seattle has been visited by a gale so strong that it blew seven railway cars off a trestle into the bay, has had a snowfall six and a third feet deep, has seen a winter temperature of four degrees below zero. Caption of a Puget Sound snowscape photographed in 1963 by Josef Scaylea This is a time for the nature-lover to read the diary of the forest, for the snow is a page on which each passing animal inscribes its message." Now all sounds are muted, as if nature stands in awe of the great changes it has brought to the land. "A fresh snowfall brings a subtle change to the music of the woods. James cathedral), not to mention various freezes, gales, and mud events have every few years blasted away the general mildness and excited the community. During the past 150 years, the "Big Winter" of 1861-1862, the "Big Snow" of 1881, the big and heavy snow of 1916 (which collapsed the dome of Seattle's St. But other weathers, severe and historic, have challenged the Mediterranean image. The Puget Sound region used to be known as the Mediterranean of the Pacific, a place as balmy as a Greek island, if also rainy. ![]()
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