The weather will be fairly quiet for Christmas Eve, but active weather returns just in time for Christmas. For today, there will be partly sunny skies, occasional showers and a stray, weak thunderstorm. It’ll be slightly breezy. Temperatures in Seattle will range in the upper 40s to low 50s on Tuesday afternoon.

An atmospheric river will move into Western Washington from Christmas Day to Thursday, bringing heavy rain, wind and mountain snow.

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A potent atmospheric river arrives on Christmas Day. Conditions will be blustery with increasing wind along the coast, through the Inlet and for some portions of the North Sound. Heavy lowland rain and mountain snow will increase throughout the morning and into the evening.

A fresh one to three feet of new snow will fall above 4,000 feet by Friday afternoon, making for wonderful conditions at the ski resorts but tough conditions for mountain traveler