**SCROLL DOWN BELOW THE 7 DAY FORECAST TO SEE RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES FOR TONIGHT, MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY NIGHT**

Some places in North and Central Kitsap got an inch or so of snow last night and if you thought we were done you couldn’t be more wrong! Even though we are “springing forward” with our clocks, Mother Nature is still insistent on using up every last winter day we have. After all, spring doesn’t officially start until March 20th.

Tonight we’ll see lows in the 20s with partly cloudy skies. Tomorrow will start partly to mostly cloudy, but later in the morning through the evening a left over low pressure system is expected to spin off the coast and affect Western Washington, including the Kitsap Peninsula. Normally we’d be talking about rain right now, but high temperatures will be lucky to get into the mid 30s tomorrow, so when that moisture arrives it should be all snow. In fact, we could see 1-2” of accumulation across the whole Peninsula with more accumulation favored for the southern areas as the precip will pick up in intensity the farther south it is.

Monday’s moisture dies down Monday night, but boy will it be cold!! Low temperatures will be in the upper teens to lower 20s—maybe even colder. This is a serious push of cold air and if you have anything unprotected outside that you wouldn’t like to see die off, cover it!

Tuesday morning will be BITTERLY cold, and daytime highs look just as cold or colder even though we’ll see more sun. The weather models are spitting out high temperatures below freezing Tuesday, but I’m not quite sold on that yet. I mean, we’re in early March…high temps below freezing are rare.

Sunshine and gradually warmer temperatures will be the theme through Friday before more clouds and rain return for next weekend.

Long range models? I’m not sure you want to know about that, but I’ll give you a clue. Winter isn’t quite over yet…

Matthew Leach

Kitsap Weather

7 DAY FORECAST

**Below are the records for Bremerton and Shelton. I know these two cities don’t encompass everyone’s weather, but I don’t have time to go through every city on the Peninsula and post the record lows. But by the looks of it, records won’t be hard to break**

BREMERTON RECORD LOWS:

March 8th: 27º, 1974

March 9th: 30º, 1974

March 10th: 24º, 1956

SHELTON RECORD LOWS:

March 8th: 26º, 1974

March 9th: 26º, 1951

March 10th: 20º, 1951