Is Al Gore visiting the Pacific Northwest?

From Cliff Mass:

Coldest Temperatures in Years and the Next Snowstorm
A number of local observing stations experienced their record low temperatures for the date yesterday and the minimum temperatures this morning were chilling (see below, click to enlarge). Teens were widespread over the region away from the water, and there were single digits north of Bellingham, in the north Cascades and over eastern WA.

At Boeing Field, the low temperate this morning (16°F) was the coldest in at least 5 years.

This is one cold wave that is not going away, with the entire week being far cooler than normal. Ice and snow on non-arterial roadways are not going anywhere fast.

But now the serious stuff.  There is a real chance for a major snow event late Friday into Saturday--one with the potential to drop as much snow, or even more, than the event on Monday morning.  At this point there is substantial discrepancy among the model systems, and thus great uncertainty for the specific amounts and their distribution.

Wonderful. Going to be staying on the island for another week or so. Head up with the Highlander to check on the critters but that will be it.

Al Gore reference? The Gore Effect:

The Gore Effect is an informal and satirical term which alleges a causal relationship between unseasonable cold weather phenomena and global warming activism, with particular emphasis on events attended by former Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Al Gore. Usage started when a speech of Al Gore on a global warming rally held in New York City met extremely cold winter weather in January 2004 and according Andrew Bolt after another Gore speech took place on a strikingly cold day in Boston in the same year.