Update: Storm Tracker 2 Meteorologist Rhonda Shelby says a back edge to the first band of precipitation is just about to move through the metro area.1

Snow and freezing rain potential begins on Thursday as a low system barrels into the west coast. Showers look to arrive from south to north, up the valley, in the afternoon on Thursday. It is at this point that areas around the Portland & Vancouver metro areas could see light snow showers beginning.

School was already canceled for most kids in the area when snow showed up on traffic cameras in Woodburn and Wilsonville on Thursday morning. In comments on a National Weather Service in Portland post on Facebook,