More snow headed for Pacific Northwest

SHORELINE, Wash., Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The northwest United States and British Columbia, Canada, hit by a major storm this weekend, can expect more snow and rain, meteorologists said Sunday.

The weekend storm, a mixture of flooding rain and heavy snow, disrupted travel Saturday, with two Cascade Mountain passes temporarily closed due to heavy snow and a third because of avalanche danger, AccuWeather.com reported Sunday.

The mountains of the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia face heavy snowfall from a storm above the Gulf of Alaska that is expected to send rain and snow into the region this week, the report said.

Heavy rain and snow is expected through Washington and Oregon Monday and locally heavy rain Monday could produce street flooding and disruption travel on Interstate 5 between Seattle and Portland, AccuWeather.com said.

Snow levels in the Cascade Mountains could drop to 2,500 feet during the snowfall and some lower elevations in the area could get as much as 12 inches of accumulation.

The Seattle Times said parts of Washington could get wind gusts of as much as 50 mph through Monday.

The weather was blamed for the death of Patrick R. Duff in Shoreline, Wash. The Times said Duff, 32, died after being struck Thursday night by a tree limb broken off by a heavy gust of wind.