It's only mid-February, but the weather is already starting to make it feel like spring has arrived early.
Every year, when sunny days and warmer temperatures return to the region, the right feet of many motorists in North Central Washington also strangely seem to get heavier; and this not-so-unleaded phenomenon leads to an all-too-familiar problem on the area's roadways...
**UPDATE - 12/21/22 - 12:45 p.m.**
A seven-mile stretch of State Route 172 remains closed due to poor visibility from blowing snow and large snow drifts.
The closure is from milepost 14 near the junction of McNeil Canyon Road and milepost 21 west of Mansfield...