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On Saturday, about 200 flights were cancelled at Seattle-Tacoma and Portland international airports, roughly matching the number of Friday cancellations.
Severe snow drifts shut down Interstate 90 and other roads in central Washington.
More than 30 centimetres of snow were recorded in some areas, including on the Washington state's Olympic Peninsula, by Saturday morning.
Seattle is lost in a whiteout during a snowstorm on Friday.Credit:AP
In Seattle, where such snow is a rarity, residents cleared out grocery store shelves and left work early on Friday afternoon as the storm arrived.
Residents took to hills with skis, sleds or even just laundry baskets on Saturday to celebrate an unusual dump of snow in a region more accustomed to winter rain.
The US Pacific Northwest, showing Washington state's Olympic Peninsula, Seattle and Portland. Credit:Google Maps
A 66-year-old California man died in Hawaii after getting stuck in rough ocean conditions in Napili Bay, off north-west Maui, on Friday.
Rescuers brought him to shore and unsuccessfully performed CPR.
The man's identity was not released.