One thing you can count on weatherwise in Seattle is that forecasts can change at the drop of a, well, raindrop.

University of Washington meteorologist Cliff Mass took a poke at The Seattle Times this morning for its headline "Megastorm looms for area" and its online headline saying we could get up to 14 inches tonight and into Wednesday. We got that information from the National Weather Service just before we put the paper to bed last night.

On top of the NWS forecast, even Professor Mass sounded a little excited in his blog yesterday afternoon:

"The bottom line is that there is a serious threat on Wednesday of 8-15 inches of snow over the region, with a minimal turn over to rain. The biggest snowstorm in years. Anyway, before anyone goes out and buys a snowblower, lets see what tonight's runs show. If they continue this trend then Slushmageddon might be replaced by Snowmageddon. In almost any conceivable case, Wednesday morning is going to be very problematic for travel...I suspect there will be a lot of school cancellations and the like. "

But this morning, he says we could get 2 to 5 inches of snow tonight and tomorrow. Oh well.

The National Weather Service also has downgraded its forecast, saying we could get 5 to 10 inches of snow.

Forecasts do change, eh, professor?