EVERETT — Cold weather shelters throughout Snohomish County are preparing to open as temperatures are forecasted to drop, the county health department announced in a press release Wednesday.
The county’s seven overnight shelters open when temperatures are forecasted to be at or below 34 degrees Fahrenheit. As of Friday afternoon, the National Weather Service forecasted temperatures to reach 34 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday night in Everett. The Snohomish County Public Safety Hub online provides daily updates on which shelters are open each night.
Community Transit and Everett Transit provide free rides to cold weather shelters, the release said. Last year, the county’s cold weather shelters provided more than 6,000 bed nights.
Here are the seven locations in Snohomish County providing overnight shelter during dangerously cold weather:
• Everett Cold Weather Shelter at United Church of Christ, 2624 Rockefeller Ave.
• East Everett Cold Weather Shelter at Our Lady of Hope, 2617 Cedar St.
• Everett Family Cold Weather Shelter at Women and Children’s Mission, 5126 S. 2nd Ave. (The Everett Family Cold Weather Shelter serves women with children only.)
• Marysville Cold Weather Shelter at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 7215 51st Ave. NE.
• Monroe Cold Weather Shelter at Monroe Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 14118 Chain Lake Road
• Snohomish Cold Weather Shelter at Snohomish Evangelical Free Church, 210 Avenue B
• South County Cold Weather Shelter at Maple Park Church in Lynnwood, 17620 60th Ave. W.
Jenna Peterson: 425-339-3486; jenna.peterson@heraldnet.com; X: @jennarpetersonn.
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