January Weather In the PNW

[VancouverIslandSouth]

Rain. A lot of it.

 

Eventually we'll get one of these extended deformation bands with a nice cold airmass ahead of it. Those can be prolific snow producers. In the meantime we can watch the webcams around Chilliwack-Hope:

 

http://images.drivebc.ca/bchighwaycam/pub/cameras/240.jpg

[ShawniganLake]

36F with a bit of mixed precip here.

[High Desert Mat!]

Yeah, I’m well aware that our winters suck. They still kick the crap out of yours, though.

 

What is SEA’s coldest low this winter? Like 25*F? That’s literally 10*F warmer than our average temperature over the last two weeks. So forgive me for rolling my eyes.

It's like us posting in a southern Cal thread and bragging about being colder than them. Childish.

[Kayla]

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Ha! Why did you delete that last one?? Made me legitimately lol.

[Jesse]

Ha! Why did you delete that last one?? Made me legitimately lol.

I figured it got too carried away.

[Guest Dome Buster]

Eventually we'll get one of these extended deformation bands with a nice cold airmass ahead of it. Those can be prolific snow producers. In the meantime we can watch the webcams around Chilliwack-Hope:

 

Rambo: first blood

[Blizzard777]

I agree it likely stops somewhere near there but Chilliwack is under a Winter storm watch for snow and freezing rain tomorrow.

Your 850 temp map is an anomaly map. I would be willing to bet that the airmass in the BC interior is colder than the one in Texas.

Well, at least I have cold air above me here in Austin....need some rain to bring it down to me!

We have a wind advisory here today. Should be a active day. Seeing a line of thunderstorms developing to the southeast of me....unfortunately they won’t be moving in my direction.

Currently 66 and temp should plumit soon as front goes through

 

Jim

[Deweydog]

Down to 47 at PDX.

 

Hmmmm...

[Blizzard777]

Storm total in rain .72 with se winds 5 and 43 degrees according to my weather machine back home

 

 

Jim

[Blizzard777]

Wow

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Good lord. PDX radar on the fritz again!

[Jesse]

I’d say ensembles have improved a little in the mid-long range.

[Timmy Supercell]

Approaching mid January with no snow on the ground in Klamath Falls. It'll come soon though, I think. lol

[SilverFallsAndrew]

I’d say ensembles have improved a little in the mid-long range.

 

Solid improvement really.

[Jesse]

Solid improvement really.

Sometimes I make the incorrect assumption that if no one here is talking about a particular run or ensemble chart it must be horrible.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Sometimes I make the incorrect assumption that if no one here is talking about a particular run or ensemble chart it must be horrible.

 

I think interest in the weather right now is waning due to how boring this season has been. I think a few fantasy range GFS blasts would bring people back...

[Phil]

Wow, I really was expecting a lot more kill-Phil posts after last night.

 

I love you guys.

[Deweydog]

Euro!!!

[luvssnow_spokane]

Euro!!!

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[TigerWoodsLibido]

Euro!!!

Some chilly onshore flow toward the end.

[Chewbacca Defense]

Just saw on the Book of Faces that it is snowing up towards Sumas, but still rain just in Blaine, Ferndale and Lynden.  A quick look at the traffic cams doesn't show anything sticking to the ground up there yet.  It's 35 IMBY, I haven't been outside or near a window since 6:30 this morning so I don't know if we are getting any mixed precip....I guess I should get up and take a walk

[AlTahoe]

Approaching mid January with no snow on the ground in Klamath Falls. It'll come soon though, I think. lol

It still hasn't snowed in Tahoe yet. This is like a repeat of 1976-1977 and 2014-2015

-150" seasonal snowfall anomalies is our new normal.

[ShawniganLake]

Just saw on the Book of Faces that it is snowing up towards Sumas, but still rain just in Blaine, Ferndale and Lynden. A quick look at the traffic cams doesn't show anything sticking to the ground up there yet. It's 35 IMBY, I haven't been outside or near a window since 6:30 this morning so I don't know if we are getting any mixed precip....I guess I should get up and take a walk

We had a small accumulation of wet snow here around mid morning. Turned back to mostly rain now.

[Geos]

What I would give for the temperature to be 10 degrees colder...

Actually 9 degrees only. It's 41 at home. 

 

Meanwhile it's dumping in Leavenworth.

Webcams 1/3 way down page.

http://leavenworth.org/weatherwebcams/

[weather girl]

Michael Ventrice ‏ 15 hours ago

 

"Interesting signature from the latest ECMWF Week 4 Clusters; Top 3 clusters show a similar pattern, though vary on the latitude of the ridge forecast to build over the eastern U.S. (from +NAO to -NAO)."

 

 

I'll take Cluster 4 please. 10% chance? Oki doki. Cluster 6 would be strong backdoor blast.

Everything else seems to kind of make sense to me, but 4, 6, and 8 seem to be at odds about what to do with that block.  Throw in 7, too.  Keeps trying trying to answer it a bunch of different ways.  

[Front Ranger]

Euro/Canadian are much preferred over the GFS.

[Guest Dome Buster]

One heck of a front today. And that low is barreling. Looks beautiful on the visible satellite.

[MossMan]

On 37 when I was in Mt Vernon a bit ago.

[HighlandExperience]

Snoqualmie Pass getting nuked with snow

[ShawniganLake]

Close to 1 inch of rain and mixed precip with temps in the mid 30s so far this morning. So close.

[Chewbacca Defense]

Took a quick walk and negative splat test in the Barkley area.  Folks on the BoF are talking about it starting to mix on I-5 between Ferndale and Blaine, snow in Maple Falls (doesn't take much to get it snowing up there).  Temp still falling slowly.

[Geos]

Snoqualmie Pass getting nuked with snow

 

O my.

 

[luvssnow_spokane]

Snoqualmie Pass getting nuked with snow

Yep... Finally!

 

[Phil]

O my.

http://images.wsdot.wa.gov/sc/090VC05200.jpg

What I wouldn’t give to be standing out there in a T-shirt right now..

[luvssnow_spokane]

Snoqualmie Pass getting nuked with snow

How great would it be if all of Western Wa was at 3k feet?!

[Geos]

Dumping down to Cle Elum too.

 

[Geos]

Looks like Skykomish had a bit of snow this morning. An example of how the cold air is stubborn to move out of that area that is only 1000 feet.

 

 

Leavenworth

 

[MossMan]

Took a quick walk and negative splat test in the Barkley area.  Folks on the BoF are talking about it starting to mix on I-5 between Ferndale and Blaine, snow in Maple Falls (doesn't take much to get it snowing up there).  Temp still falling slowly.

Looks like some slushy accumulation around the border at Sumas. 

http://images.wsdot.wa.gov/nw/009vc09816.jpg?636512697604803985

[Phil]

The way the models drive longwave upper level troughing deep into the Southwestern US, right out of the GOA, is something we haven’t seen in awhile. Even if it’s mostly mediocre mid-latitude Pacific stuff, it’s definitely a change from the 2013-2017 regime.

 

I think the combination of waning solar, and a more prototypical Niña/MJO system, is beginning to show it’s hand, even if this pattern in intraseasonal in nature. Will be interesting to watch unfold during A/M/J, when the QBO will almost certainly have flipped @ 50mb.

[MossMan]

 

With the snow at Snoqualmie Pass today, it has a current seasonal snowfall total of 176". Last year on this date, we had 174" and ended up pretty close to normal. pic.twitter.com/LuqQjcgcdQ— Scott Sistek (@ScottSKOMO) January 11, 2018

Wow I would have thought that we would have been lagging behind right now from last year.