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Calm in Salmon Creek, looks like they had some patchy frost. Is it windy still at your place?

 

If the downslope surfaces today could be quite warm in some areas.

We haven't had any wind since Sunday afternoon, but we mixed out yesterday and got up to 74. Larch is in the 60's this morning still with the breeze.

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Eugene proper had 5-7" with the 1/27/08 storm. One of the better events this century in Lane County.

Maybe on the hills near Fairmount. But south campus only had an inch or 2.

Springfield, Oregon regular season 2023-24 Stats:

  • Coldest high: 25F (Jan 14, 2024)
  • Coldest low: 20F (Jan 14, 2024)
  • Days with below freezing temps: 24 (Most recent: Mar 8, 2024)
  • Days with sub-40F highs: 4 (Most recent: Jan 16, 2024)
  • Total snowfall: 0.0"
  • Total ice: 2.25”
  • Last accumulating snowfall on roads: Dec 27, 2021 (1.9")
  • Last sub-freezing high: Jan 15, 2024 (27F)
  • Last White Christmas: 1990
  • Significant wind events (gusts 45+): 0

Personal Stats:

  • Last accumulating snowfall on roads: Dec 27, 2021
  • Last sub-freezing high: Jan 16, 2024 (32F)
  • Last White Christmas: 2008
  • Total snowfall since joining TheWeatherForums: 42.0"
  • Sub-freezing highs since joining TheWeatherForums: 4

 

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Maybe on the hills near Fairmount. But south campus only had an inch or 2.

 

You must be remembering something else. 

Snowfall                                  Precip

2022-23: 95.0"                      2022-23: 17.39"

2021-22: 52.6"                    2021-22: 91.46" 

2020-21: 12.0"                    2020-21: 71.59"

2019-20: 23.5"                   2019-20: 58.54"

2018-19: 63.5"                   2018-19: 66.33"

2017-18: 30.3"                   2017-18: 59.83"

2016-17: 49.2"                   2016-17: 97.58"

2015-16: 11.75"                 2015-16: 68.67"

2014-15: 3.5"
2013-14: 11.75"                  2013-14: 62.30
2012-13: 16.75"                 2012-13: 78.45  

2011-12: 98.5"                   2011-12: 92.67"

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They were cooler and wetter than average for the region as a whole, though. And the 500mb patterns were decisively troughy, except for 1963.

 

The region as a whole for all intents and purposes means western WA and western OR. We're not highlighting what goes on in Boise or Klamath Falls or Colville. 1963 as an example was a couple degrees above normal. Not even close to a cool and wet October.

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The airport reported 5" at 375'.

 

Here is a picture from my brother's facebook page which was taken on campus that day...Looks like more than 1".

 

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Snowfall                                  Precip

2022-23: 95.0"                      2022-23: 17.39"

2021-22: 52.6"                    2021-22: 91.46" 

2020-21: 12.0"                    2020-21: 71.59"

2019-20: 23.5"                   2019-20: 58.54"

2018-19: 63.5"                   2018-19: 66.33"

2017-18: 30.3"                   2017-18: 59.83"

2016-17: 49.2"                   2016-17: 97.58"

2015-16: 11.75"                 2015-16: 68.67"

2014-15: 3.5"
2013-14: 11.75"                  2013-14: 62.30
2012-13: 16.75"                 2012-13: 78.45  

2011-12: 98.5"                   2011-12: 92.67"

It's always sunny at Winters Hill! 
Fighting the good fight against weather evil.

 

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Here is a picture from my brother's facebook page which was taken on campus that day...Looks like more than 1".

 

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Social media is a great weather diary!

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Also everyone says that EUG is not representative of the actual city of Eugene. My in-laws live a couple miles from the airport inside the Eugene city limits, in a residential area (Near Meadowview school). Their temps are generally about the same as EUG. I would say it is fairly representative of the west and northwest part of the city.

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Snowfall                                  Precip

2022-23: 95.0"                      2022-23: 17.39"

2021-22: 52.6"                    2021-22: 91.46" 

2020-21: 12.0"                    2020-21: 71.59"

2019-20: 23.5"                   2019-20: 58.54"

2018-19: 63.5"                   2018-19: 66.33"

2017-18: 30.3"                   2017-18: 59.83"

2016-17: 49.2"                   2016-17: 97.58"

2015-16: 11.75"                 2015-16: 68.67"

2014-15: 3.5"
2013-14: 11.75"                  2013-14: 62.30
2012-13: 16.75"                 2012-13: 78.45  

2011-12: 98.5"                   2011-12: 92.67"

It's always sunny at Winters Hill! 
Fighting the good fight against weather evil.

 

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Social media is a great weather diary!

 

It is. Here is a pic from November 2006. Now that is just a dusting it looks like...

 

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Snowfall                                  Precip

2022-23: 95.0"                      2022-23: 17.39"

2021-22: 52.6"                    2021-22: 91.46" 

2020-21: 12.0"                    2020-21: 71.59"

2019-20: 23.5"                   2019-20: 58.54"

2018-19: 63.5"                   2018-19: 66.33"

2017-18: 30.3"                   2017-18: 59.83"

2016-17: 49.2"                   2016-17: 97.58"

2015-16: 11.75"                 2015-16: 68.67"

2014-15: 3.5"
2013-14: 11.75"                  2013-14: 62.30
2012-13: 16.75"                 2012-13: 78.45  

2011-12: 98.5"                   2011-12: 92.67"

It's always sunny at Winters Hill! 
Fighting the good fight against weather evil.

 

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Also everyone says that EUG is not representative of the actual city of Eugene. My in-laws live a couple miles from the airport inside the Eugene city limits, in a residential area (Near Meadowview school). Their temps are generally about the same as EUG. I would say it is fairly representative of the west and northwest part of the city.

 

It's also lower elevation than pretty much all of Eugene and Springfield, so it's not like they do better with snow.

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By the way. Mark Nelsen says the "blob" appears to be back.

Snowfall                                  Precip

2022-23: 95.0"                      2022-23: 17.39"

2021-22: 52.6"                    2021-22: 91.46" 

2020-21: 12.0"                    2020-21: 71.59"

2019-20: 23.5"                   2019-20: 58.54"

2018-19: 63.5"                   2018-19: 66.33"

2017-18: 30.3"                   2017-18: 59.83"

2016-17: 49.2"                   2016-17: 97.58"

2015-16: 11.75"                 2015-16: 68.67"

2014-15: 3.5"
2013-14: 11.75"                  2013-14: 62.30
2012-13: 16.75"                 2012-13: 78.45  

2011-12: 98.5"                   2011-12: 92.67"

It's always sunny at Winters Hill! 
Fighting the good fight against weather evil.

 

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12Z GFS delays the significant rain a little compared to the 00Z run.   

 

12Z run shows a weak, splitty band of rain on Tuesday night then dry Wednesday and then a big storm on Thursday (day 9).

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Got down to 42F last night. Inversion must be mostly below 500'.

Springfield, Oregon regular season 2023-24 Stats:

  • Coldest high: 25F (Jan 14, 2024)
  • Coldest low: 20F (Jan 14, 2024)
  • Days with below freezing temps: 24 (Most recent: Mar 8, 2024)
  • Days with sub-40F highs: 4 (Most recent: Jan 16, 2024)
  • Total snowfall: 0.0"
  • Total ice: 2.25”
  • Last accumulating snowfall on roads: Dec 27, 2021 (1.9")
  • Last sub-freezing high: Jan 15, 2024 (27F)
  • Last White Christmas: 1990
  • Significant wind events (gusts 45+): 0

Personal Stats:

  • Last accumulating snowfall on roads: Dec 27, 2021
  • Last sub-freezing high: Jan 16, 2024 (32F)
  • Last White Christmas: 2008
  • Total snowfall since joining TheWeatherForums: 42.0"
  • Sub-freezing highs since joining TheWeatherForums: 4

 

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Here in the PNW we just don't win anymore...

Snowfall                                  Precip

2022-23: 95.0"                      2022-23: 17.39"

2021-22: 52.6"                    2021-22: 91.46" 

2020-21: 12.0"                    2020-21: 71.59"

2019-20: 23.5"                   2019-20: 58.54"

2018-19: 63.5"                   2018-19: 66.33"

2017-18: 30.3"                   2017-18: 59.83"

2016-17: 49.2"                   2016-17: 97.58"

2015-16: 11.75"                 2015-16: 68.67"

2014-15: 3.5"
2013-14: 11.75"                  2013-14: 62.30
2012-13: 16.75"                 2012-13: 78.45  

2011-12: 98.5"                   2011-12: 92.67"

It's always sunny at Winters Hill! 
Fighting the good fight against weather evil.

 

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Warm front rain for Tim...

 

gfs_mslp_pcpn_frzn_nwus_45.png

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Snowfall                                  Precip

2022-23: 95.0"                      2022-23: 17.39"

2021-22: 52.6"                    2021-22: 91.46" 

2020-21: 12.0"                    2020-21: 71.59"

2019-20: 23.5"                   2019-20: 58.54"

2018-19: 63.5"                   2018-19: 66.33"

2017-18: 30.3"                   2017-18: 59.83"

2016-17: 49.2"                   2016-17: 97.58"

2015-16: 11.75"                 2015-16: 68.67"

2014-15: 3.5"
2013-14: 11.75"                  2013-14: 62.30
2012-13: 16.75"                 2012-13: 78.45  

2011-12: 98.5"                   2011-12: 92.67"

It's always sunny at Winters Hill! 
Fighting the good fight against weather evil.

 

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Warm front rain for Tim...

 

gfs_mslp_pcpn_frzn_nwus_45.png

 

 

One frame at 300 hours?   Weak.

 

Its pretty short-lived on that run as well.     Next frame has it north of the border for the most part and then a trough swings through quickly with more ridging building in... I would gladly take that going into early November!  

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I said that last night in the ENSO thread... sure looks like it.

 

cdas-sflux_ssta_global_1.png

Ugh, here we go again. I’m sure it will be blamed for everything that happens weather-wise going forward.

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I said that last night in the ENSO thread... sure looks like it.

 

cdas-sflux_ssta_global_1.png

 

 

Cliff Mass posted this SSTA map back in September 2016 declaring that the 'Blob is Back".  

 

http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-blob-is-back.html

 

sst.daily.anom.gif

 

The current SSTA map looks very similar across the North Pacific to that return of the blob 2 years ago.  

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Cliff Mass posted this SSTA map back in September 2016 declaring that the 'Blob is Back".

 

http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-blob-is-back.html

 

sst.daily.anom.gif

 

The current SSTA map above looks very similar across the North Pacific to that return of the blob 2 years ago.

Our warmest winter in decades followed shortly thereafter.

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