November 2018 Weather in the Pacific Northwest

[TT-SEA]

Lol..35dbz radar returns. So heavy!

Heavy rain... picked up more than an inch since 9 a.m. here.

 

I would like to have set you in my backyard this morning and you tell me how hard it was raining.

 

Tropical connection to this rainfall right now. Rain drops are huge in this set up... very loud on the roof.

 

 

Just reporting what is happening... no opinions.

[Kayla]

Full on arctic blast knocking on the door at day 10 on the 12z ECMWF and this place is pretty ho hum about it!

[TT-SEA]

Full on arctic blast knocking on the door at day 10 on the 12z ECMWF and this place is pretty ho hum about it!

 

Just saw that... would be nice if it worked out.   

[Esquimalt]

Full on arctic blast knocking on the door at day 10 on the 12z ECMWF and this place is pretty ho hum about it!

Probably because it’ll knock but not enter.

[TT-SEA]

SEA NWS saying now that river flooding is possible by tomorrow.  

[Kayla]

Probably because it’ll knock but not enter.

 

Decent blocking signal has been showing up around that timeframe for awhile now. 

[BLI snowman]

Intense rainfall within the moisture plume which refuses to lift north... heavier cells kept re-forming over and over this morning out here.

 

 

Crazy, it usually doesn't do that out there.

[wx_statman]

-28 this morning in Arctic Village, AK. Pretty impressive for November 1st. 

[Esquimalt]

Decent blocking signal has been showing up around that timeframe for awhile now.

Meanwhile I thought the chances out cold while I’m out east between the 8th and 15th were high...

[BLI snowman]

Full on arctic blast knocking on the door at day 10 on the 12z ECMWF and this place is pretty ho hum about it!

 

Meh.

[TT-SEA]

Crazy, it usually doesn't do that out there.

It does do it... and I report it when it happens.

[MossMan]

This rain can stop anytime now...we are good...for at least the next two months!

[Kayla]

Meh.

 

Meh, it's only the best model we have available on the planet in that timeframe. Outlier!

[BLI snowman]

It does do it... and I report it when it happens.

 

Sun came up this morning, too.

[BLI snowman]

Meh, it's only the best model we have available on the planet in that timeframe. Outlier!

 

240 hours is still fantasyland on the Euro. And mid November pretty much is garbage if you're south of Whatcom County or west of Bonneville Dam. And a cold spell in that timeframe is a pretty token achievement in a Nino that lacks any further cold airmasses down the road (2014, 1986, 1977, 1930).

[TT-SEA]

Sun came up this morning, too.

 

 

It was a notable heavy rain event here this morning.    

[Deweydog]

Full on arctic blast knocking on the door at day 10 on the 12z ECMWF and this place is pretty ho hum about it!

Who's door?

[TT-SEA]

This rain can stop anytime now...we are good...for at least the next two months!

 

Over 7 inches of rain here since the dry spell ended on 10/25.   

 

Does not seem really dry here.  

[Kayla]

Who's door?

 

155 West Negative Tilt Way, Bellingham WA 98225

[TT-SEA]

Sun came up this morning, too.

 

 

Honestly hard to tell that happened today.   It is incredibly dark for being early afternoon.   No doubt the darkest day of the year.    About as dark as it can be here for the middle of the day.  

 

[TT-SEA]

This traffic cam from Jim's area right now is a good representation of November here.  

 

12:48 in the afternoon.   

 

[Deweydog]

155 West Negative Tilt Way, Bellingham WA 98225

Looks closer to 239 North Weak Transient Blocking Circle, Kamloops BC V1S0A2. It's a lovely split level.

[Front Ranger]

This rain can stop anytime now...we are good...for at least the next two months!

It's November, silly!

[MossMan]

It's November, silly!

It’s silly wet! We don’t need the entire monthly average happen in just one day! Though if I remember correctly November 2006 started out much the same way...then we got hammered by 17” of snow right after Thanksgiving!

[Kayla]

Looks closer to 239 North Weak Transient Blocking Circle, Kamloops BC V1S0A2. It's a lovely split level.

 

I hear they have a nice Walgreens there!

 

Edit: Oh wait, it's Canada, they don't have one.  

[TT-SEA]

It’s silly wet! We don’t need the entire monthly average happen in just one day! Though if I remember correctly November 2006 started out much the same way...then we got hammered by 17” of snow right after Thanksgiving!

 

The darkness right now here is sort of surreal even for November.    

[Deweydog]

I hear they have a nice Walgreens there!

 

Edit: Oh wait, it's Canada, they don't have one.

Yet another reason to passionately hate our neighbors to the north...

[TT-SEA]

Full on arctic blast knocking on the door at day 10 on the 12z ECMWF and this place is pretty ho hum about it!

 

12Z EPS says we should completely disregard the operational run.  

[MossMan]

I hear they have a nice Walgreens there!

 

Edit: Oh wait, it's Canada, they don't have one.

Pharmasave!

[Deweydog]

Pharmasave!

They were clearly still high on a combination of the December 1990 Arctic blasts and Oxy when they produced that.

[stuffradio]

Yet another reason passionately hate our neighbors to the north...

That's it, I'm going to my igloo!

[MossMan]

That's it, I'm going to my igloo!

Don’t forget your case of Kokanee and vhs tapes of The Littlest Hobo!

[Guest Dome Buster]

Oh Tim oh Tim. Whats wrong with him?

 

He moves to hills that are at the foot. Of the mountains that are not orographically moot.

 

He wonders why the moisture persists. He rants and raves, he clenches his fists.

 

Oh Tim oh Tim, rain on his brim.

 

He doesnt like how it feels or tastes. Move to the desert then, so your life aint a waste.

[TT-SEA]

Oh Tim oh Tim. Whats wrong with him?

 

He moves to hills that are at the foot. Of the mountains that are not orographically moot. He wonders why the moisture persists. He rants and raves, he clenches his fists.

 

Oh Tim oh Tim, rain on his brim. He doesnt like how it feels or tastes. Move to the desert then, so your life aint a waste.

 

Not wondering at all.   Just reporting.

 

I know its dark in November.   I know it rains in November.

 

I reported today that there was heavy rain here this morning... and it was unusually dark even for this location in November.      Just the facts.   I don't think I have seen a mid-day period as dark as today was in my 16 years of living here.    Definitely not normal... and worth mentioning.  Getting a little brighter now.  

 

Where are your comments when I post about how sunny and beautiful it is??   I do that all the time too.  

[MossMan]

They were clearly still high on a combination of the December 1990 Arctic blasts and Oxy when they produced that.

I tried to find the pharmasave one that I would sing for hours and hours to annoy my sister as a kid but no luck. It involved toilet paper. We got more Canadian channels than Seattle with the house antenna so we pretty much grew up Canadian!

[Phil]

Heavy rain... picked up more than an inch since 9 a.m. here.

 

I would like to have set you in my backyard this morning and you tell me how hard it was raining.

 

Tropical connection to this rainfall right now. Rain drops are huge in this set up... very loud on the roof.

 

 

Just reporting what is happening... no opinions.

So 0.3”/hr? That would be classified as moderate rain, or “RN” by official standards. Not even close to “heavy”.

 

Heavy rain is 1”+/hr type stuff. Like a summer downpour that drops 0.5”+ in 10 minutes, etc.

[TT-SEA]

So 0.3”/hr? That would be classified as moderate rain, or “RN” by official standards. Not even close to “heavy”.

 

Heavy rain is 1”+/hr type stuff. Like your typical summer downpour that drops over 0.5” in 10 minutes, etc.

 

 

We picked up about 1.30 inches in two hours actually.

 

It was raining hard.    It probably rains harder in Houston in the summer.   Don't care.

[Phil]

We picked up about 1.30 inches in two hours actually.

 

It was raining hard. It probably rains harder in Houston in the summer. Don't care.

Man, that really is heavy. Downright tropical, in fact.

[BLI snowman]

This setup is unbelievable. The folks at SEA are saying this is unlike any other traces on record at that station.

 

I guess we can now add November 1, 2018 to the depressingly long list of devastating regional floods. 

 

 

[TT-SEA]

Man, that really is heavy. Downright tropical, in fact.

 

 

There is a tropical connection to the rain here right now.    Its been coming up from around Hawaii for the past 4 days.

 

 

 

It is also warm and humid by November standards here.  

 

Every person in the PNW on this forum would say it was heavy rain here this morning.    It was coming down about as hard as it ever does for a couple hours.