June (July) 2020 Weather Discussion for the PNW

[TT-SEA]

At this point... this July is looking much drier than last July here.

 

A year ago today it was going to rain on 9 of the next 12 days. Nothing like that in the forecast now.

[snow_wizard]

Looks like it hasn't happened since 1955. That first eight days of July 1955 was frigid even compared to this year though. PDX only hit 70 once in that stretch.

 

1955 had an incredible August.  Very cool, but also dry with a lot of sunshine.  A very rare August indeed.

[BLI snowman]

I'd have to look, but I think it's been a pretty long time since PDX hasn't topped 75 the first eight days of July. Could make a run at nine tomorrow.

 

Good call. In fact, 1955 is the only other time this has happened in PDX history.

 

Arbitrary accomplishment but still pretty interesting to go so deep into July with so little warmth.

 

Edit: I see you already found this.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

55-56 was apparently a fun one down this way.

[Meatyorologist]

Developing a thicker skin for this forum would be beneficial for you. A few posters will always troll, a few others will always complain, and a few others have maintained their annoying habits even while everyone else harps on them to change for over a decade. In other words, don't feel the need to change just because people are giving you a bad time.

 

As long as you provide semi-meaningful weather commentary, you are already doing better than some. Especially around this time of year where we seemingly get into preference back-and-forths that last pages.

I discovered this forum back in December 2018 after Fred recommended me through my Twitter DM's.

 

This place has turned out to be a really cool community of very real human beings, focusing on my area of interest nonetheless. I only wish I'd discovered it sooner. Needless to say, I'll be here for quite some time.

[TT-SEA]

Into positive territory now...

 

[TacomaWaWx]

Low of 58 this morning....light rain currently and 0.01” in the bucket.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

At this point... this July is looking much drier than last July here.

 

A year ago today it was going to rain on 9 of the next 12 days. Nothing like that in the forecast now.

At this point... July is looking dry here. Like every other July in the past 600 years... Just kidding, 27 years.

[TacomaWaWx]

At this point... this July is looking much drier than last July here.

A year ago today it was going to rain on 9 of the next 12 days. Nothing like that in the forecast now.

Yeah definitely not as wet as the first 2/3 of July last year. We had 0.99” of rain and 6 different rainfall days. So far only 0.32” and 4 different rainfall days. Doesn’t look too wet after today either.

[TT-SEA]

The water along the coast is actually colder than normal.  Pretty classic -PDO look.  It sure hasn't been warmer than normal inland.

 

 

This part is technically not correct...

 

[TacomaWaWx]

This part is technically not correct...

 

Cliff mass said the water along the coast is near or below normal actually...but there’s definitely a blob a couple hundred miles offshore.

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/07/a-cold-start-for-summer-season.html?m=1

[TT-SEA]

Cliff mass said the water along the coast is near or below normal actually...but there’s definitely a blob a couple hundred miles offshore.

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/07/a-cold-start-for-summer-season.html?m=1

 

 

Interesting... maybe his map is more refined.

 

He also said this:

 

Sunshine?     Much less than normal!  To illustrate, here is the solar radiation observed at the WSU AgWeather site in Seattle. We should be hitting a peak of about 950 this time of the year, but many days have been warmed by half or less (like yesterday and June 27th).   Just depressing.

[TacomaWaWx]

Looks like it hasn't happened since 1955. The first eight days of July 1955 were frigid even compared to this year, though. PDX only hit 70 once in that stretch.

Warmest day so far this month was 73. 6 out of 8 days have been below 70 to start the month. daily spreads so far have been 64/53,64/54,63/55,68/52,73/53,68/55,67/55 and 72/55. Should be another cool day today.

[TacomaWaWx]

Interesting... maybe his map is more refined.

 

He also said this:

 

Sunshine?     Much less than normal!  To illustrate, here is the solar radiation observed at the WSU AgWeather site in Seattle. We should be hitting a peak of about 950 this time of the year, but many days have been warmed by half or less (like yesterday and June 27th).   Just depressing.[/size]

It’s definitely been fairly cloudy and cool, but it actually hasn’t seemed as gloomy as last July was at the start.

[MossMan]

.14” so far on the day, 1.23” for the month, 37.85” on the year.

54 degrees.

[TT-SEA]

It’s definitely been fairly cloudy and cool, but it actually hasn’t seemed as gloomy as last July was at the start.

 

Yeah... the first half of July last year was terrible in that regard.    There was barely any sun at all here which is very unusual for that long during the summer.

 

There was a distinct north-south gradient last year though and it was much more sunny from Portland southward.  

[Jesse]

Building El Niño’s and blobs, oh my!

[Jesse]

Cloudy and 59 currently, after a low of 55. Looks like a small band of rain may hold together for the Portland area this morning. We will see.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Building El Niño’s and blobs, oh my!

Tim is wishcasting this morning.

[TT-SEA]

Tim is wishcasting this morning.

I never said anything about a Nino... I don't think that is happening at all.

 

I also did not say the blob is meaningful in any way. I was just referencing a comment Jim made which seemed in contrast to the WB SSTA map.

 

Goofy.

[Blizzard777]

Sitting on the patio with my coffee listening to the rain fall.  
59* 
Wet stuff started falling around 7:30

.01 so far with a rain rate of .01 in/hr 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

61F with a few high clouds but otherwise another beautiful mid-summer day here in the south valley.

[Phil]

This part is technically not correct...

 

I prefer CDAS to OISST. Given the pattern, a cold PDO signature makes more physical sense to me.

 

[Jesse]

A few sprinkles here now.

[Timmy Supercell]

55-56 was apparently a fun one down this way.

 

Each month from Nov-Feb gave me 2' feet snowfall that winter.

 

Nowadays it's almost impossible to do that kind of consistent winter weather.

[Timmy Supercell]

1955 had an incredible August.  Very cool, but also dry with a lot of sunshine.  A very rare August indeed.

 

I hope that summer had t'storms regionally speaking. I know PDX can be hit-miss but what about my place on the east sides?

 

Great winter after that summer, but I don't want to be bored to death with just 80's and no kind of weather until October.

[El_Nina]

Getting some light rain here. Just enough to make roads slick.

[AlTahoe]

Each month from Nov-Feb gave me 2' feet snowfall that winter.

 

Nowadays it's almost impossible to do that kind of consistent winter weather.

[Omegaraptor]

 

I find it amusing that Cliff Mass uses this map... that’s a Montana trough, not a PNW trough. Usually leads to very nice weather here.

[AlTahoe]

That winter was a doozy down here. Not sure if would like a repeat of that. The 270" of snow for the season is nice but December looked like a nightmare. 22" of precip with 70" of snow in December would have caused some crazy flooding in my neighborhood and then a nightmare ice situation when it froze up and snowed on top of it. 2016-2017 featured something similar and it sucked.

[Jesse]

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I find it amusing that Cliff Mass uses this map... that’s a Montana trough, not a PNW trough. Usually leads to very nice weather here.

 

He is such a little ******.

[BLI snowman]

That winter was a doozy down here. Not sure if would like a repeat of that. The 270" of snow for the season is nice but December looked like a nightmare. 22" of precip with 70" of snow in December would have caused some crazy flooding in my neighborhood and then a nightmare ice situation when it froze up and snowed on top of it. 2016-2017 featured something similar and it sucked.

 

The December 1955 flooding was historic in the Sacramento Valley. Yuba City was destroyed when a levee broke.

[BLI snowman]

No shortage of nice weather coming up. 

[Jesse]

No shortage of nice weather coming up.

 

LOTS of partly to mostly sunny days in the 70s on tap.

 

Hope we are all strong enough to get through it.

[TacomaWaWx]

Picked up 0.03” this morning 60 and cloudy currently.

[TT-SEA]

No shortage of nice weather coming up. 

 

 

Looks pretty good... I will take this over the mid part of July last year.   

 

Its about the same down there, but it was much wetter up here in that period.  

[TT-SEA]

This was last year on 7/18...

 

[Deweydog]

[MossMan]

This was last year on 7/18...

 

But the arctic blast was held up at the border as usual.

[ShawniganLake]

But the arctic blast was held up at the border as usual.

Border might be closed still next winter too.