Part II- January 2020 Obs and Discussion

[Phil]

You can see the radar blossom as the north wind begins to infiltrate the north sound.

Bright banding under CAA.

[Deweydog]

Not cool dude.

Kind of like this Arctic outbreak!!!

[SilverFallsAndrew]

If PDX has a low of 29 I would be pleasantly surprised. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Good night to take a walk in omak.

[Phil]

For some reason the rain / snow feature on the Nexrad it totally messed up tonight. Showing rain where it's definitely snowing.

If you have RadarScope use the correlation coefficient feature (not sure if NEXRAD offers that). It’s the best method of deriving the mix line I know of.

[Requiem]

I like you, but you have to realize how silly it sounds when you are coming off 10x more desperate than everyone else considering you are probably in one of the best spots for sticking snow of any poster in the metro area.

 

I don't think I'm in an amazing spot.....definitely not great. Practically next to Downtown Portland (give or take some), heavily impacted by east winds. Especially with how warm every model has us being the next few days...

[MikeInEverett]

It’s really trying it’s best to stay where it is

[Jesse]

I don't think I'm in an amazing spot.....definitely not great. Practically next to Downtown Portland (give or take some), heavily impacted by east winds. Especially with how warm every model has us being the next few days...

You’ve got a ton of elevation on basically all of us. You’ll do just fine. The west hills tend to be a bit of a snowbelt at least by Portland standards. Different world from downtown despite proximity.

[SnarkyGoblin]

North Seattle finally filling in with some echos.

 

Time to take a walk.

[Timmy]

I don't think I'm in an amazing spot.....definitely not great. Practically next to Downtown Portland (give or take some), heavily impacted by east winds. Especially with how warm every model has us being the next few days...

practically 1000’ which makes a huge difference.

[Esquimalt]

Similar here, you might end up with more than me given the heaviest stuff seems to be hanging south.

Coming down pretty good too. What do you think of the GEM/RGEM idea of spinning up a little surface low late tmrw?

[Omegaraptor]

I don't think I'm in an amazing spot.....definitely not great. Practically next to Downtown Portland (give or take some), heavily impacted by east winds. Especially with how warm every model has us being the next few days...

 

Your elevation makes your spot better than just about everywhere else in the metro sans maybe the Cascade foothills.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Gfs teasing in the clown range.

[jcmcgaffey]

The low is just slowly going south. I though it was supposed go through Vancouver (the city). It is currently just south of Vancouver island and just barely moving.

[GHweatherChris]

Good night to take a walk in omak.

Didn't you come home today?

[Esquimalt]

Gfs teasing in the clown range.

18Z GEFS actually had a decent retrogression signal for 300+ hours. 

[MikeInEverett]

Literally right in the middle of it. I promise I won’t be complaining anytime soon lol

 

[VancouverIslandSouth]

Looks like a nice coating over the road, temperature's approaching 29F now.

 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Didn't you come home today?

Yeah need to be at my business tomorrow.

[Weiner Warrior]

CZ heading south with another big chunk of moisture (artic air) behind it. Should fill in for north seattle and continue to head south.

[MossMan]

Down to 30.6

[Requiem]

You’ve got a ton of elevation on basically all of us. You’ll do just fine. The west hills tend to be a bit of a snowbelt at least by Portland standards. Different world from downtown despite proximity.

 

practically 1000’ which makes a huge difference.

 

Alright, I'll take your words for it. I do remember doing decently last February one day when lowlands had rain. If I happen to get an appreciable amount of snow this week (I still have doubts), I will change my signature to the following:

 

"I am a huge weather weenie."

[Jesse]

Gfs teasing in the clown range.

And now we await the cherry picked warm EPS post to counter thi....oh wait, never mind.

[luvssnow_spokane]

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[jcmcgaffey]

CZ heading south with another big chunk of moisture (artic air) behind it. Should fill in for north seattle and continue to head south.

it’s notched around north Seattle for the last 45mins or so. It needs to fill in now!

[Phil]

Cool little boundary rushing south from the radar site.

 

Looks like some enhanced low level CAA/northerlies behind it based on velocity.

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Gfs teasing in the clown range.

 

I'll be in Oklahoma and Colorado 24-31st. Would make sense we get hit during that time. .

[Perturbed Member]

Of all the snow maps, the ones from the GEM are the most worthless. 

 

Last 3 GEM runs

 

 

 

[MossMan]

Someone have a good radar link? NWS Seattle must be overloaded since I am having trouble loading the page/radar.

[VancouverIslandSouth]

Coming down pretty good too. What do you think of the GEM/RGEM idea of spinning up a little surface low late tmrw?

 

It's still pretty up in the air, but I wouldn't be surprised to see some sort of a "backwash" low popup tomorrow with this slow moving boundary. I'm pretty sure the east side of the island will pick up some strait-effect snow tomorrow morning.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Alright, I'll take your words for it. I do remember doing decently last February one day when lowlands had rain. If I happen to get an appreciable amount of snow this week (I still have doubts), I will change my signature to the following:

 

"I am a huge weather weenie."

 

Sometimes it just doesn't work out and it sucks. I'm at 1600' and as you can see in my signature we get a lot of snow, but sometimes it just doesn't work out, but there will be next time. 

 

Have you picked a college yet?

[Omegaraptor]

GFS after hour 150 is dry save for one piddly little frontal band. Looks like inversion fog hell too.

[jcmcgaffey]

Someone have a good radar link? NWS Seattle must be overloaded since I am having trouble loading the page/radar.

https://atmos.uw.edu/current-weather/northwest-radar/

[HighlandExperience]

Someone have a good radar link? NWS Seattle must be overloaded since I am having trouble loading the page/radar.

https://atmos.uw.edu/current-weather/northwest-radar/

[luvssnow_spokane]

Someone have a good radar link? NWS Seattle must be overloaded since I am having trouble loading the page/radar.

If u have an iPhone or iPad this app rocks! 

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/myradar-weather-radar/id322439990

[Requiem]

Sometimes it just doesn't work out and it sucks. I'm at 1600' and as you can see in my signature we get a lot of snow, but sometimes it just doesn't work out, but there will be next time. 

 

Have you picked a college yet?

 

I'm looking at WSU and Whittier (Los Angeles)-- and of course OSU and UofO. Part of my irritation on the weather front definitely stems from other life issues (I don't think I'm the only one that can say that) including horrifically bad grades the past year or so, so I'm a bit worried if any of those colleges will accept me haha

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Maybe some potential end of the month into early February. I would love a cold first half of February and then some nice early spring weather. 

[Weiner Warrior]

I'm looking at WSU and Whittier (Los Angeles)-- and of course OSU and UofO. Part of my irritation on the weather front definitely stems from other life issues (I don't think I'm the only one that can say that) including horrifically bad grades the past year or so, so I'm a bit worried if any of those colleges will accept me haha

Better get those grades up if you want into school and continue into grad school. Super important. I learned the hard way and failed out of college to only go back years later for my undergrad and grad degrees. Much easier at a younger age

[Skagit Weather]

Whelp, looks like my last snow chances are dying for the night. No problem, I'll guess I'll have to go on the snow hunt tomorrow at some point and hope to get a little overrunning in the next week. 

[Requiem]

Better get those grades up if you want into school and continue into grad school. Super important. I learned the hard way and failed out of college to only go back years later for my undergrad and grad degrees. Much easier at a younger age

 

It's basically almost too late at this point for any appreciable increase (or decrease). I've pretty much accepted my failings.