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I didn't know that just east of the cascades is where the west coast started, silly me.

I think a good number of people on here are in a bad mood tonight thanks to another worthless January in the NW. I'm really getting to where I just don't care anymore. I'm just trying to figure out how to get out of here as soon as I can. I truly wish I had moved out of here a long time ago when it would have been much easier. I'm actually not all that sure we are going to see anything much better through the remainder of the winter.

I agree with you. I much prefer cold rain with copious amounts of mountain snow, than what we have been going through recently. All of this ridging with occasional atmospheric rivers gets old. If I wanted lots of sunshine and dry weather I would move to San Diego.

*yawn* .. end rant...

Olga in the San Juans is an interesting example, just to highlight how remarkably huge an outlier January is. They have records back to 1891, and this is their most recent daily record low in each month January: 1969 February: 2011 March: 2012 April: 2012 May: 2012 June: 2012 July: 2011 August: 2002 September: 2012 October: 2012 November: 2011 December: 2008 Meanwhile 24 of their 31 daily record highs in January have been set since 1969. Slightly misleading? Maybe, surely there have been some big cold airmasses in those 45 years and a couple of record low maximums in that time. Bad luck? Definitely, and luck plays a big part in daily records. But regardless, to me it's just a mindblowing example of the modern changes we've witnessed here.

There have been decent events in modern years, but what you can't overlook is how incredibly few and far between they are compared to the 1850-1980 period. To a much greater extent than with any of our other months. PDX and SEA (and many other spots) haven't seen a daily record low in January since 1982. That's literally years in front of any other month. Old school stations like Clearbrook have seen their January average absolutely skyrocket even compared to the 1961-90 means. We haven't seen a significantly troughy or significantly -PNA January in decades. There's no denying that it's been a remarkable stretch. August may be the best comparison for it. That's the only other month that I would say has been completely lacking in the cold anomaly department in historic terms recently.

2007 was the last truly good January IMO and even that was a poor mans version of what used to be fairly common in the month of January. I'm pretty much done getting too upset about it. I just can't allow myself to get like that anymore.

Hmmmm... no. You swung and missed. No shame in it, but own it.

Pretty depressing. January is turning out to be a rather bland month.

would be nice to have cutter/colorado low with a cold connection at some point this winter

Tom posted 234hr so here is the CMC 240hr. Could be quite the storm in the making.

Reading the forum this morning is like playing Duck, duck, goose. Only it's Duck, duck, weather. Can we stick to weather please? There's other places to talk about sports. 6z GFS shows little agreement in the long range and 12z operational isn't too interesting. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's GFS upgrade!

#'s are for DSM-- Jan 1-12th 2014- Avg temp 14.1F. 2.2" of snow with max of 4" on the ground. Jan 1-12th 2015- avg temp 14.5F. 6.5" snow with max of 6" on the ground. Jan 14' still had some very warm days past the 12th with 53 and 47 and 49 for highs on the 19th,20th and 26th. This month may end of being colder then JAN 14 and snowier. In fact- I would bet on it.

Yep, if it that were to verify verbatim the "Siberian High" that you can seen building in from the north in that last frame would solidify it and the rest would likely fall into place shortly thereafter. With the low pressure system over the NW Hudson Bay gradients would be very favorable for delivering Arctic air to the PNW, wouldn't be difficult for a shortwave to form out of that. It's one run but in the context of other recent runs this is a positive sign for something toward the end of the month

12z Euro ensembles do show a classic NH setup for an impending Aleutian block. This sort of pattern evolution leads to good things more often for the PNW than the pattern we saw in late December, where there was a ton of energy in the western Aleutians.

Except for the fact that there is s WWB currently underway..