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4" of snow this morning in Klamath Falls. This started at 5am based on KLMT observations. I took the measurement at 7:45. A moment ago there were giant flakes but now falling much lighter again. http://i.imgur.com/RY2CDvx.jpg http://i.imgur.com/2kuNus7.jpg http://i.imgur.com/MZ6pXlF.jpg http://i.imgur.com/iX8Nwsy.jpg

This blocking is about as robust as I've ever seen. The area of major positive height anoms is enormous!

I am really getting excited about our prospects for a long and perhaps deep cold snap beginning later this week. The current ensemble mean keeps 850s below -5 for an insane length of time. On the 12z a number of members (including the operational) get into ridiculous cold territory. This could be one of the all time great late winter cold waves. Should be fun to see where it goes.

To his point - I don't think any areas within 10-15 min of downtown Seattle received widespread 15-18" of snowfall that stuck around for a week. East Portland was slammed with over a foot as was downtown. People also forget that most of the West Hills are are also within Portland City limits. Speaking on a metro standpoint, there really is no comparison between the January 11th system for the PDX area and the Feb event in SEA.

They democratic party had the chance to reshape its image in a positive way if it had endorsed Bernie Sanders. Too bad they blew it.

Me too. The biggest difference today is competition with a massive corporate overlay. It's very difficult to find mainstream news sources which simply report the news as opposed to reporting on the news. The mainstream has also been influenced by the internet flow of extremely biased zinger sites which operate with impunity and no concern for journalistic integrity. This has put even more pressure on more reputable sources to seek out more zinger-esque gems.

This would be somewhat historic...

There needs to be a World of Weather game where we all run around making our wildest weather fantasies come true. Jim could be a real wizard, and Phil could do epic battle with Polar Vortexes!

Snowed about an inch overnight in Redmond. Temp barely made it to freezing. Next week looks interesting with more white stuff and perhaps it sticking around.

Really? Downtown Portland had over a foot that stayed on the ground for a week after, and downtown Seattle had 2" that completely melted within 24 hours. Spare me. You're more out of touch with reality than Trump. PS. I noticed some buds getting ready to blossom on the trees today! Can't wait for summer!!! Hopefully I get to test out my new air conditioning A LOT!

Wow could get snowy around Wa and BC

The ECMWF unquestionably shows a snow pattern for Seattle next weekend. Yee haw!

Good article. The left thinks they are tightening their base and helping their cause but instead they are turning away voters by their actions. Also, the guy in the article said he was afraid to show his support to Trump etc and this is one of the reasons why the polls were off so much. People were afraid to share their support because they would be called racists and bigots etc

http://old.wetterzentrale.de/pics/MT8_Vancouver_Kanada_ens.png Looks chilly!

I don't know how you can say all of this when Trump himself constantly lies. He creates just as much if not more "fake news" as the media he constantly rails against. Seems like you have a convenient blind spot when it comes to him, though.

It's funny because many of the things that Trump says have a lot more factual inaccuracies and logical fallacies than any article the New York Times writes.

GFS http://maps1.pivotalweather.com/maps/models/gfs/2017021918/132/sn10_acc.us_nw.png GEM http://maps3.pivotalweather.com/maps/models/ggem/2017021912/138/sn10_acc.us_nw.png The euro is less generous to most of the low lands. 1-2 inches in PDX from the Friday setup. Euro ensemble mean looks to be between .5 to 1 inch for both SEA and PDX for late this week. I'm sure the actual outcome of this will be quite different than what the models are showing now anyway.

Much better with cold rain you mean?

West Seattle did pretty well. Most of West Seattle got between 7-10 inches of snow. I'd say most places 20 mins outside of downtown Seattle got 7+ inches with the last storm. Most of the eastside and south king county had close to 12 inches. I agree with you though that the last storm was not as good compared to the Portland area. The cold temps down there after the blast was really nice... Thankfully late Feb/early March generally does better up here. Maybe we can make up for the disappointments we had this winter.

OMG! Incoming! http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/gfs/2017021918/gfs_mslp_pcpn_frzn_nwus_44.png

The 12Z EURO ensembles looked much better than the operational from day 6 onward, for whatever that is worth. The operational Euro has really struggled in that range this winter. Lots of wild swings.

Drunk uncle 18z in full force...

Hadley Cells make time fly!

I never realized Andrew was such a World of Warcraft fan.

Many conservatives view the spending of money as an expression of free speech, and see regulations on political donations as a violation of that. Super PACS kinda come with the territory.

Just giving you a hard time. How was the Trump rally?

It's really annoying.

Political tribalism is a powerful and unfortunate reality. If Trump were the Democrat, and Hillary were the Republican, you can bet that many republicans who despised Hillary would have supported her, and many democrats who despised Trump would have supported him. People can deny it all they want, but it's absolutely true.

Statistical models say Neutral. Dynamical average says Nino. Quite the spread between the two. http://iri.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/figure4.gif

It's going to be bigly yuge!

You did this before our last event too

Yeah I ended up with 20" in just over 12 hours and we were still only 12 minutes (with no traffic) to Pioneer Square in downtown Portland. So definitely fair to say Portland metro area received "up to 20" storm total. Snowing heavily here in Bozeman today yet I'm reminiscing and still in such awe of that storm. Could be another 20 years or more before Portland proper sees another storm like that and I was fortunate to be in the sweet spot throughout the event.

Walker Cell doesn't want to budge from its Niña-modoki state. Unless the WPAC warm pool collapses over the next few months and/or the IO system reverses phase, it's going to be a chillier than average Spring in the northwest. Almost the complete opposite boreal spring system state relative to last year, if that holds.

Long range Euro is pretty disappointing.

Yep. That Jan 10th event made the winter for us and anything else is just a bonus. Even though the event down here was more impressive than the Feb event for most up north, I'm glad things are at least more even now. The winter ranges from good to epic for basically every major area in the lowlands now. I'd still love to see a small event where both PDX and SEA score at the same time, seems quite hard to make that happen.

True, I guess I'm just thinking about raw totals and not taking duration into account.

I should add the GEM looks potentially snowy last week of Feb for Puget Sound.. =)

Looks like you'll be needing to charge your phone in 6-8 hours.

CFSv2 Weeklies seem to be all-in on a summer El Nino... http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/CFSv2/imagesInd3/glbSSTSeaInd4.gif By early Autumn, a central based Nino is present as ENSO 1.2 cools some... http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/CFSv2/imagesInd3/glbSSTSeaInd6.gif

That low moving across the international border on Wed may ultimately decide where the Friday system tracks. A stronger and more southerly Wed low will lead to a more southerly Friday system. The last few runs of the GFS have a weaker/north Wed low and hence the Friday system has been inching north....more like the GEM and Euro. It's weird tracking a potential monster snowstorm when it's going to be in the mid 60s today.

If I didn't know you better I would say you are a completely awful human being for saying this.

I didn't realize we were directly comparing the downtown areas only. Speaking regionally, NW Oregon/SW Washington and the Puget Sound area are now pretty close in regard to seasonal snow totals.

Not sure what the temp was on Michigan Ave, but it was hard to remember it's winter aside from zero green growing vegitation. Not even grass. Downtown and the lake front was so busy! Had a great time setting another record - the record draining of my wallet!

That's Putin not Trump.

Where is this idea that Portland has had all the snow this winter even coming from? The early February action for you guys evened things out pretty well. I am certain you have seen far more snow than me this winter.

Trump Jung Un.

It is about time Portland finally gets its fair share of the snow. The mighty 18z has answered our prayers. http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/gfs/2017021818/gfs_asnow_nwus_32.png

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/470368.JPG http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/269323.jpg http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/469801.JPG The kids "enjoying" our sometimes extreme weather: http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/778785.jpg http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/778784.jpg