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  1. Here are some more short vids and pics from my trip. Thursday and Friday were the best days weather wise. Spending time along the ocean is such a treat when HP is over the region in the spring. The locals say June-Oct is prime time as one would expect to see. The only issue I have with Cali living, is the traffic and pricy gas ($4.20/ gal regular)! It ain’t cheap living there. IMG_0436.MP4 IMG_0428.MP4 IMG_0423.MP4
    6 points
  2. Steady light rain here. Amazing.
    5 points
  3. 12z GFS looks a little wetter for the Portland area with the Thursday-Saturday trough.
    5 points
  4. I had over 1.5" in my gauge. Very slim heavy rain corridor, but some nice rains for the area.
    4 points
  5. First tstorms of the season last night. Non severe, but had some gusty winds and pea sized hail. Ended up with .81" of rain
    4 points
  6. I had a wonderful time in So Cal during our short road trip. The climate in the region is quite diverse in a rather short distance if you've never been down there, esp during the Spring "shoulder" season. Interestingly, one of the mets down there made a comment on why the waves were higher than normal. There were a lot of surfers out during our stay riding 3-5 foot swells. As you know, Winter is just getting going down in the southern hemisphere near Australia and they call it the "Roaring 40's". Powerful winter storms produced huge waves and they flow into the western shores of Cali during the spring. This is the first time I've heard of it before and it makes a lot of sense. Sunday was a chilly, breezy, cloudy and cool day as we departed Carlsbad up through Temecula (wine country) onto the I-10 east bound into Palm Springs. Right before we approached Palm springs, the cloud deck disappeared and howling NW/W developed causing dust to obscure viz and looked like a ground blizzard. I've never driven through one before and this was a first for me. I'll post a couple vids but they don't do justice from what I experienced it firsthand. There was a Wind Advisory out for gusts up to 55-65 mph right between the towering mountains on both sides of I-10 heading into the valley of Palm Desert when the "squeeze effect" occurs.
    4 points
  7. That has been a common theme in the weather lately.
    3 points
  8. Just as the brightest reds moved in it weakened and it appears the heavier cores scraped by just nw. and south. Still had good downpours for awhile. I just checked my gauges and was pleasantly surprised to see nearly 1” fell so far. Crazy robin had pooped into 3 of my gauges before it rained so was glad I had cleaned them, but noticed dirt on one again from muddy feet from hopping in the garden. Sure enough that gauge had less rain because it sat there while it rained. Max. rainfall rates around 3.5” at times (which isn’t real high), and the wind gusted over 30 mph.
    3 points
  9. Down to 45 so far tonight, fell asleep last night with the windows and sliding glass door open and the house was 55 this morning (the low outside last night was 40). If looks could kill, I would be dead after the look my daughter gave me this morning when she came down for breakfast (she HATES the cold).
    3 points
  10. The increased frequency in February events doesn't really jive with that, though.
    2 points
  11. Yeah, that map only tells part of the story since it doesn’t show the seasonal distribution of precip. My guess is the increases up north are mostly in the November-March period, simply because the mean cold season jet position is farther north.
    2 points
  12. I was thinking sprinkles this evening, but pleasantly surprised by 0.17" so far. Looks like it's winding down though.
    2 points
  13. I am reminded of the weakness of man every time I read a Tim post.
    2 points
  14. Raining harder here now. And SEA has picked up .21 just in the last couple of hours.
    2 points
  15. Raining again... play with sound up if you want to be soothed by our wetness. No cracked ground up here. 20210503_165146.mp4
    2 points
  16. Speaking of the IO..wowzers. Those waters are about to spontaneously combust.
    2 points
  17. My conditions have been different and I hate you for that.
    2 points
  18. The rain was a bit heavier than radar suggested. It also filled in just a bit as it passed through, so I ended up with a decent 0.25". Iowa City experienced a heavy cell that dumped over an inch.
    2 points
  19. Walked out on the bridge at Skykomish since I had a few extra minutes...I just love this area! Oh and the bridge was built in 1939...Analog?
    2 points
  20. This wave is moving quicker and more cloudiness than expected is lowering any severe risk here and probably lower rainfall . But at least rainfall rates are higher than they appear on radar with higher atmospheric moisture. Currently some rain falling here.
    2 points
  21. The "spike" is pretty tepid now. But a huge crash next week for sure... look at that deep trough one week from today on the 12Z GFS.
    2 points
  22. I like to oot, oot, oot oopples and boonnoonoos.
    2 points
  23. Several landspouts last night out by Aurora including twins! Even some damage was reported.
    2 points
  24. Waterloo had a record high of 93 on Saturday. Might be a while before we hit that again.
    2 points
  25. Supposedly it goes back to Jan 1983 but I'm mostly interested in the late 90s and it confirms what I remember how cloudy and 'awful' it was back then but now I miss it! IEM :: AFD from NWS PQR (iastate.edu) Here is for July 9th 1999 2:30am as an example to see how long it took to actually reach 'summer' back in the mid to late 90s! Even then it was fleeting and this was down here in Oregon the 'good' part of things. From what the text sounds like that spring/summer it seems WA really had it bad? 327 FXUS66 KPQR 090933 AFDPQR NORTHWEST OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR 230 AM PDT FRI JUL 9 1999 THERMALLY INDUCED TROUGH JUST OFFSHORE OF FORECAST AREA COAST THIS MORNING. AS UPPER RIDGE SHIFTS E TODAY IN ADVANCE OF APPROACHING OFFSHORE TROUGH MODELS BEGIN TO SHIFT SURFACE TROUGH INLAND TODAY. AS THE MARINE PUSH APPEARS INITIALLY WEAK TODAY...EXPECT INLAND TEMPS TO STILL BE QUITE WARM. MARINE PUSH A LITTLE STRONGER OVERNIGHT INTO SAT MORNING...BUT ALREADY MODELS AGREE IN BEGINNING TO TURN FLOW OFFSHORE OVER SOUTHERN PARTS OF FORECAST AREA SAT AFTERNOON. OVERALL EXPECT MAINLY MINOR CHANGES TO PREVIOUS FORECAST. IN EXTENDED PERIOD...MODELS APPEAR TO BE POINTING TOWARDS A RELATIVELY FLAT FLOW WITH HIGH HEIGHTS AND MINOR WAVES...MEANING TEMPS IN THE N WILL PROBABLY STAY ON THE WARM SIDE...WITH HIGHER HEAT SUPPRESSED TO THE FAR S PART OF STATE. ELSON AST --- PDX 000 SLE 000 EUG 000 .PDX...NONE. what you want is the AFDPQR files for the actual discussions. Sometimes if a significant event happens you will see a NOWPDX file something along the lines like this:IEM :: NOW from NWS PDX (iastate.edu) June 24th 1999: 00 TTAA00 KPDX 250059 SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR 558 PM PDT THU JUN 24 1999 ORZ004-005-009-011-WAZ019-023-039-040-250325- VANCOUVER AREA-NORTHERN WILLAMETTE VALLEY-CENTRAL WILLAMETTE VALLEY- WESTERN COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE WA-WESTERN COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE OR- WASHINGTON CASCADE FOOTHILLS- WEST SLOPES SOUTHERN WASHINGTON CASCADES AND PASSES- NORTHERN OREGON CASCADES- INCLUDING RIDGEFIELD...BATTLE GROUND...VANCOUVER...CAMAS... HILLSBORO...BEAVERTON...TUALATIN...PORTLAND...OREGON CITY...GRESHAM ...MCMINNVILLE...DALLAS...SALEM...WOODBURN...STEVENSON...CARSON... CORBETT...BONNEVILLE...HOOD RIVER...COUGAR...MT ST HELENS... GOVERNMENT CAMP...SANTIAM PASS...WILLAMETTE PASS 558 PM PDT THU JUN 24 1999 .NOW... SHOWERS WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE THROUGH 8 PM...WITH A CONTINUING CHANCE OF AN EVENING THUNDERSTORM AND SMALL HAIL. THE HEAVIEST SHOWERS ARE ON THE EAST HALF OF THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY AND THE WEST SLOPES OF THE CASCADES. A PARTICULARLY HEAVY SHOWER WILL MOVE SLOWLY EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN MULTNOMAH AND NORTHERN CLACKAMAS COUNTIES THROUGH THE MILWAUKIE...SUNNYSIDE...HAPPY VALLEY...AND POWELLHURST AREAS TOWARD BORING AND GRESHAM THROUGH 7 PM. SOME OF THE SHOWERS MAY CAUSE LOCAL HEAVY RUNOFF OF STORM DRAINS. $$ TOLLESON Here's earlier in da month!IEM :: AFD from NWS PQR (iastate.edu) July 3rd 1999: 000 TTAA00 KPDX 030945 NORTHWEST OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR 300 AM PDT SAT JUL 3 1999 UPPER LOW NEAR THE NORTHERN WASHINGTON BORDER WITH ONE VORTICITY MAX TO THE EAST AND A SECOND APPROACHING 130 W. VORTICITY MAX HEADED FOR THE SOUTH OREGON COAST AND THIS NOW NOT EXPECTED TO FORM NEW UPPER LOW AS PREVIOUS MODEL RUNS. STILL COOLER AIR ALOFT FOR SMALL THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS. EXPECT WRAP AROUND MOISTURE THROUGH BRITISH COLUMBIA TO STAY NORTH OF FORECAST AREA. VORTICITY MAX SHOWN MOVING THROUGH AREA FASTER BY MODELS AS THE EVENT APPROACHES AND HAVE LOWERED SUNDAY POPS SOME THROUGH WEAK TO NO RIDGING FOLLOWING PASSAGE. MRF BRINGS A SHORTWAVE INTO WESTERN OREGON ON WEDNESDAY AND THIS CONSISTENT WITH CURRENT EXTENDED FORECASTS AND WILL MAKE LITTLE CHANGES. STARMER. AST 774 PDX 663 SLE 653 EUG 642 .PDX...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR ROUGH COLUMBIA RIVER BAR.
    1 point
  26. Up to .50 on the day now... heavy drizzle continuing and quite foggy too. Its a night made for frogs out there.
    1 point
  27. Benjamin Franklin documented this Brood X emergence in May of 1715 and 1732... but they did not have a name for it back then. And they did not figure out the recurring 17-year cycle until the 1749 and 1766 events.
    1 point
  28. Persistently wet to the north and east of Seattle!!!
    1 point
  29. New climate normals can be accessed here. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/us-climate-normals/
    1 point
  30. Marmots screaming and now the possums are angry at everything. A few drops of rain is all I ask
    1 point
  31. They started emerging in the DC heat island last night. But so far it’s confined to the warmest locations only. Not nearly as much UHI here so we probably won’t see them until next week. But we’re also surrounded by old woods and protected land, so when they do emerge it’ll be in much larger numbers than downtown DC. In 2004 it was full on bonkers.
    1 point
  32. "This is a Sim Copter emergency news broadcast: Citizens have reported mysterious water droplets appearing from the sky and the bright orange (now a days white) disc in the sky obscured. This liquid is NOT harmful to breathe or digest and the bright disc in the sky will reappear real soon. Now pay attention to your flying."
    1 point
  33. Moderate rain moving in now... this is the 7th day in the last 10 days with rain here. And it will likely be 8 out of 11 with rain continuing into tomorrow morning. If the ECMWF is right... we will be well over 3 inches of rain in that 11 day period. It does not seem too droughty up here. Its been pretty normal since the end of the April warm spell. And currently right around normal for the year so far as well.
    1 point
  34. My sister who lives approximately 7 to 8 miles se. of here said they got 2”! I kinda got screwed for my community, but thankful for what we got though! Always seems to rain more a few miles se. during dry periods. Storms appear weaker currently and were near max intensity earlier.
    1 point
  35. Here’s a helpful resource from Dr. Paul Roundy on seasonal cycle of MJO relationship(s) to the extratropical wave field. I’d recommend bookmarking it. http://www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/roundy/waves/rmmcyc/index200reg.html
    1 point
  36. Today’s dose of Skykomish! Still some scattered snow up the hill. Currently 60 here.
    1 point
  37. Have now reached neutral... lets keep it right around there for the next year.
    1 point
  38. 54F and partly cloudy. Got a half inch of rain on the 1st tho and it looks like some more much-needed rain later this week.
    1 point
  39. I was impressed with April, just not for the right reasons. First true record dry month at PDX since September 1993!
    1 point
  40. April temps...warmth near the GL's and W/SW just barely out- dueled the cool pool in the central and southern U.S.
    1 point
  41. To sum it up, it was overall a warm and dry April for practically all of the GL's region...let's see nature balance out in the precip dept for the month of May.
    1 point
  42. The late 90s summer often didn't start till at or after the fourth!
    1 point
  43. I am kind of the same, but I do like some seafood. And, canned green beans is the way to go with butter and Mrs. Dash!!
    1 point
  44. Ahhh man sorry to hear that, usually weddings go off with a hitch(ing). Thank you everybody, I'll be here all week, try the veal! Seriously though, congrats and glad the weather cooperated!!
    1 point
  45. We finished laying rock in the new garden area... hopefully no weeds this year!
    1 point
  46. Around midnight I had stepped outside to find it actually drizzling here, although not enough to wet the ground.
    1 point
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