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My wife is having surgery in a few hours and I’m pretty nervous. Hope everyone here is doing ok.

52F and partly cloudy this morning. Wife about to go in for surgery. The weather and chatting with y'all helps.

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I know this is a bit off topic, but with all of the cold weather geeks on here, it seems worth a share. There is a guy based in Bellingham that has a youtube channel called "Living the Van Life." He used to go on camping adventures in an old VW Vanagon, but recently upgraded to a Sprinter Van. He drove up to the Arctic Circle this past February, and the camera work is phenomenal. This is the 3rd of 3 videos, and in my opinion the best. I wonder if I could make it in my Sportwagen? LOL! There is a guy who installed a diesel fired heater in his Wagen, and my car is lifted, so really the only challenge I have is having enough space to store what I need.

48F with the occasional shower. Wife had the surgery and we are back home. Took way longer than it was supposed to but hopefully things will be back to normal with her walking and sitting.

Pretty good cell passed to the east of Bellingham looks very different to the East (note the very empty lot for the Honda dealership)

KPDX is making a run for wettest April on record, in addition to snowiest.

Looks like Thanos’ ship

Been plenty of dynamic skies here the last several days. Hit a long lasting hail shower north of Battle Ground today

Looking ominous here but pretty isolated.

Going further back, 1937 was another one of our great wet Aprils and is the wettest on record for a number of stations with a long POR. Actually followed it up with a pretty dry May, and then a very wet/muggy June. Then a very pleasant summer followed. Only 4 days of 90+ that year in Portland.

Looks like May 1999 (The one Phil has been mentioning) was tied for 5th coolest on record at Silver Falls. #1 is 2011, #2 is 2010.

Very, very active for this time of year.

Yeah, it's a real thing, but this year seems to be behaving differently. Doesn't mean our perceptions will change overnight, or that the next five years won't go back to more of the same.

With my wife's surgery, I don't even really have the mental energy to point out how warm and dry it had been over the past few years. Dec-Apr aside from Jan has been pretty fun. I feel like this will also be our first cooler and wetter than normal month in quite some time.

I spoke to soon, just had a good down pour.

50F and pouring in Springfield...and they've pushed the surgery back 3 hours...I'm already about to go bonkers from this and now more waiting. She's been waiting for this surgery for years.

Looks like the GEFS caved to the EPS. Quite the reversal for D8-10:

Hoping for the best!!! Keep us updated.

06z GFS finally gave up the ghost on the giant cutoff. Looks more like the Euro now.

I've been watching the EPS continue to trend wetter for our NE peeps and most of the central ag belt right when its prime time for our farmers. + Signs....#Bullseye

Hope she recovers well bud.

Not that our preferences matter... but you do lecture us on ecological issues all the time and I assure you it would be way more beneficial in CA right now. We are all likely going to be breathing CA wildfire smoke this summer no matter how much rain falls on western WA. Unfortunately you are almost certainly right about the GFS and I understand your point.

Jokes aside, I don’t have a personal preference since I don’t live there. But these ridiculous to borderline non-physical GFS solutions do irritate the hell out of me. It’s embarrassing how far behind our numerical modeling has fallen. The ECMWF way back in 2010 had higher D5 z500 skill scores than today’s GFS. The CFSv2 is literally useless (sorry Andrew) yet we run that behemoth 4x per day. Stupid.

Currently 42 degrees. 54/39 on the day so far. .09” on the day, 4.65” for the month.

Here's what will look like here... Not that I won't take the rain and cool weather! It's just that you might be projecting your east coast-esque expectation of exciting, convection laden frontal passages onto the PNW, which are pretty much always completely stratoform in nature barring rare exceptions. Yes, I fully expect enough wieners on this post to open a hot dog parlor.

It’s being backed up from the bottom. In fact the most primed area for hail and lightning is from DT up to Lynwood. This thing is a beauty from the ground here. Classic backing flow/CZ dynamics for thunderstorms over Seattle.

I don’t know if this picture properly conveys the enormous scale, but a beastly CZ is about to rip through from the west. Tall bugger.

Backing convection in the mix. We may get a thunderstorm out of this..

It’s coming!!!

She is having to have her foot reattached after breaking it off in his keester for spending too much time on pornhub www.theweatherforums.com

That shower was pretty weak. Like 5 minutes of light rain.

I bet you could. The two major highways to the far north (Alcan and Stewart-Cassair) are maintained for travel by all categories of vehicle. No special equipment required. Main things are to get your vehicle checked out to be sure it has no imminent issues (you want to minimize the chance of breaking down in a remote area), and to be alert for areas of road damage, slowing down when needed (there is ALWAYS significant road damage, due to the arctic and subarctic climates being so hard on roads).

Ping pong ball sized hail and 70mph winds with this storm. And SPC left this area out of even the general t-storm area. They updated it an hour ago but still only in the green area.

@CentralNebWeatherThe WPC is showing a statewide rainfall event next week (Day 6) for Nebraska, some parts could get 2 inches before it's all set and done.

Hope everything goes well.

Looks like some interesting weather moving onshore.

The precip at the end of it looks more like November than May.

Lol it was kind of a joke at first when I started the thread but then it ended up being pretty accurate. 2008 and 2011 did not have a large lowland snowstorm in mid April though.

Thread title was on the money.

This storm and the one behind it look to deliver a good deal of rainfall for mby.

Cedar Rapids hit 22º this morning, breaking a 115-year-old record. Here in the city the nearby personal stations hit 26º. We were only able to reach 40º yesterday afternoon.

Yes! things are slowly improving which is great, but for many areas, what moisture did fall, was just a drop in the bucket. May and June are known as our wettest months of the year, so if things work out in our favor, maybe we can push fire season away a bit.

KC has tied it's record low this morning. 35 and frosty on my way into work. Several record lows broken this morning in northern MO. @NWSKansasCity RECORD TIED! Kansas City has dropped to 34 this hour tying the record of 34 set in 2008!

CFSv2 suggesting one hellova blocking pattern....why don't you come back in DEC please???

This is a d**n impressive La Niña signature, considering it’s almost May. Actually more reminiscent of 1999 than 2011, especially relative to the (detrended) global anomaly in both years.

May 2011 showing up on SV analogs now. T-storm season about to kick into high gear next month, it looks like.

Started a new part time job today in addition to school. Hopefully there are no thunderstorm outbreaks while I am on shift...

Some pics from the last few days. snowmelt plus rain plus frozen ground is a poor combo. Can I send some water to you guys in Nebraska? Just gotta come and get it before it gets to Hudson Bay.