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Low of 27. Mountains look stunning. Before and after sunrise.

43 for a high after a low of 27. Low humidity is keeping the snow good. Still 2.5 inches on ground.

Snowy Olympics this morning.

Looks beautiful on Mount bachelor, via their webcam.

Ended up with a chilly and breezy 42/36 spread here today. Wind gusts in the 45+ range at points. Clouds were high enough where the Cascade peaks looked really great with their fresh coat of snow, bright white against a steely gray backdrop. Even though we didn’t get snow, I’m grateful for this wintery interlude in an otherwise mild month. This, the above average rainfall Dec/Jan, and of course the epic airmass in mid-January have made this winter a lot more tolerable than a typical Niño splitty wall to wall torch.

Funny! I just came across this one last night. I was struck by two things: 1. All the changes! 2. The fact that road rage wasn’t nearly as bad back in 1988 when it comes to people doing 10 under the speed limit in the left lane.

I will never forget the first time my wife talked me into going to Florida, i walked out of the plane and looked at her, I didn't have to say anything she knew. If someone gave me a house on the beach and a million a year to live there i would NOT take the offer.

I work remotely for a company in SoCal, and HR sent out a safety bulletin that I think is very important to those of us in the PNW, and I think we all could learn valuable information from this safety bulletin. Everybody be safe out there!

I was hoping that the ground wouldn't have a hard freeze, kind of a set back for some of my ambitious gardening plans by a couple weeks. Thankfully this looks like the last of the hard freezes for the season.

Nice sunny morning so far, but bottomed down to 26º.

Have had 4 significant snow events since the beginning of the year here in C.IA. 2 of the 4 have seen highest amounts right through DSM proper and that includes the current system with 3.5" as of 6AM. Still snowing. Was supposed to be 1-2" and that was up from 1". Ratios are about 15:1 -- but it started out at 10:1 and is now finishing at around 17:1

Mind ur f***** business

The sky is puking frozen H2O. Legit rates. IMG_0437.mov

Andrew is gonna love the 00z CMC.

I like to look at all the older cars. I see a pinto , old ford van, subaru wagon, A jeep, old toyota truck and more

So the DNR called me asking permission to drive though my property to access an area they want to log next to my 120 acre spot. I'm not to excited but our property is the only access to this area and they are not allowed to punch a new road. If i allow we are going to demand the 1 mile road through our land to be upgraded including gravel, better ditches and dust control in summer. Also the lower gate is not that great and it must be locked at night so i will ask for a new gate. Also might demand a wildlife study to see how it might damage the wildlife on my property. If anyone has ideas please share. The area they want to log is a fire hazard and is very thick so thats good i guess. It is a large area so they want in there bad. I wont be able to see the logged part from where my house wil be.

You can easy grow a couple varieties of passion fruit vines around here but they aren’t the ones that produce the large fruit for eating. People mostly grow them for the spectacular flowers.

I was poking around and found a story about Bremerton Snow On feb 3rd 1916. 30 inches in 36 hrs fell in down town bremerton!! I can only imagine how it was out here, Hoods port had 48 inches during the same 2 day storm. That Puts my area around 40 inches from that storm. As amazing as Feb 2019 was 1916 was 2 times more crazy!!

80 is now the hard limit for me. Anything above that can f*ck right on off. It used to be about 75, but now that I have A/C in the house, I find that I can tolerate a little more heat outside. I always hated the being hot outside then coming into a hot inside.

27 this morning with 3 inches of snow on ground. Impressive couple days of winter after a high of only 34 yesterday.

Been windy here for three days now. Today was about the coldest 48/37 I've ever felt. I kid you not the puddles had ice on them this morning with a low of 37. No doubt from the very low dp.

Really breezy right now, some loud gusts at times

Got exactly 1 inch this am. 44.2" for the season. Crazy to think that despite the extremely warm winter mby is clearly above average snowfall.

I’d at least explore it. Wayyyyy outside my wheelhouse but this stuff can escalate pretty quickly.

Shawnigan lake had 67” in the first 8 days of February in 1916. 135” in the first 39 days of the calendar year. It was unrelenting that year.

Get an attorney.

I got an inch of snow this morning, it was very nice scenic snow. The February sun angle is quickly going to work on it.

My wife sat next to Layne Staley on a ferry ride to K2 ski on vashon island back in 1994 or so. They had a conversasion for about 10 minutes and she said he was really cool. At the time she had no idea who he was lol.

Cabin is kicking asss with this air, after only a high of 23 yesterday they reached just 3.8 degrees last night Running a 26.2 degree average on the month. Last month was 19 degree average. Need to correct this, they hit a amazing -3.8 last night!

39 and sunny here this morning after getting a grand total of 0.00 in precip and no snow. Always fascinating how different our areas can be depending on the direction of the wind.

Just started snowing in KC and temps have fallen to the upper 20's. Radar looks good with some enhanced bands on there, we just might score a 1-2 inch coating and enjoy a winter scene for the rest of the day. Spring returns quickly by Sunday and we just might see some 70's mid next week. Grass is very close to growing here. Mid-long range models appear very warm and not much winter to speak of.

Record breaking precipitation 0.49: and snowfall 5.5” amounts yesterday at Grand Rapids. The official H/L was 36/29 the highest wind speed of 44MPH was out of the west. For today the average H/L is 34/20 the record high of 29 was set in 1921 the record low of -12 was set in 1973. The most rainfall of 1.84” was in 1984 the most snowfall of 3.0” was in 2012. The most on the ground was 23” in 1936. Last year the H/L was 37/22 and there was 1.8” of snowfall.

Some members even get close to the magic -8 ball even this far south.

I'm in North Bend and tonight is the windiest I've ever seen in the 4+ years I've lived the Snoqualmie Valley. Our power typically goes out from way less than this. Fingers crossed

Another OHSU view.

The Nino is about to crash hard. Check out that cold bubble JUST below the surface now. Nino 1+2 could go minus almost instantly when that surfaces.

IMG_2413.mov That was such a fun 2 day event 3yrs ago!

That next fall I got my license…Was the perfect winter to learn how to not wreck my car in icy snowy conditions!

Under a Winter Weather Advisory which will be in effect 1 hour from now. 1-3" (not sure how much I'll get) So far it's been a dull February but with some chilly mornings I guess. We haven't had fog in quite some time.

March 1897 was the coldest on record for the state of Oregon.

It was in college that the idea of moving the the Pacific Northwest occurred to me, too. I was expressing envy to an exchange student from Europe about the Western European climate, and how it offered a change of seasons without ridiculous temperature extremes, and how “there is nowhere in the USA like that.” His response pointed out I had overlooked a region: “the Pacific Northwest.”

It's interesting that two of our greatest March cold waves on record came in big El Niños way back in the day. March 1906 and then March 1897, which was just a ridiculously cold month end to end.

I love watermelon, especially from Oregon. Best melon in the world. Great way to get hydration in the summer too.

You have to like the 12z ECMWF. Really impressive to see such a big flip to -PNA in the late winter with a major Nino. The ECMWF looks poised for a major cold shot.

Oh man. The Icepussies had some legendary shows back in the day. Too bad they all died in a plane crash while ODing and choking on their own vomit. Gone too soon. Icepussies forever!!

Upgraded to a winter storm warning for 4-6”. NWS is ballsy, I’d be surprised to get even 3” of slushy chowder given temps near/above freezing after a sunny 50°F afternoon, but we’ll see.

For the majority of people the past couple days will only be remembered for what could have been. Just a touch too warm but overall pattern was quite close to a widespread snowstorm.

JFYI - With today's little storm I now have the largest seasonal snowfall total for mby since 2018-19 winter when I ended up 56.2" total. That's been 5 long years, and a 170 mile move NORTH in the making, lol.