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12Z EPS on board with the warm up... and in no rush to crash back to troughing.

A balance of dynamic troughing and amplified ridging w/ thunderstorms on the backend of the ridging is my ideal warm season pattern. It looked before like the upcoming ridge would be the same transitory sort we've come to grow used to this year, but now it looks like ridging may become our default base state for the mid-late month. Seems to be the new normal these days. I'm looking forward to the beautiful Spring weather, but I do hope May answers a bit and brings wetter weather.

A little snow this morning. I missed out on the bulk of the rain, only 0.07" with the front.

Ashland had the outflow winds and scattered outages/trees down but I don't think this town had a tornado. I have power but most of Ashland reportedly doesn't have internet. Been stuck using a potato Android phone for all of my information. It was a big storm. Couldn't make out a lot of structure but it looked like some kind of wall cloud may have formed. But shelf wasn't very clearly there. Video was hard to get and it's a good thing I wasn't standing on our deck because a few objects did fly by right where I would've stood.. Lol

Hoping to have 2-3” by morning. Snow wasn’t supposed to start for a few hours. Hoping the main band waits until 2-6am to maximize cooling. This is now the 7th straight month with at least non sticking snow.

Missed the peak by a couple minutes but good sunset.

I tend to root for either strong ridging or strong troughing this time of year. Strong ridging to get traditionally “nice” Spring weather and strong troughing for the dynamic and interesting, showers and sun breaks type of days, hopefully with hail and lightning if we’re really lucky.

Mariners Baseball: Who cares about winning games! We've got garlic fries! lol

Yeah my house had somewhere between 60 to 70. Thankfully my street didn't get anything knocked down. I'm fine for those wondering. I'm waiting for our internet to return. Other than a few power bumps I we got lucky. About 15000 people lost power in the area. Nearby locations had confirmed tornado touchdowns, up to EF1 damage.

Highs going from the 70s to the 40s in one day is exceedingly rare here. With a bit more downsloping or if the pattern had developed just a week or two later, some could have threaded the needle to go from the 80s to the 40s. I wouldn't be surprised if some foothill locations did. Plains type stuff.... Though Summertime crashes from the 90s to the 60s do happen from time to time, as we saw last year.

Impressive 24 degree crash from the high yesterday at PDX.

Posted this, filmed on April 1st

Had a loud crack of thunder and several flashes of lightning. Son slept though that loud blast with the windows open.

I can see that shower from here in Interbay

29º crash from 78º yesterday to a midnight high of 49º today. Could have been even more dramatic if the front had arrived a bit sooner, as it didn't get above 46º during the day. Rare rain over-performance too with 0.33" in the gauge and more coming down.

Models are in good agreement on a system this weekend that may produce some severe weather. Not much agreement with the storm system next week but on the backside some more chilly air looks to get pulled in.

This is freakin' dope! "They Eye of the Cyclone" literally passed over MKE...this will go down as a memorable storm for many on here and the U.S.

Beautiful post-frontal morning in Seattle.

SEA has been a bit of a dry anomaly lately. Locations starting a mile or two north they had up to a quarter inch. SEA has been either just north or just south of the rain.

37 this morning heading for a high around 44. Shouldn’t hit 50 again until Monday at the earliest!

Skimming through SPC reports from yesterday, someone in Cannonsburg (Boyd Co.) measured a 102 mph gust on their Davis wx station! That first storm was definitely stronger than originally thought.

3.16" day total precip since Sunday afternoon. And a snow rain mix is still falling so will add to this. What a over performer! Very thankful!

The day played out differently than they expected. That first MCS turned out to produce the widest swath of reports and damage. Looked like it also bowed out in West Virginia? One source called it a derecho like storm but not sure if it actually was one.

Looks like it will be in the upper 60s to low 70s when we visit family there next week. Will just miss the cold/snow.

Gotta get acclimated for our usual upper-80s heat wave in May.

I think we can score an 80 burger in the next heat wave at KSEA. We’ve gotten one (or more) in 5 of the last 10 Aprils.

The Canadian today was a Jesse special. Circumvents any ridging and forces down some clippy troughs and chilly NW flow in the long range. One way to thread the needle to avoid a heatwave mid month.

Primarily a 4-8" storm...except for the U.P....

He’s probably like me and has you on ignore. Since you don’t contribute very much you don’t get quoted after and I don’t see it.

May John Stanton experience perpetual 33F cold rain and rug pulls for eternity.

Still so brown in Minnesota. Trees don't like cold and snow in the spring. Of course despite the delayed start... it stays incredibly lush green there all summer. More so than here.

meh, storms were probably stronger during the jurassic period.

What a relief!! Bullet dodged!

Saw dark clouds approaching 15 minutes ago in North Bend but it didn't rain and the sun came back out.

A couple things I was able to save around the time I couldn't use my computer.. There were more TOR's being issued after that first loop. Sirens were sounding in Ashland from 10:15 to 10:30 I think. TOR's continued being dished out in WV. It formed a well defined bow echo after passing through the Ohio River. The SPC then expands the Moderate Risk boundary when it started clearing but I think the evening round was a tad watered down. Even though it sounded like supercells did happen in eastern KY with more tornado watches and warnings in spots. But they didn't appear quite as long lived as modeled. Moderates are super rare at my location. Western KY has been in a couple since I moved here but not this area.

Man being stuck in jury duty the last two glorious days was a bummer; always an interesting experience though. Looks unseasonably cool for a few days but not all that wet? Showers and sun breaks, onward goes Spring.

For future reference I'm a block over from Central Park in downtown. There is a big King's Daughters Hospital by that park too.

Lots of wind but only a trace of rain here overnight. 41.7 at the moment.

The Front was totally dry up this way. Enjoy your blessings down south. 40F

Getting some intense flashes.

Really dynamic evening today. Everett went from 70 degrees at 4:30pm to 46 with heavy rain just 5.5 hours later at 10:00.

NWS in Medford, let's see if I see some flakes in April!

Seeing these big earthquakes always makes me nervous about a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake. It will happen again just a matter of when.

Sadly this is my view currently… Lamotrigene medication still won’t come thru so I’m in the hospital. Really wish it would get approved. Epilepsy sucks.

It good. Like dippin dot fall from sky.

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Still raining here! We are definitely ahead of the game if things do dry out for a bit up in my area.

Just got my internet restored! Hmm.. temperature unknown but feels like 45-50 (and breezy). Ashland airport got knocked, their last observation was 10:10am yesterday, about the time that MCS struck.

High of only 52F tomorrow

It was another crazy day of odd looking clouds!