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I have a trace of snow. Currently snowing. Very wet snow as it is 34F. 20240405_075504.mp4

Today is the anniversary (52 years) since the F3 Vancouver Tornado, the strongest tornado west of the Cascades. This video from about a year ago goes into what caused the tornado to form, the extent of the damages, and why the Northwest tends to dodge tornadoes. Some of you may have seen this, but for those who haven't I would reccomend watching this (15 min long).

New Euro monthlies come close. Continent-wide death torch. Tim-tastic.

Pullman airport cam...

This will be Phil the next time he vacations in Florida!

I posted some pics. Picked about 4” here.

Didn’t see it mentioned here, but Central Oregon had a nice snow event yesterday. Sweet Home on the west side scored a surprise inch yesterday morning.

Definitely ready for a warm up, been a very chilly several days!

Biosphere destroying heat?

I'm only taking a day off work so just not quite worth it with the time it would take to get out there between flying and driving a rental car up north of Bangor. MO/AR/TX was a little more accessible.

You heat misers are such sadists.

Finally signs of real spring coming next week. Hopefully we are done with the 30's. 60's next week, then let's see if we can keep it around normal until the inevitable shift to INSTANT summer as usual.

They have 154 more games to try to win you over.

44/31 today.

Buffalo would have been very easy since the center line of the totality path goes almost right over the airport there. You could land in the morning and walk outside and watch the eclipse and then go right back inside and catch a flight home.

I think the time in totality is shorter or something up there. I think MO was supposed to be the greatest. but snow + eclipse would be awesome

Id go to SE MO or S IL if I were traveling. that or Northern Maine (snow on ground + eclipse)

Yeah I'm aiming for north central AR. Maybe Clinton area. Staying in Springfield, MO so it'll be a bit of a drive but my old Hilton discount is getting me a $50 room there so it's well worth it.

Still shooting for Arkansas. Cloud forecast looks pretty decent. Wish me luck.

Great read. If I could sum up the issue that I see with one sentence, it would be this: Rural America is tired of having their work taken for granted by an ever increasingly technologically dominant, socially ignorant, and nature deprived society. All that tech is great for many kinds of productivity, but it does not put food on the table. Democrats have lost the ability to speak to rural people because they have taken them for granted for so long as easy votes even though their policies do more to help them than Republicans. That and some of their other policies are total turn-offs to most rural voters. They cannot seem to understand that... or they do not care anymore. Republicans like Trump know how to speak to rural people but wouldn't put one out with a bucket of water if they were on fire. Modern politics is run by money and talking points designed to inflame. Unfortunately rural America does not have a lot of money compared to wealthy urban donors. The talking points are definitely working to turn Americans against each other. If I was living in a rural area, I'd be angry. America has left an essential demographic behind.

I sure like the 12Z GFS.

There were posts about it, it is still crazy how fast snow melts in April, looking at the cams, you can hardly tell it snowed at all.

Looks fairly clear there on Monday.

Too bad it’s looking cloudy here for the eclipse

Watch it, dude. If you continue to do nothing but troll people in this thread, I will straight up ban you. Maybe from the forum altogether, as from what I have seen in the PNW thread recently, you like stirring the pot there too. Just about had enough.

I thought we would come very close and we sure did. The temp at PHX rallied late, close but no cigar...hit 89F late in the afternoon (4:57pm).... No need to hurry, as we are very likely to see 90F by this time next week...an early taste of some Summer Sizzle...

Missouri/Arkansas look even better, I think I'm decided on going there.

The latest ECMWF actually looks decent for Texas... this is mostly just high clouds.

High clouds or haze could still be pretty great. In 2017 we had similar conditions and once it started to get close to totality, it actually cleared up. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever experienced! I’m hoping for a similar scenario this year. Don’t give up hope! Good luck!

Nice snow event in the central sierra foothills yesterday too. Magnificent!

Windy as frick over here.

Flight I’m sure are 2-3k a pop

HEAVY RAIN!

Next week is looking quite warm

might not get out of the 30s today, currently 37 chance of rain/snow again tonight

Some decent ensemble members.

Sure hope so!

The HRRR is one of the few models that is actually able to model the eclipse, in terms of the decreasing incoming solar energy. Particularly interested in its cloud output. We'll get the first look at it with tomorrow's runs.

America is in Moral Freefall

It's not particularly fun for most people to respond to unhinged people like yourself.

00Z GFS looks a little warmer later next week... and the GEM is much cooler. Lots of inconsistencies in the operational models.

Sunny now. So beautiful.

Pretty much. Why try to survive a society that thinks nuclear war is a viable option? If you survive the fallout, the ensuing social chaos will make the survivors wish they poured a tall one

37/33 today. Currently 34 with light snow.

It is here. The annual way too early predictions for the 2024-25 winter: Along with my verification from last winter:

In fact the 12z ECMWF has like 2 warmish days before its gets knocked down again. If anything it’s the cool departures that are the most anomalous (especially in the SW/Intermountain West).

It’s ok buddy, we’ll see a below normal April again sometime before the heat death of the universe.

Do we get to 90F at PHX today? It's going to get rather breezy and full sun might do the trick.