Omegaraptor

Ah yes, the age old question of "how many PNW snow weenies would still love snow if they lived in an actual cold and snowy climate".

People in the Bay Area pay crazy rent prices for winter weather like this. There's always a way to reframe things...

The last day PDX had a negative departure greater than a -6 was July 26.

All in all, the last decade has been a pretty good stretch for winter weather given our warming climate, even if the goods have been heavily stacked in favor of late winter. Remember, we basically went half a decade from 1999 to 2005 with a single ice storm and that was it. It really has been a while since we've had something on the level of 2014-15 or 2002-03 in this region.

Let's be honest. We were a lot more due for something like this than we were for another 2016-17 or 1992-93.

I would legitimately rather have 6/28/21 conditions for a week straight than another major ice storm.

What was the last totally flakeless winter for Portland? 2002-03? The inability of this winter to even produce a cold maritime airmass has been pretty jarring. 2023-24 was utterly dreadful aside from the Jan ice storm, but even that managed a few flakes end of Feb/start of March with a maritime polar airmass.

61 at Newport, 70 at Brookings currently. The Oregon Coast gets some really nice days in the dead of winter sometimes. Let the tourists keep freezing their asses off in July tho

Ouch... Mt Hood Skibowl went from 26" to 17" snow depth at the top since the inversion started. Might be tough to keep the lifts running until the next storm comes.

Lol a record warm winter there is still frigid by our standards. It’s like saying “Phoenix has been hot this summer”. Even a record cool summer there is still extremely hot by our standards.

That's 1980-81. Basically a terrible pattern for everyone in the lower 48 except northern New England.

This was basically a 40 degree drizzly non-event for everyone south of Everett. Also a huge model bust, some model runs leading up to this event were showing January 1950-level outcomes. Was great for the ski resorts, though.

Question at this point is whether Skibowl and Hoodoo can even keep the lifts spinning until the next storm comes. The already meager bases there seem to be dwindling a couple inches a day.

Yup. In direct sunlight, 90 degrees in SoCal feels positively fierce compared to 90 degrees in the PNW. That subtropical sun is like being under a magnifying glass in comparison. And legitimate tropical sunshine still makes SoCal sun look weak in comparison.

70-burger secured at Horse Creek. PDX has clawed its way up to 52 after breaking out of the fog. McMinnville and Corvallis are still socked in and struggling to break out of the 30s.