Meatyorologist

Pretty rapid trend.

That trough in the medium range is a pretty good win. Keeps the back and forth theme going.

I am I drunk or did we not already do that last year? Edit: 86/89/88 from the 13th through the 15th. Close enough by all metrics except for actually reaching the milemarker itself.

I can see that shower from here in Interbay

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.

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.

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.

Maybe my call for a cool April was a little off. Kind of looks like we'll hit an unavoidable mid month warm spell... And it could be the first real heat of the year, not counting the highly anomalous mild weather in early March and late January.

Hang in there Brian.

They were probably just wolves in sheep's clothing

Yum!

War! War! War! War!

Summer 2000 or 2001 repeat would be nice, 2011 if we're being more reasonable. Or 1993 if we're choosers.

I'm kidding. Hopefully we're spared here west of the Cascades.

So a big 'ol bowling ball trough parked over Minneapolis from May through October, understood.

Nah. I'll try and make Iceland though

I'm in debt with a broken car. Am I still legally allowed to enjoy the weather? Or do I need to apply for a permit?

Minneapolis hadn't set a monthly record high since 1999, until they did it twice in the span of six months, both last September and now this February.

You went back and saw which posts I liked? On your own time?

I agree with him. rain can make things miserable outside. still like it from time to time but it's really a fall/early winter vibe thing for me

Thunderstorm heading into Olympia!

Glad you have a game plan moving forward at least. Only route is upwards. Good luck Chris.

Lots of spread dependent on how harshly the GOA trough cuts off in the midrange. Most solutions are less aggressive and sweep it into the area cleanly from the NW... Others go a little cookier in the Pacific and pop up a ridge of varying degrees right overhead. It also seems that the ridger solutions stay warm for longer or maybe even potentiate further amplification of the ridge in the longer range, while the cleaner NWly solutions generally continue the NW flow.

Nice cell to the west of Eugene.

That's intense for a lee cyclone... Tight gradients all across the central US and into the intermountain west. Technically out to sea too given the intense anticyclone offshore from California, if you wish to partially attribute that to the cyclone as well.