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Looks like it will be three straight sub 50 highs here. Pretty legit for April. Surprised it hasn’t gotten Jim out of hiding, but I suppose we will have to wait until October now.

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.

I like the diurnal ranges on this “heatwave.” We’ve made it down to the low 40s every night. If only our summer heatwaves worked like this… we’ve struggled to fall below 60 in recent years during those. Not sure if humidity has been increasing or what.

25 here. Impressive airmass for March!

I was hoping the sloppy inch we got last night would stick around given the chilly temps, but the March sun angle did its thing today. Was a pretty awesome morning, however! Looks like a decent mountain snow pattern for the weekend and early next week before Tim’s ridge starts building in.

Were you in the area that scored big time in 2019? The last storm gave a foot of concrete only a few miles east of us while we just missed out. One of the worst misses I can remember, not that I can complain about Feb 2019 as a whole!

Our area was due! Could have some staying power too given the chilly next few days.

About a mile from my house. Heaviest snow precip rates I can remember here!

Yeah I might be too generous here given lack of snow, but my expectations were so low with a Nino. At least it felt wintery at times, we broke the January curse and I had close to an inch on the ground from the c-zone going into the January cold.

I give the Winter about a C+ IMBY. December sucked ballz but we had 4 days with sub freezing highs in January, including an epic 20/6 day on 1/13 with a strong wind. Then many opportunities in early Feb and late Feb with about 4 separate “dustings” but no big ticket event. Even one 2-3” event could have brought it up to a B, but just like last Winter, we just couldn’t cash in despite many opportunities.

Still a decent mountain snow pattern next weekend into early next week, at least up here. I don’t doubt we get some mid month ridging but the magnitude of the ridge is still in fantasyland.

It’s a pretty dynamic front for this area. My hourly forecast goes from 48 at 11 PM to 36 at 2 AM when the front paces through.

Bummer that the snow level is above Snoqualmie Pass at the moment. I guess the term “cold AR” is an oxymoron. It should drop below pass level later today at least.

D*mn I’m only a few miles away from there, and it looks much better there than here. At least we got a dusting and some mood snow. Februaries just keep on delivering.

Some models are showing crazy amounts of rain here on Wed with highs in the mid 40s. Almost like a cold AR with the mountains getting nuked.