bainbridgekid

04-05 and 09-10 were pretty awful there too. But overall I've been pleasantly surprised by how well they've continued to do. As you describe it really is amazing how often it's raining the entire drive up and then turns to snow right as you basically turn into the parking lot. One of the consistently more extreme microclimates I've ever experienced. The cold East wind also helps preserve the snow long after they turn to rain as well. After a snowstorm it'll often stay under 35 at Snoqualmie for many hours while it's 42 and raining with a strong snow eating South wind at Baker and Crystal.

3pm and it's just 54 at the Mukilteo Ferry Terminal with a cold North wind and 65 at my house 5 miles away. https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KWAMUKIL45 Amazing how big a difference being along the water can make in situations like this. Glad it works the other way during snow events.

Quillayute hit 80 yesterday and broke their daily record by 16 degrees. Pretty nutty.

Lake Ballinger in Mountlake Terrace. Nice little course right by my school called The Nile.

First round of golf in six months. Sun feels amazing. Swing less so.

49 at the tip of Magnolia and 61 in Capitol Hill. Pretty unusual to see a 12 degree difference within the city limits like that.

That's one hell of a crash on the 18z. Tuesday afternoon is 68 in Seattle and then it's 44 Wednesday afternoon with 6-10" of snow in the mountains by Wednesday evening.

68 in Forks and a Personal Weather Station in La Push right by the beach is reporting 72. https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KWAFORKS36/graph/2024-03-15/2024-03-15/daily

What do you think a 90 degree clockwise turn means? It doesn't mean the Atlantic Canada anomalies move here, but that the entire anomaly map spins around the center a quarter turn. Granted, that was a very odd way for Phil to word a forecast (even for him.)

SEA's only had five 70+ degree days before St. Patrick's day in history. Seems fairly likely tomorrow is number 6, but no guarantee.

So is 40% of Colorado How much snow you got now? Post pics!

That's mostly because in CO the hail has a mile less time to melt on its way down right? Guessing it probably hails a LOT 5,000 feet above D.C. too.

Like I said . . . approaching 8 pm. The sun sets in Phoenix at 7:40 on the Summer solstice. That's a near negligible difference from where we are already.

It works there because of their latitude. Near the Winter solstice, the sun rises in Phoenix at 7:30 and sets at 5:30. If Seattle were on permanent standard time, the sun would rise here at 9:00 and set at 5:20. I just think that's way too late for it to stay dark in the morning (and I'm not a morning person at ALL so would certainly appreciate the extra daylight in the evening.) The sun also sets BEFORE 8 PM there on the Summer solstice which would be pretty awful. We are already approaching 8pm sunsets here and it's still March.

There's no perfect solution, but I like the way we do things now with the switch best. 4 AM sunrises in Summer would suck and I'd much rather that extra hour of daylight when people are awake. 4:30 PM sunsets in the Winter suck, but 9 AM sunrises in the Winter would suck even more. Can't have kids arriving at school in the dark.

I'll be in Mazatlan. 4 minutes and 27 seconds of totality. Can't wait.

Enjoy your snowstorm @Front Ranger Seems like good odds you get at least a foot?

Getting dumped on here in the CZ tonight.

Did you step on them and throw them in the Columbia for the cause?

If we didn't allow off-topic banter in the main thread, this entire forum would cease to exist. Our love of weather is the foundation this place sits on, but it would be a very different and boring place if that's all we ever talked about.

Funny. The Wikipedia article for Maple Bars is only five sentences long and one of them is "Time Horton's and other Canadian doughnut shops do not sell maple bars." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_bar

@TT-SEA Euro is slower to come out on Pivotal. What's it showing for highs Saturday and Sunday?

5 straight months averaging over 109 degrees and two months with lows over 101 is diabolical. Especially since I'm sure AC is very rare there. Can't even imagine living in that.

Booked my first tee times of the year for Friday after work and Sunday afternoon and I'm skiing Stevens on Saturday. Told my friends to expect 50 degree sunshine on the slopes and to golf in shorts on Sunday. Gotta make the most of times like this.

Euro spits out 69 Sat and 68 Sun for PDX. Oddly it shows 69 both days for Everett though. Would be weird for us to be warmer than you in a pattern like this. If we are near 70 like that I would think mid 70's would be very achievable down there. Mark's 77 forecast at this range definitely feels click baity though.