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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.

12z Euro fully on board with temps near 70 both Saturday and Sunday. Low 70's in the foothills Saturday. Perfectly timed with peak warmth over the weekend and if things break down sooner with some mountain snow later next week that's best of both worlds IMO.

Hailing while the sun shines here. Dynamic.

40 mph in Everett and 36 at SEA.

We just had two weeks of much colder than normal weather including one of the coldest first weeks of March ever, had multiple minor lowland snow events, TONS of mountain snow AND still have 4 more stormy, cool days with feet of mountain snow to get through before the ridge. A week of nice, sunny, warm weather after that isn't hard to put a positive spin on.

Agreed. The mountain melt off is being vastly overplayed IMO. Especially since they'll get like two feet this weekend and early next week before the ridge builds in. 50 and sunny with dry air and not much wind doesn't have a big impact on the snowpack.

There's a lot of people that would argue water isn't actually wet, but that it just makes other things wet. https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/is-water-wet

Next weekend should be great. Hoping to Spring ski one day and golf for the first time this season the other.

Dry air makes all the difference. BLI is 37 but the DP is 28, so it makes sense the snow isn't very wet. Same reason frost or snow on the ground wouldn't be melting much in those conditions, but if it were 34 with a DP of 34 it would be.

One lives in Enumclaw and the other lives in Olympia. You might be right about the thermometer. Could be a combination of fewer clear calm nights than normal and a finicky thermometer. Or maybe they moved it closer to a runway? Doubt that though.

My girlfriend lives in Olympia close to OLM and I've been shocked by how mild it's been when I've visited this Fall and Winter. I expected way more frosty cold nights but there's been a lot of cloudy, foggy mornings in the mid-upper 30's even when much of the rest of Western WA was fairly clear and frosty.

Arlington pulled off a string of lows of 26, 22, and 23 the last three days. Pretty impressive for March.