Skier B

5 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Could be the best ski day of the season at crystal, 14 degrees at the top and blue bird ski with no wind. 100% perfect powder day

Surely the best day if groomers are your thing but off piste didn’t quite get enough new snow overnight to soften every thing up.  

Nice mellow morning at Crystal after last week’s powder frenzy.  

Hopefully, any ridging mid month is short lived!

3 hours ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

The loss of glaciers in the Cascades and Olympics has accelerated rapidly since the 1970s. There is literally no debate there. Recent hot summers have played a huge role. It’s not like they’ve just been steadily declining at a linear rate the last 300 years. There was a period in the 30 years before the 70s when many Cascade glaciers actually advanced. There was also a period in the late 1800s through the 1920s where they advanced some, followed by one of the first modern periods of retreat in the 1920s-40s.

Hazard Stevens and Philemon Beecher Von Trump were the first to summit Rainier in 1870.  Stevens returned to the summit in 1905 and had this to say:  "I made the ascent again in 1905 and then, as likewise on my recent trip, I observed that the snow and gaciers had receded to a considerable degree since I first visited them. At the time Stevens Glacier came close up to Sluiskin Faslls. Now it is several hundred feet farther from them. The smal crater on the summit in which we slept in 1870 was filled with solid ice but in 1905 it had nearly all melted out. It may be that a succession of wet seasons will restore these glaciers to their former limits."

Sure this little tasty tidbit of info may not really mean much in the big picture but still like to point it out.  I know they summited in August of 1870 but not sure what month it was when he returned in 1905?  The book BTW which was written in the 70's is an awesome source of the mountains history.

Miss this guy.

4 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

The 2000 season was one for the ages in the Pac-10. Oregon, Oregon State, and UW tied for the title. Oregon handed UW their only loss, UW handed Oregon State their only loss, and Oregon State handed Oregon their only conference loss (They lost a pre-season tilt at Wisconsin.). 

The Huskies went on to the Rose Bowl and beat an overmatched Purdue team 34-24. 

Oregon State beat Notre Dame 41-8 in the Fiesta Bowl. 

Oregon beat Texas 35-30 in the Holiday Bowl. 

When all was said and done UW finished #3 in the final AP poll, Oregon State #4, and Oregon #7. Best season Oregon State has ever had. 

The thing that stands out most to me that season was Miami finished #2 even though UW beat them.  

Snowing hard and sticking here in Burien.

7 minutes ago, RentonHillTC said:

Hmmm switched back to north and temp dropped 4 degrees in about 2 minutes. Suspicious. Sorry for spam posting but I’m right on the line!!!

Appreciate the updates!   Temp finally dropping here.  Down 3 degrees in the last 5 minutes.  37F

33F dp29

.2" overnight.  Flurries now.  Should be interesting here as I'm just NW of KSEA.  

2 minutes ago, Cloud said:

Christmas is wet but temps stays in the mid-30s for Seattle. So a slow melt rather than a fast one.

Yep, 6" of snow with a glazing of ice is tough to melt for 35F rain.

9 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Massive snow storm now for the sound on Friday. 

It doesn't even look like KSEA gets much rain after the snow stops on Friday?  

Snow on the ground for Christmas??

1 minute ago, snow_wizard said:

I am really getting pumped now.  GFS is on board for snow for the Central and South Sound.

Definitely better!

Always a great feeling walking through the snow to get firewood.

Heavy wet snow all evening with 1.5" so far.  A little extra elevation was key to this working out tonight.

1 minute ago, SnowWillarrive said:

Where is 160th? 

One of the higher spots in Burien.

6 minutes ago, andrewr said:

All snow in Burien, but too warm to stick.

Snowing hard and sticking here on top of 160th.

Light snow 35F  27 dp

Moderate snow 31F

34 minutes ago, bainbridgekid said:

That one was more of a thin, intense convergence zone along the arctic front. Most of Seattle got 6-12" of snow, but SEA got very little with that one. What the 12z shows would be more of a widespread snowfall with the low coming across the South Sound. Looks more like 11/22/10 to me.

Yeah, I was playing in a basketball game at HHS in Burien during the 1990 event and the snow had not yet started by tipoff.  At halftime it was snowing heavily and all wrapped up by the time the game ended.  In a way I kind of feel cheated now realizing how close we came to scoring big

In his video he compares the 1985/1990 maps with current modeling.  Interesting.

3 minutes ago, Poulsbo Snowman said:

It's Armageddon.  I see an Angel with a trumpet.

More like purgatory. 

33 in Burien with moderate snow.  Solid dusting!

2 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Yep, leaving this evening.

Good call.

1 minute ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

I just can't buy into the Seattle area getting hammered again in mid Feb 2 years later the same day pretty much. 

Time to get the plow?