Skagit Weather

Where can you find that Olympics Mountains North Cam? I've never seen it before, but it looks like a cool perspective.

This one I made last year based on data from the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center. I haven't updated it with data from 2022-23 yet and it doesn't represent long term averages, but I think does a good job showing about what different areas in the state pick up.

Still only 34F up here with clear skies. I believe it should freeze the next couple of mornings, but considering how hard they've been to get since mid January I'm honestly not entirely sure.

Pretty amazing how quickly a little sun and warm temperatures can wipe out snow this time of year. Not a flake remains of my 2” from this morning, but it was pretty nice to see it. That bumped my total up to 7” on the winter which is 7” more than I was expecting. I went out to the daffodil fields as the snow was stopping. Pretty cool to see the flowers under a bit of snow.

Burlington just closed as well. Probably should have just kept the 2 hr late start because I'm sure the roads will be fine in an hour or two, but oh well.

Well, that escalated quickly. Approaching 2” now, although looks like I’m about to run out of moisture.

The March snow curse is (somewhat) broken! Moderate snow and 32.6F. Approaching 1/2" on the ground. First time I've had any accumulating snow in March since 2017 and I haven't had more than an inch since 2014. The latest snow I've had here was the 4-6" that fell in mid April 2008. Now that would be something to see a repeat of.

Light rain and 34F here but I've heard reports of snow to my east. I bet @MossMan is getting hammered.

Almost certainly, but it's hard to know whether the summit was above the heaviest precipitation and how much just got wind blasted off the summit.

Paradise picked up 44" that day so it's certainly possible, but it just seems so strange that it would get so much more. I mean honestly, I'm just skeptical of most snow measurements. It's so hard to measure snowfall whether it's from compaction or drifting or too frequent of measurements. The National Center for Environmental Information, which maintains the US weather records acknowledges that this reading is a bit suspect so they also list a 52" one day reading from Winthrop on 1/21/35.

This storm is going to be one of the more impressive ones I've seen in the mountains over the last couple years. At least 31" of new snow at Mt. Baker in the last 24 hours and 40" in the last 30 hours. Should probably pick up another 18-24" by morning. The Washington State 24 hour record is supposedly 65" at Crystal Mountain on 2/24/94, but I find that hard to believe considering how little snow Crystal normally sees. But maybe the pattern was perfect. Paradise has an unofficial record of 70" in 24 hours from 11/26/55 which is a location I'd be more inclined to believe has the record, but that may just be in the record books as a result of not being able to clear off the snowboard one day.

Cold front was pretty weak precipitation wise when it came through here. The temperature drop was impressive with 6 degrees over an hour, but it only rained moderately for a minute or two before letting up again.

2.5" for the month here and 0.05" on the day. The extra day in the month this year is really going to make a difference in February precip totals here.

Still snowing at 4,000' at Mount Baker as well. Just far enough north to escape the warmest air. Supposedly they have picked up a foot since 6 a.m.

Now this would be exciting. Almost a foot of snow in March? I give it about a zero chance of happening.

I "only" got 11", but places a couple miles to my east really got hit hard. People had to abandon their vehicles on I-5 in Mount Vernon and Burlington when it ended up snowing 18" in 3-4 hours!

That's not mine, just a house in the neighborhood.

Just had a very intense snow shower move through. Looks like it's wrapping up, but it ended up dropping about 0.5" with some truly massive snowflakes up over 2" in diameter. It was hard to measure depth because the snowflakes themselves created such large variations. Temperature is down to 33F, but snow is melting very quickly now that it has let up.

Currently 38F and clear. Tonight is probably my only chance all of February to go below freezing. 2016 will be the only February (since 2010) that I've recorded fewer freezes.

Visibility would be heinous on storm days since so much of it is above tree line, but considering it's so far east it might actually be out of the western gunk and see a bit more sun. Some incredible terrain up that way, but I'm pretty happy it's in the wilderness.

I realize that. I meant this year shows the traditional Niño north/south gradient while last year also had a gradient even if it was a Niña But yeah, this is about as good a time as possible to have the snow falling. Better than a really good Dec/Jan and then it all melts in Feb/March (although the ski areas may disagree).

Yeah, it really highlights that Niño north-south gradient. Kind of like last year where OR had a pretty good snowpack going into the spring and Northern WA was only like 70-80% of normal.

We need 500-600" of snow in the North Cascades over the next two months to get to average snow water equivalent. For some reason I think that's unlikely to happen. But the Central and South WA Cascades only need 200-300" which might be doable.

Looks snowy in the mountains which seems pretty good to me.

https://xmacis.rcc-acis.org/ You have to play around with the "Multi-station" data a bit and select "Map" as output