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11 hours ago, BLI snowman said:

Models are a disaster.

Driest spring on record is nearly a lock. 

Disaster? It's going exactly the way the global elites want it. Maybe a disaster for us but profit and power for them and the global insurance agencies! Watch for massive land grabs/water wars and political boundary changes in the next few years. And that will be the 'nice' scenario. 

5 hours ago, Phil said:

You still can. The whole point of a boat is to spend time on the water, and you’re avoiding it because of…water?

Boats go on the water? I sure hope it's a  Hussenrod as here is a fun fact:

"Most helicopter pilots say they prefer rescuing people from Hussenrods then from any other boats!

2 hours ago, GHweatherChris said:

4th day in a row with major marine influence here, we get several hours of sun after the layer burns off but no real warming,  I would rather have it rain if this will be an on going theme, only got to 60 today, westerly winds have been dominating. 

Oh God! This ^^^^^.  Can we trade pizza's please since it's obvious how you feel? 

On 5/14/2021 at 5:13 PM, TacomaWaWx said:

I think anyone from Washington who actually really reads and posts here consistently knows about the drought situation down there. It’s been going on the past few years now. 

Then how come it's so cringe worthy anytime they complain at the next weak weather system that skips OR and blasts them with showers?  It feels like this. 

Wish there was a way to block out certain users that do that as if you pay attention it can be obvious whom does the complaining each time they get it and go "Ewwwww Yuck!"  like this" 

My favorite quote. 

I enjoy it when we have showers come thru it doesn't ruin my day.

14 hours ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

I remember Texas for the intense heat with humidity in the late summer. Was at a Rangers game in DFW in late August with the temp at 105F and it felt like a 120F sauna.

So it's not like Redding's 105F?

12 hours ago, TacomaWaWx said:

Seems like troughing is continually being watered down or replaced with ridging this whole spring. 

Hint: Mike Morales talks about this. 

12 hours ago, TacomaWaWx said:

Seems like troughing is continually being watered down or replaced with ridging this whole spring. 

Ummmmm yeah. For obvious reasons. Are you sure it's not time to replace your 15 year old smoke alarm as it didn't seem to go off last September when the entire west was covered and we had endless ridging. 

5 hours ago, TacomaWaWx said:

Lol people in western WA myself included track rainfall down in OR as well especially with the drought situation currently. I just don’t track as as closely as here at home. 

It's just that many people assume that OR is as wet as they are. I just saw several posts implying that and be 'shocked' when the truth comes out.

Stray Amiibos towering over the mountains. I mean albinos and they are growing larger by the minute.  They were just barely over the tops of the mountains an hour ago and now quite a bit larger and very widespread.

8 hours ago, smerfylicious said:

For anyone interested in solar activity, it certainly looks at this point like the sun is having a bit of a hard time getting out of bed after this last minimum. Possibly another 6 months before real activity returning to the disc. Never really seen such a slow start to a maximum before...even the Oulu gamma ray monitor is showing elevated levels and at this point last cycle we were in the negative reading for that.

 

I know how Mr Sun feels!

1 hour ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Down here we had none of the wet periods you mention.

Remember Andrew we don't exist to them. Anything south of Portland or in some cases Seattle might as well be Sacramento. 

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

Wow... 00Z GFS ups the ante.   

 

It looks as if the kind captain has upped the ante!

1 hour ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

I’ll be gone much of next week, but I will be in Oklahoma where it looks very wet. 

Aha! So that's why the pattern is breaking down! The truth comes out. 

22 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

18z is like a miracle. 

 

Volcanos  finally kicking in!   1992 here we come! 

10 hours ago, AlTahoe said:

Interesting that they experienced an extreme drought the same time as the west coast. 1975-1977 was considered the all time mega drought for California. But now 2019-2021 has beaten it for a large part of California, with 2013-2015 coming in 2nd or 3rd place depending on the region of California. Is there currently a large drought in Europe? 

Actually there is. They had an historical dry spring last year and I think summer. This spring is also dry but really cold for them with daily night frost till about now. Now they are having mild storms that look to be 'stuck in a rut' pattern.  It appears the UK is in for a 2010 style BBQ washout! 

11 hours ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Up to 80F and not a cloud in the sky. Now like 15" below normal for the water year on top of -17" last water year and getting worse every day. Ground is cracked and even the weeds are having trouble growing. Grass turning brown...this is very bad.

Do you think we are well on our way of our own version of this? Hope we don't have a hose pipe ban police which many districts of southern England dealt with.

17 hours ago, Timmy_Supercell said:

The overall year of 2009 wasn't as cold as 2008 in the PNW. There was maybe a stretch of 3 years from 2010-2012 that were considered statistically cold. Don't forget we had a hot summer in Jul/Aug 2009, and later that winter was an El Nino season with pretty much little or snow events aside from the one right before my birthday.

But it was enough to be called 'globally cooler' and for the media to definitely notice to the point of saying global warming was 'paused'.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_hiatus  https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/why-did-earth’s-surface-temperature-stop-rising-past-decade.

I recall initial reports of earth's temps dropped like 0.5 degrees which may not sound like much but it caused some interesting local effects especially in Europe! I think the colder weather of Europe might have shoe horned in the global warming pause theory.  Then in 2013 we had a big flip that put the kibosh on that. 

Certain Ice Age theorists polluted a lot of results trying to deny global warming all together causing further friction so when a lot of locals had unusual snow that helped fuel the divide. You said we didn't get much snow in 2009 but the mountains did!

1 hour ago, Phil said:

This can’t be real..right?

Blowtorch everywhere except Baffin Island is disappointingly familiar.

 

La Nino at it's best!

I really thought this moderate La Nina would be enough to shift/buck the trend but all it did was give us false hope and we remain stuck in the 2013 pattern but nights are cooler though when it does clear. So what do you guys think do you think we can ever reverse this or are we in this long haul?

How disappointed were you with this La Nina if you took out the Feb snow/ice storm from the equation? as it was NOT region wide!

20 hours ago, Tyler Mode said:

Probably not at my location.  2011 and 2012 were pretty cold La Nina springs.  This La Nina spring has been fairly mild.  Lots of cool nights, but not cold.

What made this La Nina so different then the cold 2011? On Britain's Extreme Weather Season 1 they explain this very thing around 2009 thru 2012 Britain suffered unusually cold weather till 2013. In fact 6 summers in a row were total washouts till the great heat of 2013 on episode 4 about heat. 

Obviously we weren't alone in the 2009 thru 2012 cold department here in the PNW.

36 minutes ago, Tyler Mode said:

38 this morning.  I've seen 30s as late as June 19th, but my latest freeze was May 10th, 2012. 

 Do you think this will be one of those years we see unusually late frosts like a pre 1970s pattern whatever that was?

57 minutes ago, Phil said:

Now this is good news. Tropical WPAC cooling ongoing in conjunction with E-IO warming. Likely MJO driven.

But can it hold/continue?

What does this translate to the PNW? 

33 minutes ago, jakeinthevalley said:

Just got back from 4 days in Vegas. 90's every day. It was pretty uncomfortable most of the day but stayed hydrated enough through several rounds of golf to survive. 

Mid 60's on the trip back to the car tonight felt rather chilly.

I am ready for summer here now

How common is AC in Las Vegas?

12 hours ago, iFred said:

"slight cooling breeze" and not "deadly and devastating marine derecho known to locals as a "marine push"" are giveaways that this isn't TIm's nom de plume.

Huh?     For some reason your post made me think of this though not in a bad way.

My post got deleted when I hit backspace to edit.  Weird. Anyways do you think AC has increased in house holds over the PNW.....hell the west coast since the post 2013 climate shift to the hotter phase we are in?

Even compared to 2009 levels of AC I feel we have had a tick in AC rise where it seemed a lot more spares and you'd be rich to have one or very very dedicated like we were.

Edit: It did it again. I went to edited it and lost it but this time I copied and pasted it.  Win 10 is so f'ked up with how you type something and more often the not you get symbols/stuff other then the character you typed.  Windows 7 and 8 this was no issue.