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PuyallupChris

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  1. I have a friend in Wawona, inside Yosemite. She said the town lost power and water, and likely wouldn’t have it back for a week. Roads are shut down but there was a 2 hour break between storms and authorities said they were plowing in that break so anyone could evacuate if they needed, before closing the roads again. I love snow but that is probably just a LITTLE more than I’d like.
  2. There is actually a little Pierce county snow there that isn’t terrain bleed. It’s not gonna happen, of course. Not sure why models have the south end so snowy so consistently while conditions are clearly not conducive for winter precip.
  3. Woke up to my kids telling me it snowed last night! They were not excited. I’ve now reached official “shocked” status with how bad the models have been this year. For weeks now we’ve seen snow maps that defy logic, and time and time again I’ve seen “snowing now” reports from weather apps that are blatantly wrong. I’m a weenie because I’ve been skunked so much this year, but it’s pretty pathetic to model ride for a week and a half and get…this as a result.
  4. South Hill has managed quite a few trace-1/2” events, but overall the swamp has done pretty poorly. This was my neighborhood yesterday.
  5. 34 degrees here in North Puyallup, and for the 83rd time this winter my IOS app says it's snowing, but it's clearly not. Winter 2023!
  6. A lot of backyards are rating this winter as A/B material with a ton of snow. But overall it seems like this year has been VERY spotty. A lot of marginal events that have dumped snow and left neighborhoods a few miles away completely snowless. I fall into the latter. It's definitely a lesson in microclimates.
  7. I feel this so hard. Nothing here last night. I was a little splotch of green in a sea of blue the night before. Every single day seems to be a "Looks ok for the South Sound" evening, and every day--nothing. Nothing but a few traces since our November snow. I mean it's even snowing on the coast right now, but this little neighborhood in North Puyallup can't catch a break! Give me somethin!
  8. I feel your pain. I’m right on the north edge of the south blob now and I can see precip out towards Tacoma from one window, and up the valley North from another, while bone dry here. Been a rough few days.
  9. Looking off my deck toward the Sumner/Auburn valley, there’s something brewing. Maybe a burst of snow down there? After no snow yesterday, currently 42 and dynamic in North Puyallup. I’m having trouble following the wave of models over the next few days but I hope we get something. It’s been a little disappointing lately.
  10. 40 degrees already in Puyallup, and never got that little green blotch over my house in the radar to turn blue. Hope we get better luck with later systems but I’m feeling pretty strongly the models are pretending it’s mid January, not late February.
  11. I think you’re right. Models picked up on this snow hole all week, I was just hoping maybe we’d pull through. It’s pretty wild that it is so localized this way though. It narrowed down to a relatively tiny area.
  12. This is…actually kind of laughable. That green is my house. It has persisted the last 3 hours. Weather gods, why have you forsaken me?
  13. Just a few miles halfway down the hill—never got past rain. Still rainy. Kind of blowing my mind actually. 37 degrees.
  14. Temp is now rising, up to 37. Pretty clear we missed the window and the dry air ate up all the precipitation leaving it juuuuuust warm enough to rain instead of snow. But I have to say this whole thing has been fascinating to watch. Such a weird and complex setup.
  15. I’m very close to you, and it’s 36 and… raining fairly hard. And quite windy. I have no idea what is happening.
  16. After 46 degrees at 5 PM, it’s now 35. App says it’s snowing, but no flakes actually falling yet. This happened last event too, where it was said to be “snowing” for a solid several hours before any made it onto rooftops. Still, evaporative cooling is hard at work!
  17. Thanks! Makes sense, but it still feels pretty crazy! If/when this actually happens, it’s going to be fun to watch. Are there any historical comparisons for this kind of event being driven solely by evaporative cooling?
  18. Trying! Dew point of 19, current temp 46… pretty wild stuff. I’m trying to trust the process but am not used to seeing so much reliance on a huge amount of evaporative cooling. Feels much warmer now than when I took my kids outside at 10:30 AM.
  19. I was going to chime in similarly before I saw your post. I’m also Puyallup (obviously, I suppose) and am sitting at 45/46, and looks like Auburn is also 45. I know we’re in the swamp but it seems so unlikely we’ll drop from 46 to snow in just a few hours, when forecasts are saying it will *warm up* as the front arrives. This does not smell right to me. At all.
  20. Ditto. So many of these maps are Swamp Alerts. Painful for us South Enders, and some of us weenies already have gotten shafted a bit on previous events.
  21. Swamp alert. Someone should have told me about the swamp when I moved to the south end.
  22. Swamp alert. Hard to grade this winter for me also. Not good, but I can't call it a complete wash. A number of 1/4" - 1/2" snowfalls, and the one "big" snow seemed to drop only a few inches here in the valley that disappeared from the roads almost instantly. Meanwhile, a LOT of hype and close calls which make me feel a little more sour grapes than I honestly should.
  23. PSD was closed the 17th and 20th but not all week. And one of those was for teacher training, I believe.
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