Joshua Lake Oswego

Temp up almost 2 degrees in the past hour to 39 here. 

Just now, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Do you think the ICON does steroids? 

Everybody was dogging my love for the ICON yesterday. Today, it's their saving grace. 

1 minute ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Starting to look like another non event isn’t it? Oregon snow pack going to be gone by new year’s too.

Yea, the 55 degree rain ain't gonna be good for the snowpack.

Washingtonians better pray to your new God, the ICON. 

45 minutes ago, Doinko said:

PDX got down to at least 27. Not bad

33 for a low here in the swamp

Mid-50s at 4am on Christmas morning. 

Oh well. As I said earlier today, the good news is that this is going to bust so hard for Oregon that we don’t need to worry about freezing rain. 

2 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

And more snow Tuesday...

 

We can’t even muster drizzle down here in Upper Cali

14 minutes ago, Requiem said:

Even for QPF the ICON is pretty much hot garbage even within 24 hours-- respect your choice but I'd recommend you break up with the thing 

But she’s so hot.

6 minutes ago, RentonHillTC said:

I was going to say this. It never seemed as ridic as the GFS this past week but now that the first part of the upcoming pattern has sort of come into agreement among the others it has really started pooping the bed. Or its amazing and all the others are dog and we're wasting our time here

The ICON is my ride or die. Pretty much just for QPF though. 

21 minutes ago, Hawksfan2008 said:

Works for me  

They’re talking about the beginning of the week

12 minutes ago, Requiem said:

That's the one saving grace-- models have been persistent with some pretty great low level cold out of the Gorge. Unfortunately the nature of our overrunning systems means I'd hedge bets on it being ZR.

Exactly. I would prefer it not to be below freezing for that reason. The south wind will win out over the gorge outflow for most of the metro area.

4 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

You can see the result of the southward shift in the precip map on the GEFS... 12Z run versus 18Z run.

 

Not so much a southward shift, just less of it up there.

Latitude is king

8 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

I will gladly take 18 inches of snow in one day over that.  

Ya think?! I will take 60 degree rain over that. Well, I love all rain to be fair. I will take anything besides a tornado or other very extreme wind event over that. 

29 minutes ago, Mid Valley Duck said:

Ultimate boom or bust pattern. Washington is a two touchdown favorite over Oregon.

Member 13 knows what’s up

The good news is that this will likely bust so hard for Oregon that we won't need to worry about freezing rain. I would take now snow and no freezing rain over 15'' of snow and .50'' of freezing rain.

2 minutes ago, Christensen87 said:

CFS gets pretty ugly (warm) after our fun event late next week. 

All models do. Drinks with umbrellas in them and wife beaters and swim trucks for Christmas. 

1 minute ago, lowlandsnow said:

Can you post it please

 

UKMET is great for Olympia north

1 minute ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Starting to look like places south of Olympia are SOL.

Yea, unless you like sleet and freezing rain.

GEM is a Washington special

Trough already headed east by Wednesday morning. Never digs over us.

Looking like no matter what happens early/mid-next week, it’s going to be warm leading up to and for Christmas.

GEM getting good