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22 minutes ago, MossMan said:

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Haha, that I would not do (I guess I'm not a TRUE weenie). I booked the trip in March 2023... thinking mid-January would be prime torch territory.

I can only hope the rest of winter isn't as awful as December was.

I have been avoiding this place and model riding as I'll be on vacation 1/10-1/22. Can't believe I'm going to miss this event. In a super nino winter. UGH. It's the first time since Christmas 2008 (and I still experienced the best parts of that blast) that'll be out of town for snow/arctic weather 

Feel free to weenie away. 

Looks like SEA will probably record its first <40 day. 38 at 11:53. A bit warmer near my home, looks like it got up to 40.

3 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Was hovering around 82 IMBY for a few hours, now going up again, but given that it’s 83.4°F at 3:00 PM, probably won’t see a 90-burger today.

Does Vancouver get downsloping hot winds?

Up to 93! And I see quite a number of corroborating stations in NE Seattle. UW up to 91 as well. It's HOT.

KSEA seems to be back in the sun as well with a jump on the interobs to 88.

Sun came back out and temp has spiked. Up to 91 right now, which ties yesterday's number.

+4 at SEA right now. My east-facing home office is pretty miserable at the moment. How did I work in here last summer?? I guess I should go get the fan out...

In isolation, the weather today was summer perfection. Too bad it's another record hot [fill in the statistic], after an endless decade of them.

Still had a fantastic time floating on Lake Washington with friends. The water was definitely chilly, but manageable with the strong afternoon sun to balance. Rainier & the Cascades were spectacular; it was honestly a little jarring to see the mountains so snow covered.

38/36 right now with drizzle. Probably wont happen.

41 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

ECMWF also showed temps dropping from the low 40s to upper 30s in the Seattle area by 3 p.m.

 

39.9 now! Only an hour late

34 minutes ago, Meatyorologist said:

February 2019 is the only time I've ever seen a foot on the ground here in Seattle. In December 2008 it got up to ~10" at the old Magnolia appartment where my family was living, but I was out of town in Spokane (there it was over two feet!)

Interesting, I certainly has more than a 12" of snow depth in View Ridge back in Dec 2008.

Also came close in Feb 2021, but you seem to have picked up less snow than I had (11"). I guess with compaction it was more like 9.5"-10" depth.

1” here in north Seattle. It did get down to freezing as well. 
 

Hopeful Tuesday brings a little more.

Sitting at 41/27. I’m a little worried that’s too warm of a dew point…

Heaviest snow I saw was right in downtown Seattle. Really choose the absolute wrong day to leave my computer at work or I would’ve worked from home today…

Less snow in south Seattle (Rainier Valley).

12 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

Up here you either got trace-1” or got absolutely pounded. Up north in Randy’s area they got hit by 10-20” in spots. We got really lucky with about 7” of snow but places north and south of here didn’t get nearly as much. I remember being at my dads house in auburn and they just had a trace of snow. 

9 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

The perception down here was that everyone around Seattle scored big time and we got screwed. The more things change, the more they stay the same. 

Yeah, I'm pretty sure we had a trace to nothing in Seattle proper. Meanwhile Skagit was absolutely pounded. 2018 was pretty similar in that regard.

1 hour ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Hoping to finally take the road trip up through Whistler to Lillooet via the Duffey Lake Road that I was going to do last summer before a family crisis had other plans for me.

It's an absolutely gorgeous drive! I did it in December 2018 on, thankfully, a bluebird day, but somehow managed to get a flat right in midpoint between Pemberton and Lillooet at a viewpoint and then almost ran out gas. With zero cell service and well below freezing temps. Heh, oops!

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

I did qualify it by saying most... but I remember rain turning to heavy snow in Seattle on 12/20 and a biting cold east wind a couple days later.    It was really impressive from downtown Seattle north and eastward and not likely to be exceeded this time around.

It was very dynamic day indeed. Wet snow the night of 19th into the early morning hours of 20th that fully melted under heavy, 39F rain that switched to heavy snow and a flash freeze. But we only got about 1-1.5" in Seattle. I think Marysville north it was 'impressive', i.e. more substantial snow. 

Impressive drop in temp. From 48.0 at 2:30 to 37.0 now (and still dropping!)

Rain/sleet mix here in Roosevelt. The CZ hath cometh. 

Sunny and 55. Looks like it got up to 56 a bit earlier. Some other N Seattle locations are in the 58-60 range. Torch!

Is there a resource for learning more about how the MJO functions and its impacts to weather?

Decent amount of snow covering favored and untreated surfaces in Rainier Valley of Seattle. Very nice little surprise.

24 at SEA, 23 near my backyard. So not quite matching the 23 at the airport last Feb. Arctic fart. 

Just now, TT-SEA said:

I am sure Randy will agree... it was much more memorable up here.   

I also remember a beautiful 60+ degree weekend in March after lockdown when everyone was freaked out people going outside in the nice weather.   Nice weather and being outside in the open air was of course extremely dangerous back then.    That is when people were calling the police out here if there was a car parked at trailhead.   

I remember that weekend vividly. Summit has shut down their operations, but I and my roommate went up to ski tour there. Beautiful weather and spring skiing were had. Little did we know that was about the last thing we were going to do for the next few months. 

Can someone in the know be so kind as to explain why the orientation of this trough is more conducive to a backdoor blast through the Gorge as opposed to from the north? 

Is it the positioning of the N. Pacific block longitudinally, or how it angles up in Alaska, or something else?