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Not as cold in the Puget Sound as areas exposed to the Gorge but some impressive totals there as well: Olympia: 8.4" SeaTac: 5.1" Sedro Wooley: 6.5"

Since there's not much going on, I was looking at some past events and March 1960 looks incredible. Snow Totals: Hood River: 20" McMinnville: 11" Forest Grove: 8.5" Salem: 8.5" Longview: 5" Hillsboro: 5" Corvallis: 4" The more impressive part was probably the temps though. A lot of stations highs below freezing. Here are the coldest high temps: Hood River: 24/16 Troutdale: 28/23 PDX: 29/24 Hillsboro: 30/22 Salem: 33/25 (2) Forest Grove: 32/23

Surprisingly, the maximum temp this month of 54 so far is actually the "coolest" since 2017. Mostly just shows how torchy the past few Januarys have been.

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We were in the single digits the morning of 1/13/2017 with a foot of snow on the ground!

73 years ago today:

Better than the 4/-10 Spokane put up?

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Last January was only -0.1 here. Not terrible for recent years though. 2017 had a -8.4 departure

I and probably many others really appreciate the updates as well even if I don't comment much here.

I think that's a fair metric, though for me personally maybe if a ton of snow falls over a bit longer period of time then maybe it could also be an A, or a lot of subfreezing highs. By that metric I think the only winter to get an A+ this century would be 2016/2017 (10.5" of snow in ~6 hours, 13" in 12 then HIO a few miles away from me dropped to 3 degrees) and As would be 2008/09 (I wasn't here but I'd guess over a foot fell in a 24hr time frame, around 25-30" of snow that winter) and 2013/2014 (Single digits in December, then a high in the low 20s with 10" of snow in February)

Wow, that's a nice amount of snow!

How much snow have you had? I'd go with maybe a C. No snow really but we did have our coldest day since 2014 with the sharp and brief arctic intrusion.

The ground was basically a layered cake of ice/sleet/snow here which was really interesting. Nice event but sadly less snow then expected.

Wow, how does the rest of it look?

Agreed

Yeah I'd 100% take most of those Februaries over 2019 but regionally it was really impressive. We had like 4" of snow in 2019 mostly late in the month.

Yep. Fun to look at though. I'd agree February 2019 is probably the most impressive February in probably the last 75 years at least and just a great month for consistent cold and snowy in most areas except here.

Looking at 1887 amazes me. Am average temp of 32.0 and negative temp departures every day except last two days. Consistent cold + a major airmass

Going back further February 1887 and 1936 were also all pretty great.

That's a pretty big change in agreement for just one run, and looks a bit faster too

It was a decent airmass at least. Coldest airmass at Salem besides February 2018 (-10.5) since December 2013, though it was as cold as December 2016 (-10.1) for 850mb temps there. We kind of got snowholed in December as well, more snow to the south and north. Our biggest snow event that winter was 2" in April

Went back to last January as well and early February. GEFS got the Late Feb cold wave pretty well, just a few days early.

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