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11 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

I didn't look at it closely... definitely a joke.   It's funny because it's something Trump might actually do.   

I will give you that one.

1 minute ago, Phishy Wx said:

twitter going nuts with aurora posts all over the country MS, TX, OK, MN, etc

 

looks like tonight is rivaling the May event in some areas. might have to take a ride in a few.  the May one was incredible here

It will probably just a take a bit to get going here like it did last time.  The moon is going to interfere though.

6 minutes ago, Meatyorologist said:

We had several hours of 18-22F snow during the Arctic front on 12/26/2022

I think that was 2021.  Yes....that one was great here too.

3 minutes ago, Tenochtitlan said:

One of three times I saw snow fall at such cold temperatures in Seattle. The other two were the start of the big storm in January 2004, and December 20, 2008.

In Feb 2021 I had snow here at 23.  The best ever was 14 on Feb 1, 1989 though.  And that was in the afternoon!

24 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Sure it means nothing but...

If these are accurate it is a shift for Harris, but this is only one poll.  538 has that state Harris +0.6 compared to Biden + 4 point something in 2020.

23 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

He is trying too hard.   20 minutes?  And no shots were even fired at him.   

Was that even true though.  Just looked like a meme to me.

36 minutes ago, Tenochtitlan said:

I remember 2010 was an especially sharp transition—we had 70’s in early November, and a few weeks later a full-blown arctic front with snow. 

That one was quite something.  I think the air mass that came in after the snow was even colder than anything in November 1985.  There are a few times I've had snow falling here at 22 degrees and that was one of them.

9 minutes ago, Cold Snap said:

Not seeing any aurora yet. Though there are some high clouds.

It looks like it should be there or at least it's very close to us.

3 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

One of the more interesting aspects of our climo is how slow we transition from spring to summer. Feels like we go from late February all the way into June. Fall happens much faster and in some years very fast. 

Interestingly both 1990 and 1991 were almost overnight.  So weird it happened in back to back years with such totally different winters afterwards.  

22 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

I think that photo from the first one really got to them.

2 hours ago, TT-SEA said:

This was already posted.    And I responded above.    Toxic rhetoric and using people as pawns for political purposes in this case is dangerous and disruptive for everyone in that town.    Its a powder keg there now... KKK put out fliers this weekend in Springfield.   

Yuck.  I hope you don't think anyone on this forum is like that.

2 minutes ago, Slushy Inch said:

He posts this but anyone who lives here knows we quickly descending into darkness.

It always kind of boggles my mind in August to think in three months it will be November.  The difference is insane.

16 minutes ago, Tenochtitlan said:

The late Nov one must have been the mini ice storm we had in Bellingham that winter. I foolishly tried biking to WWU that day, and slipped, falling on the road directly in front of a bus! Luckily the bus was able to stop, but it was a pretty close call. 

No.  We had deep cold air in 2014.  At least deep enough everything fell as snow.

43 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Which November are we talking about? 

2014

21 minutes ago, iFred said:

A reminder that Cliff Mass hates me, this forum, and most importantly, the one thing I love about our location.

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2024/09/darkness-descends-on-washington-state.html

I still kind of like the big dark. It's just I've gotten to the point where out of season gloom kind of gets to me now.

Now we're getting somewhere.

Very nice day today with a decent north wind blowing much of day.  68/47 IMBY.

Just saw this one even though it was posted quite a while ago.  In a situation like the valleys of CA west of the Sierras are in, the cold air (which mainly slides down east of the mountains) creates higher pressure east of the mountains which forces the air to flow westward toward the valleys and the ocean.  When the air is forced over the mountains it compresses the air that is in place west of the mountains which warms and dries the air.  Even though the air begins cold it ends up warm at the surface in the valleys west of the mountains.  If the air mass east of the mountains is really cold then the valleys west of the mountains can also end up somewhat cold.

Even up in WA State, which is where I live, this same thing happens although the air is often a lot colder to begin with than what you experience down there.  In spite of that there is a still a lot warming as the air compresses west of the mountains.

5 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

69/46 so far today very nice. Tonight looks much clearer than last night so if the Aurora can get its act together than maybe a chance. 

Kp is only 1.67 right now.  Not sure if this is going to pan out.

The EPS isn't backing from down from a considerably milder and drier pattern than the GFS for week two.

2 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Sounds like it was driven by capitalism... that is where factories needed workers.    

Still a problem for that town though logistically speaking.

55 minutes ago, iFred said:

 People should be making less. As a business owner, I don't want to waste money on employees when I could be investing in my success. I am all for outsourcing, offshoring, and automation, as that it the most efficient means to use capital. If someone is concerned about their wage, well, then they can go make more money. It isn't that hard.

Your last two sentences are often true.  The first part is kind of obtuse though.

29 minutes ago, Tenochtitlan said:

People have the right to choose where to live…there is no law saying that legal immigrants can’t all move to a given city or town if that’s where the jobs they want are. It’s nothing new…America has always grown in population this way. And how do we remember those who tried to run immigrants out of town in the past? Not well. 

It is really problematic when you have 5,000 moving into a town with 10,000 people though.  Easy to see why people would get a bit bent out of shape about that.  I still bet that practice can be traced back to the Biden administration somehow anyway.

50 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

The conversation on here the past 2-3 days has really devolved. 

That's really saying something!

2 minutes ago, StormchaserChuck1 said:

The problem is, they have correlation composites where you can lag/lead index states (very helpful for seeing what is leading to what). I was using Sept -PNA to assess that there was probably a higher probability that this January would be +NAO. When they call a huge Aleutian ridge a +PNA, it messes me up.. I can go through the years and make H5 comparisons, but that takes so much more time. They seem to like Alaska for the PNA (low pressure over Alaska is +pna, high pressure -pna). I don't like that because that's the EPO domain. 

I haven't followed their changes. I usually just look at the graphs... but there has been a big disconnect between the H5 pattern and what the index state is. I'm sure there is a reason, like they are using 200mb winds or something lol. but I just don't know what it is. 

Now I see what you're getting at.  Very annoying in that case.