I'm almost wondering if some places could have freezing high temps today. Really cold this morning, thicknesses falling during the day, and rapidly increasing clouds. Looks like it dropped to 23 here this morning.
The ICON is pretty darn good for King County tonight. Who knows... In other news the 6z ensemble mean keeps the 850s at -9 or lower for better than 2 days. Extended again.
As of today SEA is now running below normal for Feb. Nearly 0.5 below in fact. Got to love those double digit minus departures. Hard to believe we still have a good two days of solid cold left before it moderates a tad.
For here 2007 - 2012 was really on the right track and then it just went to snow wise. No doubt from a cold outbreak perspective we are worlds better than 1999 - 2006. That period was nightmarish.
Yup...this is kind of like the cold outbreaks of 2013-14. I have no idea what is preventing a classic 1950s type block from developing. The details are just wrong.
Just don't pay attention when I'm like this. I just feel like we have been cheated for years now with these things. In reality you guys have been scoring with pretty much every cold snap.
Latest GFS ensemble shows 850s bottoming at around -11.5 for SEA Thursday morning. Incredible sustained 850s below -9 from Sunday through Friday morning with this event.
Yup. There is simply no mechanism to turn the systems inland over southern WA. Snow would be a virtual lock if that could happen. Terribly frustrating to have a 150 block and not get anything out of it. In all seriousness NW OR is due to be snubbed for about 5 years while Seattle gets nailed regularly.
I'm thinking the chances are at least 50% Seattle won't score a decent snow out of this entire cold snap. Tonight's Euro is really bad, but it could be wrong.