snow_wizard

It's been quite a bit colder, probably due to cloud cover, here. Mostly hanging in the 34 to 36 range for much of the day.

Looks like there could be one last gasp of snow in a while as some moisture rotates from the ENE toward the area. Shouldn't be any problems with sticking now.

That's the way it should always be.

Worst case scenario here too. I knew some flakes would fall and they did, but....

This one fooled me. I was really confident it would be a good snow maker here. I think you are correct the first low being south would have done the trick.

Very crisp NW wind blowing here. Close to the strongest I've seen here out of this direction. Amazing how the dryness adds such an invigorating feel to it.

I'll be interested to see if we have gone into a true 1950s mode or not. Right now the setup reeks of the 50s. The big SSW might have really shifted us into a new regime. This summer being cool would be nice...after a northerly flow dominated spring.

I guess he deserved it this time. I did well in Feb last winter and with the Christmas snow this winter. I'm still bummed though.

Once it freezes up you will be set for the week.

From an upper level perspective this is probably the coldest setup since then. Certainly the most north wind prone setup.

What is the solar radiation for early January?

Jealous. Fabulous time to score big with all of the cold days coming up. You are going to get some fabulous low temps the next couple of nights with that heavy snow cover. Looking at the web cams it's pretty obvious the score zone was very narrow with this.

We used up our last trick for getting snow here and ended up with nothing on the ground going into the cold snap. It snowed 4 times...out of those it stuck 3 times, but melted off pretty fast. Pretty bad luck for this setup. I actually think the cold air having to advect into BC before it could get here is what hurt us. If the cold had already been in place it would have really helped our cause. I think the 500mb pattern was good for a lot more than what we saw.

The ICON is much colder on this run after the Tuesday night system with thicknesses dropping well below 516 again. Looks like some places are going to do well with that system.

Finally! Snowing pretty hard and actually sticking. The snow is blowing sideways on brisk NW winds.

Snowing pretty hard here now with big flakes. Temp is 34 and slowly dropping. The ECMWF shows an inch or so here Tuesday evening.

Just east of 18 and just north of 516. I'm JUST in the snow zone now.

I could end up very lucky or very unlucky here with this snow band. It is snowing lightly now, but the northward momentum has almost run out. Going to be a close call between just a dusting and may an inch or two.

Just amazing how the cold setup keeps going.

I had about 0.2" earlier and now a heavy snow band is CREEPING northward toward me. Web cams show this is producing rather heavy snowfall. Moving so slow is good in the long run, but the wait is agonizing.

Fabulous track. It pulls cold air off the continent the entire time.

The ICON is really good King County tomorrow morning. Looks excellent for the mid week event too.

Really nice shower field off the coast. The flow at 850mb and 700mb levels becomes more WSW a bit later so places south of Seattle should get snow then. In the morning a low pressure center at both levels ends up right over Puget Sound. Things like that are really unpredictable.

Hard to believe that date has threaded the needle for so long. It's almost a lock for it to fall this week, but clouds could make it close.

Wow. It dropped to 25 here.