TT-SEA

It has rained on 24 out of the last 27 days at SEA. Mountains are absolutely buried in snow. Yeah... some drier more pleasant weather would be nice about now. We have to wait another week though.

Our daffodils are just itching to open up. Saturday is my guess.

I hate skiing in the fog and precipitation... you end up soaking wet and can't see anything. Waste of money and time. I don't think there would be much fog at this point in the year under a ridge like is shown next week.

Roads were a total mess on Sunday... we were going to go but it was ice rink here. So yes... its been hard to enjoy the snow because the precipitation never ends. Give me a couple sunny days on the slopes!

High of 62 at PDX today. Looks like the next 3 days will be close to 60 at SEA and PDX even with the waves of rain. Watch out... trees are going to start flowering even more.

Hoping for good skiing later next week and next weekend... we are heading to Silver Mountain in Idaho. Gondola right from the lobby and a huge waterpark to keep the kids entertained in the evenings. We went last year and it was great... never waited in a lift line once in 4 days. I highly recommend it for families. http://www.silvermt.com/

Every GFS ensemble member shows fairly good ridging over us in a week. Would be pretty nice weather... and great skiing. Its been hard to enjoy all the snow in the mountains because the precipitation never ends. http://mp1.met.psu.edu/~fxg1/ENSHGT_18z/f180.gif

Sure... if the cold was farther south it would be drier. But that was not to be the case this time around. And having that tight thermal gradient is making for tons of rain in between and creating the perfect path for storms to follow this week. Next week should be better without that cold air parked to the north... even if there are systems coming through.

That is why its so wet this week. Get that cold air out of here. PDX is on a 60-degree roll... second day in a row.

Define arctic.

No kidding. Thanks for the stating the obvious!

It would be closer. Anything within the resolution change is at least fair game. By the way... the last 2 runs of the GFS have been awesome for next week but the ECMWF says screw that so I am sure it won't be happening.

384 hours on the 18Z GFS? I supposed by random coincidence at some point.

No... ridging would be fine for the mountains. Relax... life will go on and the mountains are good for the summer now. Water supply will be just fine... if not above normal.

Why show this? Even if this was 120 hours out... that cold ULL would still probably end up about 500 miles to the north. The models all showed that last week for right now. Here is what we got: http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/data/gfs/18/gfs_namer_000_500_vort_ht.gif

That would only happen with warm rain events like the one shown for this coming weekend.

Mountains are good.

Keep it away. It just flirts with us and then sets up days of rain along the boundary. I would rather no cold air gets within 1,000 miles of us until next November at this point. It does nothing but produce cold, lumpy rain and ice.

Big time. And next weekend looks like we will be stuck inside watching it rain again as well. That ridge just can't amplify enough.

Was just looking through the 500mb maps from the 1960 event... very similar overall. Even the lobe of cold air that rotates off the BC coast and puts us into wet, westerly flow. I hope the pattern keeps evolving the same way so we get that ridge and warm weather like 3/18-25 1960.

Hope you had a great weekend! Much better than being on here. Although being home for the snow might have been nice.

Wishing misery on most everyone around you and hoping our climate is way outside its norm in a bad way... so that your computer screen is easier to read? Try closing the shades.

Loved that picture from the coast! I was thinking you would have snow out there.

Right.

Its coming soon... it showed it hitting between 7-10 p.m.