Abbotsford_wx

As for heat index, the highest I've experienced was 109 during the July 2009 heatwave. For comparison, the highest I've seen this summer is only 100.

The smoke is so thick here today that I've recorded a maximum UV of 0.0. The last time I recorded no UV at all was on March 28th.

Interestingly, the smoke hasn't affected solar radiation as much. I recorded a max of 367 w/m2 so far today. A completely sunny day at this time of the year produces an average of about 875 w/m2, at least on my Davis.
 

The smoke has really taken the edge of this heatwave. We had just one really hot day in the mid 90's, and a couple of days near or just below 90. My high so far today is only 80F.

I'm a bit bummed because I would much rather be setting heat records right now than dealing with all this smoke.

It was 58.6 / 90.0 here today, and it's already down to 71 this evening.

Yesterday was 58.6 / 95.4

The smoke has been pretty bad with visibility generally between 3 and 7 miles.

Hottest: 100F, July 2009

Coldest: 0F, January 1993

Coldest Windchill: -22F, February 1989

Schools around here never closed for snow when I went to school. I think they did close for 2 or 3 days this winter, but it's pretty rare. I grew up a few towns over in Surrey, and they didn't close schools in December 1990, January 1993, or Dec 1996.

1981-2010 Averages

8.7 days > 30°C (86F)

0.45 days > 35°C (95F)

I'm not sure what the exact number of 90F days would be, but probably around 5 days per year.

I've been waffling between a B+ and an A-, but I'm keeping it at a B+ for now. If I were a total stat freak, I'd easily give it an A- or maybe even an A, but these days I'm more interested in extreme events. Stuff like mean temperatures or the number of days with snow or sub-freezing highs (although important factors) don't impress me quite as much, but it's been a very good winter by those measures.

I've had at least 30 days with snow in the air, and 26 of those with measurable snow (defined as .1" or more). However, the majority of those days featured very wet, slushy snow that often changed over to rain. The number of days with quality snow was far lower (probably fewer than 10).

The lack of any top tier arctic air masses is the main reason I'm sticking with a B+. I still managed 21 days with sub-freezing highs, but many of those were just barely below freezing.

B+

Time to do a post mortem on 2013-14 and this winter and see what 500mb differences there have been that have caused the Fraser outflow to be less forceful / cold.  I know with the cold waves this season the CAA has just been too slow to allow situations that could have easily been snow here.  At the same time a weaker blast probably favored SW BC because it didn't overpower the moisture too quickly.  Just a perfect storm of failure for Seattle.

You would think so, but in actual fact it was a bit of a mixed bag. Practically every event was borderline. Areas near sea level generally stayed too mild for significant snowfall, while elevated areas (300 ft and up) scored some pretty healthy totals. I'm at about 200 ft, so I was sort of in between - I've scored just under 20". If winter were to end today, I'd be slightly below average. There are quite a few sea level areas up here that have probably scored less snowfall than PDX this winter. We tend to do much better with strong CAA.

4.6", 180 ft, Abbotsford, BC

They will lower the temps once the actual airmass makes it into our region/ Just making sure it doesn't hook a left turn accidently.... Next weekend is starting to look phenomonal as well

Probably, since there is not much cold air upstream yet. The trough is going to be pretty fast moving, so things will progress quickly (assuming things go as planned).

Environment Canada is also being very conservative up here...

Sorry I forgot how to convert it to degrees F... but 1C is about 34F

Light snow here and 28F. About half an inch of new snow and 5" on the ground in total.

Pretty similar results around here... 2-3 weeks of cold weather with snow on the ground but not much elsewhere.   Consistently cold enough to freeze the pond by our house.   

 

Difference was in the timing... this year was about 2 weeks earlier.  

It may be similar for the immediate Puget Sound area, but up here it hasn't been remotely comparable. There was no Fraser outflow to speak of last December.

13F this morning up here. Still about 6" of snow on the grass (peak depth was 9" on Saturday night).

24.5F here with 2" so far.

Pretty disappointing up here so far... maybe a quarter inch of slush, which has already mostly melted. Currently 34.5F, so it's pretty hard to build up a base. It also doesn't help that we're approaching midday... really need some outflow to drop the temp back down.

WRF shows a fair amount of sunshine today for Olympia northward.   

 

Just when we finally want precip... now we get sun!  

This is actually perfect. We should drop below freezing this evening which means any snow we get tomorrow morning will stick.

Waiting for daylight.

 

And it is really odd... the blooms are so nice here too.   Some better looking than in the summer.  

Roses are also blooming up here. The lawn at my work is 6" high with little yellow flowers growing in it. I think the contract for mowing it ended at the end of October. Normally the grass doesn't really grow after that.

Will we see any sunshine during the next week, and what days have the best chance? Tomorrow looks okay... maybe Monday, Tuesday?

I've only recorded 13 hours of sunshine in November (and 28 days of rain).

Plowing now at Snoqualmie Pass... my son is watching this non-stop.   

 

 

 

Not even raining here... and dead calm.   I doubt we have even seen .10 for the day.     

I can beat that... I've seen less than a hundredth in the last 24 hours.

Another ridiculously mild day on tap.

Only 43 up here today... surprisingly chilly.

Having said that, it's going to be hard to avoid a record warm November. We could squeak into second place behind 1949, but it'll be close.

Only 39 here. Still waiting for my first frost.

It's even 72 at Abbotsford... wow.

That breaks the daily record by 12 degrees, and the November record by 2.7 degrees. It could have even gotten higher in between hours.

It was sunny here earlier but now it's mostly cloudy. It's so hard to get a sunny day at this time of the year. The last mostly sunny day was October 11th.

It is warm though.. peaked at 64 before the clouds moved in.