Brian_in_Leavenworth

That's just insane. An incredible block, and the jetstream underneath pointed right at us. Each storm will bury us and draw in more bitterly cold air

-33 in Spokane.

That's fair.

Having lived in Bellingham from 1984 through 2013, those winds are no joke, though the worst winds are north of town, especially north of the Smith road. It may keep Bellingham from getting a lot of snow, but it feels pretty nasty when it's that cold and the wind is blowing. I'm guessing a lot of kids are wearing shorts these days. They may be in for a rude awakening.

I think we're tired of you injecting your politics into every tweet of his that's posted. Knock it off and keep it to weather.

By the time you read this, we'll be at page 155.

Perfect example of why a mean can sometimed be worthless.

Conflicting reports!

How often do you see such big changes in an ensemble? And it's just 6 hours ago.

For comparison here is the operational at 192.

What he said. Oh wait, that's me.

There has been mediocre runs lately, but none did what the GEM did. This was totally out of left field.

Why not? We ignored the 12z GFS when the 12Z GEM was so good.

Imagine this storm being further south

Interesting that the GEM, while a huge step back, still has an awful lot of real cold air just across the border.

He said a polar vortex episode would start at -40C. Here is a map showing -42 to -45C in Washington

Interesting that I don't hear the 500hPa temps mentioned. Good tweet from Maue. The 12Z Euro was Siberian air, true polar vortex

Icon at 180 looks almost exactly like the 12z GFS at hour 192

Wasn't trying to be critical, just curious, as maybe you saw a map past hour 147.

What hour? Hour 147 is further east. Arctic air to the north, yes, and colder than last nights. But it looks like it's not quite as good asn12z

Not in Whatcom County. Wind gust of over 100 MPH. Not much snow at all.

2008 had temps below 5 in Bellingham where I lived at the time, and I think Randy may have gotten below zero. We were quite cold in Leavenworth last December, some places in town got to about -10. Of course we are colder here anyway, and I have seen temps go to around 0 or maybe -1 or -2, but locals who have been here longer than me said it was the coldest temps in a really long time.

Speaking of December 2008, I don't think this website has archives going back that far. BUT the KPTV blog that Mark Nelsen runs does. You can go back and see the evolution of how it happened through his posts, and how bleak things looked. But before I provide the links I found a picture from then of a get together that he had, and at least 2 of our current members are in it. Tyler Mode and Rob (Gradient Keeper). Here is the end of November 2008, not looking good, though Deweydog mentioned that it was a classic retrograde situation, and his last post showed a ridge over us https://fox12weather.wordpress.com/2008/11/ This is December, and it starts off at the end, so you'll have to scroll down a ways to get to the beginning of the month and then work your way back. https://fox12weather.wordpress.com/2008/12/

Based on the GFS. Wonder what it would look like if it was based on the Euro.

Huskies left because the Pac 12 was awful in general as far as money and exposure were concerned. So many games playes late at night where nobody back east was watching. Hard to recruit and hard to consistently be national title contenders, and don't forget the two most visible schools, USC and UCLA had already decided to leave. Don't blame the Huskies because the PAC-12 was terribly ran. Actually the fault of all the schools. Oregon left at the same time for the same reason.