Kayla

This is all very interesting. My signature says it all. I will be up at all hours of the night over the next several weeks/months. I'm sure I'll check out the 06z runs more than usual, just because.

Wow. Congrats!!!

Yeah, Euro actually looks good today.

And so continues some great model trends. (I feel like we have been saying this for weeks now). It is nice to see the event at 192 hours now though.

ECMWF looks pretty arctic to me....

00z ECMWF is fantastic tonight. Loving the trends.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised how much the different the GFS and parallel GFS is compared to the ECMWF as of late, but I'm still surprised. And here I thought the "upgraded" GFS would be better at seeing these large scale pattern changes...silly me.

http://download.ecmwf.org/data/web249/get_legacy_plot-web249-20141214185613-28094-0539.gif

12z ECMWF at 240 hours is money

Officially the 5 second gust in 1995 was 62mph, but instant gusts were 74mph.

 

http://www.climate.washington.edu/stormking/December1995.html

 

Today the instant gusts were 67mph, so the 1995 storm was safely a bit stronger there.

Got it, makes sense. Thanks for the clarification. 

I believe that 74mph was measured differently... I think the NWS considers it 62mph.

Agreed. Back then they used a 3 second average for peak gusts. Now I believe it is 5 seconds.

Strongest there since 74mph in 1995.

Did it really gust to 74mph in 1995? NWS record report from today is saying the 67mph gust today was highest since March 26th 1971.

PDX gusted to 67.

 

Non-event. 

Strongest gust for PDX since March 1971?!?

Incredibly overachieving storm.