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12 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

No one has said it’s been a wall to wall blowtorch. But as that map shows, it’s been moderately above normal across the board. And we have had some significant ridging events, mid-March being the most notable. 

I wouldn't call mostly 0 to +2 with pockets of 0 to -2 moderately above normal across the board. It's not perfectly average, but this spring has been pretty darn close for most lowland locations.

And that will be even more the case by Tuesday.

6 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

Tomorrow will clear earlier than modeled over the Sound with a mostly-dissipated occlusion front overhead and weakly negative low level lapse rates. Any residual stratus should be digested mighty well by that steamin' late April sun, mixing skies into hazy sunshine before noon. I'm going for a gutsy 64/47 day at KSEA. Might even get a bit muggy, some CAM's have dewpoints pushing fifty in the favored sheltered areas, despite what I claim to be too much modeled cloudcover.

This forecast may be in trouble.

30 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Looks like some models want to immediately return us to a regime dominated by ridging, much like we saw in the mid-March to mid-April timeframe. Would be par for the course. Was hoping this cool and wet pattern would have a little more lasting power, but that’s asking a lot these days.

At least it's been a pretty temperate spring so far. And of course this map will look cooler in a few days.

1 hour ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Nougats are playin'

They stole the Laker's soul, burned it, and then flushed it down the toilet.

2 hours ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

In this case, SLE will be the outlier, since most other station in NW Oregon/SW WA should end up above average for the month.

Glad you have identified an Olympia, Oregon though!

That was the point, sir.

Although PDX will still be the outlier on the opposite end, with a warmer anomaly than anywhere else.

Should end up as a pretty average month overall.

At least half these top 15 QB picks will almost certainly be busts. Could actually see this being one of the bustiest drafts ever for QBs.

Nix vs Wilson vs Stidham QB battle should be interesting for Broncos. Lol.

Calling it right now. SLE will pull off a below normal April, making it three in a row.

PDX will NOT.

1 hour ago, Phishy Wx said:

we haven't gotten a single drop over here, will be turning on sprinklers on Saturday

I am taking all the drops this weekend.

2 hours ago, YahRaEl said:

 

Must be just me then energy been off. Feel like something big gonna happen within the next couple weeks. 

1 hour ago, MossMan said:

One of those jingles indelibly burned into my brain forever. 

23 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

McDonald’s coffee is okay. It’s fairly strong for something you buy at a fast food place. I cannot drink Dutch Bros, it just takes like hot water to me. 

DB is the most popular Oregonian thing around here. I get to be the guy who knew the band before they got big.

29 minutes ago, Frontal Snowsquall said:

I’m not a fan of the Chick Fil A there. I wish they would have turned that into the In-N-Out instead. I’m going to miss the Hawaiian Time that they are going to tear down now. Best Hawaiian food in the PNW.

I recently discovered an amazing Hawaiian place here in Denver. I will be poorer for it. But it's healthier than any of these burger joints!

40 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

I am all for rainy days and sunny days interspersed.    Spring climo!

Much more angst when the inevitable prolonged rainy stretch shows up in the models, though.

Even when you "luck out" and are out of town for most of it!

8 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

Check out May/June 1971. Seven record low maxes at SEA. And a couple of 59s in early July for good measure. 

What a time!

What's crazy is May/June 2011 was actually cooler at OLM. And April-June was significantly cooler than 1971. 

Generational spring/early summer.

12 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Record low maxes happen often??   That sucks.   Seems like we had a bunch of crap in April and May of 2022.  That wasn't so long ago.   

The 51/42 SEA saw on 5/12/22 will long live in infamy. Record cold max, beating out the 53 seen in 1999.

2 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

Tim has had it so easy for so long. 

I was thinking the same thing, and it's definitely true for the warm season overall. 

But for April and to a lesser extent May, he should be well aware of how chilly it can be at times. April 2023, April/May 2022...even in 2021 there was a raw high of 50 on this date, and May ran -.6 at SEA.

Mid 60s don't become the norm until mid May. Which, granted, is only 3 weeks away.

4 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Hopefully the upward trend in the ensembles is not just a default to climo in long range and there is an actual warm up ahead.    Mid 50s is great in March but not so much in May.  

 

Record cold maxes are in the mid 40s this time of year for SEA...

This is really the only MacDonald's I ever crave. 

16 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

That's why they're installing kiosks in most of them. The days of the happy-go-lucky McDonald's cash register worker are almost over

Something tells me this won't lead to prices dropping back down, though.

3 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

At least fast food workers in CA make $20 an hour now, unless they bake bread!

But even in god-forsaken CA, you can still get a $1.50 hot dog and soda at Costco!

4 minutes ago, MossMan said:

I haven’t had McDonalds in a decade…However I do still crave a quarter pounder now and again but I always refrain when driving past. Also it’s getting quite expensive, we stopped at Taco Time after the kids soccer practice to grab dinner and it was $50! Good lord! Another reason why we rarely eat out while on the go anymore. 

In a lot of places, fast food prices have inflated more than any other type of food - mainly because the cost of labor has skyrocketed.

46 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

300+ hour precip maps are back!

But at least even the semi-realistic near term looks fairly wet.

21 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Ended up with a 75/45 day here yesterday. Sunny and warm with high clouds and times and a cooling breeze in the evening.

Looking at the 500mb pattern I wouldn’t have called it a setup where PDX would make a run at 80 but there it was. Looks like VUO put up a 76/41 day.

It's more notable when PDX isn't the warmest station in the metro area. 1-3 degrees seems standard at this point.

11 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

I can't imagine being north of 40 and still eating fast food regularly. Unless you have the most amazing metabolism or have time to workout 6 hours a day it seems like the perfect pipeline to obesity. Whenever I make the mistake of grabbing a McChicken or something because I'm in the hurry I always feel like garbage for the next few hours. Like eating poison. 

You may have just solved the obesity epidemic, Andrew.

6 hours ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

You know who makes a surprisingly good milkshake? Shari's.

Have you tried their pieshakes?