Front Ranger

53 minutes ago, T-Town said:

Flyin chickens in the barnyard!!!

GET ON UP FOR THE DOWNSTROKE!

1 hour ago, Cold Snap said:

Well this is an L.

Thanks for nothing, AI.

3 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Sounds like nitpicking to me.

I mean, we can go with PDX records are all that matter if you want. But you yourself have many times pointed out how unrepresentative the airport is of your area and much of the metro. Thought that was something we agreed on.

52 minutes ago, T-Town said:

Like a soaking rain followed by sun and 60ish?

4 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

Colder upper level airmass this weekend moves in. Doesn't look like a ton of stratiform precip though. There's likely going to be a fair amount of sun breakage most days. 

Just let Tim believe he's missing the most MISERABLE, DREARY week ever whiles he's gone.

2 hours ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

As usual, what is your point? It was still a hot and dry May, and now we’re looking at the possibility of another one.

The point was you say "we" saw a record hot May in 2023, but it was far from the whole metro - just PDX. Some months have been legit record hot across the whole area, but that wasn't one of them.

Obviously it was very dry and warm, but the whole record month thing doesn't hold as much weight when it's a station seeing 50% more of them than other places.

1 minute ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Headed straight for Waterloo, NE and it could smack the entire town.

Song is on point.

40 minutes ago, Tyler Mode said:

Quite the flip in models now...looking much sunnier later next week.

Short-lived ridging on the Euro.

2 hours ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

We would have a solid head start on an all-time record warm May if the 12z GFS verified. Been awhile since our last one, almost a whole year!

Not sure how many on here live at PDX, but I do know that last May was not record warm such places as downtown Portland, Vancouver, and Battle Ground.

4 hours ago, TT-SEA said:

I said that to my son last night and listed some first 'pick of the draft' QB busts like JaMarcus Russell in 2007.    Who??

All-time great bust!

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.