[Missing] March 2022 PNW Wx Discussion

[Gradient Keeper]

22 minutes ago, The Blob said:

Took surface streets to work and found the world's largest fork. Also sunset was beautiful. 

I think Mark Nelsen put it there. Yeah. Okay.

00z ECMWF in 1 hour 41 minutes

[Phil]

1 hour ago, MossMan said:

Yeah the ground is too wet in that location. Probably root rot, been like that ever since we bought the place 4yrs ago. I think you have noticed that tree a few times over the years! 

Why is it still standing?

[The Blob]

27 minutes ago, DJ Droppin said:

I think Mark Nelsen put it there. Yeah. Okay.

00z ECMWF in 1 hour 41 minutes

I think the city of Fairview just wants to be in the Genis Book of records. My home city has the worlds largest Dixie cup.

[MossMan]

27 minutes ago, Phil said:

Why is it still standing?

I’m not a fan of cutting half rotten trees that large as they are so unpredictable and it’s not enough of an issue to get a tree service out yet. 

[Dan the Weatherman]

10 hours ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Looks like wetter storms could be moving in by next weekend on the 12z Euro at least 

I would like to see a series of large storms coming off the Pacific to bring drought relief to much of the West, including CA and OR!

[Dan the Weatherman]

9 hours ago, snow_wizard said:

Sometime this weekend I'm going to do a thread about the first 6 winters of the 21st century vs the last 6 for the PNW lowlands.  By every metric the last 6 have been far better than the 2000-01 to 2005-06 period which strongly goes against the narrative of an out of control warming climate.  At this point it looks like the beginning of this century may have been rock bottom for us.  Anyway, I will have the numbers in the thread.

Unfortunately, California has been in increasingly bad drought conditions this past decade, and we need a reversal in this pattern very soon, or else the western 2/3 of the country except Washington is going to suffer from a devastating Dust Bowl-era like drought. So the last 6 winters, more like the past 10 have not been so good for much of the other parts of the West.

[Timmy Supercell]

The wait is over. Finally had my first t'storm in Ashland, there will be so many of these I'll only save video for good ones. 

Sure didn't cool down at all last night. Except for when it started raining. lol

[Timmy Supercell]

That was briefly a downpour. It wasn't long enough I guess that the airport would pick up anything heavier than "light rain". 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

1 hour ago, Timmy_Supercell said:

That was briefly a downpour. It wasn't long enough I guess that the airport would pick up anything heavier than "light rain". 

14 in Klamtucky this morning. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

06z EURO ensembles get down to -8.5C at 850mb for PDX now. Still significantly colder than the GFS. 

[Thunder98]

Moscow, ID only has a forecasted high of 28F on Wednesday. That seems quite impressive for March. Their avg high temp for this time of year is in the upper 40's.

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Hit 32 this morning. First freeze of March. Back in 2012 we had 23 freezes in March.

[T-Town]

Very thick fog here this morning. 38 degrees. 

[Timmy Supercell]

52 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

14 in Klamtucky this morning. 

I do miss the amount of fog the west coast had. Not so much of it out here.

[TacomaWaWx]

37 after a low of 33. Very foggy. 

[TacomaWaWx]

Last nights euro didn’t look too bad. Chilly then wet. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

5 years ago today we had 10" of snow. 

[TacomaWaWx]

1 minute ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

5 years ago today we had 10" of snow. 

We picked up a trace of snow here 3 years ago today…trace on 3/7 and 1/2” on 3/8 as well. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

5 minutes ago, TacomaWaWx said:

We picked up a trace of snow here 3 years ago today…trace on 3/7 and 1/2” on 3/8 as well. 

That was kind of the last hurrah for us 3 years ago. I believe it was the evening of the 8th we were getting ready to go to Arizona for two weeks and we were getting nuked with snow. There was still quite a bit of snow on the ground when we got back. 

[TacomaWaWx]

March 2019 was probably the most wild March I can remember. Set some record lows and even some snowfall in the first 1/3 of the month…then torched bigtime in the final 2/3 of the month. Went from 38/29 and 1/2” or snow on 3/8 to 76/45 just 10 days later. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

12z GFS looks fairly active starting next Saturday. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

1 minute ago, TacomaWaWx said:

March 2019 was probably the most wild March I can remember. Set some record lows and even some snowfall in the first 1/3 of the month…then torched bigtime in the final 2/3 of the month. Went from 38/29 and 1/2” or snow on 3/8 to 76/45 just 10 days later. 

March 2019 was pretty dry here, there was a fairly large wildfire in the Santiam Canyon by the end of the month as that warm spell had a very dry offshore flow component and the spring green up had not occurred yet. In the early days of the pandemic we went down to Santiam Park and walked around through part of the burn scar... Then 6 months later...

[TacomaWaWx]

10 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

March 2019 was pretty dry here, there was a fairly large wildfire in the Santiam Canyon by the end of the month as that warm spell had a very dry offshore flow component and the spring green up had not occurred yet. In the early days of the pandemic we went down to Santiam Park and walked around through part of the burn scar... Then 6 months later...

September 2020 was nuts too. The east wind event on Labor Day was surreal. One of the rare times nobody was happy about an extreme weather event. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

2 minutes ago, TacomaWaWx said:

September 2020 was nuts too. The east wind event on Labor Day was surreal. One of the rare times nobody was happy about an extreme weather event. 

Obviously I'll never forget that. The first part of Labor Day was so nice. It was pretty hot, my wife's family all met us at a park about 10 miles north of here, and the kids spent the day playing in the water. It was sunny and clear without the hint of a breeze. Then by mid-afternoon the sky turned very hazy, I drove back home with my brother in law and we stopped at an overlook on the back road home. On a clear day the view stretches from the Table Rock Wilderness about 15 miles east of us to Mt. Hood and even Mt. Adams, but by this point the visibility was down to probably about 1/2 mile from the smoke. The wind was howling and branches were breaking everywhere in the woods. By 9pm the power went out and the wind kept howling, it was very strange and eerie, especially with the low visibility and smell of smoke. The last text I got before the power went out was from a friend saying they were worried about us, we went to bed early, and the next thing I knew it was morning and the sheriff's deputy was pounding on the front door telling us to go.  

[SilverFallsAndrew]

12z has a classic Nina March look to it. Gives us a nice snow event on the 18-19th. 

[The Blob]

@hawkstwelve is this you?

[Phil]

1 hour ago, Timmy_Supercell said:

I do miss the amount of fog the west coast had. Not so much of it out here.

Late summer and autumn is fog season here. Rarely if ever see it in the spring. Boundary layer too dry/mixed (at least on this side of the apps).

Now that I think of it, I can’t remember ever experiencing fog in M/A/M in my lifetime. And possibly not in June either.

[MossMan]

Currently cloudy and 41. 33 for a low. 

[Timmy Supercell]

5 minutes ago, Phil said:

Late summer and autumn is fog season here. Rarely if ever see it in the spring. Boundary layer too dry/mixed (at least on this side of the apps).

Now that I think of it, I can’t remember ever experiencing fog in M/A/M in my lifetime. And possibly not in June either.

It was only a cold phenomenon where I came from. Fog in anything over 45 degrees was about unheard of in the northwest. Unless you count a really thin mist as fog, which I think can happen in the mid Spring in parts of Washington.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

3/8/19

[Phil]

13 minutes ago, Timmy_Supercell said:

It was only a cold phenomenon where I came from. Fog in anything over 45 degrees was about unheard of in the northwest. Unless you count a really thin mist as fog, which I think can happen in the mid Spring in parts of Washington.

Basically opposite over here. Humidity increases steadily into August, then as nights grow longer you’ll start getting radiation fog and low clouds. Come Sep/Oct it can be quite thick and last much of the day in sheltered areas.

[Cascadia_Wx]

Had another freeze just after midnight then low clouds filled in currently 43 and mostly cloudy ended up with a 54/32 day yesterday 

[Cascadia_Wx]

18 minutes ago, Phil said:

Basically opposite over here. Humidity increases steadily into August, then as nights grow longer you’ll start getting radiation fog and low clouds. Come Sep/Oct it can be quite thick and last much of the day in sheltered areas.

Fall is our thick fog season too winter is a close second have seen it in spring but it’s a lot less common and very rarely in the summer (usually ground fog) Never have seen fog around here with temps warmer than lower 50s or so 

[rsktkr]

1 hour ago, The Blob said:

@hawkstwelve is this you?

The truth.....Oregon Couple Moves To South Dakota To Be With Their Fellow GQP Morons 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

3 pleated woodpeckers in the woods behind the house. Wow they are huge! About the size of a large crow. I've never noticed them here and they make a beautiful call. 

 

[Timmy Supercell]

1 hour ago, The Blob said:

@hawkstwelve is this you?

There were others on my street selling their home within weeks of selling ours. Conversations were like "guess who's got the uhaul NOW" in 2021

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

We have this bird called a spotted towhee trying to get in the house. He's been flying into the window all day for 3 days now lol. It woke me up at 6 am again. He hit window yesterday so hard he got knocked out and was laying on ground.  I picked him up and sat him on a bush and he was back at it 10 minutes later. Hahaha wtf!

[Cascadia_Wx]

Euro is further north with the rainfall days 8-10 than last nights run but still gets western OR into a wetter pattern 

Also shows Wednesday night getting down well into the 20s in the western lowlands could be the coldest March temps since 2019

[SilverFallsAndrew]

12 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

We have this bird called a spotted towhee trying to get in the house. He's been flying into the window all day for 3 days now lol. It woke me up at 6 am again. He hit window yesterday so hard he got knocked out and was laying on ground.  I picked him up and sat him on a bush and he was back at it 10 minutes later. Hahaha wtf!

We have a lot of those here.