[Missing] March 2022 PNW Wx Discussion

[BLI snowman]

6 minutes ago, TacomaWaWx said:

Haven’t had a decent thunderstorm since 10/13/20 here. Have had a couple 1 hit wonders since. 

Same here, last halfway interesting convective event around here was the morning of 9/18/20 on the back end of our Labor Day smokeout.

A few localized one rumble deals last year was about it for the lowlands. Pretty unusually quiet.

[Deweydog]

21 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

It would be nice to actually record a thunderstorm this spring.

Last year sucked. We had our hottest weather ever and still couldn't even score a single convective event anywhere around it.

Still amazes me that pattern was unable to tap into any monsoonal moisture whatsoever. Perfect storm.

[T-Town]

1 hour ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Was this your first winter at this latitude 

Pretty close. My sixtieth. 

[Deweydog]

Mowing!

[Front Ranger]

In Austin right now and it's upper 30s at peak heating. El Paso was seeing heavy snow earlier today. Places like Little Rock and Memphis will see a nice little dump tonight.

Impressive air mass for this time of year.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

47 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

In Austin right now and it's upper 30s at peak heating. El Paso was seeing heavy snow earlier today. Places like Little Rock and Memphis will see a nice little dump tonight.

Impressive air mass for this time of year.

Was 24 with snow in Tulsa when I checked this morning. Brrrrr

[Phishy Wx]

Chunky rain/snow in progress

39 feels like 34

 

[Meatyorologist]

4 hours ago, BLI snowman said:

It would be nice to actually record a thunderstorm this spring.

Last year sucked. We had our hottest weather ever and still couldn't even score a single convective event anywhere around it.

Quite the opposite up here. Last Spring brought several PSCZ-related thunderstorms. Was a great year to live in north Seattle.

[Cascadia_Wx]

Some really great looking lenticular clouds off to the east today, over the cascades 

Hit 60 here after a low of 31. First 60+ temp of the month and the 4th of the year (three in mid Feb)

[TT-SEA]

On 3/10/2022 at 3:58 PM, Deweydog said:

Something to watch!

Just how deep can PDX make it into March without ringing the 60 degree Fahrenheit bell???

Can we make it to 3/31 as we did during the LIA of 2011????

(no)

The final answer... March 11th.   

62 at PDX on the hour.  

[Omegaraptor]

Corvallis 63

Eugene 68

Roseburg 71

[BLI snowman]

4 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Seems like storms in the PSCZ wouldn’t be the best way to rate regional thunderstorm activity since they get stuff every year and it is usually very localized 

Yeah, and it still stands to reason that the localized cold core convective stuff (which can affect anywhere in the region) is going to generally be more prominent in the more active springs with better forcing, stronger fronts/ULLs, and more dramatic airmass transitions.

Last spring had very little of that until June, and then it was mostly just heat.

[BLI snowman]

March 1897 had a monthly max of 56 in Portland, on the 25th. Then it was back to snow a few days later.

#themoreyouknow

[Deweydog]

12 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

The final answer... March 11th.   

62 at PDX on the hour.  

Not a bad run!!!

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Nice day! 

[TacomaWaWx]

44 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Some really great looking lenticular clouds off to the east today, over the cascades 

Hit 60 here after a low of 31. First 60+ temp of the month and the 4th of the year (three in mid Feb)

There was also some pretty cool looking lenticular clouds today up here on rainier. Cloud deck is high so I could see mount adams also had a lenticular cap there as well. 

[Gradient Keeper]

By this time tomorrow it will be Wetter Than a Poodle in a Car Wash(c)2002? Rob.

[Anti Marine Layer]

9 minutes ago, DJ Droppin said:

By this time tomorrow it will be Wetter Than a Poodle in a Car Wash(c)2002? Rob.

AR?

[MossMan]

Well if we flood again I can quickly dig a trench and if we have a January 1950 redux I can dig our way out! 
Nice day! 

[RentonHill]

2 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Well if we flood again I can quickly dig a trench and if we have a January 1950 redux I can dig our way out! 
Nice day! 

Nice!! How long was the wait??

[MossMan]

14 minutes ago, RentonHillTC said:

Nice!! How long was the wait??

One day!! 

[Deweydog]

7 minutes ago, MossMan said:

One day!! 

Gotta love Prime!

[Cascadia_Wx]

Clear and 46 out with a half moon frogs are singing tonight looks like some good rain the next several days 

[Gradient Keeper]

Time for the obligatory evening 00z GFS re-cap n stuff

(Day 1-10) 500mb Height Anomaly

10 Day Rainfall, Snowfall totals

[Gradient Keeper]

A great GFS run and that includes central and northern CA! C'MON!!!!

00z ECMWF in 44 minutes

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Looks moist 

[Deweydog]

9 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Looks moist 

It’s perfectly natural. Don’t be alarmed.

[Meatyorologist]

what the hell nam

[Phil]

8 minutes ago, Meatyorologist said:

what the hell nam

Lol, NAM gonna NAM. Not the first time that glitch has shown up in that region.

Still, even the globals bring it into the 920mb range out in the NATL. A nuke.

[Anti Marine Layer]

19 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Looks moist 

[Gradient Keeper]

EURO trending drier? 3 Day Rainfall totals (Past 4 runs)

[Gradient Keeper]

5 Day Rainfall totals (Past 4 runs)

[Gradient Keeper]

7 Day Rainfall totals (Past 4 runs) That's a bit better

[Gradient Keeper]

00z ECMWF (Day 1-10) 500mb Height Anomaly

10 Day Rainfall, Snowfall totals

[Gradient Keeper]

Total exhaustion from this pain. Good night, god bless.

[Meatyorologist]

1 hour ago, DJ Droppin said:

Total exhaustion from this pain. Good night, god bless.

Good luck, hope the pain subsides

[The Blob]

Beautiful view going into work this evening

[Meatyorologist]

Decent thunderstorm outbreak in the long range. Have these occurred outside of May-Sep?

[Meatyorologist]

In other news, today might be genuinely mild and sunny today, particularly north and east of Seattle proper.

[BLI snowman]

2 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

Decent thunderstorm outbreak in the long range. Have these occurred outside of May-Sep?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Portland–Vancouver_tornadoes

Earliest warm-core outbreak that I can remember was February 22-23, 2002. Pretty strong, borderline severe at times squall line moved up the Willamette Valley after a pretty unseasonably warm day.