[Missing] March 2022 PNW Wx Discussion

[mtep]

As a member of Team Permasavings, this is exciting. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-approves-bill-that-would-make-daylight-savings-time-permanent-2023-2022-03-15/

[TT-SEA]

Thunder... and hail.  

[TT-SEA]

[T-Town]

2 hours ago, Deweydog said:

From heavy rain to partly sunny here in less than 30 minutes! Whoa!

Let’s see the global moistening freaks explain this. 

[MossMan]

No thunder here. I’m disappointed, my dogs are not. 

[Blizzard777]

Dark skies over Tac O ma !

[SouthHillFrosty]

 

[Skagit Weather]

Windy and pouring rain here. Rain rate over 1"/hr, but no thunder yet.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

GFS operational continues to be much more ridgy than the ensembles. 

[Skagit Weather]

There's the lightning! Strike about a half mile away! Temperature is down 7 degrees and I've picked up 0.15" of rain in the last ten minutes.

[RentonHill]

1 minute ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

GFS operational continues to be much more ridgy than the ensembles. 

[Deweydog]

I thought I heard thunder earlier but I’m 99% sure it was a helicopter.

[T-Town]

18 minutes ago, Jginmartini said:

Dark skies over Tac O ma !

Awesome shot!

[T-Town]

7 minutes ago, Skagit Weather said:

There's the lightning! Strike about a half mile away! Temperature is down 7 degrees and I've picked up 0.15" of rain in the last ten minutes.

Getting periodic downpours rolling through here but haven’t heard any thunder. 

[T-Town]

Next round incoming. 

[Chewbacca Defense]

46 minutes ago, mtep said:

As a member of Team Permasavings, this is exciting. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-approves-bill-that-would-make-daylight-savings-time-permanent-2023-2022-03-15/

You just made my day!!!!!

[LowerGarfield]

Nothing much here. We had a cell roll through around 1245pm with some hail and wild wins for about ten mins. No thunder or lightning. It has been sunny but fun cumulus clouds have been moving west over the Blue Mtns which are to my south. Pretty boring day but enough to knock me offline partly through my shift so can't work right now. Was hoping to at least get some fun weather esp this time of year when fire isn't as much of a risk.

[weatherfan2012]

On 3/14/2022 at 5:45 PM, Phil said:

Holy cow, this is an impressive trade burst.

Seems the midwinter OKW has failed to push the system over the edge, and there will be no transition to +ENSO this year.

 

Yeah I'm a little surpised that Larry is so gun ho on an El nino later this summer I get that analogs may support it but the fact that the system is not very supportive makes it I think a hard call on exackly what enso does right now.

[LowerGarfield]

8 hours ago, MossMan said:

I remember working out at the golf course during a thunderstorm, I was mowing greens and was up around green #5 which was about the furthest away from the pro shop or the maintenance shop, I stopped mowing when it got intense and hoped the tree I was under didn’t get hit. The golfers however…They acted like it was a 70 degree sunny day and didn’t stop at all. It was either in 1998 or 1999. 

That was Clarkston last year when we had three wildfires within 15-20 miles and horrible smoke outside. Folks were casually golfing outside. Although the strangest was people just chilling at Chief Timothy park (a sandbar on the Snake River owned by Army Corps of Engineers) with a contained fire right on the other side of the ridge and smoke blasting towards them...smoke inhalation must've been terrible.

[TT-SEA]

Sounds like we are getting closer to permanent Daylight Savings Time and no changing clocks with the Senate unanimously passing the "Sunshine Protection Act" today.     They can't agree on anything except for keeping daylight savings time all year long.   

[jakeinthevalley]

8 hours ago, MossMan said:

I remember working out at the golf course during a thunderstorm, I was mowing greens and was up around green #5 which was about the furthest away from the pro shop or the maintenance shop, I stopped mowing when it got intense and hoped the tree I was under didn’t get hit. The golfers however…They acted like it was a 70 degree sunny day and didn’t stop at all. It was either in 1998 or 1999. 

Nocturnal storms? I only mowed greens at or before first light. I do remember an early morning where there were residual storms over the coast range in the morning around first light. Muggy as Hell

[Blizzard777]

44 minutes ago, T-Town said:

Next round incoming. 

I vacated area as next round was moving in.  Wanted to hang out to see if any cool buildups but decided to stay dry instead.  Nest cam shot to my west currently….love weather like this! 

[MossMan]

4 minutes ago, jakeinthevalley said:

Nocturnal storms? I only mowed greens at or before first light. I do remember an early morning where there were residual storms over the coast range in the morning around first light. Muggy as Hell

It was a rare morning T-Storm probably around 6am or so. During the week we started working at 5am and I would have been up around the 5th or 6th green around 6am. Golfers would start heading out around 5:30am or so. 

[jakeinthevalley]

3 minutes ago, MossMan said:

It was a rare morning T-Storm probably around 6am or so. During the week we started working at 5am and I would have been up around the 5th or 6th green around 6am. Golfers would start heading out around 5:30am or so. 

Those were the days!! I have even considered going back as a "side hustle!" Starting to miss those early mornings and the peacefulness.....as long as all I have to do is mow!!

 

[TT-SEA]

I am surprised at how active today has been given how weak this trough is at the 500mb level.    Its has been dumping rain and hailing with occasional thunder all day here and its still going.  

[RentonHill]

Haven’t had a drop here as storms roll by on both sides. Stupid

[Blizzard777]

17 minutes ago, RentonHillTC said:

Haven’t had a drop here as storms roll by on both sides. Stupid

Favorite part when the sun is shining making the monster shower look black!  This one’s going to slide past me 

[MossMan]

23 minutes ago, jakeinthevalley said:

Those were the days!! I have even considered going back as a "side hustle!" Starting to miss those early mornings and the peacefulness.....as long as all I have to do is mow!!

 

I LOVED the early mornings! So peaceful (except for the sound of the fleet of mowers/tractors/gators running) and also I was home by 1:45pm to play at the lake! 

[MossMan]

Some leftover hail on my drive home. Not much at home though other than a little mounded up on the slope of the roof. 

[LowerGarfield]

42 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Sounds like we are getting closer to permanent Daylight Savings Time and no changing clocks with the Senate unanimously passing the "Sunshine Protection Act" today.     They can't agree on anything except for keeping daylight savings time all year long.   

I wish we had Standard time a bit more but not in summer of course. I think the old system end of March or early April to last sun in Oct worked better.

[SnowWillarrive]

29 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

I am surprised at how active today has been given how weak this trough is at the 500mb level.    Its has been dumping rain and hailing with occasional thunder all day here and its still going.  

Best part is that it’s absolutely dumping at all of our passes. 

[TT-SEA]

Just now, SnowWillarrive said:

Best part is that it’s absolutely dumping at all of our passes. 

My son was at Stevens today and said its been dumping snow all day.

[Omegaraptor]

2 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

My son was at Stevens today and said its been dumping snow all day.

This is what's great about Feb and March for skiers. Even a mediocre NW'ly system can still bury the mountains in feet of powder.

[TacomaWaWx]

55/44 today…0.43” so far and 1.90” this month. 

[Meatyorologist]

37 minutes ago, Omegaraptor said:

This is what's great about Feb and March for skiers. Even a mediocre NW'ly system can still bury the mountains in feet of powder.

You also get some zany temp gradients. While the passes are socked up in clouds with cold upper levels + snow and below freezing temps, the lowlands are under the increasingly powerful March sun seeing temperatures in the 50s, maybe even touching 60.

[TacomaWaWx]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

Sounds like we are getting closer to permanent Daylight Savings Time and no changing clocks with the Senate unanimously passing the "Sunshine Protection Act" today.     They can't agree on anything except for keeping daylight savings time all year long.   

Winter time would be interesting…right around the solstice would be dark until almost 9am. 

[Phishy Wx]

T-storms seemed to have missed Spokane

[NWbyNW]

Sunny and partly sunny all day so far, but cool.  Mid 40s.  The wind was quite good with a good onshore breeze coming from the sea as shown by the flags being blown around.

[TT-SEA]

13 minutes ago, TacomaWaWx said:

Winter time would be interesting…right around the solstice would be dark until almost 9am. 

Not quite dark until 9 a.m.

The latest sunrise will be around 8:57 which means it will start getting light a little after 8.    But that will be the point when it's most noticeable for sure.

[T-Town]

3 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Not quite dark until 9 a.m.

The latest sunrise will be around 8:57 which means it will start getting light a little after 8.    But that will be the point when it's most noticeable for sure.

Sunrise at 8:57 on a gray winter day means it will be pretty dark at 9 am. I work east coast hours and it’s a lot easier to face the day in the summer when it’s light at 5 am than in the winter when it’s light at 8. So I’m not a fan of that particular aspect of permanent dst.