April 2022 (April 2008/2011 redux)

[TT-SEA]

Did the forum background just change to black for anyone else?   Not sure if it's something I did by accident or if it was a change 

[MWG]

Just now, TacomaWaWx said:

Did the forum just change colors to a black background or is it just my phone? 

I thought I click something by mistake lol phew

[Blizzard777]

1 hour ago, TacomaWaWx said:

50 here and mostly sunny…convergence zone is just north of here dark clouds to the north. Might get clipped we will see. 

I see them on my nest cam!   Dry cement still 

[Blizzard777]

CZ has made my iPad screen dark  

[NWbyNW]

Like most of the observations above, it has been mostly dry today.  Big billowy white clouds and blue sky. But there was a roughly 15 minute period of rain and hail!  It started hailing first than turned to rain.  Here are some pics of the little beads of joy.  

[TacomaWaWx]

2 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Did the forum background just change to black for anyone else?   Not sure if it's something I did by accident or if it was a change 

Someone did something lol not sure if I like it. 

[TT-SEA]

Just now, TacomaWaWx said:

Someone did something lol not sure if I like it. 

Definitely harder to read on my phone.

[Timmy Supercell]

7 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Did the forum background just change to black for anyone else?   Not sure if it's something I did by accident or if it was a change 

Yup, did it for me too. Dark modes usually look cool, but will take some tweaking to make it look 'normal'. 

[NWbyNW]

The forum became dark at around 2:30pm for me.  It went from white to dark.  I scanned profile settings and it doesn't seem you can change it back.  So it must be an administrator setting. 

[TT-SEA]

Appears to be some wet snow or hail at my house per cams.    But also appears to be ending soon... looks like it's already getting brighter. 

[Blizzard777]

Just now, NWbyNW said:

The forum became dark at around 2:30pm for me.  It went from white to dark.  I scanned profile settings and it doesn't seem you can change it back.  So it must be an administrator setting. 

We were forced to the dark side !!! 

[Phil]

2 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Definitely harder to read on my phone.

Better for battery life, though. 

[Meatyorologist]

[Omegaraptor]

3 hours ago, Deweydog said:

If this had happened in January we would have had snow in January.

As Andrew said... if this happened in January, probably would have been a big onshore flow event with some snow accumulation but not some massive historic event.

On the other hand, the September-October 2019 pattern three months later would have actually produced an insane Western winter. Need a reminder of what was going on in Canada at that time to produce such cold and repeated airmasses so early in the season. 

[NWbyNW]

The hail and rain didn't stop this guy from driving his Lambo with the top down shortly after the sprinkles.  47F?  Pfffft!  Suns out, top down! 

[Timmy Supercell]

2 minutes ago, Jginmartini said:

We were forced to the dark side !!! 

New World Order, one step at a time

[snow maniac]

Its kind amusing how my area is completely blocked by all moisture, every single model run over the next few days only has trace amounts. 
Well at least I can get some yard work done. Its absolutely gorgeous out, just a little cold.

[Timmy Supercell]

1 minute ago, Omegaraptor said:

As Andrew said... if this happened in January, probably would have been a big onshore flow event with some snow accumulation but not some massive historic event.

On the other hand, the September-October 2019 pattern three months later would have actually produced an insane Western winter. Need a reminder of what was going on in Canada at that time to produce such cold and repeated airmasses so early in the season. 

September 2019 (and end of August) was pretty wet and the coolest in years, but you guys don't remember how bone dry October became east of the cascades. There was literally 1 front (forgot what day) and the rest of mid-Fall was sunshine and brisk morning lows. 

It was an amazing cool period for most people. But I hated Octobers like that. 

[Deweydog]

3 minutes ago, Omegaraptor said:

As Andrew said... if this happened in January, probably would have been a big onshore flow event with some snow accumulation but not some massive historic event.

On the other hand, the September-October 2019 pattern three months later would have actually produced an insane Western winter. Need a reminder of what was going on in Canada at that time to produce such cold and repeated airmasses so early in the season. 

If late June 2021 had occurred in January PDX would have hit the mid 70’s. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Who changed the colors?

[Deweydog]

Once you go black you can never go back.

[Anti Marine Layer]

8 minutes ago, NWbyNW said:

The forum became dark at around 2:30pm for me.  It went from white to dark.  I scanned profile settings and it doesn't seem you can change it back.  So it must be an administrator setting. 

Eclipse

[TacomaWaWx]

I vote we change it back to normal. Don’t like how dark the screen is. 

[MWG]

I don't mind the dark background but the color of the letters from everyone else is greyish on my end and my bad eyesight is not taking it well lol

[Anti Marine Layer]

Just changed again!

[MWG]

Oh my lol what's going on! 

[Anti Marine Layer]

[Anti Marine Layer]

Russian cyberattack

[TacomaWaWx]

I also vote whoever’s changing the colors be put on permanent mod preview

[FroYoBro]

[Perturbed Member]

Why not just give an option for regular or dark mode and let people pick the look they want? 

[Front Ranger]

It's so dark in here, Tim's gonna need to book a vacation soon.

[Deweydog]

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

The grand solar minimum is coming. 

[Requiem]

[MWG]

We might not see much at our elevation. 

[Meatyorologist]

1 minute ago, hawkstwelve said:

Looks like an admin changed the theme to 'Infowarz' and deleted the main default theme. Not sure if that's iFred's doing or someone else. Going to see about how to change it back as it doesn't seem optimized right, or at least give the option.

Yeah I have no idea who did this. I'm guessing it's either a troll or Fred. They also deleted all the other themes, leaving only this one 

[BLI snowman]

3 hours ago, James Jones said:

Are there any historical analogs for what the models are showing? The only significant April snowfall I'm aware of for the Portland area is 4/1/1936.

4/22/1961 was fairly significant as well. It brought 2-4" to the metro area above 100' or so. PDX had a sloppy trace but had 33F snow for several hours. That was from a large deformation zone though, I don't believe there was a significant surface low attached to it.

[Guest administrator]

Fixed, new theme is lightweight and can be customized to greater detail than before.

Handing the server side admin to a friend while I am focusing on a startup. An IP audit showed some interesting things, like some users logging in from India or a handful of people having the galaxy brain level of intelligence to post on forums or Discords that were associated with Jan6 Boogaloo bullshit or for one guy, posting on a white supremacist forum and then a human trafficking site, all from the same assumed work computer. So the new guy is going to have to deal with that shit.

@Jesse and @Link are unbanned, figured that this is effectively a new crew and new ownership, so it is up to them if they want to uphold that or not.

The westernweatherwx.info forums will be up later this summer, probably early August when I am on paternity leave. I'm working with my friend to find a way to merge everything so that people can have their posts as far back as 2005ish added back on as well as a seamless forum search. We're also uploading everything to the wayback machine on the Internet Archive so that if something happens, at least the community history is preserved. Also did some backend cleanup, a bunch of older threads were "corrupt" and had missing images, they had to be pruned, but should be recovered at a later date. I'll also get some email bugs fixed in a couple weeks.
 

Going forward, folks like @hawkstwelve, @Chris, and @Meatyorologist will be able to handle most if not all of the forum side stuff, such as updates, administration, and user fixes. The server for the forum is billed to a business card and is pretty much setup to run itself without any intervention, even doing backups daily.

Thanks,
Fredrick

[BLI snowman]

2 hours ago, snow_wizard said:

Kind of a bummer it appears the lows coming up will track too far south to give Seattle much of a chance of snow.  Pretty insane to have 3 track that far south in this kind of a pattern this time of year.  Can't wait to see how the details play out though.

You guys have had a pretty lucky run up there....