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April 2022 (April 2008/2011 redux)


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Lovely morning! Sunny and 50.

Had a low of 39. If we were not heading back into winter tomorrow I would have gotten out the patio furniture out. 

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Elevation 580’ Location a few miles east of I-5 on the Snohomish Co side of the Snohomish/Skagit border. I love snow/cold AND sun/warmth! 

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1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

Misread the caption... this is just for April.    Its definitely been a chilly month.   Even so... today will be the 5th day at 60+ at WFO SEA this month... the 7th day in North Bend... and the 9th day at PDX.

 

Today should be our 3rd +60….can’t remember how many we had in March but it was atleast 5. 

Tacoma WA elevation 300’

Monthly rainfall-3.56”

Warm season rainfall-11.14”

Max temp-88

+80 highs-2

+85 highs-2

+90 highs-0

 

 

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1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

Misread the caption... this is just for April.    Its definitely been a chilly month.   Even so... today will be the 5th day at 60+ at WFO SEA this month... the 7th day in North Bend... and the 9th day at PDX.

 

This April has definitely felt more like a PNW April than the last few. 

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10 minutes ago, T-Town said:

This April has definitely felt more like a PNW April than the last few. 

Except it's 4 or 5 degrees colder than typical April.     I would have preferred a normal April.  😀

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12z trended wetter.

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Snowfall                                  Precip

2022-23: 95.0"                      2022-23: 17.39"

2021-22: 52.6"                    2021-22: 91.46" 

2020-21: 12.0"                    2020-21: 71.59"

2019-20: 23.5"                   2019-20: 58.54"

2018-19: 63.5"                   2018-19: 66.33"

2017-18: 30.3"                   2017-18: 59.83"

2016-17: 49.2"                   2016-17: 97.58"

2015-16: 11.75"                 2015-16: 68.67"

2014-15: 3.5"
2013-14: 11.75"                  2013-14: 62.30
2012-13: 16.75"                 2012-13: 78.45  

2011-12: 98.5"                   2011-12: 92.67"

It's always sunny at Winters Hill! 
Fighting the good fight against weather evil.

 

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14 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Except it's 4 or 5 degrees colder than typical April.     I would have preferred a normal April.  😀

We live in a world of extreeems now. 

Ashland, KY Weather

'23-'24 Winter

Snowfall - 5.50"
First freeze: 11/1 (32)
Minimum: 2 on 1/17

Measurable snows: 4
Max 1 day snow: 3" (1/19)

Thunders: 11
1/27, 1/28, 2/10, 2/22, 2/27, 2/28, 3/5, 3/6, 3/14, 3/15
3/26, 

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Its in the 60s already across the entire EPSL including 63 in North Bend and here. 

And somehow SEA was at 52 on the hour.   It's in the 60s all around SEA per the observation map.

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1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

Except it's 4 or 5 degrees colder than typical April.     I would have preferred a normal April.  😀

We’ve had a good amount of sun here, along with the rain I expect this time of year. And some pretty good active weather. Do we grade months here?  I give it a B+. 

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12 minutes ago, T-Town said:

We’ve had a good amount of sun here, along with the rain I expect this time of year. And some pretty good active weather. Do we grade months here?  I give it a B+. 

I give it a D+
 

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Elevation 580’ Location a few miles east of I-5 on the Snohomish Co side of the Snohomish/Skagit border. I love snow/cold AND sun/warmth! 

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A++++ for April. 

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Snowfall                                  Precip

2022-23: 95.0"                      2022-23: 17.39"

2021-22: 52.6"                    2021-22: 91.46" 

2020-21: 12.0"                    2020-21: 71.59"

2019-20: 23.5"                   2019-20: 58.54"

2018-19: 63.5"                   2018-19: 66.33"

2017-18: 30.3"                   2017-18: 59.83"

2016-17: 49.2"                   2016-17: 97.58"

2015-16: 11.75"                 2015-16: 68.67"

2014-15: 3.5"
2013-14: 11.75"                  2013-14: 62.30
2012-13: 16.75"                 2012-13: 78.45  

2011-12: 98.5"                   2011-12: 92.67"

It's always sunny at Winters Hill! 
Fighting the good fight against weather evil.

 

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7 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Short pants might have to go on for the first time since 2021. 

Wow!   So it was like 75 earlier this month... no shorts that day?

I have not worn anything but shorts when working in the yard this year.   Of course I was not doing yard work when it was snowing and cold earlier this month.    But 50s and sunshine is perfectly comfortable in shorts when working in the yard.  

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5 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Wow!   So it was like 75 earlier this month... no shorts that day?

I have not worn anything but shorts when working in the yard this year.   Of course I was not doing yard work when it was snowing and cold earlier this month.    But 50s and sunshine is perfectly comfortable in shorts when working in the yard.  

I was stuck at work that day. ☹️

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Elevation 580’ Location a few miles east of I-5 on the Snohomish Co side of the Snohomish/Skagit border. I love snow/cold AND sun/warmth! 

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44 minutes ago, T-Town said:

We’ve had a good amount of sun here, along with the rain I expect this time of year. And some pretty good active weather. Do we grade months here?  I give it a B+. 

I’d give this month a B+ too. Probably would’ve been an A had @Jginmartiniand @SouthHillFrosty hadn’t hogged up all the accumulating snow on 4/14 before it made it here. Has had almost every type of weather this month…including some nice days like today. 

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Tacoma WA elevation 300’

Monthly rainfall-3.56”

Warm season rainfall-11.14”

Max temp-88

+80 highs-2

+85 highs-2

+90 highs-0

 

 

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Just now, Phil said:

More life-giving rain on the 12z EPS. Sucks the SW is shafted, but it’s something.

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Life giving rain in western WA... while screwing the truly parched places to the south and east.   Whew!     

Everything is dying here.   Screw Colorado.   😀

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10 minutes ago, Omegaraptor said:

Making up for the last two which wouldn’t have been out of place in western Nevada

April of 2020 was +1.0 at SEA.   April of 2021 was +1.7

April of 2022 will probably end up -5.0

So this April has been far more anomalous than the last couple years.

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Could end up being the warmest day of the year so far up here with a current temperature of 63F. Meanwhile the 12z Euro is a real soaker up here, especially for next Saturday. 3" before the end of month, half of which falls next weekend.

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Home Wx Station Stats (Since January 2008):

Max Temp: 96.3F (2009)   Min Temp: 2.0F (2008)   Max Wind Gust: 45 mph (2018, 2021)   Wettest Day: 2.34 (11/4/22)   Avg Yearly Precip: 37"   10yr Avg Snow: 8.0"

Snowfall Totals

'08-09: 30" | '09-10: 0.5" | '10-11: 21" | '11-12: 9.5" | '12-13: 0.2" | '13-14: 6.2" | '14-15: 0.0" | '15-16: 0.25"| '16-17: 8.0" | '17-18: 0.9"| '18-19: 11.5" | '19-20: 11" | '20-21: 10.5" | '21-22: 21.75" | '22-23: 10.0" 

2023-24: 7.0" (1/17: 3", 1/18: 1.5", 2/26: 0.5", 3/4: 2.0", Flakes: 1/11, 1/16)

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12 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Life giving rain in western WA... while screwing the truly parched places to the south and east.   Whew!     

Everything is dying here.   Screw Colorado.   😀

If anything, the drought is worse in much of WA/OR than CO. Large deficits still need to be made up. Best we can hope for is a regionally cool/moist pattern through the warm season.

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29 minutes ago, Phil said:

If anything, the drought is worse in much of WA/OR than CO. Large deficits still need to be made up. Best we can hope for is a regionally cool/moist pattern through the warm season.

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Eastern WA is fine... they get water from the Cascades and the reservoirs are at full capacity.   

The places that don't need precip are western WA and the eastern Dakotas and that is where the EPS focused the most precip.

We really need ULLs to traverse the SW and Plains.   The best pattern right now would be one that is dry in SW BC and western WA and wet across the rest of the West.   We sort of had that over the last week.    You keep celebrating wetter than normal in western WA... but that almost always comes at the expense of the rest of the West at this time of year.  I actually think you would rather see my backyard be anomalously wet more than anything.  Even if meant the rest of the West turned to dust.  😄

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47 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Life giving rain in western WA... while screwing the truly parched places to the south and east.   Whew!     

Everything is dying here.   Screw Colorado.   😀

Many places in the green there are actually still in drought. Including parts of Eastern WA, OR, ID, and MT.

The world is bigger than Rattlesnake Ridge 😀

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Eastern WA is fine? They’re in an *extreme drought* by PDSI metrics. Much of OR is still maxing out the scale.

It’s not just about drinking water/reservoirs. Water tables are still depleted and the biosphere is still stressed as a result of the (ongoing) drought. This is true for the majority of the PNW east of the Cascades (and almost all of the West, generally).

Amazing anyone can try to spin that.

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18 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

Many places in the green there are actually still in drought. Including parts of Eastern WA, OR, ID, and MT.

The world is bigger than Rattlesnake Ridge 😀

Generally speaking... when CA and OR are wet it's drier than normal in western WA.   And when CA and OR are wet that usually translates into the Plains.   

That is the pattern we really need.   Similar to this past week.   

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17 minutes ago, Phil said:

Eastern WA is fine? They’re in an *extreme drought* by PDSI metrics. Much of OR is still maxing out the scale.

It’s not just about drinking water/reservoirs. Water tables are still depleted and the biosphere is still stressed as a result of the (ongoing) drought. This is true for the majority of the PNW east of the Cascades (and almost all of the West, generally).

Amazing anyone can try to spin that.

Yeah... central and eastern WA are fine.  Some of those places get 5 inches of rain per year.   4 inches is a severe drought and 6 inches is biblically wet.    Good news is they have a great source of water to the west and it's in great shape.

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7 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Yeah... central and eastern WA are fine.  Some of those places get 5 inches of rain per year.   4 inches is a severe drought and 6 inches is biblically wet.    Good news is they have a great source of water to the west and it's in great shape.

Exactly, it doesn't take much to have a drought or to be wetter than average. One good spring thunderstorm can right the ship in a hurry.

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10 minutes ago, snow drift said:

Exactly, it doesn't take much to have a drought or to be wetter than average. One good spring thunderstorm can right the ship in a hurry.

I am not really cheering for western ridging.   I am totally fine with wetter than normal to the south.    I just know after 20 years of living here that when its wet in CA and OR... its usually pretty nice here.   And when its anomalously wet here... its usually dry to the south.    

And then we have Phil virtue signaling about "life giving" rain.      Is that not all we discuss on here?  Who is he talking to?   I love the greenery here.   The rain is very life giving.   I wish nature would share the wealth.    But Phil wants to lecture us about how rain is good.   😀

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4 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

I am not really cheering for western ridging.   I am totally fine with wetter than normal to the south.    I just know after 20 years of living here that when its wet in CA and OR... its usually pretty nice here.   And when its anomalously wet here... its usually dry to the south.    

And then we have Phil virtue signaling about "life giving" rain.      Is that not all we discuss on here?  Who is he talking to?   I love the greenery here.   The rain is very life giving.   I wish nature would share the wealth.    But Phil wants to lecture us about how rain is good.   😀

We could really use some rain. I would have applauded some zonal flow. It wouldn't have gotten as cold either. This spring has a 2008 or a 2011 feel to it. I remember the trees being mostly bare in early May 2008. Summer might arrive a little late this year. At least we don't live in North Dakota.

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