April 2022 (April 2008/2011 redux)

[Kayla]

Hey now, if you don't have something nice to say don't say anything at all. Personal attacks will not be tolerated. 

[VancouverIslandSouth]

Sea level snow up at Nanoose Bay this morning. Looks like a stationary band got hung up over the area, now the power has gone out. My parents sent over this from earlier in the morning:

It seems it was enough to solidly cover the highway (also near sea level):

 

 

[Timmy Supercell]

5 hours ago, Phil said:

When was the last time an actual lowland snowfall occurred in the middle of April? This seems pretty anomalous, assuming even by pre-WWII standards.

Depends if you're asking sticking snow or not. April '08 had wet snow in Hillsboro. For a minute I think it whited the grass but nothing else. 

Either way it's a little more rare than seeing snow in November, and that's a relatively sparse event.

[The Blob]

I'm going with the clown colors for this event. All or nothing.

[umadbro]

[FroYoBro]

Up to a toasty 47 degrees here, but it looks like some showers are on the way. Hoping they cap us below 50. 

[BLI snowman]

1 hour ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Probly depends on location. This area has never had a snow in April. We are just simply too far south and at a low enough elevation that it cannot happen.

Objectively not true at all of course. Eugene area had a widespread several inches fall in mid April 1911.

 

[Perturbed Member]

PDX NWS curse

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 10 AM PDT MONDAY...

WHAT...Snow expected. Snow accumulations between 0.5 and 2 inches possible. Elevations above 500 ft may see snow accumulations between 3 to 6 inches. Winds gusting as high as 40 mph.

WHERE...Portions of northwest Oregon and southwest Washington. WHEN...From 3 AM to 10 AM PDT Monday.

[Deweydog]

5 minutes ago, nwsnow said:

PDX NWS curse

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 10 AM PDT MONDAY...

WHAT...Snow expected. Snow accumulations between 0.5 and 2 inches possible. Elevations above 500 ft may see snow accumulations between 3 to 6 inches. Winds gusting as high as 40 mph.

WHERE...Portions of northwest Oregon and southwest Washington. WHEN...From 3 AM to 10 AM PDT Monday.

And with that we have a ground-baking sun break!!!

[BLI snowman]

51 minutes ago, Kayla said:

This feels like December 2021 all over again. This all looks pretty but 925's never drop below -1C and most of the precip comes in with surface temps of 35-37F so color me extremely skeptical. 

 

It'll be an isothermal situation, so really just a matter of getting good precip rates with flat gradients and getting down to 32-33F.

[Chewbacca Defense]

Been sunny up here most of the morning  with zero precip (which I believe is in line with what the models were showing).  No idea what the temp is, Ambient Weather is sending me a free replacement to the replacement temp sending unit on my weather station, it will be here tomorrow.  I'm missing having my weather data LOL!  A quick tour of wunderground looks like the we are around 48-50 in my area with a house at 955' up on Squalicum Mtn coming in at 41 (about a mile away as the crow flies).

 

Awesome to see the snow pics for those down south.

 

[SouthHillFrosty]

13 minutes ago, nwsnow said:

PDX NWS curse

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 10 AM PDT MONDAY...

WHAT...Snow expected. Snow accumulations between 0.5 and 2 inches possible. Elevations above 500 ft may see snow accumulations between 3 to 6 inches. Winds gusting as high as 40 mph.

WHERE...Portions of northwest Oregon and southwest Washington. WHEN...From 3 AM to 10 AM PDT Monday.

LFG 

 

[T-Town]

Sun is trying to come out here. Up to 46. 

[The Swamp]

1 hour ago, Jginmartini said:

Oh Yaaaaa,  a little practice playing with crawl control!   Tooo cooool! 
Snow line was cool as well
28* 

Is that a 4Runner? Those things are sweet.  Yours?

[Blizzard777]

1 minute ago, The Swamp said:

Is that a 4Runner? Those things are sweet.  Yours?

Yes and all mine!!!!! It did so awesome in the snow and ice! Back down in the lowlands now

[MossMan]

.60” so far on the day, 2.36” for the month. 
Rain just ended. 39 degrees. 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

They issued a special weather statement for here lol. They think it has a small probability of snow in this location, giving it like a 15% chance haha! Our conditions are way different than where our NWS office is.

[The Swamp]

1 minute ago, Jginmartini said:

Yes and all mine!!!!! It did so awesome in the snow and ice! Back down in the lowlands now

This is what I play in the snow in.

[The Swamp]

In about a week we try to climb back into a more normal pattern with some warming around the 19th.

[Blizzard777]

1 hour ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Nice truck dude. If you ever want to go up in the snow and do some 4x4 hit me up.

Will do….I bought it to get me out of situations but today out playing and learning the 4X4 functions kind of gave me an adrenaline rush!!! 

[Blizzard777]

6 minutes ago, The Swamp said:

This is what I play in the snow in.

We’re family !!  I looked at those as well. Just beautiful vehicles

[TacomaWaWx]

Well there’s definitely still a couple more chances for snow in western WA too despite it not working out here this morning. Lots of times models under estimate precip on the north side of systems coming in. 

[TacomaWaWx]

44 here after a low of 37. 0.04” today and 1.40” for April. 

[TacomaWaWx]

SMH…I can see Jesse being unbanned but why would dabears and link be unbanned. Crazy dude and another dude who has a long history of making fun of people with disabilities. Literally makes no sense to unban them. 

[NWbyNW]

39 minutes ago, The Swamp said:

This is what I play in the snow in.

Did I hear something about playing in the snow? ;D  Care for a third?

 

Also check out how active this weather map is!  All over the country! 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

1 hour ago, nwsnow said:

PDX NWS curse

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 10 AM PDT MONDAY...

WHAT...Snow expected. Snow accumulations between 0.5 and 2 inches possible. Elevations above 500 ft may see snow accumulations between 3 to 6 inches. Winds gusting as high as 40 mph.

WHERE...Portions of northwest Oregon and southwest Washington. WHEN...From 3 AM to 10 AM PDT Monday.

Going to feel like we're in the mid 20s tomorrow morning with the winds.

[snow_wizard]

The models are going for a ridiculously cold day on Thursday right now with the GFS going 39/32 for McChord and the ECMWF 42/27.  Crazy azz numbers for this late!  Those max temps would be up for coldest max temp ever recorded this late in the season.  Speaking of cold...it's only 42 here right now at 1pm.

[NWbyNW]

2 hours ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

I know most of you people aren't car people like me but the drag wheels and tires on my Challenger look nasty.

This is awesome!  I'm a part-time auto reviewer and photographer!  This Challenger Hellcat would look handsome on some mag covers. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

4 minutes ago, Frontal Snowsquall said:

Going to feel like we're in the mid 20s tomorrow morning with the winds.

Are we approaching Easter or Christmas?

[snow_wizard]

I will be very interested to see how things play out in NW OR and SW WA tonight.  At face value the numbers look good enough for significant lowland snow down that way.  On the other hand the models showed snow here last night and we only got a mix and some ice pellets yesterday and today.  One thing for sure if this were Dec - Feb it would certainly be a very big deal.

[The Blob]

1 hour ago, nwsnow said:

PDX NWS curse

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 10 AM PDT MONDAY...

WHAT...Snow expected. Snow accumulations between 0.5 and 2 inches possible. Elevations above 500 ft may see snow accumulations between 3 to 6 inches. Winds gusting as high as 40 mph.

WHERE...Portions of northwest Oregon and southwest Washington. WHEN...From 3 AM to 10 AM PDT Monday.

[snow_wizard]

16 minutes ago, TacomaWaWx said:

SMH…I can see Jesse being unbanned but why would dabears and link be unbanned. Crazy dude and another dude who has a long history of making fun of people with disabilities. Literally makes no sense to unban them. 

I think we should give Jesse one more chance.  I think this next year is going to be some fun times for us, and it would be nice if he could join in.

[Perturbed Member]

FWIW 18z NAM shifts the low just far enough north to screw PDX. The Euro has absolutely been locked on the low track though. 

[FroYoBro]

1 minute ago, nwsnow said:

FWIW 18z NAM shifts the low just far enough north to screw PDX. The Euro has absolutely been locked on the low track though. 

The HRRRRR has consistently looked like this all day as well. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

Had a decent ice pellet shower move over about an hour ago temperature holding at 45 for the high so far with solid overcast good chance we stay in the 40s today although PDX will likely sneak up to 50

[snow_wizard]

48 minutes ago, The Swamp said:

In about a week we try to climb back into a more normal pattern with some warming around the 19th.

Sometimes we see the coldest min temps coming out these things.  This whole thing has kind of a 1954 vibe, and it dropped into the 20s on May 1 in the trough to ridge transition.  Incredibly long cold run for this time of year regardless.

[MossMan]

Temp dropped 3 degrees in the last 15min. Down to 36. 

[Phil]

9 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Sometimes we see the coldest min temps coming out these things.  This whole thing has kind of a 1954 vibe, and it dropped into the 20s on May 1 in the trough to ridge transition.  Incredibly long cold run for this time of year regardless.

Difference is this one will likely transition from cold troughing to +EPO/stormy zonal flow, which is basically the opposite of a trough-to-ridge situation.

[Deweydog]

3 minutes ago, Phil said:

Difference is this one will likely transition from cold troughing to +EPO/stormy zonal flow, which is basically the opposite of a trough-to-ridge situation.

Wouldn’t the opposite of a trough to ridge be a ridge to trough?

[Perturbed Member]

11 minutes ago, FroYoBro said:

The HRRRRR has consistently looked like this all day as well. 

Yeah some of the mesoscale models (HRRR, NAM, FV3, etc) are still being d*cks and doing that. I suspect we have no margin for error with this. I'm still inclined to trust the euro above all the others though. I don't know about accumulations but I'm thinking snow in the air is pretty likely at this point.