On the 7th month of... July PNW 2022 (Preferance Wars)

[Mr Marine Layer]

6 hours ago, Phil said:

Summer is a lost cause until Yellowstone blows and saves us.

Solid trough/cooler than avg airmass and we still couldn’t drop below 73°F last night. Thought we had a real chance but..failsauce.

Off to FL.  

Why not to AK?

[snow_wizard]

The ECMWF could be a lot worse.  OK for this week then it kicks that stupid cutoff low inland for a cool day 9 and 10.

[snow_wizard]

15 minutes ago, Mr Marine Layer said:

Why not to AK?

They have had some really cool troughs up there this summer.

[RentonHillTC]

2 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

The ECMWF could be a lot worse.  OK for this week then it kicks that stupid cutoff low inland for a cool day 9 and 10.

true - its not as bad as i thought at first glance. Still hot for PDX though. Medford 

 

[RentonHillTC]

Ashland would have beat their prior all time high by 2F if not for 2021

[TacomaWx]

Sunday and Monday looks pretty warm next week…but overall after today it’s much better. We will see what happens with the smoke. 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

10 hours ago, Doiinko said:

Scappoose was also the hot spot during the August 2021 event, they hit 107 degrees with that.

Scappoose got to 103 yesterday, looks like they were the hottest airport location around the Metro area.

[Phil]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

77 degrees and sunny here in Minnesota.  Perfection.   Everything is lush green although they say it's been a dry summer.   We left North Bend at 7:30 a.m. yesterday and arrived at 9 a.m. CDT here so 23.5 hour trip with two stops for sit down meals 

Damn that looks fine as hell.

Feels like 107 here in Sarasota.  

[Phil]

1 hour ago, Deweydog said:

One thing to note is the fact that AK and the WGOA continue to get pounded with a continuation of this pattern…

Even the heat dome of last June was at least partially the downwind result of a historically strong system in the GOA a few days prior.

That pattern would be a derecho orgy.

I’m sure back home will get hammered now that I’ve left.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

And that's another 90F burger!

[Phil]

Yeah looks like summer is over in Alaska.

Gonna be snowing hard up there if the EPS is right.

[GHweatherChris]

28 minutes ago, Phil said:

D**n that looks fine as hell.

Feels like 107 here in Sarasota.  

Heat index in Sarasota is only 99° right now.

[TacomaWx]

85 here. Looking like we will hit 90 today. 

[Mr Marine Layer]

51 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

And that's another 90F burger!

[T-Town]

3 minutes ago, Mr Marine Layer said:

Kinda looks like Lemmy. RIP. 

[snow_wizard]

59 minutes ago, Phil said:

Yeah looks like summer is over in Alaska.

Gonna be snowing hard up there if the EPS is right.

Nice stock of cold air for when the 4CH dissolves.

[VancouverIslandSouth]

Temperatures in the Strait of Georgia are now approaching mid-70s, about as warm as you'd expect them to get in the year. Meanwhile YVR recorded a record high dewpoint at 73F - https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/vancouver-sets-all-time-dew-point-record-as-tropical-air-bathes-british-columbia#:~:text=Steamy Vancouver sets all-time dew point record&text=The city recorded a dew,in this typically temperate city. I don't think the dewpoint has fallen below 63F there in over a week now.

[snow_wizard]

I wonder if the Atlantic is going to wake up in August.  This is such an atypical La Nina summer who knows.

[snow_wizard]

2 minutes ago, VancouverIslandSouth said:

Temperatures in the Strait of Georgia are now approaching mid-70s, about as warm as you'd expect them to get in the year. Meanwhile YVR recorded a record high dewpoint at 73F - https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/vancouver-sets-all-time-dew-point-record-as-tropical-air-bathes-british-columbia#:~:text=Steamy Vancouver sets all-time dew point record&text=The city recorded a dew,in this typically temperate city. I don't think the dewpoint has fallen below 63F there in over a week now.

Amazing how warm that gets compared to everything else.  Juan de Fuca is so bloody cold by comparison.

[Phil]

55 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

Heat index in Sarasota is only 99° right now.

Not behind the sea breeze front. 

[Phil]

16 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

I wonder if the Atlantic is going to wake up in August.  This is such an atypical La Nina summer who knows.

Hopefully it’ll be a quieter year. Been a brutal stretch since 2017.

[SnowWillarrive]

1 hour ago, TacomaWx said:

85 here. Looking like we will hit 90 today. 

Better than yesterday at least 

[TacomaWx]

2 minutes ago, SnowWillarrive said:

Better than yesterday at least 

Seems like it’s cooler overall compared to this time yesterday regionally here were -1 I think. 87 here. 

[T-Town]

2 minutes ago, SnowWillarrive said:

Better than yesterday at least 

87 here. I was in the 90s by this time yesterday. Definitely more comfortable out. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Several new fires in Eastern Douglas County. 

[TacomaWx]

Looks like SEA just hit 6 straight. 

[Omegaraptor]

97 at HIO, 91 at Aurora. So I guess 94 in Lake Oswego?

Lol, HIO is hotter than Medford as well as every Sacramento Valley station except RDD.

[The Swamp]

92 here in The Swamp.  What a glorious streak of beautiful summer weather.

Unbelievable!

Fantastic!

Wow!

[Omegaraptor]

4 minutes ago, The Swamp said:

92 here in The Swamp.  What a glorious streak of beautiful summer weather.

Unbelievable!

Fantastic!

Wow!

I hear Lake Havasu has the best summer weather in the US!

[TacomaWx]

9 minutes ago, The Swamp said:

92 here in The Swamp.  What a glorious streak of beautiful summer weather.

Unbelievable!

Fantastic!

Wow!

Trying to create drama and contributing absolutely nothing to this place as usual…

[snow_wizard]

10 minutes ago, The Swamp said:

92 here in The Swamp.  What a glorious streak of beautiful summer weather.

Unbelievable!

Fantastic!

Wow!

Remarkably stable streak here.  6 consecutive all 91 to 94.  Really incredible to have a heat pattern be so consistent like this.

[LowerGarfield]

100F right now outside but still comfortable inside with A/C. I hope that A/C doesn't become politicized. 

[snow_wizard]

6 minutes ago, LowerGarfield said:

100F right now outside but still comfortable inside with A/C. I hope that A/C doesn't become politicized. 

No doubt it will.  Where do you think all of the power will come from when we are all ordered to drive electric cars?

[snow_wizard]

The GFS is showing a really strong onshore flow setting up tomorrow.  Good chance Tuesday will be quite a bit cooler than shown.

[RentonHillTC]

Ohh????? A blessing from above, perhaps??

[snow_wizard]

5 minutes ago, RentonHillTC said:

Ohh????? A blessing from above, perhaps??

The trough hangs in better than previous runs.

[TT-SEA]

Record shattering all time heat last year... followed now by the longest heat wave in history.  In back to back Nina summers.    Pretty surreal even for someone who loves warm weather in the summer. 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

SEA up to 92 and PDX up to 95 at 3pm.

[SnowWillarrive]

1 minute ago, Frontal Snowsquall said:

SEA up to 92 and PDX up to 95 at 3pm.

Every time I see that snow person walking I want to eat it with sprinkles. 

[The Swamp]

56 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Remarkably stable streak here.  6 consecutive all 91 to 94.  Really incredible to have a heat pattern be so consistent like this.

It's an incredible streak from the heavens.

Maybe we can get an equally cold, dry, sunny streak like this in the winter with some cold dry snow and windy outflow?

This stretch has been heaven sent.  I love the sun and the warmth and am in seventh heaven.

[The Swamp]

11 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Record shattering all time heat last year... followed now by the longest heat wave in history.  In back to back Nina summers.    Pretty surreal even for someone who loves warm weather in the summer. 

This is an incredible and unreal stretch.  Fantastic!

[Phishy Wx]

100 out again

 

I think today is a record if KGEG gets to 100 of 5 straight days at 100 or over.  even beats last June

[Phishy Wx]

18 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Record shattering all time heat last year... followed now by the longest heat wave in history.  In back to back Nina summers.    Pretty surreal even for someone who loves warm weather in the summer. 

You seemed surprised.  seems pretty 'normal' to me at this point.  Hot summers, at least part of them is here to stay I'm afraid.  Just wait until we get a Super Nino summer,  oof

[Meatyorologist]

KSEA blasting off. Up to 92F on the 3pm update. 93F here.

[NWbyNW]

All Heat warnings and advisories end tonight at 9PM!!!  (In Western Washington and Oregon)

[Phil]

Ma nature trolling my a** hard.

 

[Phishy Wx]

lol 103 out feels like 97

 

with 10% humidity

 

Dew Point is 36

 

Dry as a bone

[NWbyNW]

 

WILDFIRE UPDATE

NEW Known Wildfires started today! 7/31/22 

Washington - 5 (Five new fires broke out with all posing no significant threat, one has been put out, and two have been controlled. No major fires. Thanks to many fires being put out, the total still is 18.) Total: 18

Oregon - 9 (Nine new fires including a fast moving and fast expanding fire in the Umpqua National Forest. It is being labeled the Potter Fire.  Of the nine new fires, six have been controlled or put out already. The major fire near Ontario that had been downgraded has shifted back to being a major fire. Total increases from 23 yesterday to 25 today.  Significant progress has been done on the major fires in Northern California along the Oregon-California border.) Total: 25

Idaho - 1 (One new fire west of Boise, but it has already been put out. Two fires that were downgraded in significance yesterday have increased to being major fires again.  There are two major fires in the state. Total fires decreases by one. ) Total: 9

British Columbia - 31 (Fires continue to increase, but thankfully many are naturally not spreading as BC Fire Crews are having a poor time at containing any actual fires.  There are two major fires, Lytton and Okanogan Falls which are named Nohomin Creek Fire and the Keremeos Creek Fire.  Many of the lightning sparked fires burned out. The total went from seventy one back down to sixty.) Total: 60 

SMOKE UPDATE

Smoke models show significant smoke in BC and a possible smoke expansion from California into Oregon.  This big smoke push would happen in early August if things go as the models predict.  No smoke for Washington or Portland, Oregon metro.  The smoke would encompass central, souther, and most of eastern Oregon. 

[Phishy Wx]

17 minutes ago, NWbyNW said:

All Heat warnings and advisories end tonight at 9PM!!!

not over here, go thru tomorrow night

[High Desert Mat?]

20 minutes ago, NWbyNW said:

All Heat warnings and advisories end tonight at 9PM!!!

Not in Redmond!!! I believe it goes away tomorrow night but I’m sure there will be another one issued by weeks end.