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

[TT-SEA]

My phone is showing some summer perfection ahead...

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Mossman's area seems really cool. Nice thing about north of Seattle is just a tiny bit of elevation is going to give you a great winter climate. Down here 580' is just going to give you marginally more snow. 

[Phil]

12z EPS starting to show that double spiked warmup now.

Seems reasonable to me. Solutions don’t look spurious, and the tropics don’t favor a sustained cool pattern until the 20th or so. I think the 2nd warm-up will happen.

[TT-SEA]

Another day with a pretty sky... it feels warm and sort of humid.   Some would say summery.  

[Front Ranger]

1 hour ago, SnowWillarrive said:

I been watching the market since the interest rates have been rising. Lots of sellers cutting prices right now. 

If I were a potential buyer, I'd definitely wait things out for a bit. We're seeing the beginnings of a correction here in CO...I expect it will be clearly evident in most markets by end of summer.

There's a good chance that 6-12 months from now many buyers will have 1) a lot more houses to choose from, 2) lower home prices, and 3) possibly lower rates.

[Front Ranger]

1 hour ago, snow_wizard said:

Then you have years like 1985 where this area actually outdid the normal winners in both February and November.

How much snow did you get that winter?

[Deweydog]

Stellar day!

[T-Town]

2 hours ago, BLI snowman said:

I believe the ginormous mountain wave event on 12/23-24/1983 produced 120mph winds in Enumclaw (with 15F temps).

We moved into our place in Maple Valley in December 2005. The first couple days we were there the east wind was gusting 40+. It blew all the beauty bark out of the gardens in the front yard. That was a nice welcome to the neighborhood. 

[TacomaWx]

Our really nice summer continues 72 and partly cloudy here. 

[Jbolin]

4 hours ago, Mr Marine Layer said:

We've got a prefence war and a preferance war, but no preference war.

PRE-FENCE

PRE-FENCE

PRE-FENCE

[SilverFallsAndrew]

We are about two months from scanning the models for the first hint of fall storms. 

[TT-SEA]

Lovely...

[RentonHill]

14 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

We are about two months from scanning the models for the first hint of fall storms. 

Hnnnggg

[Phil]

18z GFS is a death machine everywhere except Tim’s oasis.

 

[TT-SEA]

3 minutes ago, Phil said:

18z GFS is a death machine everywhere except Tim’s oasis.

 

Yep.   Just Tim.   Everyone else posting here in this PNW topic will be dead of heat exhaustion.   

In the meantime... another Friday afternoon IPA on the deck.

Edited July 8, 2022 by TT-SEA

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Gorgeous. 

[RentonHill]

yahtzee!

[TT-SEA]

9 minutes ago, RentonHillTC said:

yahtzee!

Frigid!

[RentonHill]

8 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Frigid!

[T-Town]

13 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Frigid!

Thanks for posting. I’ve covered the outdoor faucets and laid down a good coating of salt in the driveway. I’m ready. 

[Chewbacca Defense]

2 minutes ago, T-Town said:

Thanks for posting. I’ve covered the outdoor faucets and laid down a good coating of salt in the driveway. I’m ready. 

Looks like I should put the snow tires back on my car, and bust out the extension cord for my block heater.

[T-Town]

4 minutes ago, Chewbacca Defense said:

Looks like I should put the snow tires back on my car, and bust out the extension cord for my block heater.

Can’t be too careful. 

[TacomaWx]

75/60 here today in Tacoma. 

[TT-SEA]

Another pair of 7s at SEA today... second day in a row.  

A nice 77/60 day... close to the normal of 76/58.

 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

2 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

We are about two months from scanning the models for the first hint of fall storms. 

Once we get into the dog days of the offseason its fun to start throwing out our favorite local analogs.

Nov 1985

Dec 2013

Jan 1950

Feb 2019

 

[TT-SEA]

I guess this is my preferred pattern... because today is summer perfection.

[Doinko]

8 hours ago, BLI snowman said:

PDX has better access to the gorge, which can make a difference in events like 2/9/2019 and 2/12/2021. The inner SW Metro/Tualatin Valley is also the first to transition to south winds and doesn't benefit from cold air damming the way folks near the Coast Range do. They're also in the heart of the rain shadow so they won't do as well in onshore flow patterns as places closer to the Cascades.

I'm also in the heart of the rainshadow according to this map (even more so than Tigard apparently), but I never seem to do that bad compared to PDX, and in some scenarios I think I do better, maybe PDX being so close to sea level is why?

 

[Doinko]

8 hours ago, BLI snowman said:

Yeah, Meat touched on it yesterday but our region suddenly becomes a pretty great climate once you get closer to 1000'. You get a lot of the upsides of other regions when it comes to heavy snow and fairly distinct seasons, with none of the downsides of ludicrous temperature extremes or ugly topography. 

Hood River seems nice too

[Doinko]

45 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Once we get into the dog days of the offseason its fun to start throwing out our favorite local analogs.

Nov 1985

Dec 2013

Jan 1950

Feb 2019

 

Nov 2016

Dec 1950

Jan 2018

Feb 2016

[T-Town]

13 minutes ago, Doiinko said:

Hood River seems nice too

Been going to both Hood River and Bend since the eighties. Hood River has retained more of its original character but I still like both places a lot. 

[Doinko]

2 minutes ago, T-Town said:

Been going to both Hood River and Bend since the eighties. Hood River has retained more of its original character but I still like both places a lot. 

Hood river had a major snowstorm this winter I think, in early January. 2ft+ in the area.

[Doinko]

2 minutes ago, Eujunga said:

Parkdale FTW!

Parkdale is just south of Hood River on the slopes of Mt. Hood. When I first got the bug to move to Oregon someday, I decided Parkdale had the perfect climate. I even looked at property there in around 1994, but decided that $40,000 was too much money

https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?or6466

Marine clouds don't make it there in the summer either I'm pretty sure, if you'd prefer that.

[T-Town]

6 minutes ago, Eujunga said:

Parkdale FTW!

Parkdale is just south of Hood River on the slopes of Mt. Hood. When I first got the bug to move to Oregon someday, I decided Parkdale had the perfect climate. I even looked at property there in around 1994, but decided that $40,000 was too much money

https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?or6466

Been through Parkdale on the Fruit Loop a few years ago. Agree it’s a beautiful place. 

[T-Town]

This is a great trail. You can almost see the climate change from west to east.  
 

https://www.oregonhikers.org/field_guide/Mark_Hatfield_West_Trailhead

[Meatyorologist]

10 minutes ago, T-Town said:

This is a great trail. You can almost see the climate change from west to east.  
 

https://www.oregonhikers.org/field_guide/Mark_Hatfield_West_Trailhead

For a sec I thought you meant agw instead of climate zones 

[Meatyorologist]

All this Hood River talk made me curious about what they saw in Jan 1950. So I went ahead and looked, and there's too much going on to elegantly jot down in one post. Instead I made this graphic.

[Doinko]

4 minutes ago, Meatyorologist said:

All this Hood River talk made me curious about what they saw in Jan 1950. So I went ahead and looked, and there's too much going on to elegantly jot down in one post. Instead I made this graphic.

That might be one problem with the climate there though, the prevalence of ice storms

[Doinko]

7 minutes ago, Meatyorologist said:

All this Hood River talk made me curious about what they saw in Jan 1950. So I went ahead and looked, and there's too much going on to elegantly jot down in one post. Instead I made this graphic.

Even better:

[Meatyorologist]

Just now, Doiinko said:

Even better:

good god

[RentonHill]

8 minutes ago, Meatyorologist said:

All this Hood River talk made me curious about what they saw in Jan 1950. So I went ahead and looked, and there's too much going on to elegantly jot down in one post. Instead I made this graphic.