August 2022 PNW Observations and Discussion - 1956 Redux!1!!1!

[High Desert Mat?]

27 minutes ago, Phil said:

Yeah I can think of ways it could both help and hurt. Impossible to know at this point.

Not seeing what you guys are. The original post is blank. 

[The Swamp]

I washed both cars today.

Jessie.  You are welcome.

[Timmy Supercell]

3 hours ago, Front Ranger said:

If it ends up being a record warm August at OLM, I will fly out there and film myself doing 1,000 pushups on the tarmac.

By the way, their record warm August came in 1967. Second warmest was 1981.

34 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

1967 was just flat out ugly.  Just looking at the month overall I'd take this one....at least so far.

The record August at KLMT is also 1967. There may have been a top 10 of those in the last decade, but it hasn't been as crazy as July in recent years. 

[Timmy Supercell]

At first it was a mere coincidence but now its fact. Mark goes on vacation and something significant happens in the PNW. 

[RentonHill]

Sunset pics…unite!

[Cascadia_Wx]

1 minute ago, RentonHillTC said:

Sunset pics…unite!

So ends the last day of relative peace and quiet on the forum.

[snow_wizard]

17 minutes ago, RentonHillTC said:

Sunset pics…unite!

I love that type of scenery.  Kind of a forest / steppe hybrid.

[TT-SEA]

84 at SEA today... 86 in North Bend.

[TT-SEA]

1 minute ago, snow_wizard said:

I love that type of scenery.  Kind of a forest / steppe hybrid.

Not much of a forest... pretty sparse.   

[TT-SEA]

1 hour ago, snow_wizard said:

I suppose it could actually help for all we know.  It would royally suck if this had been the winter we had been waiting for and this took it away from us.  We would have no way of knowing that though.

I read that water vapor in the stratosphere lasts 5-10 years... about 3 times as long as SO2.

[Cloud]

19 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

So ends the last day of relative peace and quiet on the forum.

Peaceful indeed. Crows are flying home to roost. 

[RentonHill]

4 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Not much of a forest... pretty sparse.   

Forest is there. But I focused on the valley which is mostly farm/grassland. Forest is behind me. 

[Doinko]

90/62 at Portland today 

[snow_wizard]

SEA had a run of 12 straight day of 84+ in August 1967 with a 98 thrown in there.  This month has been nothing like that to this point.  Seems very unlikely we will be able to top that month this year.

[Deweydog]

Sky on FIRE over Salmon Creek!

[MossMan]

81/53 on the day.

[Winterdog]

82/51 here, 65 now with 80% humidity 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

1 hour ago, snow_wizard said:

I love that type of scenery.  Kind of a forest / steppe hybrid.

Most people do. Our brains are pre-wired to. Goes back to the days of our evolution in the savannas of Africa (grassland with scattered trees).

[Timmy Supercell]

48 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

SEA had a run of 12 straight day of 84+ in August 1967 with a 98 thrown in there.  This month has been nothing like that to this point.  Seems very unlikely we will be able to top that month this year.

2017 and 2016 look like warmer Augusts than this one is shaping up to be, and anything can still happen at the end of August. A surprise few chilly days around 8/31 can be a game changer.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

9 hours ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

I love snakes (always have, loved lingering in the snake house in the zoo as a child, thought they were beautiful and fascinating, couldn’t understand why so many other people found them creepy and hurried through).

If there’s a lot of rattlesnakes in an area, that typically means there is a lot of rattlesnake food (rodents) in that area. Many areas of Western North America would be overrun with rodents were it not for snakes. This is also why snakes can hang around houses and other inhabited areas: the house is attracting rodents, and the rodents are attracting snakes. Solution is to address the rodent problem, typically by excluding them.

Luckily I've never encountered a rattlesnake west of the Cascades. I've seen plenty of garter snakes though. 

[Cloud]

52 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

SEA had a run of 12 straight day of 84+ in August 1967 with a 98 thrown in there.  This month has been nothing like that to this point.  Seems very unlikely we will be able to top that month this year.

It’ll be quite a feat for the second half of August to even pull it off… considering there’s only been 2 days of 85+ this August. 
 

Just not gonna happen to match ‘67. Interestingly enough, the 98 is not found on this list. Must’ve been matched somewhere or got broken or not even a record. 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

2 hours ago, Timmy Supercell said:

At first it was a mere coincidence but now its fact. Mark goes on vacation and something significant happens in the PNW. 

I wonder if the baseball and grapefruit size hail were from the same storm? Here is what driving through grapefruit size hail would feel like. I'd be looking for a new car.

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

1 hour ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

So ends the last day of relative peace and quiet on the forum.

What happens tomorrow?

[Timmy Supercell]

7 minutes ago, Frontal Snowsquall said:

I wonder if the baseball and grapefruit size hail were from the same storm? Here is what driving through grapefruit size hail would feel like. I'd be looking for a new car.

 

It was, based on what I read about the storm. It's the one that supposedly reached 50,000 ft. heights and travelled from Sunriver area to Tri Cities Washington. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

25 minutes ago, Frontal Snowsquall said:

Luckily I've never encountered a rattlesnake west of the Cascades. I've seen plenty of garter snakes though. 

West of the Cascades, rattlesnakes are only found from about Salem south.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

16 minutes ago, Frontal Snowsquall said:

I wonder if the baseball and grapefruit size hail were from the same storm? Here is what driving through grapefruit size hail would feel like. I'd be looking for a new car.

 

Was in a car in 3" hail in Colorado Springs once. It was terrifying. None of the windows in the car I was in broke, but many cars were pulling onto the shoulder with broken windows.

[Anti Marine Layer]

28 minutes ago, Frontal Snowsquall said:

I wonder if the baseball and grapefruit size hail were from the same storm? Here is what driving through grapefruit size hail would feel like. I'd be looking for a new car.

 

Only part of the video had the hail.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

24 minutes ago, Timmy Supercell said:

It was, based on what I read about the storm. It's the one that supposedly reached 50,000 ft. heights and travelled from Sunriver area to Tri Cities Washington. 

I just read about the storm, it was on July 9, 1995. The supercell thunderstorm traveled almost 200 miles bringing flash floods, damaging winds and even a tornado along its path.

[BLI snowman]

00z GFS says record August gonna be a decent bet.

[Anti Marine Layer]

5 hours ago, NWbyNW said:

Here is is, @Mr Marine Layer.

I was angry about the fact that there are fires, not about the post itself.

Please include CA if you can.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

2 hours ago, Doiinko said:

90/62 at Portland today 

First 90+ high since hitting 100 on the 7th. Gotta hit at least 90 tomorrow though for an official heatwave since Friday will only be in the 80s.

[MossMan]

Felt a touch humid while I was tractoring today. Cleaned up the mess behind the shop that was left from the previous owners (I did add to it as well over the last 4yrs) that was mixed in with weeds and blackberries…and yeah my back became quite moist, that usually doesn’t happen. 

[RentonHill]

13 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

00z GFS says record August gonna be a decent bet.

[Doinko]

1 minute ago, RentonHillTC said:

One amazing day in the 70s!!!

[RentonHill]

3 minutes ago, Doiinko said:

One amazing day in the 70s!!!

[Front Ranger]

3 hours ago, Timmy Supercell said:

At first it was a mere coincidence but now its fact. Mark goes on vacation and something significant happens in the PNW. 

Am I the only one who has never seen "hen egg size" before?

[TacomaWx]

This almost constant rigging has got to give at some point. I get the feeling we will not have a torchy September given how warm warm we’ve been recently. 

[snow_wizard]

It appears some cautious optimism may be in order for late month as far as getting into a cooler pattern.

[snow_wizard]

29 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

This almost constant rigging has got to give at some point. I get the feeling we will not have a torchy September given how warm warm we’ve been recently. 

La Nina Septembers can torch hard though.  On the other hand hot La Nina summers like 1971 had early / cold autumns.  We shall see.

[snow_wizard]

55 minutes ago, RentonHillTC said:

That will never verify.