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

[Doinko]

5 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

That was a really close call.  We got on the right side of the Arctic front for about 12 to 18 hours which gave us some snow and decently cold temps, but it retreated quickly.

I remember it started snowing and sticking for a bit, maybe 0.2" at most or something before turning into graupel.

[LowerGarfield]

M's looked good tonight. Tomorrow will be nice. High in the mid 70s and low in the fifties. Fall is my favorite season and I love days like that with the exception of the wind.

[TT-SEA]

2 minutes ago, LowerGarfield said:

M's looked good tonight. Tomorrow will be nice. High in the mid 70s and low in the fifties. Fall is my favorite season and I love days like that with the exception of the wind.

My son was at the game... said it was a playoff atmosphere.   Not that anyone in Seattle would actually know what that is like.  

[LowerGarfield]

Just now, TT-SEA said:

My son was at the game... said it was a playoff atmosphere.   Not that anyone in Seattle would actually know what is like.  

Unless they want to reveal their age. My six year old wanted to stay up to listen. 

[TT-SEA]

Just now, LowerGarfield said:

Unless they want to reveal their age. My six year old wanted to stay up to listen. 

That is awesome.    I remember taking my sons to games when they were around that age and they didn't follow the game at all.   It clicked for them around age 9.    Now my son at UW is fanatical about the Mariners and baseball in general.

[Deweydog]

6 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

My son was at the game... said it was a playoff atmosphere.   Not that anyone in Seattle would actually know what that is like.  

We’ll be there tomorrow night. First August Mariner game since 2002.

Edited August 27, 2022 by Deweydog

[TT-SEA]

47 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

No problem.  It's certainly something along those lines.  In a way I don't want to change which makes it hard for any therapy to do much good.  Klonopin has certainly helped if I go too far down the rabbit hole.

If I was that obsessed with it being cold... I would move heaven and earth to get to a place that is consistently cold and snowy.   Like Bozeman.  

[LowerGarfield]

12 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

That is awesome.    I remember taking my sons to games when they were around that age and they didn't follow the game at all.   It clicked for them around age 9.    Now my son at UW is fanatical about the Mariners and baseball in general.

Clicked for me when I was about 12 and my brother when he was about 9. My sister was the only one who didn't like baseball for a long time until she started playing softball when she was about 15 and really got into it then.

I only wish we had cable because otherwise my son will have to listen to radio only. Anyway we entered a raffle and if we win we'll be on the west side in two weeks.  He kept asking why they don't play baseball in the winter and I explained about the roof and how some other teams don't have one. Pretty hard to play baseball at Randy "Minnesota" Mossman's house under 10 inches of snow. My son prefers summer as a season sadly.

[ShawniganLake]

1 hour ago, MossMan said:

January 2020 was also fun up here! 

That little frontogenesis event on the night of the 14th lifted an incredibly heavy band of snow to the north across the Olympic peninsula and southern Vancouver Island. We had 15” that night with close to 12” in only 4-5 hours. 
 

 

[Skagit Weather]

1 hour ago, Meatyorologist said:

If the Dec 2021 Arctic event had been shifted one day earlier, Christmas would have been the best in recorded history. 23/17 spread with 5" of heavy blowing powder on Boxing day.

I mean it was pretty darn good up here. I picked up just a bit of snow on Christmas Eve that had melted by Christmas morning as the temperature rose to 37F by 10 a.m. Then the first part of the arctic front finally made it down from the north and the temperature dropped to 34F by 11 a.m. and we picked up about half an inch of snow. It dropped below freezing by 3 p.m. and snowed for most of the rest of the evening as I picked up 5" by midnight with a temperature of 24F.

The temperature continued dropping the entire next day until it hit 9F around 10 p.m. on the 26th. I wouldn't really make it above freezing again until the afternoon of January 1st. I'm not sure I could draw up a more perfect Christmas than that, although I guess we could have started with an inch or two on the ground on Christmas morning.

[Cloud]

 

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

My son was at the game... said it was a playoff atmosphere.   Not that anyone in Seattle would actually know what that is like.  

Eh.. I beg to differ. Last Sept was  great playoffs atmosphere even though they fell short. I went to a few games late in the season when they were in the hunt and it was electric at the ballpark. Pretty sure a ton of excitement tonight is from the Julio contract announcement as well

And yes.. I know you're just joking on the bolded part too

[Cloud]

Pretty benign Euro run tonight I thought... kinda in lockstep with the GFS through day 10. 

[The Blob]

Cloudy and very breezy this morning.

[Kayla]

6 hours ago, TT-SEA said:

If I was that obsessed with it being cold... I would move heaven and earth to get to a place that is consistently cold and snowy.   Like Bozeman.  

There are many people on here that I feel would live much happier lives in a snowier/colder climate if they were able to move. Obviously notwithstanding financial/family reasons.

The whole "living in the PNW just makes the snow even more special!" thing is just not true. If that's what gets you through the predominately rainy and gloomy winters then so be it, but I can attest that I am so much happier in a snowy/cold climate now than when I lived in Portland. And we lived in the West Hills! So if anyone is on the fence about moving to a snowier climate, do it, you won't regret it!

 

[The Blob]

Weather station says 59 out!

[ShawniganLake]

Looks like there could be some CZ snow just east of Seattle this morning 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Refreshing 54 degree morning (Still +8 departure.). Some wind blown mist. 

[LowerGarfield]

1 hour ago, Kayla said:

There are many people on here that I feel would live much happier lives in a snowier/colder climate if they were able to move. Obviously notwithstanding financial/family reasons.

The whole "living in the PNW just makes the snow even more special!" thing is just not true. If that's what gets you through the predominately rainy and gloomy winters then so be it, but I can attest that I am so much happier in a snowy/cold climate now than when I lived in Portland. And we lived in the West Hills! So if anyone is on the fence about moving to a snowier climate, do it, you won't regret it!

 

I've said this before but I'll say it again. I prefer a mild oceanic climate like Seattle or Portland. The one when I lived in Cannon Beach was a little too extreme but being from CA I like rain. Where I am now in EWA was within our budget (specifically why we moved since we could never afford anything in Stanwood / W. WA). But we do get more snow events overall than the west side. But West Side can get more snow  in a single event due to moisture.

I like the variety of the climate in EWA. Seattle is a bit more consistent. But Mediterranean climates such as NorCal are too boring for me.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

2 hours ago, Kayla said:

The whole "living in the PNW just makes the snow even more special!" thing is just not true. If that's what gets you through the predominately rainy and gloomy winters then so be it, but I can attest that I am so much happier in a snowy/cold climate now than when I lived in Portland. And we lived in the West Hills! So if anyone is on the fence about moving to a snowier climate, do it, you won't regret it!

It’s rather different in my case. I do find that the rareness of significant snowfalls here makes them more special. I’ve lived in colder, snowier climates and beyond a point I get sick of the snow and wish it were warmer and greener (like our winters).

Of course, I moved from Portland to Seattle to Bellingham to Vancouver. Anywhere north of Skagit County gets significantly more affected by cold air outbreaks from the interior. I really like that. It’s just not quite as hard to get a decent lowland snow event up this way. For years, I thought it would be a net win if I could find out a way to make moving north work. It was.

[MossMan]

8 hours ago, Skagit Weather said:

I mean it was pretty darn good up here. I picked up just a bit of snow on Christmas Eve that had melted by Christmas morning as the temperature rose to 37F by 10 a.m. Then the first part of the arctic front finally made it down from the north and the temperature dropped to 34F by 11 a.m. and we picked up about half an inch of snow. It dropped below freezing by 3 p.m. and snowed for most of the rest of the evening as I picked up 5" by midnight with a temperature of 24F.

The temperature continued dropping the entire next day until it hit 9F around 10 p.m. on the 26th. I wouldn't really make it above freezing again until the afternoon of January 1st. I'm not sure I could draw up a more perfect Christmas than that, although I guess we could have started with an inch or two on the ground on Christmas morning.

Yeah even though it was sloppy, waking up to a white Christmas morning was amazing! Was plowing the driveway by early afternoon, was magical by Christmas evening, and the morning of the 26th was even more spectacular! 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

2 minutes ago, LowerGarfield said:

I like the variety of the climate in EWA. Seattle is a bit more consistent. But Mediterranean climates such as NorCal are too boring for me.

I tried living in the SF Bay Area and it was not for me. One big factor in that was the climate. I found it boring.

[SnowWillarrive]

10 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

If the Dec 2021 Arctic event had been shifted one day earlier, Christmas would have been the best in recorded history. 23/17 spread with 5" of heavy blowing powder on Boxing day.

We ended up with 17 inches during that period here. Christmas Day itself was not bad. Mostly wet snow during the day. I live at about 600 feet. Christmas night was getting really good and the 26th was amazing. 

There was a very heavy band of snow that hung out over SE King County stretching into Ravensdale into Enumclaw. Was an amazing week!! 

[MossMan]

Wet deck and 55. However clouds are now thinning very quickly! 

[Anti Marine Layer]

People must be out and about enjoying the cool weather. 

[Cloud]

Both SEA and BFI been stuck at 57 since 3 this morning. Still no signs of this changing for next couple hours  

got some rain overnight

[Cloud]

Welcome back friend! With your reappearance, signs of change is afoot! 
 

 

[Phil]

3 hours ago, Kayla said:

There are many people on here that I feel would live much happier lives in a snowier/colder climate if they were able to move. Obviously notwithstanding financial/family reasons.

The whole "living in the PNW just makes the snow even more special!" thing is just not true. If that's what gets you through the predominately rainy and gloomy winters then so be it, but I can attest that I am so much happier in a snowy/cold climate now than when I lived in Portland. And we lived in the West Hills! So if anyone is on the fence about moving to a snowier climate, do it, you won't regret it!

 

Yup watching other places get hammered every winter while I have to wait 5+ years for a bonafide blizzard is not fun. And it’s certainly not “magical”. Not gonna lie to myself and say otherwise.  

I do love the PNW landscape though. It’s much prettier than here IMO and probably even more so in the snow. Problem is I love thunderstorms too and I’m not sure there’s enough convection up there to satiate me. If I go so much as 1 week without a thunderstorm in the summer I get antsy.

[Phil]

GFS is still the only model that shows a gulf hurricane. I don’t think that is going to happen at all.

[TacomaWx]

Got down to 58 this morning…haven’t had any precip here. 

[Winterdog]

57 now and wet.  Received .13" overnight and still drizzling.  

[LowerGarfield]

70's with a breeze here. Glorious indeed. Perfect weather for my spouse who offered to re-paint my snow measurement board for the upcoming season. Sunny with a cool breeze here.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Here comes the reverse clearing. 

[snow_wizard]

Hmmm.  The 0z EPS was getting a nice GOA ridge look to it for week two.  Might be a much cooler September this year.  We shall see.

[Cascadia_Wx]

1 minute ago, snow_wizard said:

Hmmm.  The 0z EPS was getting a nice GOA ridge look to it for week two.  Might be a much cooler September this year.  We shall see.

Weren’t you saying that about pretty much all of August?

[snow_wizard]

12 minutes ago, Winterdog said:

57 now and wet.  Received .13" overnight and still drizzling.  

We have gotten zilch here from this.  Much cooler though.

[snow_wizard]

1 minute ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Weren’t you saying that about pretty much all of August?

Just stating what the EPS showed.

I have also been highlighting the incredible run of warm Augusts we have had.  In fact I think one of my first posts in this thread was it would be warm and dry this month.

[Cascadia_Wx]

1 minute ago, snow_wizard said:

Just stating what the EPS showed.

I have also been highlighting the incredible run of warm Augusts we have had.  In fact I think one of my first posts in this thread was it would be warm and dry this month.

It’s interesting that admins can edit their posts without the little “edited by” thing showing up at the bottom.

[Cascadia_Wx]

Long range 12z GFS gets pretty fun 

[snow_wizard]

9 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

It’s interesting that admins can edit their posts without the little “edited by” thing showing up at the bottom.

I didn't edit that one.  I've said many times recently that the month of August is going to torch until further notice.

[snow_wizard]

8 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Long range 12z GFS gets pretty fun 

It does indeed.  If September ends up ok that will leave July and August as the only really bad months this year.