October 2022 PNW weather Discussion. + Ultimate Leg Reveal Extravaganza

[snow_wizard]

1 hour ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

 

Nov 1985 looked like a great time!

Check this out.  It was a different world up here.

 

[Doinko]

5 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Check this out.  It was a different world up here.

 

Wow what an impressive month. Are these your records? What were months like December 2008 or December 1990 in your area?

[T-Town]

28 minutes ago, Winterdog said:

My 39 year old self thought Nov. 1985 was...  erhh, I can't remember.

The 80s coincided with my twenties so a lot of that decade is a bit hazy for me, but November 85 was pretty memorable. 

[snow_wizard]

5 minutes ago, Doiinko said:

Wow what an impressive month. Are these your records? What were months like December 2008 or December 1990 in your area?

Yeah....my records.  I designed that chart on Excel over 20 years ago, and transferred my old records to that and have put everything since in this format.  I'll post the two you asked about a bit later.  I did have a zero low and big snow dump in Dec 1990 and of course 2008 was great.

[Winterdog]

2 minutes ago, T-Town said:

The 80s coincided with my twenties so a lot of that decade is a bit hazy for me, but November 85 was pretty memorable. 

I actually remember it quite well.  It was only outperformed by January 1969 in my memory banks. 

[snow_wizard]

7 minutes ago, T-Town said:

The 80s coincided with my twenties so a lot of that decade is a bit hazy for me, but November 85 was pretty memorable. 

Impossible to forget that.

[T-Town]

11 minutes ago, Winterdog said:

I actually remember it quite well.  It was only outperformed by January 1969 in my memory banks. 

Nice. I was 6 in January 69 so don’t remember it. I have seen a picture of me standing with my dad next to some big snow piles he shoveled from the driveway but no memories of the event. 

[Phishy Wx]

22 minutes ago, T-Town said:

The 80s coincided with my twenties so a lot of that decade is a bit hazy for me, but November 85 was pretty memorable. 

some good shows that Fall too.  Trouble ahead, Jerry in Red

[MossMan]

Blower season has definitely arrived! 

[NWbyNW]

Rain incoming!  Snow incoming in the mountains!

[NWbyNW]

You can really see in this satellite image from moments ago, the jet stream has it's crosshairs set for the Pacific Northwest.  It's pretty cool to see this kind of stuff.

 

[Winterdog]

21 minutes ago, T-Town said:

Nice. I was 6 in January 69 so don’t remember it. I have seen a picture of me standing with my dad next to some big snow piles he shoveled from the driveway but no memories of the event. 

I was a meter reader for WNG in 1969 and recall having to climb over piles of snow in the middle of the streets in downtown Seattle.  

[Gradient Keeper]

Talk about a dynamic looking front! This will be our second vigorous front of the Fall season and this one is looking very wet. Note the darkening evident indicative of strong lifting and also the cold air mass pouring in behind the system. You can see it off the south Washington and Northern Oregon Coast with embedded squalls. We could see localized gusty winds this evening, heavy downpours, and perhaps a few isolated lightning strikes.

[Meatyorologist]

4 hours ago, JBolin said:

I know most of you ya-hoos on here have never followed nor likely ever come across this local Twitter account. However last night after seven years and nearly four thousand followers, they decided to abruptly shut down the account without any reason nor indication.

For those unaware, this account was an "institution" of sorts throughout western washington going back to the winter of 2015. Their insight coupled with the embedded humour is what made the account so quirky, likable and informative. And it showed in the responses from folks in the tweet thread with many folks expressing their disbelief.

Many were shocked at the news (myself included) and cannot fathom why, all of a sudden, such an established and go-to local weather account would just "go away"?

Especially considering they had some of the biggest name followers across the country in the weather community.

Hopefully they return again.

He's done this before, threatening to leave. Only difference is now he's actually deactivated his account.

He also recently came down with more Covid symptoms, potentially even worse than before.

[Meatyorologist]

30 minutes ago, Gradient Keeper said:

Talk about a dynamic looking front! This will be our second vigorous front of the Fall season and this one is looking very wet. Note the darkening evident indicative of strong lifting and also the cold air mass pouring in behind the system. You can see it off the south Washington and Northern Oregon Coast with embedded squalls. We could see localized gusty winds this evening, heavy downpours, and perhaps a few isolated lightning strikes.

Lightning off the coast of Cannon Beach!

[Blizzard777]

11 minutes ago, Meatyorologist said:

Lightning off the coast of Cannon Beach!

Something to look forward too in a bit. Weather drama

[Gradient Keeper]

16 minutes ago, Meatyorologist said:

Lightning off the coast of Cannon Beach!

This is the cell that produced the lightning off Cannon Beach. Looking at the loop it sure looked like a low-topped supercell.

 

00z ECMWF in 7 hours

[snow_wizard]

1 hour ago, T-Town said:

Nice. I was 6 in January 69 so don’t remember it. I have seen a picture of me standing with my dad next to some big snow piles he shoveled from the driveway but no memories of the event. 

I was only 4 (almost 5), but I do have one memory of it.  One of my parents opened the front door and the snow was piled very high against it.  Oddly enough I remember my dad thawing pipes with a torch in December of that same winter.

[Gradient Keeper]

It's just so nice to see frontal systems that not only aren't falling apart as they move inside ~130 W, but strengthen as they approach the coast. So many recent fall seasons that has not been the case with weakening, piddly systems.

00z GFS in 3 hours 44 minutes

[Phishy Wx]

Could we get an AR and an Arctic blast to align this winter?  preferably in late Dec to minimize sun angle.

 

Please and thanks 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

2 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

Could we get an AR and an Arctic blast to align this winter?  preferably in late Dec to minimize sun angle.

 

Please and thanks 

It happened in 1996. Fun times!

 

[T-Town]

1 hour ago, Phishy Wx said:

some good shows that Fall too.  Trouble ahead, Jerry in Red

Yeah Jerry was headed for trouble at that point. I saw them in 81 and then a couple times in the 90s. Not sure the music was that great at the 90s shows but a Grateful Dead show was an event either way. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

Another one from Victoria in 1996.

 

[Joshua Lake Oswego]

6 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

Could we get an AR and an Arctic blast to align this winter?  preferably in late Dec to minimize sun angle.

 

Please and thanks 

Like what happened in Leavenworth last January? I missed that by one week. 

[Terreboner]

Some serious cloud tops with what looks like a squall line behind the initial precipitation band.

[SouthHillFrosty]

What happened to Brian in Leavenworth? He hasn’t been around 

[snow_wizard]

1 minute ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

What happened to Brian in Leavenworth? He hasn’t been around 

I saw his name come up on the current users list yesterday I think it was.  Just might not have posted.

[snow_wizard]

10 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Another one from Victoria in 1996.

 

That winter had an almost 19th century vibe to it.  The November cold / snow event was pretty big up your way as well.

[MossMan]

3 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

What happened to Brian in Leavenworth? He hasn’t been around 

He usually starts Posting more once we get into the cold season, hopefully he will be back soon! 

[Seattle]

It's too bad we don't have official snow measurements at SEA or BLI from the 96 storm.

Have we ever had an AR snow event followed by reinforcing cold, instead of an abrupt warmup? Now that would be something else.

[Terreboner]

1 minute ago, Seattle said:

It's too bad we don't have official snow measurements at SEA or BLI from the 96 storm.

Have we ever had an AR snow event followed by reinforcing cold, instead of an abrupt warmup? Now that would be something else.

Depends what your definition is.  

[snow_wizard]

7 minutes ago, Seattle said:

It's too bad we don't have official snow measurements at SEA or BLI from the 96 storm.

Have we ever had an AR snow event followed by reinforcing cold, instead of an abrupt warmup? Now that would be something else.

Yup.  December 1924.  Major AR started as warm rain, went to snow, and then turned VERY cold for a long time.  Also a decent event in December 1974.  It also appears that Jan 1880 was a huge AR event that was able to mix with enough Arctic air to where it all fell as feet of snow.

BTW...with the 1924 event the Puget Sound region had widespread 6 to 12 inch accumulations.

[Phishy Wx]

30 minutes ago, T-Town said:

Yeah Jerry was headed for trouble at that point. I saw them in 81 and then a couple times in the 90s. Not sure the music was that great at the 90s shows but a Grateful Dead show was an event either way. 

I'm younger, my first was Charlotte 91.

 

My uncle always tells me of the wild scene around Halloween 85 in of all places Columbia SC, my hometown.  lol the Dead were run out of town afterwards and banned from SC.  they never played in SC again after that one show.

[snow_wizard]

Down to 47 after a high of 52 here.

[Brian_in_Leavenworth]

15 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

What happened to Brian in Leavenworth? He hasn’t been around 

Thanks for asking.   Yeah I don't post much until Winter approaches.  And I took a time out because I was in Europe for awhile and I had a bit of bickering with someone that, while wasn't too bad, it also wasn't the way I want to be on the forum.

Yeah we had 3-4 feet of snow last January in a little over 24 hours.  Perfect scenario with a moist, slow moving system with the low pressure to our South, and we already had pretty cold air in place.  The location of the low kept warmer air to the South and brought up-slope winds into the eastern slopes which only enhanced the snowfall rates.  Sometimes we see the atmospheric river come over us and dump heavy snow then rain as the low goes North and brings warmer air.  This time it stayed South.

1996 also brought heavy snow to Bellingham.  We already had probably 12-18 inches on the ground from previous storms that started before Christmas.  Seattle and areas South didn't see the snow until the 26th of December. On about the 29th the atmospheric river brought very heavy snow, probably another 18 inches before turning to rain the next day, while areas like Victoria stayed snow longer.  

[Brian_in_Leavenworth]

14 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Yup.  December 1924.  Major AR started as warm rain, went to snow, and then turned VERY cold for a long time.  Also a decent event in December 1974.  It also appears that Jan 1880 was a huge AR event that was able to mix with enough Arctic air to where it all fell as feet of snow.

BTW...with the 1924 event the Puget Sound region had widespread 6 to 12 inch accumulations.

1990 wasn't an AR snow event, but it did have 2 arctic blasts with a warm-up between IIRC.

[GHweatherChris]

1.23" of rain on the day, 2.4" MTD.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Plenty of snow in the mountains on the afternoon GFS.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

34 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

That winter had an almost 19th century vibe to it.  The November cold / snow event was pretty big up your way as well.

Pity I wasn't living up this way then. I still got about 2 feet in Shoreline just north of Seattle, which was insane enough.

I remember hearing at the time that Skagit Valley got about 3 feet total, Bellingham 4, and Victoria 5.

[T-Town]

18 minutes ago, Brian_in_Leavenworth said:

1990 wasn't an AR snow event, but it did have 2 arctic blasts with a warm-up between IIRC.

There was an AR a few weeks earlier that caused major flooding and sank the I-90 bridge.