October 2022 PNW weather Discussion. + Ultimate Leg Reveal Extravaganza

[Terreboner]

14 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Plenty of snow in the mountains on the afternoon GFS.

Hopefully this troughing doesn't go away Dec 1st.

[Iceresistance]

End of the 12z GFS, RUN!

[BLI snowman]

50 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.

February 1916.

[TacomaWx]

0.20” so far today. Rain has been light overall for the most part but it’s picked up here in the last 15 minutes. 

[T-Town]

Incoming. 

[BLI snowman]

Classic gloomy PNW fall day.  Would be happy with another 20 or 25 of these before we move into arctic-mageddon.

[Skagit Weather]

22 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

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.

I wasn't around for the 1996 event, but it looks like Anacortes had 20-30" of snow and eastern Skagit County had even more than that. I have a friend who was born at home just after Christmas in 1996 whose family lived in Alger. There was 4' of snow on the roads and they couldn't even get out of their driveway let alone get to the hospital.

Sounds like the snow was pretty destructive to the marinas and greenhouses up here as well:

"December 1996 & January 1997 – Snow & Wind:  Heavy accumulations of snow fell throughout western Washington including Skagit County over several days with depths of 2-3 feet in the western portion of the county and depths of 4-5 feet in the eastern portion of the county followed several days later by high winds and rain.  Many roads were impassable and road and street crews worked 24-hour days to plow snow.  Damage to barns, other agricultural buildings, and commercial greenhouses exceeded 3 million dollars and many residential carports, unattached garages, and storage buildings were destroyed.  Marinas in Skagit County received over 1.7 million dollars in damage to docks and roofs and 30 private boats were damaged due to collapsed marina roof structures.  The total amount of public and private damage in Skagit County was $6,245,145 as a result of these events (FEMA Disaster #1159)."

[Brian_in_Leavenworth]

22 minutes ago, T-Town said:

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

Yes, I think that was Thanksgiving weekend.  Here on Leavenworth there's a monument near the river downtown about it, and the pedestrian bridge just below town over the river had the water up to the top.  That was probably about 20 feet above normal, as I've never seen the river even being close to the walkway level.  An amazing 5-6 weeks of weather.

[T-Town]

[Jbolin]

2 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

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.

Something happened that would cause such an immediate departure for him. 

Looking at his account's analytics, https://blackmagic.so/glance/WestSeaWx he had quite the reach when it came to followers and content, some notables being Stu Ostro, Jen Walton, Jim Tang, Brendon A, Brian Brettschneider, Elizabeth Leitman (SPC), Cory Repenhagen, Aaron Jayjack, Jim Cantore, Reed Timmer, etc. Also had quite a following by some NWS mets as well.

 I've also heard he had some close connections with local old school mets too. It's a shame and really wonder what happened?

[T-Town]

1 minute ago, Brian_in_Leavenworth said:

Yes, I think that was Thanksgiving weekend.  Here on Leavenworth there's a monument near the river downtown about it, and the pedestrian bridge just below town over the river had the water up to the top.  That was probably about 20 feet above normal, as I've never seen the river even being close to the walkway level.  An amazing 5-6 weeks of weather.

Yeah thanksgiving weekend sounds right. We were living in the Renton highlands and the Cedar River through downtown Renton was absolutely raging. 

[FroYoBro]

Some really heavy rain is falling now. Loving it. 

[Jbolin]

1 hour ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Another one from Victoria in 1996.

 

Nearly thirty years on and this series of storms is still the most snow I've ever seen in my life to date. 

[Doinko]

Some occasional strong wind gusts here

[MossMan]

 

[MossMan]

 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

High of 9.1˚C (48.4˚F) today. And to think that a week ago at this time, I don't think I had recorded a sub-60˚F high yet.

22.8 mm (0.90") of rain today… and counting.

[T-Town]

9 minutes ago, MossMan said:

 

Aaron Brown!!

[Doinko]

[Terreboner]

Just now, Doiinko said:

Not sure if you got a map a little further north but looks like Astoria is getting it good right now.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

It’s late October, the leaves are turning, and it’s pouring rain. All feels right with the world.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Eugene is not getting much of the wet stuff. 

[TacomaWx]

0.40” so far today. 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

11 minutes ago, Mr Marine Layer said:

Eugene is not getting much of the wet stuff. 

Springfield sure as hell is right now! Woohoo! It's pouring and 52F.

0.04" in the last 45 mins. Progress.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

12 minutes ago, Mr Marine Layer said:

Eugene is not getting much of the wet stuff. 

Looks to just be getting started there.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Delightfully filthy out there.

[CliffMassYelledAtMe]

Read that Thursday is the last 6:00 or later sunset of 2022 for Seattle. 

Looks like it is tomorrow for Vancouver, BC, Sunday for Portland, next Wednesday for Eugene, and next Saturday (11/5) for Medford. 

 

[MossMan]

Major dumpage and 44 degrees. Up to .36” on the day. 

[Cloud]

About to head into a brief lull but the next stuff rolling in is a good one. 

[Doinko]

4 minutes ago, Cloud said:

About to head into a brief lull but the next stuff rolling in is a good one. 

Hoping for some thunderstorms with this wave! Also, we really need a coastal radar in Oregon

[Kolk1604]

Learmonth is in Austraila... why is it listed under Washington? Is it like this for anyone else?

[Chewbacca Defense]

2 hours ago, Phishy Wx said:

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.

I had always heard their Halloween shows were pretty wild.  I went to shows in the late 80's in Atlanta.  My brother always at least made the Atlanta show and the Hampton Va show.  He had hundreds of bootlegs, and sadly, I could not get my hands on them after he died.  I seem to remember he had Halloween '85 and listened to it alot.  I don't know if he went to it...

[BLI snowman]

15 minutes ago, Kolk1604 said:

Learmonth is in Austraila... why is it listed under Washington? Is it like this for anyone else?

Western Australia also uses WA.

Edited October 26, 2022 by BLI snowman

[MossMan]

They’re Here!! 
They as in the rain/wind/40’s! 

[kokaneekidz]

1 hour ago, MossMan said:

 

Lovely spectacles he wears. Old nice gold frames 

[HuskyMaestro]

Pretty pumped for a rainy and gloomy Halloween weekend.

I do horror writing so it's the perfect vibes all around. Tempted to write about one that's weather-related  

[Gradient Keeper]

Welcome back @Brian_in_Leavenworth!

 

00z GFS in 4 minutes

Hoping for an action packed run. A few more vigorous fronts, atmospheric river? Wind event/storm? How about retrogression with a big, amplified block around ~150 W and PV lobe into western Alberta. I would be fine with all of those things. Do ittttttttt!

[TacomaWx]

51/45 today…45 currently so we will probably get a midnight low. Rain has started up again as well up to 1.04” MTD. Doesn’t look like this will even end up as the driest October ive recorded here (1.40” in 2006). 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

6 minutes ago, Gradient Keeper said:

Welcome back @Brian_in_Leavenworth!

 

00z GFS in 4 minutes

Hoping for an action packed run. A few more vigorous fronts, atmospheric river? Wind event/storm? How about retrogression with a big, amplified block around ~150 W and PV lobe into western Alberta. I would be fine with all of those things. Do ittttttttt!

Night shift my man?

[Gradient Keeper]

Just now, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Night shift my man?

Perhaps. I should be here for at least for the 00z EURO, but doubtful for the 6z busy tomorrow morning.