PNW December 2022 - Part II

[MossMan]

6 minutes ago, Brennan said:

Lock it in. 1 to 2 FEET of snow in Whatcom County. 

And I will take that Pepto over my place as well! 

[MossMan]

Light snow beginning to fall again. 33.1. 

[Everleigh]

Anyone know if the stuff moving in off the coast actually producing anything, or is it just fluff?

[TacomaWx]

Just now, Everleigh said:

Anyone know if the stuff moving in off the coast actually producing anything, or is it just fluff?

Pretty sure we would’ve heard from Chris if anything interesting was going on out in Aberdeen. Think our chance is tomorrow night and Tuesday.

[gusky]

A big improvement over the 12z GFS. That is, until you look at Friday and beyond

[WildrootParable]

1 minute ago, Everleigh said:

Anyone know if the stuff moving in off the coast actually producing anything, or is it just fluff?

I am also wondering this, since one of my weather apps is trying to give us snow showers from 3pm to 7pm and I have no idea where that is coming from...

[Deweydog]

Boxing Day AR!

[smerfylicious]

It was supposed to warm up to 38 today, and tonight's low is supposed to be 35.

It's 34 now and I don't think we're even gonna reach the projected low.

Why are weather apps so bad?

[Brennan]

Still a lot of cold air to the north at this point with warm rain over us... If we could just have a little more influence from the northern lats... Suppress that JET downward... Obviously riding my unicorn and envisioning rainbows... A MAN CAN DREAM!

[Joshua Lake Oswego]

19 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

If you don't want ice that's very good.

True story

[SouthHillFrosty]

2 minutes ago, smerfylicious said:

It was supposed to warm up to 38 today, and tonight's low is supposed to be 35.

It's 34 now and I don't think we're even gonna reach the projected low.

Why are weather apps so bad?

Sorry I was high when I created the weather apps. 

[Brennan]

Lets work on dropping this low pressure system south about 300 miles. Hey, this Tuesday low was shown going into that same spot just yesterday.... IT COULD HAPPEN!

[Nov1985]

5 minutes ago, gusky said:

A big improvement over the 12z GFS. That is, until you look at Friday and beyond

I'll take it!

[GHweatherChris]

7 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

Pretty sure we would’ve heard from Chris if anything interesting was going on out in Aberdeen. Think our chance is tomorrow night and Tuesday.

It's 44 degrees here lol w/drizzle.  Effing epic man!!

[Nov1985]

1 minute ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

Sorry I was high when I created the weather apps. 

My zone's high temp came in 7° below forecast yesterday... now I know why.

[TacomaWx]

Just now, GHweatherChris said:

It's 44 degrees here lol w/drizzle.  Effing epic man!!

38 here 

[GHweatherChris]

[TacomaWx]

1 minute ago, Nov1985 said:

My zone's high temp came in 7° below forecast yesterday... now I know why.

Was the high temp supposed to be 42.0?

[SnowWillarrive]

a light mist is falling here and 35 degrees 

[Nov1985]

Just now, TacomaWx said:

Was the high temp supposed to be 42.0?

Yessa

[Perturbed Member]

1 hour ago, Doinko said:

Hoping it trends south. Yesterday it was looking like Portland would be the bullseye. If that doesn't work out maybe the Thursday system could start as snow

I'd be surprised if it trended south by much. Tuesday is pretty close to being a lost cause for PDX IMO. 

The RGEM does toy with the idea of that southern low coming in a bit further north as well and giving snow to PDX. The air just isn't that cold yet at that point though but maybe the gorge might help out a bit here. 

 

Hoping the cold pool is deep enough to get a quick inch or two before it turns to sleet and ZR on Thursday is probably the best bet right now. Overall things don't look very good for Portland right now. 

[smerfylicious]

6 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

Sorry I was high when I created the weather apps. 

I should've known it was you

[Christensen87]

Talk about stormy pattern on the 18z. Tons of rain. 

[selkirks]

10 minutes ago, Brennan said:

Lets work on dropping this low pressure system south about 300 miles. Hey, this Tuesday low was shown going into that same spot just yesterday.... IT COULD HAPPEN!

It's more than a week out––anything can happen. We should pay attention to what the ensembles are doing.

[Snownerd3000]

8 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

Sorry I was high when I created the weather apps. 

Blame stoned Frosty is what you're saying? What you smoking out of that corn cob pipe?

[Brennan]

This looks like a pattern that sets up right before a major arctic blast. Frigid air over AK. Suppressed jet. Needs some tropical forcing to lift heights around 150W. Well, at the very least things don't look boring after this week!

[MikeInEverett]

There would probably be some pretty serious river flooding if the 18z verified 

[T-Town]

14 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

Sorry I was high when I created the weather apps. 

This explains all the Doritos ads in my weather app. 

[Brennan]

FWIW it's 38*F here at the BLI airport with light rain and winds 10mph out of the SOUTH. 

[Blizzard777]

Current view of our lovely planet as things are beginning to play out.  
36.7* and depressing out 
 

[LowerGarfield]

Any guesses as to what this type of now frozen precipitation is? It's not vomit.

[Jbolin]

1 minute ago, LowerGarfield said:

Any guesses as to what this type of now frozen precipitation is? It's not vomit.

Milk 

[Meatyorologist]

3 minutes ago, LowerGarfield said:

Any guesses as to what this type of now frozen precipitation is? It's not vomit.

Jim got a little too excited

[SouthHillFrosty]

Huge jump for Portland 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

33 here after a high of 34. Way colder today than I was expecting. 

[GHweatherChris]

27 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

Need a member of the illustrious staff to pin this map, it will auto update on the forum.

[snow_wizard]

Chilly finish on the 18z GFS.

[snow_wizard]

22 minutes ago, Brennan said:

This looks like a pattern that sets up right before a major arctic blast. Frigid air over AK. Suppressed jet. Needs some tropical forcing to lift heights around 150W. Well, at the very least things don't look boring after this week!

Good call.  The end of the run is semi Arctic outbreakish.

[RentonHill]

2 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Chilly finish on the 18z GFS.

 

[snow_wizard]

I will be duly impressed if this happens again so soon.