PNW December 2022 - Part II

[Cloud]

Look like some convergence is firing up South Sound on the radar. 

[SouthHillFrosty]

Just now, Cloud said:

Look like some convergence is firing up South Sound on the radar. 

Moderate snow currently 

[Terreboner]

3 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Did you have a conference call with Environment Canada? 

Ya, but I modified what they said.  They called it a "Bomb-ay, Cyclone-ay!"

[TacomaWx]

Awesome! Drove home without checking the radar and just hoping for the best. We’re on the board! Radar looks good right now too. 

[Terreboner]

1 minute ago, TacomaWx said:

Awesome! Drove home without checking the radar and just hoping for the best. We’re on the board! Radar looks good right now too. 

[GHweatherChris]

4 minutes ago, Cloud said:

Look like some convergence is firing up South Sound on the radar. 

I would like some convergence, lol, big ole skunkola here!!

[TacomaWx]

1 minute ago, Terreboner said:

Lol I’m not expecting much…but I’m glad we’re getting a bit of snow before the cold starts. Would’ve been a hard pill to swallow not getting atleast 1/4” of snow out of this storm

[Front Ranger]

Just now, GHweatherChris said:

I would like some convergence, lol, big ole skunkola here!!

Your location peaked in 2007-08.

[MossMan]

The goodies are just a few miles too north for me now.

[GHweatherChris]

1 minute ago, Front Ranger said:

Your location peaked in 2007-08.

Nah it was just 2008.  But we have had many blessings since then here, just not our year this time, I am at peace.

Edited December 21, 2022 by GHweatherChris

[Ziess]

1 hour ago, Doinko said:

Thought I'd post this.

I was absolute dead center of that purple! It sucked. 14 days without power. Didn’t see a PGE truck until day 12!

[Front Ranger]

1 minute ago, GHweatherChris said:

Nah it was just 2008.  But we have had many blessings since then here, just not our year this time, I am at peace.

Seems like one of those winters with a ton of marginal events you did really well compared to most.

[jakerepp]

1 minute ago, Ziess said:

I was absolute dead center of that purple! It sucked. 14 days without power. Didn’t see a PGE truck until day 12!

That's disgusting

[Cold Snap]

1 minute ago, MossMan said:

The goodies are just a few miles too north for me now.

Same here.

[TT-SEA]

@Skagit Weather are you getting in on that Mt Vernon c-zone?

[Cloud]

6 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

I would like some convergence, lol, big ole skunkola here!!

Yeah bro... I think I got like 1" out of this today and towards the end of the game. This one kinda stings. 

[snow_wizard]

It's been snowing super lightly for hours now.  It is slowly adding up with a nice solid covering now.  Maybe getting close to an inch.

[Ziess]

3 minutes ago, jakerepp said:

That's disgusting

Sure was! 

[GHweatherChris]

3 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

Seems like one of those winters with a ton of marginal events you did really well compared to most.

The last 2 winters each we have gotten 18-22 inches of total snow, not too shabby.  2008 will always be the golden snitch for me though.

[snow_wizard]

1 minute ago, Cloud said:

Yeah bro... I think I got like 1" out of this today and towards the end of the game. This one kinda stings. 

Tonight, is obviously going to have surprises.  Just about anyone between Mount Vernon and Tacoma could get lucky.

[Requiem]

I'm definitely on the hype train-- the ice is gonna suck but the weather just before is gonna be more than a little exciting 

[snow_wizard]

1 minute ago, Ziess said:

Sure was! 

Nasty sheit.  I had like a half inch of ice here in Jan 2012 and that was plenty.

[Perturbed Member]

Us Portland posters probably have some of the lowest Measured Snowfall / Hours model riding ratios anywhere 

KPTV is going for 0- 1/2 inch of snow Thursday before it goes to sleet/ZR which seems like a good bet. 

I think the models are pretty much locked in at this point, I expect the projected temps to moderate a bit more but probably not too much more.

The first light band of precip is probably going to be it as far as snow goes and unless it ends up somehow being more dynamic than expected, a dusting is probably what most of us can expect. 

Snow aside, it should be fun tracking the cold air advection tomorrow and the crazy easterlies. 

 

[yellowstone]

I’ve been in a temp range of 0.7 degrees since 12:25 and a 0.2 degree range since 3:50. If the weather channel hourly forecast is to be believed, I’ll stay within a range of a degree or so until 6am tomorrow at which point the temp will start a slow decline for the next 24 hours. 

[TacomaWx]

4 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

It's been snowing super lightly for hours now.  It is slowly adding up with a nice solid covering now.  Maybe getting close to an inch.

Yeah it’s fairly light here as well tons of small flakes but it’s below freezing so it’s accumulating nicely. 

[GHweatherChris]

6 minutes ago, Cloud said:

Yeah bro... I think I got like 1" out of this today and towards the end of the game. This one kinda stings. 

Thursday night could be fun here for a bit, could overachieve with snowfall, but I think the moisture is gonna work in earlier than progged as well.  The progged set up has over produced before transition before.

[Doinko]

1 minute ago, Perturbed Member said:

Us Portland posters probably have some of the lowest Measured Snowfall / Hours model riding ratios anywhere 

KPTV is going for 0- 1/2 inch of snow Thursday before it goes to sleet/ZR which seems like a good bet. 

I think the models are pretty much locked in at this point, I expect the projected temps to moderate a bit more but probably not too much more.

The first light band of precip is probably going to be it as far as snow goes and unless it ends up somehow being more dynamic than expected, a dusting is probably what most of us can expect. 

Snow aside, it should be fun tracking the cold air advection tomorrow and the crazy easterlies. 

 

Yeah it's really been disappointing the past few winters. At least I can look back on the 13" of surprise snow that fell in 8 hrs in January 2017.

I think you said you were west of HIO, how did you do with the February 2014 and January 2017 storms?

[The Cats Meow]

I know people make fun of the phone apps but mine says there could be about four hours of snow in the Puyallup Valley tonight between midnight and 4am.  I'll take it if it happens.

[T-Town]

It’s dumping tiny flakes here. Fun!

[snow_wizard]

2 minutes ago, Hour364Please said:

I know people make fun of the phone apps but mine says there could be about four hours of snow in the Puyallup Valley tonight between midnight and 4am.  I'll take it if it happens.

That is very possible.

[snow_wizard]

I'm kind of relieved that none of the models are going too nuts with the winds here on Thursday.  It appears the high pressure east of the Cascades has enough escape routes to take the pressure off of this area.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

49 minutes ago, Dave said:

On Dec 14th 2016, Eugene had a terrible ice storm. Ice at least over 1.5". Somehow, I never lost power but some people in the hills lost it for 2+ weeks. At least there was very little wind. Some parks were closed for over a year. Anyone that had a tree on their property had some cleanup to do or major damage. 

Oh yeah. That was the day Salem had the big snowstorm. Since my in laws live

in Eugene we ended up with a lot of firewood from that one. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Oh yeah. That was the day Salem had the big snowstorm. Since my in laws live

in Eugene we ended up with a lot of firewood from that one. 

I also heard Eugene had a lot of ice with the February 2014 event. 

[Requiem]

Whew, new blog post from Mark and he's bullish. Strong winds, up to an inch of icing east metro, a frozen hellscape Gorge through Christmas...

[snow_wizard]

Just now, Requiem said:

Whew, new blog post from Mark and he's bullish. Strong winds, up to an inch of icing east metro, a frozen hellscape Gorge through Christmas...

Yikes.

[FroYoBro]

Seems like that last band of showers was the cold front or at least some kind of boundary. Dropped from 47 to 44 in the last 30 minutes. 

[TacomaWx]

2 minutes ago, T-Town said:

It’s dumping tiny flakes here. Fun!

Accumulated much? About 0.2” on elevated surfaces and grass here. 

[Front Ranger]

19 minutes ago, Cloud said:

Yeah bro... I think I got like 1" out of this today and towards the end of the game. This one kinda stings. 

Ain't over!

[Ice_is_Everywhere]

Some small flakes here, but not nearly enough to count. Seems I'm a little too far north. The story of my winter so far.

[Dave]

6 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Oh yeah. That was the day Salem had the big snowstorm. Since my in laws live

in Eugene we ended up with a lot of firewood from that one. 

Why does that not surprise me that Salem north scored. At least Eugene probably also has fewer damaging ice storms being farther south. But the n/s gradient isn't huge.