PNW December 2022 - Part II

[awright-31]

Happy New Year

[MossMan]

So this is what it would be like living in a place like the Methow Valley Or Leavenworth or somewhere over there (just more snow) that would consistently look like this all winter…Oh heaven. I really wish we could have kept a dry cold pattern for at least a week, would have been so nice compared to the goo and muck that is coming. Oh well. Did another quick plow this morning, found a half buried package behind my gate. Probably been there a day or two. 
14.9 degrees. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

2 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

Gorgeous. How much snow did you end up with?

A little over a foot total.

[ShawniganLake]

9 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Whoa

Hope you weren’t planning on taking the boat offshore.  Looks like it might snow here in the next frame

[Rubus Leucodermis]

2 minutes ago, awright-31 said:

Happy New Year

I'm in the blue! My rain is GFS phantom snow!

[TT-SEA]

Blue sky!

[Rubus Leucodermis]

6 minutes ago, MossMan said:

So this is what it would be like living in a place like the Methow Valley Or Leavenworth or somewhere over there (just more snow) that would consistently look like this all winter…Oh heaven. I really wish we could have kept a dry cold pattern for at least a week, would have been so nice compared to the goo and muck that is coming. Oh well. Did another quick plow this morning, found a half buried package behind my gate. Probably been there a day or two. 
14.9 degrees. 

I lived in the Rockies in my teens and twenties and mornings like this are like a taste of how it once was most of the winter.

[Kayla]

2 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Blue sky!

What's your temp there? Surprised you have wet roads!

[SouthHillFrosty]

Light flurries currently in the area. Picked up around another .3in overnight. 4th day in a row with accumulating snow. 

[ShawniganLake]

-54F at Puntzi mountain BC this morning  

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

2 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

-54F at Puntzi mountain BC this morning  

This just incredible.

[Front Ranger]

4 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

I lived in the Rockies in my teens and twenties and mornings like this are like a taste of how it once was most of the winter.

Not sure where you lived (I think you mentioned NM?) but frequent thaws have also always been a feature of winters in the Rockies, at least most places. 

[SouthHillFrosty]

Also fun fact, this is the 4th day in a row of accumulating snow at my location. Every day was less than an inch. We were so close to greatness

Edited December 21, 2022 by SouthHillFrosty

[T-Town]

Any guesses on the start and end times for frozen precip in the south sound on Thursday and Friday?  One kid lands at seatac at 10 pm Thursday night and the other at 10 pm Friday night. Seems like both are kind of on the edge. 

[The Blob]

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[awright-31]

We’ve officially reached dusting status. At least we got something.

[Cascadia_Wx]

Nice to see The Dalles dropping as the morning goes on. They are down to 25.

Hood River dropped from 34 to 28 in the last hour with a wind shift to ENE. It’s coming.

[TT-SEA]

4 minutes ago, Kayla said:

What's your temp there? Surprised you have wet roads!

25.

King County does an awesome job up here with the roads... constantly plowing when its snowing and they use de-icer when its frosty and sand when its snowing.   I think the reason its wet now is because they put sand down on the hills.   

[awright-31]

1 minute ago, T-Town said:

Any guesses on the start and end times for frozen precip in the south sound on Thursday and Friday?  One kid lands at seatac at 10 pm Thursday night and the other at 10 pm Friday night. Seems like both are kind of on the edge. 

00Z Euro said ZR starts at 2:00 am Friday and above freezing around noon, and 06Z said ZR at 11:00 pm Thursday and above freezing by around 10:00 am.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

47 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Friday will be crazy up there buddy. Closest thing to 1996 we have had up there maybe.

Those have been my thoughts exactly. This event is shaping up to be a mini-1996 for us northerners.

Hopefully the flooding doesn't get to bad.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

1 hour ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Noticed The Dalles was still 43 as late as 3:30a.

Here it comes.

 

[MossMan]

A few more pics before it all turns to muck in a few days. Dog yard and the untouched yard. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

13 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

Not sure where you lived (I think you mentioned NM?) but frequent thaws have also always been a feature of winters in the Rockies, at least most places. 

NM and UT. Thaws, sure, but there were also lots of sparkling clear days with snow on the ground. Snow, not rain, was the normal form winter precipitation came in, and it was typically followed up by a string of mornings like these.

Also the temperature this morning would be more like -13 instead of +13 if it were the Rockies, but at least it’s clear and frosty and cold and sparkly this morning. And I’ve grown soft enough after decades in mild coastal climates that +13 now feels a lot like -13 used to.

[MossMan]

Soon to join Christmas 2017 and February 2022 in the freezer! Took a lot of work from my oldest daughter yesterday to make that with the snow being so powdery! 

[Requiem]

As we get closer to the event some of the more stout wind predictions continue to surface-- some models have PDX gusting above 50 mph from the east. Considering the strength of the gradient and the initial intense downslope I wouldn't doubt it here in the hills and east of 205.

[Blizzard777]

37 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

What a morning! 13.1˚F.

Like living in a fantasy world! 

[MossMan]

Oh and the temp continues to drop. 14.1 now! 

[Timmy]

Ukmet is back to 2.5” of snow for pdx

[Blizzard777]

22 minutes ago, awright-31 said:

We’ve officially reached dusting status. At least we got something.

Dusting status has its own cool look to it!  I appreciate it all

[Doinko]

5 minutes ago, Timmy said:

Ukmet is back to 2.5” of snow for pdx

It also has over an inch of precip by Saturday afternoon.

[GobBluth]

6 minutes ago, Timmy said:

Ukmet is back to 2.5” of snow for pdx

How does that work when 850s never drop below 0?

[Timmy]

2 minutes ago, GobBluth said:

How does that work when 850s never drop below 0?

Precip intensity or wet bulb, idk. I don’t make the rules I just play by them.

[PuyallupChris]

Just the slightest dusting of snow here in Puyallup. I've never seen such fluffy snow here--none of it stuck. It's just individual frozen snowflakes you can pick up and throw, like rough sand or tiny gravel.

The other interesting thing is that because of this, it's reverse sticking. The white is covering the roads because it won't compact, it just blows around... and it's fallen into cracks in the grass, so it's not actually covering the yard.

Really wacky stuff. 

[Blizzard777]

Lol, just got off the phone with and excited ex who made it to work in her frozen world of Ferndale.  She was on a high of what is this world and trying to describe the blowing snow, the drifts the zero visibility when snow was blowing across the road in open areas….lol….I could feel her energy!  I think she’s might be getting into this!  Anyhow, really enjoyed her kid demeanor. She was proud to get her car dug out from the drift as well.

11*  her place and basically 40 mph gust out of the NNE

26.9 (trending down still) my place with 10-15 mph winds out of the NNW

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Bellingham is 12 degrees gusting to 37. This is about the coldest outflow up there i have ever seen. Tonight could break records up there.

[runninthruda206]

Are we suppose to start out as snow tmrw night in Seattle? Haven’t been paying attention to fridays system at all 

[Meatyorologist]

Cooling off to 24F at my place with sunny skies... That is impressive as hell. Dewpoint at 20F.

[ShawniganLake]

18 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Those have been my thoughts exactly. This event is shaping up to be a mini-1996 for us northerners.

Hopefully the flooding doesn't get to bad.

One of my most vivid memories of 1996 was the big windstorm we had a day or 2 after the snow stopped. Our yard had 2 feet of snow in it that you couldn’t see. It was totally covered in branches and fir needles 

[PuyallupChris]

34 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

25.

King County does an awesome job up here with the roads... constantly plowing when its snowing and they use de-icer when its frosty and sand when its snowing.   I think the reason its wet now is because they put sand down on the hills.   

This used to be controversial and SEA didn't use deicer or salt because of damage to the environment and cars. I don't remember exactly which storm (probably 2006?) it was an absolute disaster downtown during Monday Night Football, with cars and buses blocking the freeway all night, and I think that was the incentive they needed to start deicing and salting. 

At least that's my recollection of it. I'm glad they started doing so; the roads are MUCH safer now than they used to be.

[GHweatherChris]

Temp is rising at KHQM