PNW December 2022 - Part II

[jcmcgaffey]

Just started snowing here. 24 deg and 9 deg dew point. 

[joelgombiner]

NWS Seattle has updated their forecast for Friday morning to "freezing rain, possibly mixed with snow". 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

I-5 apparently closed north of Eugene, things are deteriorating rapidly across the region.

[MossMan]

1 minute ago, Margaritaville said:

Gonna be such a mess 

Clark County? Do we need to do a Matt welfare check? 

[KingstonWX]

3 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

We knew it was going happen that way.

You're not wrong. But we had hope!

[puzzledknitter]

Mostly a lurker on here, but we definitely have freezing rain out in west Port Angeles. 23 currently with a dew point of 16. No snow or sleet, just straight to freezing rain.  

[runninthruda206]

2 minutes ago, jcmcgaffey said:

Just started snowing here. 24 deg and 9 deg dew point. 

nothing here

[TacomaWx]

Just now, MossMan said:

Clark County? Do we need to do a Matt welfare check? 

Matt will check in soon and say something like “icy here at Costco…I was at Costco in 2004 and it was ALSO icy”

[MossMan]

1 minute ago, puzzledknitter said:

Hey! Mostly a lurker on here, but we definitely have freezing rain out in west Port Angeles. 23 currently with a dew point of 16. No snow or sleet, just straight to freezing rain.  

Yikes!! 

[KingstonWX]

Just now, puzzledknitter said:

Mostly a lurker on here, but we definitely have freezing rain out in west Port Angeles. 23 currently with a dew point of 16. No snow or sleet, just straight to freezing rain.  

****. If Port Angeles is getting freezing rain we are all doomed. 

[Gummy]

2 minutes ago, joelgombiner said:

NWS Seattle has updated their forecast for Friday morning to "freezing rain, possibly mixed with snow". 

Hasn't that been the forecast for a while now?

[awright-31]

4 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

We’re f*cked 

I would agree. Lots of people are going to be without power in the morning. And probably lots of roads closed. 

[joelgombiner]

 

 

[Ice_is_Everywhere]

1 minute ago, Gummy said:

Hasn't that been the forecast for a while now?

I’m pretty sure it was the reverse earlier today.

[puzzledknitter]

1 minute ago, KingstonWX said:

****. If Port Angeles is getting freezing rain we are all doomed. 

Our roads are already a mess from the 12” of snow and bad plow job. 

[Perturbed Member]

It is 25F and ZR in EUG with a steady 15 mph north wind. I think we would have all preferred regionwide snow but the strength of this low level cold is pretty incredible.

Curious to see what happens for you folks up in the Sound. Doesn't seem like the low level cold is in a hurry to go anywhere too soon. 

[joelgombiner]

1 minute ago, Gummy said:

Hasn't that been the forecast for a while now?

Before NWS was saying "snow, possibly mixed with freezing rain", but the models have been clearly advertising sleet and freezing rain for a while. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

2 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Yikes!! 

Wow that is surprising. 

[TT-SEA]

You can just use Google maps with the traffic layer to track the northward progress of the ice... its basically following the 850mb 0C line on its trek to the north.

 

[Front Ranger]

19 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Anyways... something is wrong with that snow map because the ECMWF looks a little more reasonable.

 

It was generated by the NAM.

[The Winter Warlock]

[puzzledknitter]

1 minute ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Wow that is surprising. 

I know, I was really hoping for another light dusting with a little sleet in the morning. 

[SouthHillFrosty]

 

[Margaritaville]

24 and and nice warm tropical rain here now 

[Front Ranger]

18 minutes ago, KingstonWX said:

If RadarScope is correct, the red colors are moving in VERY fast. Almost to western parts of the Olympia area already. 

Yeah, looks like the real deal is about to hit the Puget Sound region.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Shelton started as sleet. We're in trouble people.

[TacomaWx]

Just now, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Shelton started as sleet. We're in trouble people.

 

[KingstonWX]

1 minute ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Shelton started as sleet. We're in trouble people.

Yep, it's over. Prep your generators, charge your cell phones, and pray that a tree doesn't impact your home. Tis the season. 

[Kayla]

Nearing 48 hours straight of negative teens and lower here now. This whole event has been completely mind blowing to me. All-time cold up and down the entire state...in 2022. Just incredible.

You have to imagine our frost depth is probably already 3-4 feet below surface level at this point even with our 30" snow depth. 

Airport is currently -31 and -26 here.

[GHweatherChris]

Really hoping the projected sleet and freezing rain totals are one and the same, the way the sleet is accumulating now is not good, our driveway has never been this bad, when just straight freezing rain moves in the situation is not gonna be good here for several hours.  Temp is still 24 and DP is 14.

[The Winter Warlock]

Parked the cars next to the house and moved everyone downstairs. Good luck everyone - and bye bye trees/power.

[seattleweatherguy]

Got flurries in bothell

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Light snow here. 

[Tenochtitlan]

It'll be interesting to see how it goes down up here. The GFS is showing equal parts snow and freezing rain but I'm bracing for just ice and maybe some sleet, you know, managing expectations. It's now been at or below 20 for 101 straight hours in downtown Bellingham which is pretty cool (stuck at 20 since 1:30 today).

[Sandy rocks]

Now do you guys see why I call this the weather from hell. You can't walk or drive in it. No snowmen, snowballs, or sledding. It isn't pretty watch and it's very damaging. Hopefully we don't get the wind storm it would really do the trees in.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

3 minutes ago, Kayla said:

Nearing 48 hours straight of negative teens and lower here now. This whole event has been completely mind blowing to me. All-time cold up and down the entire state...in 2022. Just incredible.

You have to imagine our frost depth is probably already 3-4 feet below surface level at this point even with our 30" snow depth. 

Airport is currently -31 and -26 here.

My cabin had a minus 8 minus 30 day. Impressive. 

[Cloud]

This is NOT a good sign for what’s being reported via mPing down in Olympia as precips now appears to be reaching the ground. 

[Snowdome]

Walked down the street. Mostly ZR with some sleet still mixing in. About a little less than half inch of white sleet layered onto the street. 
 

light ZR now. I’ll get some pictures in the morning and can compare to the 2021 ice 

[Snownerd3000]

41 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Nevermind, December 1996 overrunner I dipped to 14 degrees. This is way different though unfortunately. 

I remember waking up to a sht ton of snow but also pouring rain. It sucked 

[KingstonWX]

3 minutes ago, Cloud said:

This is NOT a good sign for what’s being reported via mPing down in Olympia as precips now appears to be reaching the ground. 

Nope. We all F'd.