PNW December 2022 - Part II

[TacomaWx]

Is it supposed to be fairly windy overnight into tomorrow? Winds seem to have calmed down a bit which would help mitigate the damage. It can be worse if it’s windy with trees and power lines weighed down. 

[Terreboner]

8 minutes ago, Blizzard777 said:

Just not my night

That moment when you get her pants off though and see that white fuzzy.  That is the best, and you can dive in knowing it wasn't fake.

[Perturbed Member]

12 minutes ago, OysterPrintout said:

I guess you could call it a bit of a blend here but mostly on team Euro. There's been very brief ice pellets but mostly zr. Same as PDX official station. Models really nailed this in the sense that for all our wishcasting with meso obs etc we basically had no snow.

Yep, the models pretty much showed it starts as sleet and going to ZR and that seems to be exactly how it is happening. I think the models will be too quick in warming up the surface but so far they are nailing this. 

[Blizzard777]

4 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

Okay, we tried. It can warm up now.

I agree 

[Sandy rocks]

It's regional freezing rain. Oh joy.

[Cold Snap]

Honestly I’m glad that there’s going to be more to track even after we warm up. Part of me was getting kind of bummed we wouldn’t have any fun model riding to do for a while until the next arctic blast but it looks like there is some windstorm potential next week! That will sure be fun to track!

[Sandy rocks]

Take it from a person who has lived near the gorge for over thirty years. Even a .10 of freezing rain can be a problem.

[joelgombiner]

2 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

Is it supposed to be fairly windy overnight into tomorrow? Winds seem to have calmed down a bit which would help mitigate the damage. It can be worse if it’s windy with trees and power lines weighed down. 

Supposed to be SE winds up to 40 mph in some areas like North Bend. 

[bainbridgekid]

Just noticed the Wind Chill was -5 at 10 am today in Enumclaw. Pretty top tier stuff.

[joelgombiner]

NWS is still going with "snow likely, possibly mixed with freezing rain" for Seattle. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

3 minutes ago, Sandy rocks said:

Take it from a person who has lived near the gorge for over thirty years. Even a .10 of freezing rain can be a problem.

Enough to make someone turn to homicide?

[TacomaWx]

Just now, joelgombiner said:

Supposed to be SE winds up to 40 mph in some areas like North Bend. 

Yikes. That’s probably right after the freezing rain ends and the warm tongue starts to creep up the foothills. There’s going to be some significant problems created by this storm…especially if we start getting even breezy. Sea-tac and a lot of the highways are going to be a nightmare tomorrow and many people will probably lose power. 

[KingstonWX]

Humidity jumped from 67% to 77% here in the last 10 minutes so some saturation is occurring. Just start snowing already. 

[SouthHillFrosty]

Currently 21 degrees with winds form the South 

[joelgombiner]

Just now, TacomaWx said:

Yikes. That’s probably right after the freezing rain ends and the warm tongue starts to creep up the foothills. There’s going to be some significant problems created by this storm…especially if we start getting even breezy. Sea-tac and a lot of the highways are going to be a nightmare tomorrow and many people will probably lose power. 

Agreed. The E wind is gusting over 45 at some spots out there, and is supposed to continue throughout the storm. It's also advecting in cold air from the Columbia basin, which will keep precip frozen for longer. Looking like a bit of a nightmare scenario. Hope I'm wrong. 

[TacomaWx]

1 minute ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

Currently 21 degrees with winds form the South 

You sure it’s from the south? There’s very strong offshore flow present at the surface all the way out to the coast right now…even down in Oregon. 

[Requiem]

13 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

Is it supposed to be fairly windy overnight into tomorrow? Winds seem to have calmed down a bit which would help mitigate the damage. It can be worse if it’s windy with trees and power lines weighed down. 

Not sure about the sound but it is shaking the house over here. Corbett is still gusting 60+ as well-- they're forecast to get .5+ inches of ice.

[Front Ranger]

6 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Enough to make someone turn to homicide?

Little known fact: weather is behind most violent crimes.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

4 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

You sure it’s from the south? There’s very strong offshore flow present at the surface all the way out to the coast right now…even down in Oregon. 

All the way down to the north Umpqua Basin, this is a legit low-level blast.

[SouthHillFrosty]

4 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

You sure it’s from the south? There’s very strong offshore flow present at the surface all the way out to the coast right now…even down in Oregon. 

The weather stations by me had gusts 5-10mph from the south. Now they are just 1-5mph from the north……

 

guess I was jumping the gun

[Front Ranger]

1 minute ago, Requiem said:

Not sure about the sound but it is shaking the house over here. Corbett is still gusting 60+ as well-- they're forecast to get .5+ inches of ice.

RIP Mark Nelsen.

[Blizzard777]

8 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

Currently 21 degrees with winds form the South 

This website says east and here at home I got NNE now 

[TacomaWx]

Just now, Requiem said:

Not sure about the sound but it is shaking the house over here. Corbett is still gusting 60+ as well-- they're forecast to get .5+ inches of ice.

Atleast that area in the gorge is “ somewhat” acclimated to ice storms. Up here ice storms especially of the magnitude possible tomorrow are pretty rare…so the damage to our area which isn’t acclimated for this could be bad. 

[joelgombiner]

Just now, SouthHillFrosty said:

The weather stations by me had gusts 5-10mph from the south. Now they are just 1-5mph from the north……

 

guess I was jumping the gun

Maybe SE? Winds are pretty light in the sound right now. We're kind of in a sheltered N-S basin from the strong easterly flow. 

[snow_wizard]

A very impressive 21/17 here today.  That east wind is COLD!

Looks like North Bend drew the short straw for wind on this one in King County with gusts well into the 50s. 

Then you have Corbett OR gusting to 78!

[Blizzard777]

2 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

The weather stations by me had gusts 5-10mph from the south. Now they are just 1-5mph from the north……

 

guess I was jumping the gun

You scared me lol

[MossMan]

22.2 currently. 

[Terreboner]

Snow picking back up.  5.1 degrees.

[snow_wizard]

BTW my high today is the coldest I've ever recorded here.  Big time stuff.

[SouthHillFrosty]

2 minutes ago, Blizzard777 said:

You scared me lol

I don’t have my own weather station so I was looking at couple different stations on weather underground lol. 
 

This better be the year the fiancé gets me a weather station. Only year 4 of asking. 

[Terreboner]

1 minute ago, snow_wizard said:

BTW my high today is the coldest I've ever recorded here.  Big time stuff.

How many years, Jim?

[The Blob]

I just checked Slack and it looks like they closed the yard due to winds being over 50mph.

[TacomaWx]

3 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

BTW my high today is the coldest I've ever recorded here.  Big time stuff.

2nd coldest day for my records since 2005. 1st place is 24/16 on 12/27/21. 

[Sandy rocks]

In Troutdale, many of the power lines are under ground. My power rarely went off, more so in Gresham and often in Sandy. In Troutdale many trees look like they do at the beach with branches only on one side.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

22 and 16 here. Pretty cold. I had a high of 18 or 19 in 2008 and last December I believe.  I've had a few snow flurries a few minutes ago.

[RayRay]

Throwback to 1996/1997 event

https://youtu.be/NwO3F-x69Po

[awright-31]

Still nothing reaching the ground in Olympia.

[KingstonWX]

This might be the first time an overrunning system was coming in while we were in the low 20s and we were all still worried about whether or not it's going to fall as snow. Fascinating learning experience in real time. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

19/10˚F for the day. Missed out on a single digit low but at least I scored a sub-20˚F high.

[RentonHill]

GFS still says sl33t is the way to go