PNW December 2022 - Part II

[snow_wizard]

11 minutes ago, yellowstone said:

Still getting some decent showers moving through here. Amazing to see the ice add up and icicles growing in real time. Watched a neighbor chiseling into his car to get to his scraper, scraped for about 2 minutes and give up and go inside, all while it was continuing to rain.  

Amazing it took him two minutes to figure it out.

[OysterPrintout]

Gotta hand it to the GFS. It really crushed the euro in precip type on the 18z runs right before the event. Euro had zero sleet here at all.

[WeatherGeek2022]

8 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

Ensembles showing the Polar Vortex taking a pretty big hit in early January.  

Seems like it’s been pretty weak overall this winter so far. where’s Phil, he usually tracks this stuff

 

 

 

January about to deliver finally?

[umadbro]

21 and fricken cold

[snow_wizard]

9 minutes ago, MossMan said:

It’s coming. 

We've already got a pretty big "it" in the books, but I'm betting you're right.

[ShawniganLake]

3 minutes ago, WeatherGeek2022 said:

January about to deliver finally?

Maybe later.  I doubt we see much the first half of the month. 

[Doinko]

Just now, snow_wizard said:

We've already got a pretty big "it" in the bag, but I'm betting you're right.

January need to send at least 5 or 6 very wet systems landfilling around Cape Blanco with arctic air to our east.

[MossMan]

Attempted to watch the news again…This guy is no Harry or Andy Wappler…Completely unwatchable. They didn’t even have any good car sliding videos to show…Jim Foreman would have been all over it! Also the current outage situation in the county. 

[icyasf]

26 degrees right now with approximately 0.3 inches of ice. Roads are extremely bad right now. I didn’t want to actually go anywhere with ice on the ground so I was only able to take a picture from our porch.

[T-Town]

Raining pretty good again here. Not over yet. 

[Doinko]

GEM also looks windy next week. Could be very bad for the trees, dealing with ice and then potentially a windstorm. I do want to experience a strong windstorm at some point though

[MossMan]

4 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Attempted to watch the news again…This guy is no Harry or Andy Wappler…Completely unwatchable. They didn’t even have any good car sliding videos to show…Jim Foreman would have been all over it! Also the current outage situation in the county. 

This guy is slightly better on channel 13. 

[Doinko]

The NWS somehow thinks everywhere except the Gorge will warm up by tonight. While it's 21 degrees in Portland still

[Blizzard777]

Ugh…coming down good out there!   Go away moisture

 

[ShawniganLake]

Rain looks really heavy in SW BC tomorrow. Should be some Urban flooding for Christmas. 

[WhoNeedsAC]

29 minutes ago, yellowstone said:

Watched a single flight leave SeaTac for SLC about 20 minutes ago on FlightRadar and nothing since. Hope most people trying to get out for holidays were able get out early. 

A couple of flights from Asia on approach, but nothing else moving at SeaTac. PDX is really quiet, too. Bizjet just departed for Redmond, but no commercial flights moving at the moment.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

1 minute ago, ShawniganLake said:

Rain looks really heavy in SW BC tomorrow. Should be some Urban flooding for Christmas. 

Risk of massive ice accretion in the Fraser Valley.

[Kayla]

21 minutes ago, Doinko said:

EPO and NAO also look to tank around mid January

Definitely some early signs of some more high latitude blocking setting up by the second week of January.

[MossMan]

Looks like the radar is popping again. 28.2 degrees. 

[Blizzard777]

It is pretty though 

Stuck at 29

[Snownerd3000]

20 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

Ensembles showing the Polar Vortex taking a pretty big hit in early January.  

Seems like it’s been pretty weak overall this winter so far. where’s Phil, he usually tracks this stuff

 

 

 

Don't know why but this reminded me of the line from Christmas Vacation about Eddy eating squirrels. 

[ShawniganLake]

1 minute ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Risk of massive ice accretion in the Fraser Valley.

Hope could get ugly. Freezing rain at times heavy tomorrow  

[umadbro]

Charlotte says “it’s ice snow!”

[ShawniganLake]

Just now, Snownerd3000 said:

Don't know why but this reminded me of the line from Christmas Vacation about Eddy eating squirrels. 

Best movie of all time.  I can still hear my dad laughing at that one. 

[luterra]

12 minutes ago, icyasf said:

26 degrees right now with approximately 0.3 inches of ice. Roads are extremely bad right now. I didn’t want to actually go anywhere with ice on the ground so I was only able to take a picture from our porch.

I would estimate 0.35" on horizontal surfaces on the southwest side of town.  Was fun to dig out the studded shoe grippers I got for the Grand Canyon a few years back and go for a walk around the neighborhood.

Trees all look surprisingly OK.  Something about the way this fell, or maybe the small size of the drizzly drops, made it only accumulate on the top of twigs rather than encasing them in a circle of ice.  They seem to collect a lot less weight that way.

[WhoNeedsAC]

19 minutes ago, umadbro said:

21 and fricken cold

Looks much the same on the other side of the river. Mostly sleet/snow with little to no ice accumulation (not seeing any icicles). Hope it stays that way today, cold air is going to take some time to mix out (temp is 20 here).

[jakerepp]

Going for a drive. Reinforcements incoming after this first band passes through.

[icyasf]

4 minutes ago, luterra said:

I would estimate 0.35" on horizontal surfaces on the southwest side of town.  Was fun to dig out the studded shoe grippers I got for the Grand Canyon a few years back and go for a walk around the neighborhood.

Trees all look surprisingly OK.  Something about the way this fell, or maybe the small size of the drizzly drops, made it only accumulate on the top of twigs rather than encasing them in a circle of ice.  They seem to collect a lot less weight that way.

I was initially worried about the trees going into this but was happy to see very minimal if any damage done on the trees near me

[luterra]

1 minute ago, luterra said:

I would estimate 0.35" on horizontal surfaces on the southwest side of town.  Was fun to dig out the studded shoe grippers I got for the Grand Canyon a few years back and go for a walk around the neighborhood.

Trees all look surprisingly OK.  Something about the way this fell, or maybe the small size of the drizzly drops, made it only accumulate on the top of twigs rather than encasing them in a circle of ice.  They seem to collect a lot less weight that way.

27.3 and temp rising slowly and linearly.  Extrapolation of the line puts us above freezing at 6 pm.  Though I'm expecting to get a sudden warmup at some point.

[WildrootParable]

Good morning! Same story as a lot of you: about 1/4 inch of ice and it's still drizzling. Took the dog out and the yard/walkways were almost impassable. Our only saving grace was the texture of the crunched up ice from our previous footsteps. He was NOT a fan. Grateful we still have power and no obvious signs of tree damage. Temp around 30.  

[justpassinthru]

16 minutes ago, Doinko said:

GEM also looks windy next week. Could be very bad for the trees, dealing with ice and then potentially a windstorm. I do want to experience a strong windstorm at some point though

Careful what you wish for. I still remember the windstorm of '62. Different then an ice storm. You can stay home in an ice storm and be inconvenienced if the electricity goes out and dodge the occasional tree falling. A strong windstorm can attack you inside your home blowing windows out, massive trees falling in all directions, power out for days. I was seven years old and still have vivid memories of that experience.

 

[joelgombiner]

14 minutes ago, Blizzard777 said:

It is pretty though 

Stuck at 29

Yep! And it's a natural process. It's just our human systems that create the problems. 

[SnowySeeker50]

Roads are bad, have only seen cars going up, no one down. Temperature is sitting at 27 degrees.

[jakerepp]

Loving this! Nothing like 19 degree snow. 

[Seattle]

Back to a freezing drizzle. 29 degrees. Looks like we'll avoid a worst case scenario here, as the radar still looks fairly anemic.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Still only 32 in our little frost hollow, but a mile away they have fully mixed out. 

[Deweydog]

1 minute ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Still only 32 in our little frost hollow, but a mile away they have fully mixed out. 

[Omegaraptor]

[MossMan]

Up to 28.6 now. Trees are making interesting sounds with the breeze and the thin ice on them. 

[Prairiedog]

2 hours ago, Snowdome said:

Looks like it stayed sleet all night, almost looks like a little snow mixed in at some point too. 

I'm about 4 miles north of Redland, zero snow.  Had a little sleet then a very light coating of ZR overnight.  Crusty out but not much overall.  Thankful we didn't get a lot of ZR.  Had everything ready for power outages but so far so good.  '21 we were 13 days without power.  No fun even with a generator. 

What's your elevation?  I'm at 315.  We get warm nosed a lot here.  Surprised you had snow.  Not  single flake here.  I have a friend who lives off Lower Highland Rd, upper Beavercreek at 1,200ft and no snow.  Crazy microclimates.  25f and drizzle right now.