PNW December 2022 - Part II

[Brian_in_Leavenworth]

11 minutes ago, Prairiedog said:

We got married in Leavenworth Dec 28 many years ago.  It was truly magical.  8" fell the day before so when we took everyone on sleigh rides (Redtail Canyon Farms) in two giant sleighs pulled by Belgium draft horses, it couldn't have been better. 

We stayed for 4 nights, 1,000ft above Leavenworth at Mtn Home Lodge.  As they say there, "you're a 1,000ft closer to Heaven".  They snow cat you in usually as it's a narrow snow covered dirt road with a huge canyon on one side.  You have a commanding view of town below, the Enchantment Mountains as a backdrop and you can look up Icicle Canyon.  They bring in a cook and the food is like nothing I've ever had. 

We've been to Leavenworth many times since and many on this forum have as well but if you haven't, it's a must esp this time of year.  Magical place for sure.  Touristy but it's just something you need to experience.  One of the best bed and breakfasts anywhere is Run of the River Inn.  Usually booked a year out.  Also the Sleeping Lady, on the Icicle River at the end of town is pretty cool. 

Winthrop has a nice place to stay at Sun Mountain Lodge with a commanding view of the mountains as you're perched on a hilltop.  It's a great little western town but nothing like Leavenworth.  Best Bakery around just a few miles out of Winthrop in Twisp.  If you don't mind the crowds, the eateries, shops, and Christmas themed shops in Leavenworth are second to none.  Christmas 24/7, 365 days a year. 

We also spent our honeymoon in Leavenworth 8 years before we moved here.  And we split it between Run of the River and Mountain Home Lodge.  It was in late January.   Both amazing places.  

And we go fairly often to Sun Mt Lodge.  It's so much different than Winthrop.  So many trails and great views.

Mt home Lodge 

Run of the River

Sun mountain lodge 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

It's actually 48 here. I was just going off the station down the road, winds are calm here, but at the base of the ridge they have southerlies gusting to 28. 

[Snowdome]

The station in OC still showing 31f but my home gauge finally hit 33. Hoping the ice will melt quickly today, a lot to do. 

[MossMan]

South wind all night destroyed my snow. This is as good as it will get for a White Christmas. Though my driveway snow banks should make it to tomorrow. 48 degrees. 

[antipex]

Balmy 8.6 currently and snowing decently. Glad we are far enough north to avoid freezing rain today.

[ajreich]

Sitting at 30.5 in inner NE Portland since about midnight. Hoping we get scoured out soon with the first rain bands incoming.  

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Holy cow

[SilverFallsAndrew]

[TacomaWx]

We’ve really warmed up in the last hour…from 39 to 43. Low of 35 this morning. Little bit of snow hanging on but with moderate rain it’ll be gone in the next hour or two. 
 Looks like the current pattern will still be active the next 2-3 weeks most likely just a more typical variety of active. Think we will be waiting until Atleast January 10th for things to get interesting again. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Temperatures did rise in PDX overnight, but not so much so.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

The warm tongue has reached Estacada, they are now up to 44 as of 8am. The cold East Winds are still putting up a fight and most of PDX Metro is still frozen. Moisture is now arriving and it should fall as freezing rain for most of the Metro area. South and West Metro will thaw out first this afternoon. North, Central and East Metro won’t thaw out until later this evening. Stay home and be safe everyone.

 

[Terreboner]

Going to warm, wet and windy even in the high country this holiday weekend.  Looks like around Tuesday though we start adding back to our wonderful snowpack!!!

Here is the extended for Timberline Lodge.

Tuesday

Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 37. Very windy. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 9 to 13 inches possible.

Tuesday Night

Snow. Cloudy, with a low around 28. Very windy.

Wednesday

Snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 32. Windy.

Wednesday Night

Snow likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Breezy.

Thursday

Snow likely. Cloudy, with a high near 33.

Thursday Night

Snow. Cloudy, with a low around 28. Breezy.

Friday

Snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 33. Breezy.

[BLI snowman]

10 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Holy cow

You asked for your jet suppression and you got it.

[BLI snowman]

7 minutes ago, Frontal Snowsquall said:

The warm tongue has reached Estacada, they are now up to 44 as of 8am. The cold East Winds are still putting up a fight and most of PDX Metro is still frozen. Moisture is now arriving and it should fall as freezing rain for most of the Metro area. South and West Metro will thaw out first this afternoon. North, Central and East Metro won’t thaw out until later this evening. Stay home and be safe everyone.

 

I was hoping we'd be a couple degrees warmer for this band. Still think we get above freezing by noon here.

[FroYoBro]

Managed to miss out on major freezing rain which is nice for Christmas. Yesterday was too dry and now it’s 32 degrees as the rain starts. I bet it warms up quickly here today. 

[Hawksfan2008]

Decided to leave my place in North Bend and head for the in laws. Just too dangerous with the trees.  Wishing my neighbors the best with the heavy rain moving in. 

[TacomaWx]

Kind of a recap of this year here in Tacoma…has been very interesting at times. Last year had some interesting stuff too. Thought some of the statistical people here would like this. 
 January       7.47” -0.1F 

-nothing too notable…started off chilly after the snows of December 2021. 

February      4.92” -0.5F snow-0.3”

-Fairly chilly with a nice late season blast 2/22. Huge AR event at the end of the month. 

March          2.98” +1.3F

-nothing noteable. 

April             3.63” -2.8F snow-TR.

-Spiked to 73 on 4/7 then had measurable snowfall on 4/12 and 4/14. Very chilly wet month. 

May              3.95” -3.4F 

-Coldest May since 2011. Pretty wet too.

June             3.63” -0.1F

-Very wet to start off with a big AR event mid month. Brief heatwave at the end.

July              0.28” +2.4F

-Record breaking duration heatwave with 7 straight +90 days. 

August         0.22” +3.3F

-another very warm month…but 2 separate thunderstorm days on 8/10 and 8/19. The storm on the 19th was crazy. 

September  0.11”   +2.6F

-Very dry, warm then eventually smoky Start to fall. 

October       1.87”  +3.3F

-Very extended period of smoky and very unseasonably warm, dry conditions in the first half. 

November   5.33” -4.2F snow-1.9”

-Flip switched back to one of the coldest novembers in decades for many places. Ended with a nice snowfall. 

*December 3.25” -4.2F snow-4.1”

-started off pretty chilly with 4 snow days in a row. Then a hard hitting blast swept through just 2 weeks later with some snowfall then ZR. 

[North_County]

Temp hanging right around 34° still, which really isn't kickstarting much melt yet. Solid ice on top of snow with pooling rainwater on top. Expecting the warmup to really ramp up in the next couple hours, so hopefully that will clear things up for afternoon activities. 

[High Desert Mat?]

12 hours ago, snow_wizard said:

The way the GFS handles that low is really odd.  Just kind of washes out instead of creating a huge wind rush.

Again...I just don't get why people want a damaging windstorm after everything we've already had, but to each his own.

I’m with you Jim. Don’t really care for wind at all. More of a nuisance than anything. My least favorite part of the weather. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Overall these model runs are pretty awful. 

[umadbro]

28. Ugh 

[Deweydog]

Not a good Saturday to live in the east metro.

[ShawniganLake]

35 with heavy rain.  Between the glaze of ice and lack of wind our snowpack remains pretty deep

[ShawniganLake]

Probably the gfs cold bias but it actually snows a couple chances of wet snow here this week. 

[umadbro]

6 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

Not a good Saturday to live in the east metro.

Clark county too.

[Deweydog]

Just now, umadbro said:

Clark county too.

Yeah, I’d like to think we’ll pop up a bit quicker today. It’s 31.1 here. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

EUG just bumped to 48. It's coming. 

[Skagit Weather]

Well, I rose up to 54F overnight with wind gusts to 30 mph. Regardless to say, that type of weather is a true snow killer. There isn't a scrap of snow left outside except for the snowman I made last night which is only about 40% the size as he was 9 hours ago.

[MossMan]

Merry Christmas Eve everyone! Hope everyone is enjoying their Christmas Slop!

48 and raining. 

[LowerGarfield]

Not sure if this has been posted yet but with the conversations about tv personalities, I thought this was appropriate. The Iowa sports reporter who has to serve as a red-eye grumpy weatherman. Hilarious. Sadly I think I identify with him as I get older lol.

https://twitter.com/MarkWoodleyTV/status/1605961457337712640?s=20&t=qSqYSWZkCLnTqGDF5KmmfA

[LowerGarfield]

1 hour ago, antipex said:

Balmy 8.6 currently and snowing decently. Glad we are far enough north to avoid freezing rain today.

Where in N. ID are you?

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Omg northbend must be in serious trouble. It is in the upper 20's and pouring rain. Any updates from. People who live there. The pass is getting a massive freezing rain event.

[OysterPrintout]

PDX reporting lt freezing rain but we're regular a** rain here right now. The melt is on.

[MossMan]

I rate this event a 5 out of 10. Last December’s event was an 8. This would have been higher if the timing was where we had the heavy snowfall from Tuesday morning was either this morning or tomorrow morning instead of the upper 40’s slop we are in now. Also we didn’t quite get enough snow for my liking at 8” total. Also the duration was shorter than I would have liked…At least make it to the 7 day mark, 5ish days is not long enough. The ice was kind of cool but there wasn’t enough here as precip lacked. Also didn’t meet or break my low of 3 from last year. Only made it down to 8. All in all it was still an awesome event, just didn’t hold a candle to last December. 

[snow_wizard]

4 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Omg northbend must be in serious trouble. It is in the upper 20's and pouring rain. Any updates from. People who live there. The pass is getting a massive freezing rain event.

I have never been so thankful to be above freezing....yikes!

Insane that it's still 11 degrees just west of the summit.  Tim could be just on the warm side of the line, but I doubt it.

[Omegaraptor]

Hillsboro at 32.

Pretty much got the best case scenario with the vast majority of precip during this event falling as sleet out here.

[North_County]

Wait, Bellingham warmed by 15° in 12 minutes? Any BLI people able to confirm?

[MossMan]

5 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Omg northbend must be in serious trouble. It is in the upper 20's and pouring rain. Any updates from. People who live there. The pass is getting a massive freezing rain event.

Hawks decided to leave their house…Didn’t sound good. 

[Omegaraptor]

1 hour ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Holy cow

CA reservoirs about to gain a lot of water!

[snow_wizard]

Just now, MossMan said:

I rate this event a 5 out of 10. Last December’s event was an 8. This would have been higher if the timing was where we had the heavy snowfall from Tuesday morning was either this morning or tomorrow morning instead of the upper 40’s slop we are in now. Also we didn’t quite get enough snow for my liking at 8” total. Also the duration was shorter than I would have liked…At least make it to the 7 day mark, 5ish days is not long enough. The ice was kind of cool but there wasn’t enough here as precip lacked. Also didn’t meet or break my low of 3 from last year. Only made it down to 8. All in all it was still an awesome event, just didn’t hold a candle to last December. 

I think you're being a little bit hard on it.  It's worth a couple of extra points from a bizarre standpoint alone.  I've never seen a cold wave with the details of this one.  I think you're getting a bit used to awesome events nearly every winter now.  If you were looking at this from a perspective of this being 2006 instead of 2022 you would probably feel differently.  

For Whatcom County this was a straight up 10 no matter how you slice it.

IMBY this cold wave had the coldest max since Dec 1990.  Pretty impressive.