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Certainly hard to complain with the results of what the GFS shows.  It's just the fact it's so weird.

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Winter 2023-24 stats

 

Total Snowfall = 1.0"

Day with 1" or more snow depth = 1

Total Hail = 0.0

Total Ice = 0.2

Coldest Low = 13

Lows 32 or below = 45

Highs 32 or below = 3

Lows 20 or below = 3

Highs 40 or below = 9

 

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5 minutes ago, RentonHill said:

I know right. He’s in panic mode as the mob mentality takes hold 

Panic mode?  I posted the GFS snow map too.   I love this sh*t and going along for the ride!   Wherever it goes.  

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00Z Arcadian model is waaaay further east with both shots of cold air.

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9 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Certainly hard to complain with the results of what the GFS shows.  It's just the fact it's so weird.

The problem is we just don't see a low drop down the coast dumping copious amounts of snow to the entire I-5 corridor when the block starts pinching off and energy digs out west of Vancouver Island. That's just not how it works. Sadly.

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Unbelievable GFS run. Icon and Gem

would bring big league cold for days, but lack the snow. 

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Snowfall                                  Precip

2022-23: 95.0"                      2022-23: 17.39"

2021-22: 52.6"                    2021-22: 91.46" 

2020-21: 12.0"                    2020-21: 71.59"

2019-20: 23.5"                   2019-20: 58.54"

2018-19: 63.5"                   2018-19: 66.33"

2017-18: 30.3"                   2017-18: 59.83"

2016-17: 49.2"                   2016-17: 97.58"

2015-16: 11.75"                 2015-16: 68.67"

2014-15: 3.5"
2013-14: 11.75"                  2013-14: 62.30
2012-13: 16.75"                 2012-13: 78.45  

2011-12: 98.5"                   2011-12: 92.67"

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2 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

Way premature and almost certainly a death blow to this happening, but some food for thought!

Looking like a potential opportunity for SEA/PDX to pull off the rarest of the rare and score subfreezing highs in December, January, and February.

Last time that that happened for PDX was 1978-79. Last time for SEA was 1949-50. And the two have actually never both pulled it off in the same winter in the airport era. 

Bloody hands.

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1 minute ago, Deweydog said:

Bloody hands.

He tried very hard to mitigate the jinx he was about to unleash with his opening sentence acknowledging the jinx he was about to unleash. 

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Omg omg omg 

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Snowfall                                  Precip

2022-23: 95.0"                      2022-23: 17.39"

2021-22: 52.6"                    2021-22: 91.46" 

2020-21: 12.0"                    2020-21: 71.59"

2019-20: 23.5"                   2019-20: 58.54"

2018-19: 63.5"                   2018-19: 66.33"

2017-18: 30.3"                   2017-18: 59.83"

2016-17: 49.2"                   2016-17: 97.58"

2015-16: 11.75"                 2015-16: 68.67"

2014-15: 3.5"
2013-14: 11.75"                  2013-14: 62.30
2012-13: 16.75"                 2012-13: 78.45  

2011-12: 98.5"                   2011-12: 92.67"

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A few tidbits from Mark Nelsen's latest blog post:

This setup is THE SETUP you want to get cold/snow into the region. Some moisture gets picked up by the cold air heading out over the ocean. Then a little extra lifting as that surface wedge of cold air pushes into the region. Sometimes we get NOTHING snow-wise out of this pattern as cold air arrives, other times maybe up to 2″. It depends on how that upper level trough digs south too. If it just moves by quickly and slightly east of where the Euro model shows it (above), we are typically just dry and a chilly east wind begins to blow. Since we’re still 5+ days out, it’s a real guess exactly how this turns out.

 

And then notice about 1/2 of GFS ensemble members produce noticeable snow in Portland on the chart below. That’s a decent indicator that SOMETHING is up for this weekend. But what we aren’t seeing yet? MOST of those members producing snow; this situation is very much still evolving.

 

 

The two extreme possibilities I see right now:

1) We pick up 1-3″ of snow Saturday night, Portland is frozen all day Sunday and Monday, then a little more snow falls around Tuesday or Wednesday next week. 3-4 days of icy/cold stuff.

2) A chilly east wind arrives Saturday night, a few flurries fall, but doesn’t affect any of us. Temperatures only reach around 38-42 for a few days, then it’s back to milder/wetter the middle of next week and beyond. No real snow falls in Portland and it’s just a bit cold for a few days. Your life continues the same Sunday and into next week.

My gut feeling is it’ll be somewhere in between. But I’ll be at work all week; no scheduled time off until the end of February!

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7 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

Still no WSW from the PDX office.

What a joke.

Actually, I’m kinda worried they’ve all been Incapacitated by a carbon monoxide leak or something.

Imagine this crew in control of public communication... we would be breaking into prime time shows tonight! 

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1 minute ago, Christensen87 said:

Yep lol and then more cold air pours in. Oh what a fun run. Either way, I’m glad the trends from the past GFS runs didn’t continue tonight. Great sign. Come on Euro! 

Yeah... the GFS has been disturbingly mundane lately.   Glad to see it's normal wacky self is back.  

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