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Just now, Deweydog said:

Nice afternoon for Xmas demobilization.

Our house went from Christmas central this morning to everything packed in boxes now... just 11 months away until it all happens again!    

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1 minute ago, Deweydog said:

Oh, and it’s coming.

Woah... that is huge coming from you.   When?

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Just now, Eujunga said:

Can anyone tell me where to find a list of water year (not calendar year) precipitation totals for regional stations such as EUG? I know I've seen this a million times, but now for the life of me I can't find it. All I can find is calendar year.

Go to the WRCC site and then copy the monthly precip grid into Excel.

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5 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Our house went from Christmas central this morning to everything packed in boxes now... just 11 months away until it all happens again!    

Still a work in progress here. And it’s 10 months here. Covid seemed to alter my wife’s no-Xmas-before-Thanksgiving brain chemistry.

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2 hours ago, snow_wizard said:

People are so hung up on the SSW.  I guess I kind of understand due to some events in recent years, but I'm afraid people are looking at it as being a magic bullet that we can't do well without.

Don’t be afraid.

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6 minutes ago, Doinko said:

You can use this: https://www.weather.gov/pqr/cliplot

Select Eugene, then Water Year Chart and you can select a year

I think it unfortunately only goes back to 2001

You can also use this http://xmacis.rcc-acis.org/

It goes back farther in time than the other site

Select Seasonal Time Series and then Water Year and then you can choose the station

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2 hours ago, snow_wizard said:

People are so hung up on the SSW.  I guess I kind of understand due to some events in recent years, but I'm afraid people are looking at it as being a magic bullet that we can't do well without.

In some years it’s more important than others. February 2019 wouldn’t have happened without the SSW.

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16 minutes ago, Phil said:

In some years it’s more important than others. February 2019 wouldn’t have happened without the SSW.

That year we got really low snow levels and did not reach 70 once in Downtown LA, but there were sunny days in between as no stupid inversion was able to form.

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Just got home from Pullman. It's 31F here with freezing fog which has mainly stayed above 1500ft to about 3k. Bit of an inversion as the LC valley is overcast but the freezing fog layer is above it. 

@TigerWoodsLibido would have appreciated the game. Today's game was an early matinee against U$C men. USC is a better team I think but they looked tired with the noon start after a day of traveling. WSU won by about 12 or 13 but they reset the scoreboard right away as they had a Women's game against CU that just started now but we didn't stay and it was a separate ticket.

We had really cheap seats at court side where the students sit but because school is out, they let anyone sit there and get a free Wazzu blanket after the game ended. Their game experience is so much better than Idaho's. Idaho's new arena is pretty but their ads are like grandpa tv volume level. WSU not so much. Granted the band is on break but I don't mind noise but not when it is fake or ads louder than the game. WSU didn't have that so my son wouldn't mind going again.

Regarding the weather in Pullman, aside from the freezing fog it wasn't too bad outside. Not as warm as yesterday but warmer than it has been so kind of where your face feels a bit cold but the rest of you is fine with a coat. My son asked why WSU football doesn't have a roof like basketball and I told him it helps when they play teams from CA or AZ who don't know Arctic air.

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Garfield County/Pomeroy, WA:

2022-2023 snowfall totals: 13.9 inches

Highest snow total (per event): 2.20 inches (12/19/22 & 12/20/22)

Most recent accumulating (non Trace) .10 on 3/08/23

Days with trace or more snow: 11/1/22 (1 inch), 11/28/22 (.80), 12/01/22 (T), 12/02/22 (T), 12/4/22 (.20), 12/5/22 (1.5), 12/14/22 (1.6), 12/18/22 (T), 12/19/22 (2.10), 12/20/22 (.10), 12/23/22 (2.0), 01/03/2023 (T), 1/22/23 (T), 2/21/23 (.10), 2/22/23 (.80), 2/23/23 (.20), 2/24/2023 (.50), 2/28/23 (.90), 3/5/2023 (2.0), 3/8/2023 (.10)

First freeze: 11/3/22 (yes, after the first snowfall)

Coldest low: 0F (12/21/2022)

Last sub freezing high:  2/23/23

Last White Christmas: 2022 at my location  (I've also had a White Christmas in 2017 when I lived in Stanwood and a White Christmas at a hotel in Moscow, ID in 2020). 

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40/32 to start the year. Was a sunny morning and then low clouds and fog moved in for the afternoon. Now starting to burn off as the sun sets. 

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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"

It's always sunny at Winters Hill! 
Fighting the good fight against weather evil.

 

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It appears the first three or four days of January will go down as below normal for many locations.  I'll take it!

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Death To Warm Anomalies!

 

Winter 2022-23 stats

 

Total Snowfall = 9.2"

Day with 1" or more snow depth = 12

Total Hail = 0.0

Total Ice = 0.4"

Coldest Low = 17

Lows 32 or below = 72

Highs 32 or below = 3

Lows 20 or below = 4

Highs 40 or below = 22

 

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31 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

 

 

Just up and died?

Death To Warm Anomalies!

 

Winter 2022-23 stats

 

Total Snowfall = 9.2"

Day with 1" or more snow depth = 12

Total Hail = 0.0

Total Ice = 0.4"

Coldest Low = 17

Lows 32 or below = 72

Highs 32 or below = 3

Lows 20 or below = 4

Highs 40 or below = 22

 

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We love to see it!

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Weather stats for MBY

Snowfall:

-Total snowfall since joining: 50" 🥳

-2018-19: 21"

-2019-20: 2.5"

-2020-21: 13"

-2021-22: 8.75"

-2022-23: 5.75"

-Most recent snowfall: 1”; February 26th, 2023

-Largest snowfall (single storm): 8.5"; February 12-13, 2021

-Largest snow depth: 14"; 1:30am February 12th, 2019

Temperatures:

-Warmest: 109F; June 28th, 2021

-Coldest: 13F; December 27th, 2021

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2 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Pattern next 10 days sure is nasty. Classic Nino pattern. 

It sure is weird how we went into literally one of the worst patterns for this region right after that great run we had, and we will probably go right back into a great pattern afterward.  Can't wait to see what the analogs flip to when the pattern change gets a bit closer.

Death To Warm Anomalies!

 

Winter 2022-23 stats

 

Total Snowfall = 9.2"

Day with 1" or more snow depth = 12

Total Hail = 0.0

Total Ice = 0.4"

Coldest Low = 17

Lows 32 or below = 72

Highs 32 or below = 3

Lows 20 or below = 4

Highs 40 or below = 22

 

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12 minutes ago, Meatyorologist said:

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We love to see it!

The Okanagan has sure done well so far this winter.

Death To Warm Anomalies!

 

Winter 2022-23 stats

 

Total Snowfall = 9.2"

Day with 1" or more snow depth = 12

Total Hail = 0.0

Total Ice = 0.4"

Coldest Low = 17

Lows 32 or below = 72

Highs 32 or below = 3

Lows 20 or below = 4

Highs 40 or below = 22

 

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Currently 41.8. Good chance I see a freeze tonight and might even be able to squeeze another one in tomorrow night with recent trends.

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2023 Warm Season Stats

Number of 80+ days - 5

Number of 85+ days - 4

Number of 90+ days - 1

Number of 95+ days - 0

 

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1 hour ago, Phil said:

I’ve been dealing with a particularly severe bout of seasonal depression so not motivated to post. Also been traveling and busy in general.

Am currently in FL.

 

Sorry to hear about the seasonal depression.  Best to bump the PNW pretty far down your list if you ever move from your current location.  Hopefully the FL sun does some good

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5 hours ago, Phil said:

East-Asia/Siberia High descent on the LR EPS. Signal growing stronger too.

Winter’s gonna come roaring back 2nd half of Jan, following our multiweek thaw.

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With the current setup in the western Pacific some long time forecasters are saying the only other similar setups have been 1955-1956, 1994-1995, and 2010-2011. thoughts on that? 

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46/37 today…down to 37 already though. Got down to 38 earlier this morning for our first temp in the 30s since the morning of Christmas Eve. 

2023 warm season stats

Max temp-89

+80s-5

+85s-3

+90s-0

monthly rainfall-0.00”

warm season rainfall-4.42”

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35F with some frost here. Starry skies and a fairly bright moon.

Weather stats for MBY

Snowfall:

-Total snowfall since joining: 50" 🥳

-2018-19: 21"

-2019-20: 2.5"

-2020-21: 13"

-2021-22: 8.75"

-2022-23: 5.75"

-Most recent snowfall: 1”; February 26th, 2023

-Largest snowfall (single storm): 8.5"; February 12-13, 2021

-Largest snow depth: 14"; 1:30am February 12th, 2019

Temperatures:

-Warmest: 109F; June 28th, 2021

-Coldest: 13F; December 27th, 2021

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2 hours ago, jakerepp said:

Incredible clouds down here tonight. Nasty weather rolled through earlier and gave way to this!

 

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Saw some of those but really dark towards Jerome Az this afternoon! So cool looking!  
otherwise currently Puking snow here in Prescott Az!  But it’s just not the same as home.  Driving in it a challenge here where I’m locally staying as they have a no lights outside ordnance.  So it was kind of crazy to depict if I was on a road. 
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2 hours ago, Snownerd3000 said:

 

Do you even have a pulse? 

This Aleutian low/NW-Pacific trough pattern is actually really good for disrupting the PV. Short term pain, long term gain.

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29 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

You’re really banking hard on late January huh 😂 

Well… considering the fact the first half is pretty much shot and it appears to be the only January this year, yes!

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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"

It's always sunny at Winters Hill! 
Fighting the good fight against weather evil.

 

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5 hours ago, LowerGarfield said:

Just got home from Pullman. It's 31F here with freezing fog which has mainly stayed above 1500ft to about 3k. Bit of an inversion as the LC valley is overcast but the freezing fog layer is above it. 

@TigerWoodsLibido would have appreciated the game. Today's game was an early matinee against U$C men. USC is a better team I think but they looked tired with the noon start after a day of traveling. WSU won by about 12 or 13 but they reset the scoreboard right away as they had a Women's game against CU that just started now but we didn't stay and it was a separate ticket.

We had really cheap seats at court side where the students sit but because school is out, they let anyone sit there and get a free Wazzu blanket after the game ended. Their game experience is so much better than Idaho's. Idaho's new arena is pretty but their ads are like grandpa tv volume level. WSU not so much. Granted the band is on break but I don't mind noise but not when it is fake or ads louder than the game. WSU didn't have that so my son wouldn't mind going again.

Regarding the weather in Pullman, aside from the freezing fog it wasn't too bad outside. Not as warm as yesterday but warmer than it has been so kind of where your face feels a bit cold but the rest of you is fine with a coat. My son asked why WSU football doesn't have a roof like basketball and I told him it helps when they play teams from CA or AZ who don't know Arctic air.

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Awesome!! Love to see this!! Glad y'all had fun there!! I need to get over to Pullman and Moscow for games there.

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Springfield, Oregon regular season 22-23 Stats:

  • Coldest high: 31F (Dec 22, 2022)
  • Coldest low: 16F (Jan 30, 2023)
  • Days with below freezing temps: 60 (Most recent: Mar 27, 2023)
  • Days with sub-40F highs: 5 (Most recent: Jan 30, 2023)
  • Total snowfall: 1.2"
  • Last accumulating snowfall: Mar 5, 2023
  • Last sub-freezing high: Dec 22, 2022 (31F)
  • Last White Christmas: 1990
  • Significant wind events (gusts 45+): 0

Personal Stats:

  • Last accumulating snowfall: Mar 5, 2023
  • Last sub-freezing high: Dec 22, 2022 (31F)
  • Last White Christmas: 2008
  • Total snowfall since joining TheWeatherForums: 42.0"
  • Sub-freezing highs since joining TheWeatherForums: 1

 

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