PNW January 2023 Observations and Discussion

[snow_wizard]

2 hours ago, Deweydog said:

I gave up on it after I realized I was getting too hung up on it.

Upon further investigation I think an SSW would be helpful for us.  Too long winded to go into what changed my mind.

[TT-SEA]

5 minutes ago, SnowWillarrive said:

Looks like North Bend

I am in NB right now... not quite as green here!    But I do see some blue sky and always the most expensive gas around.

[snow_wizard]

2 minutes ago, WeatherGeek2022 said:

seems January is dead af and cannot be revived. sad days around here. our ideal snowstorm month and it's just completely shot again

The models actually have some positive signs today.

[Deweydog]

3 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Do they have home made pot pies or are they pre packaged?

They’re premade in the deli and astonishingly good. Almost good enough to distract from the fact we’re stuck in a +EPO wasteland.

[SnowWillarrive]

3 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Upon further investigation I think an SSW would be helpful for us.  Too long winded to go into what changed my mind.

We need a pattern shake up. Things are getting stale 

[Omegaraptor]

38 minutes ago, SnowWillarrive said:

Yup it’s getting really bad in the Alps right now. Couldn’t imagine the Cascades looking like this. This winter is crap. 
 

For all we bittch about rain at ski resort level, Cascade Concrete, etc. PNW skiers, at least north of Crater Lake, often forget how good they have it.

A bad year at Baker and Crystal would be a decent to good year by many places' standards!

[Brian_in_Leavenworth]

Off topic, but thus reminds me of some of the videos of cars sliding out of control down hills.

 

 

[TacomaWx]

48 minutes ago, SnowWillarrive said:

Yup it’s getting really bad in the Alps right now. Couldn’t imagine the Cascades looking like this. This winter is crap. 
 

California stole all their snow

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

38 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

They’re premade in the deli and astonishingly good. Almost good enough to distract from the fact we’re stuck in a +EPO wasteland.

What was the brand of the pot pies back in the day? Swanson?? The little frozen ones.

Edited January 7, 2023 by MR.SNOWMIZER

[TacomaWx]

46/44 temp spread so far today with 0.38” of rain. Up to 0.74” MTD wake me up when January ends

[Front Ranger]

1 hour ago, Omegaraptor said:

This is a ski slope at 5k elevation in the Swiss Alps. Ouch.

Parts of Switzerland are getting temps well into the 60s thanks to Alpine downsloping.

Looks like that's about to change, though.

[SouthHillFrosty]

The 18z delivered

[MossMan]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

Dry deck...

Not here.

good new is that we have internet again! If anyone that has Starlink and gets this message on their app and you’re not getting any internet…It’s 99.4% your cord that runs from the dish to the router that is the issue. This is cord number 3 since September for us and it has become a huge problem for a lot of Starlink users lately as so many posters in the Starlink FB groups are also having. Moisture gets into the connection and fries the cord. I did a temporary goofy fix with part of a water bottle to divert the water around the connection until I can come up with something nicer looking. We also have a backup cord and router coming so we don’t have to be down for two weeks again if it happens again. Also got a UPS since power surges are also an issue for the routers apparently. 

[Deweydog]

43 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

What was the brand of the pot pies back in the day? Swanson?? The little frozen ones.

When I was a kid we used to get them delivered by the Schwan’s guy. Holy smokes they were good…

[Everleigh]

5 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Not here.

good new is that we have internet again! If anyone that has Starlink and gets this message on their app and you’re not getting any internet…It’s 99.4% your cord that runs from the dish to the router that is the issue. This is cord number 3 since September for us and it has become a huge problem for a lot of Starlink users lately as so many posters in the Starlink FB groups are also having. Moisture gets into the connection and fries the cord. I did a temporary goofy fix with part of a water bottle to divert the water around the connection until I can come up with something nicer looking. We also have a backup cord and router coming so we don’t have to be down for two weeks again if it happens again. Also got a UPS since power surges are also an issue for the routers apparently. 

We've been having minor disconnect issues, but not a FULL "offline" disconnect. Just blips long enough to kick us out of a game server, or a Discord call. It's irritating, and apparently a wide spread issue. After factory resetting, rebooting, adjusting the dish, it's been stable this afternoon, but now shows a random, perfectly red square "obstruction" on the app. It's in the middle of the sky! There's no obstruction! lol 

[snow_wizard]

55 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

46/44 temp spread so far today with 0.38” of rain. Up to 0.74” MTD wake me up when January ends

I think we need to make that an actual song.  It would apply to almost every January since 1982.

[snow_wizard]

19 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Not here.

good new is that we have internet again! If anyone that has Starlink and gets this message on their app and you’re not getting any internet…It’s 99.4% your cord that runs from the dish to the router that is the issue. This is cord number 3 since September for us and it has become a huge problem for a lot of Starlink users lately as so many posters in the Starlink FB groups are also having. Moisture gets into the connection and fries the cord. I did a temporary goofy fix with part of a water bottle to divert the water around the connection until I can come up with something nicer looking. We also have a backup cord and router coming so we don’t have to be down for two weeks again if it happens again. Also got a UPS since power surges are also an issue for the routers apparently. 

I would just take and smear a whole bunch of silicone around the thing that leaks.

[snow_wizard]

59 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

Looks like that's about to change, though.

Is that real snow or the infamous GFS phantom snow?

[snow_wizard]

1 hour ago, TacomaWx said:

California stole all their snow

And BC stole all of the cold last month.

[snow_wizard]

1 hour ago, Deweydog said:

They’re premade in the deli and astonishingly good. Almost good enough to distract from the fact we’re stuck in a +EPO wasteland.

I'm going to have to try one.  I'm a sucker for a good pot pie!

[snow_wizard]

The ECMWF shows the next few nights will have decent amounts of clearing.  Maybe even some frost for some lucky folks!  Maybe this won't be quite as warm as it had previously appeared.  

[Front Ranger]

11 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Is that real snow or the infamous GFS phantom snow?

Probably real given it's in the Alps.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Clearing out a little and down to 42. Brrr

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Was looking at the final December data for the park. Not quite as cold as November, but a little cooler than last December. 

[joelgombiner]

40 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Not here.

good new is that we have internet again! If anyone that has Starlink and gets this message on their app and you’re not getting any internet…It’s 99.4% your cord that runs from the dish to the router that is the issue. This is cord number 3 since September for us and it has become a huge problem for a lot of Starlink users lately as so many posters in the Starlink FB groups are also having. Moisture gets into the connection and fries the cord. I did a temporary goofy fix with part of a water bottle to divert the water around the connection until I can come up with something nicer looking. We also have a backup cord and router coming so we don’t have to be down for two weeks again if it happens again. Also got a UPS since power surges are also an issue for the routers apparently. 

That's crazy that they are able to broadcast internet from space but didn't engineer properly for water on earth. 

[Phil]

2 hours ago, WeatherGeek2022 said:

seems January is dead af and cannot be revived. sad days around here. our ideal snowstorm month and it's just completely shot again

How can it be your ideal snowstorm month if it never snows during said month?

[MossMan]

My wife used to be a grocery snob but with how prices have just gone insane she now does most of our shopping at Grocery Outlet instead of the Skagit Valley Food Co Op. We get our organic produce from Klesick Farm in Stanwood, they deliver a box to us each week and that is still cheaper than the Co Op.    Thought it was funny when she asked why we spent so much for gas in November but December was more reasonable again…I had to remind her that we used 25 gallons of gas for the generator. 

[RentonHill]

geefs is not good. Winter cancel at the moment

[ShawniganLake]

29 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Clearing out a little and down to 42. Brrr

3 dog night.  

[ShawniganLake]

3 minutes ago, RentonHillTC said:

geefs is not good. Winter cancel at the moment

Haven’t seen any CFS maps posted in a few days either. Not good! . Winter cancel!

[VancouverIslandSouth]

2 hours ago, TT-SEA said:

I am in NB right now... not quite as green here!    But I do see some blue sky and always the most expensive gas around.

Not much mountain snow left down there.

[Snowdome]

Awesome day at Mt Hood today! Didn’t expect too much snow this morning but got about 5 inches in a couple hours and had a nice little pow day!
 

No lack of snow there at least 

[TT-SEA]

5 minutes ago, VancouverIslandSouth said:

Not much mountain snow left down there.

That is exposed Mt. Si and is not representative of Cascade snowpack.   That face of the mountain is bare most of the winter every year unless it recently snowed.

[VancouverIslandSouth]

2 hours ago, Front Ranger said:

Looks like that's about to change, though.

Looks like you'd need to go deep into Russia to see any snow now, based on the Satellite. I thought that was unusual but looking at previous years Eastern Europe is frequently snowless at this time of year:

The upper Alps still seem to be doing ok for snow:

[VancouverIslandSouth]

9 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

That is exposed Mt. Si and is not representative of Cascade snowpack.   That face of the mountain is bare most of the winter every year unless it recently snowed.

It must be super steep and exposed. It's an interesting microclimate that even the elevated treed area where you'd expect less of a slope and more shade still doesn't have snow outside of the gullies. Have you ever hiked up there in the winter?

[TT-SEA]

15 minutes ago, VancouverIslandSouth said:

It must be super steep and exposed. It's an interesting microclimate that even the elevated treed area where you'd expect less of a slope and more shade still doesn't have snow outside of the gullies. Have you ever hiked up there in the winter?

Only in the summer.  

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Yeah unfortunately time is starting to run out for plebs below 1000’.

 

[MossMan]

12 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Yeah unfortunately time is starting to run out for plebs below 1000’.

 

March will be our month to shine! 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

7 minutes ago, MossMan said:

March will be our month to shine! 

How much of that snow was left over from February? 

[TacomaWx]

21 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Yeah unfortunately time is starting to run out for plebs below 1000’.

 

I’d be worried even if I was you