February Weather in the Pacific Northwest

[Timmy]

Looks like I have 7-8” so far! Just got home. Surprised it’s 33f now, I was expecting a sub freezing high

[Deweydog]

What are your thoughts on precip for later?

You think we dry out pretty fast this evening?

History tells us the backwash stuff in these bleeds tends to poop out south of Kelso as any frontal dynamics wash out but we could get lucky. I'd consider anything that turns the ground white to be lucky.

[Deweydog]

North winds have rolled into Chehalis. Heads up Napavine!

[TigerWoodsLibido]

History tells us the backwash stuff in these bleeds tends to poop out south of Kelso as any frontal dynamics wash out but we could get lucky. I'd consider anything that turns the ground white to be lucky.

 

Yeah when we are to the south of these lows we typically don't see much of anything as moisture wraps up once the cold, dry air arrives.  I feel like a lot of our arctic airmasses have this happen.  Hopefully the mid-week stuff hits us.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Looks like I have 7-8” so far! Just got home. Surprised it’s 33f now, I was expecting a sub freezing high

 

Wow! Doesn't surprise me as that band has been very persistent up there! 

[TT-SEA]

My son this morning... that is a lava flow from the 1800s.

 

[Perturbed Member]

Looks like I have 7-8” so far! Just got home. Surprised it’s 33f now, I was expecting a sub freezing high

 

You're in North Plains? That's pretty impressive.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

18z is the worst model run in days.

[Deweydog]

I don't see a really significant longitudinal difference between the GFS and GEM/Euro.

Seems to keep things a bit further west with a little more splitting action. It's a pretty delicate set up overall. Hopefully it works out. As discussed in the "Do you like snow?" thread, I like snow.❄

[Front Ranger]

Really a nice set up here. The trade winds are cut off with this pattern so its more calm and humid but still sunny on this side of the island.

 

We saw a storm blow up and move towards Maui yesterday but we are so protected here by Mauna Kea that its almost always sunny here even when its raining all over the state. This is as close as it got yesterday... then the sky was all blue again in 15 minutes.

 

Doesn't sound very lush.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

I think NWS is way to warm for later this week.

[Deweydog]

18z is the worst model run in days.

Not our year.

[Winterdog]

The snow sure did a number here as well...my poor large Willow is no more.

I had been telling my wife we ought to take that tree down since it helps clog the gutters and gets crap all over the yard. This is actually a good thing providing the roof doesn’t leak or something.

[HighlandExperience]

18z is the worst model run in days.

Waste of cold air

[MossMan]

Leaving my driveway this morning.

Full sun now and 32.9. Still a little drippy out and probably down to 8” of snow.

[Brennan]

Trough's too deep....Trough's not deep enough... One of these days we'll get one that's perfect.. .

[FroYoBro]

PDX ALREADY BACK UP TO 39. AHHHHHHHHH.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

18z is the worst model run in days.

I doubt that pos is on to anything.

[Deweydog]

PDX ALREADY BACK UP TO 39. AHHHHHHHHH.

John Q. Sunbreak is a real *******.

[MossMan]

18z is the worst model run in days.

I’ve been too busy playing in the snow, was the 12z Euro still good?

[TT-SEA]

Leaving my driveway this morning.

Full sun now and 32.9. Still a little drippy out and probably down to 8” of snow.

 

 

Amazing!  

[MossMan]

Okay one more snow picture... this morning rocked! SNOW!!

[snow_wizard]

We used up our last trick for getting snow here and ended up with nothing on the ground going into the cold snap.  It snowed 4 times...out of those it stuck 3 times, but melted off pretty fast.  Pretty bad luck for this setup.  I actually think the cold air having to advect into BC before it could get here is what hurt us.  If the cold had already been in place it would have really helped our cause.  I think the 500mb pattern was good for a lot more than what we saw.

[HighlandExperience]

I’ve been too busy playing in the snow, was the 12z Euro still good?

No snow for you.

[Deweydog]

North winds gusting to 41 at SeaTac seems pretty impressive.

[Perturbed Member]

Solar radiation exceeding 225 watts/m^2 here, temp up to 38F. D**n you late February sun. Snow in the grass and on cars got murdered pretty quick.

[TT-SEA]

North winds gusting to 41 at SeaTac seems pretty impressive.

 

It really is impressive... I did not expect it to be that strong.    Score one for Jim.  

[snow_wizard]

Leaving my driveway this morning.

Full sun now and 32.9. Still a little drippy out and probably down to 8” of snow.

 

Jealous.  Fabulous time to score big with all of the cold days coming up.

 

You are going to get some fabulous low temps the next couple of nights with that heavy snow cover.  Looking at the web cams it's pretty obvious the score zone was very narrow with this.

[snow_wizard]

Solar radiation exceeding 225 watts/m^2 here, temp up to 38F. d**n you late February sun. Snow in the grass and on cars got murdered pretty quick.

 

What is the solar radiation for early January?

[HighlandExperience]

[MossMan]

We used up our last trick for getting snow here and ended up with nothing on the ground going into the cold snap. It snowed 4 times...out of those it stuck 3 times, but melted off pretty fast. Pretty bad luck for this setup. I actually think the cold air having to advect into BC before it could get here is what hurt us. If the cold had already been in place it would have really helped our cause. I think the 500mb pattern was good for a lot more than what we saw.

If it wasn’t for 13” of snow I have a feeling this would be just like every snow event of last season where we would get snow but the cold air would take sooo long to filter in that it would all melt before going below freezing. I have lost about 4” due to the slower than a slug cold air today.

[Deweydog]

It really is impressive... I did not expect it to be that strong. Score one for Jim.

Definitely. The initial wind shift is staying intact with this pretty well. Even Chehalis was gusting to around 25 mph.

[Jesse]

Leaving my driveway this morning.

Full sun now and 32.9. Still a little drippy out and probably down to 8” of snow.

 

Hopefully it will be awhile before we have to hear you complain about drizzle again.

[TT-SEA]

Hopefully it will be awhile before we have to hear you complain about drizzle again.

 

 

This does not excuse the weeks on end of drizzle that Randy and I experienced.   We will still complain again when it gets out of hand.    One has nothing to do with the other. 

[HighlandExperience]

Been bouncing between either side of 40 degrees with sun all morning. Now sitting at 39 with a light north wind.

 

Really hoping we can score out of this later this week. What a let down today has been (for my area)...

I thought for sure at least an inch would be on the ground. Hope this midweek system can score.

[Brennan]

Leaving my driveway this morning.

Full sun now and 32.9. Still a little drippy out and probably down to 8” of snow.

I can't believe you went 6 years without any significant snowfall.. Just hard to fathom with how well you do in so many situations. 

[snow_wizard]

This is the strongest the winds have blown over here since November 2010. Just had a 41mph gust.

 

From an upper level perspective this is probably the coldest setup since then.  Certainly the most north wind prone setup.

[MossMan]

[snow_wizard]

If it wasn’t for 13” of snow I have a feeling this would be just like every snow event of last season where we would get snow but the cold air would take sooo long to filter in that it would all melt before going below freezing. I have lost about 4” due to the slower than a slug cold air today.

 

Once it freezes up you will be set for the week.

[Jesse]

This does not excuse the weeks on end of drizzle that Randy and I experienced.   We will still complain again when it gets out of hand.    One has nothing to do with the other. 

 

I honestly never doubted it for a minute.

 

Something tells me this summer might feature more in the way of horrifying normalcy than the last five. Should be good proving grounds.