PNW February 2023 Weather Discussion - Meteorological winter finale

[Seattle]

Heaviest snow I saw was right in downtown Seattle. Really choose the absolute wrong day to leave my computer at work or I would’ve worked from home today…

Less snow in south Seattle (Rainier Valley).

[Ellsworb]

Sun is shining on the east shore of Lake Tapps.  Love seeing the snow pics from the area.  Currently a crisp 33.

[SpaceRace22]

Lovely view of South Lake Tahoe on the way up right now.

[mtep]

The snow is really dry up here. Even with just a trace so far its blowing all over the road

[TT-SEA]

1 minute ago, SpaceRace22 said:

Lovely view of South Lake Tahoe on the way up right now.

Wow... you weren't kidding about getting on a plane.  

[RayRay]

UW

 

 

[Deweydog]

South wind snow!

Have about an inch, almost a repeat of VD so far. Not something you should do twice, or even once.

[thickhog]

SW pdx metro getting nothing thus far. All too familiar; hope this isn’t a sign of things to come. 

[Deweydog]

Just now, thickhog said:

SW pdx metro getting nothing thus far. All too familiar; hope this isn’t a sign of things to come. 

The far west metro is still under the gun tonight. 

[TacomaWx]

7 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Midnight high?

In Tacoma? Will probably still manage to get into the mid/upper 30s. I doubt we hit 40 though. 

[Slushy Inch]

Funny thing for central puget sound. The NWS out jinxed Cliff Mass.

[SouthHillFrosty]

Looks like no precip for my area today……I guess I was due to be skunked lol

[SpaceRace22]

1 minute ago, TT-SEA said:

Wow... you weren't kidding about getting on a plane.  

Haha I wanted to visit my parents anyway, and the timing with all this lined up too well with my days off. So I said the heck with it and actually did it!

Mildly disappointed to miss the 5-6" of rain and 7 feet of mountain snow back home, but a Portland snowstorm is still more fun!

[Meatyorologist]

Surprises happen!

[thickhog]

1 minute ago, Deweydog said:

The far west metro is still under the gun tonight. 

We’ll see. This kind of radar haunts my dreams.

 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

8 degrees at my cabin with a 20mph north wind.

[Cascadia_Wx]

Dumping snow out there currently. Giant flakes, about a half inch on the ground. 33 degrees.

[Deweydog]

1 minute ago, thickhog said:

We’ll see. This kind of radar haunts my dreams.

 

We’re getting the sloppy firsts. SW areas will get the sustainable seconds.

[thisisacreativename]

Just a couple flurries here so far. Hopefully a snow shower or two can make it interesting 

[runninthruda206]

From my mother in Everett 

[Timmy]

1 minute ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Dumping snow out there currently. Giant flakes, about a half inch on the ground. 33 degrees.

You should do well, looks like a deformation band is setting up from your area and shifting west. Gonna be a crazy day

[Cascadia_Wx]

17 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Wow the 510 thickness line back doors to about 15 miles east of us tomorrow morning. 

Seems like this thing has really trended colder and snowier in the home stretch eh Andrew? Pretty cool when that happens.

[Gummy]

Coming down pretty hard in N. Seattle, non road surfaces are getting coated.

[OysterPrintout]

Gonna be a dicey day at work on the west side deciding what time to leave if the GFS/Euro are to be believed. The GRAF is now saying basically nothing until overnight. Nada here right now.

[SimplySmoothWX]

It is DUMPING snow in Hillsboro right now, even though the radar says rain 

[Cascadia_Wx]

1 minute ago, Timmy said:

You should do well, looks like a deformation band is setting up from your area and shifting west. Gonna be a crazy day

Yeah, I’ll be interested to see how much we can pick up this morning. Coming down good right now, but in a couple hours I think accumulations will become more difficult until about 3-4pm. Hoping there will be moisture left up here this evening when accumulation becomes easier again.

[BLI snowman]

5 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Dumping snow out there currently. Giant flakes, about a half inch on the ground. 33 degrees.

Same, about 1/2" of 33 degree slop so far. Massive flakes the last half hour but slowing down a bit again.

[Gummy]

4 minutes ago, runninthruda206 said:

From my mother in Everett 

Wow Everett!

[mtep]

Snow looks to be slowing down here. Very nice little surprise while it lasted. 

[BLI snowman]

7 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

We’re getting the sloppy firsts. SW areas will get the sustainable seconds.

Pretty good bet that the dynamic stuff this afternoon and evening will extend well into Clark County.

[LowerGarfield]

17 minutes ago, mtep said:

The snow is really dry up here. Even with just a trace so far its blowing all over the road

Yep even compared with yesterday. It has that dry ice look with the blowing snow. If we had another inch or two I could see them doing a late start but with just under an inch here no need. Very pretty to look at. 23F at the moment.

[ShawniganLake]

Just light flurries here but there are some sea effect streamers setting up north of here. Nanaimo airport currently 1/4 mile visibility in heavy snow

[Deweydog]

Just now, BLI snowman said:

Pretty good bet that the dynamic stuff this afternoon and evening will extend well into Clark County.

Yeah, seems like deformation wants to keep up for most of the day at least periodically. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

Definitely getting some 2/20/18 vibes looking at today. Although the airmass moving in tonight/tomorrow looks a couple notches colder than that one, and the arctic front this evening should be a little more dynamic for the metro area. At least that’s the plan.

[Timmy]

People like Tim and Andrew look to building a snowpack through next week. Could be pretty epic up above 1000’

[TT-SEA]

[SpaceRace22]

So no one is going to mention that the Canadian RDPS just spit out 3 ******* FEET of snow in Portland? Shows the temps dropping below freezing by noon and then absolutely nukes the city.

[Deweydog]

WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY

[SnowySeeker50]

Currently 31.5 degrees. Unfortunately too far north for me to get anything out of this so looks like the next chance is this weekend

[SpaceRace22]

Holy ******* mother of god THREE FEET?

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Going to be interesting to watch this play out, that low basically sits there and spins for about 24 hrs starting now.

I believe there will be some decent bands rotate up through puget sound, the sw washington coast looks like they will do really good.

[TT-SEA]

2 minutes ago, Timmy said:

People like Tim and Andrew look to building a snowpack through next week. Could be pretty epic up above 1000’

More so for Andrew.   Not as impressive up here.   Maybe 3-4 inches Sunday morning but then we get a few hours of a roaring SW wind and then the focus of the precip is from Oregon southward early next week again.   

[Slushy Inch]

1 minute ago, SpaceRace22 said:

So no one is going to mention that the Canadian RDPS just spit out 2 ******* FEET of snow in Portland? Shows the temps dropping below freezing by noon and then absolutely nukes the city.

That model did very well with central puget sound this morning.

[Timmy]

Just for Friday Saturday next week…

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

13 minutes ago, runninthruda206 said:

From my mother in Everett 

This is a great example of why you just cant look at the models and ignore the overall pattern. This is impressive snowfall for not being modeled that i know of.

[Timmy]

I don’t expect this to verify but this pattern above 1000’ is glorious.  Was it March 2011 or 12 that did something like this?

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

2 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

More so for Andrew.   Not as impressive up here.   Maybe 3-4 inches Sunday morning but then we get a few hours of a roaring SW wind and then the focus of the precip is from Oregon southward early next week again.   

Looking like a impressive 72hr window out here for some heavy snowfall on and off. Timing will be very important. 

[FroYoBro]

11 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

Pretty good bet that the dynamic stuff this afternoon and evening will extend well into Clark County.

Honestly starting to get worried I’ll be too far south tonight based on some of the most recent runs this morning. Clark County always owns this area for snow events anyways. 
 

Give me the weenies. 

Edited February 22 by FroYoBro

[Eugene Snow]

Looks close to 2” here, with another 3”-5” to come?!

 

WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST
THURSDAY...

* WHAT...Snow. Additional snow accumulations of 3 to 5 inches.

* WHERE...Central Willamette Valley and South Willamette Valley.

 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Just now, Timmy said:

I don’t expect this to verify but this pattern above 1000’ is glorious.  Was it March 2011 or 12 that did something like this?

Probably 700-1000ft during the day and around 500ft at night or less away from water. Good pattern for some places for sure.