PNW February 2023 Weather Discussion - Meteorological winter finale

[thickhog]

Pure chaos on US26 rn. I’m sure some fresh snow will improve the situation...

[Perturbed Member]

Yeah absolutely dumping here now with a raging east wind. Just looks insane outside. 

[Doinko]

Just now, Perturbed Member said:

Yeah absolutely dumping here now with a raging east wind. Just looks insane outside. 

Really insane storm. Radar looks good, possibly could manage another 3"+ with these rates

[TigerWoodsLibido]

[Frontal Snowsquall]

Heavy snow! Beaverton and Tigard getting clobbered right now.
 

[Dave]

Good news to report. Perhaps all my negative energy is finally paying off. 33 degrees with light snow that is starting to stick.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Two

twenty three

twenty three

[Perturbed Member]

3 minutes ago, Doinko said:

Really insane storm. Radar looks good, possibly could manage another 3"+ with these rates

Yeah impressive radar and with our temps in the 20s, should be solid ratios too. 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

11 minutes ago, Dave said:

Brookings,,,

 

Snowing in Brookings and PDX at the same time. Now that’s what I call a regional snowstorm!

[Doinko]

Just now, Perturbed Member said:

Yeah impressive radar and with our temps in the 20s, should be solid ratios too. 

Wonder if we could cross the 8" mark. I've never seen snow this heavy and it looks to continue

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Dumping aggregates. This is a full-blown Willamette Valley special.

Godspeed PDX NWS. All three of your major metropolitan areas are seeing a major winter event. 

[Doinko]

West Hills must really be getting nailed right now with temps in the low-mid 20s and persistent banding

[Blizzard777]

1 hour ago, FroYoBro said:

Snowing moderately here now and 29 degrees. Not coming down as hard as the radar would suggest, probably because it’s starting to dry out from the east wind. Still beautiful and will stick around for a little bit. 

How much on the ground there?

[TigerWoodsLibido]

I had a good feeling about that band that was developing around Roseburg this evening, and it has grown together with all of the banding in the Willamette Valley too. This is astounding and magical.

[Gradient Keeper]

Jebruary delivers again! It's the new January. It's Jebruary! (c)Rob 2023

[Requiem]

Dumping snow once again. Glad to see the westside scoring this morning.

[Doinko]

2 minutes ago, Gradient Keeper said:

Jebruary delivers again! It's the new January. It's Jebruary! (c)Rob 2023

Insanely snowy right now

 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

What a time to be alive in the state of Oregon tonight

[Perturbed Member]

Amazing just how quickly things accumulate when its in the 20s and you have precip rates like this. 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

So are we looking at a solid deformation shield from basically Roseburg all the way up to Portland?

[Perturbed Member]

Once the grass, sidewalks, roads, all just blend into a fluffy sheet of white and you can't easily tell them apart anymore, that's when you know you've had a solid snowfall. Quickly approaching that point here. 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

4 minutes ago, Perturbed Member said:

Amazing just how quickly things accumulate when its in the 20s and you have precip rates like this. 

HIO reporting heavy snow and freezing fog with 0.25 mile visibility.

[Gradient Keeper]

Snowing here again about to become moderate. Took awhile due to the drying air mass with the Gorge blasting arctic air into PDX metro now.

[Doinko]

2 minutes ago, Perturbed Member said:

Once the grass, sidewalks, roads, all just blend into a fluffy sheet of white and you can't easily tell them apart anymore, that's when you know you've had a solid snowfall. Quickly approaching that point here. 

Somehow it's snowing even heavier than before.

[Doinko]

Looks like the band might be reforming just north of McMinnville??

[Gradient Keeper]

4 minutes ago, Doinko said:

Somehow it's snowing even heavier than before.

Yeah the precip is now over the strong frontogenesis focused lift. I wouldn't doubt if there are 2"/hr snowfall rates occurring west side.

[Perturbed Member]

1 minute ago, Gradient Keeper said:

Yeah the precip is now over the strong frontogenesis focused lift. I wouldn't doubt if there are 2"/hr snowfall rates occurring west side.

This is some of the heaviest snowfall I've seen. Really impressive. Just vomiting snow out of the sky. Incredible. 

 

[Doinko]

1 minute ago, Perturbed Member said:

This is some of the heaviest snowfall I've seen. Really impressive. Just vomiting snow out of the sky. Incredible. 

 

Looks like totals could get close to Jan 2017 (maybe a few inches behind) if this continues.

[Perturbed Member]

Just now, Doinko said:

Looks like totals could get close to Jan 2017 if this continues.

Yeah given the lower temps and stronger ratios, we're accumulating fast. Hopefully this band persists for quite a while, which does seem possible. 

Its incredible we're experiencing this and we are just a week from March.

[Doinko]

Just now, Perturbed Member said:

Yeah given the lower temps and stronger ratios, we're accumulating fast. Hopefully this band persists for quite a while, which does seem possible. 

Its incredible we're experiencing this and we are just a week from March.

Yeah, we are down to 26 now which is definitely colder than any of the snow in 2017. This event is longer lasting too

[smerfylicious]

Dnowing in downtown Seattle currently

[Perturbed Member]

Would be pretty incredible if we can achieve a sub freezing high tomorrow to go with this.

[Dave]

It's looking like Eugene got completely left out. Absolutely nothing on the radar coming this way. My roof and car got a small dusting. That's it. Fuckking hell.

[Gradient Keeper]

Night Shift 6z GEFS 24hr snowfall 10 PM Saturday - 10 PM Sunday

[Gradient Keeper]

Completely exhausted. Good night all. Good luck with your snow!

[MWG]

5 minutes ago, Dave said:

It's looking like Eugene got completely left out. Absolutely nothing on the radar coming this way. My roof and car got a small dusting. That's it. Fuckking hell.

Not just you guys. Here in Medford it’s bone dry! Just sucks 

[Requiem]

Whiteout conditions on the westside. Traffic on 26 us at this hour still gridlocked with the heavy snow only compounding the situation.

[Timmy]

This is one for the ages… my goodness.

[GHweatherChris]

2.5-3" total depending on where I measure, color me surprised.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Wow heavy snow and 23.9 degrees! About 2.5 inches on ground.  Awesome event.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Man I can't ever remember having snow this late in the season and a 24 degree temp!

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

3 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

2.5-3" total depending on where I measure, color me surprised.

Told ya!!!!

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

This is just incredible! Talk about high quality snow!!! Temp down to 23.7 with heavy snow and wind. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

This is the best snow event of the year here for me.  I've said it before I will take a few inches of high quality powder and temp in the low 20's over 10 inches of 32 degrees snow any day.  I can count on one hand how many times I've seen heavy snow and 23 degrees over that past 10 years. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Wow snowing at Eureka and 32 degrees!

 

 

[snow maniac]

Wow just looked outside, it looks like about 5 or 6 inches of powder!

finally broke my snow deficit.

[snow maniac]

37 minutes ago, snow maniac said:

Wow just looked outside, it looks like about 5 or 6 inches of powder!

finally broke my snow deficit.

Okay just went and measured off the picnic table. 5.5 inches! Of the fluffiest powder.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

2 minutes ago, snow maniac said:

Okay just went and measured off the picnic table. 5.5 inches! Of the fluffiest powder.

Wow you finally beat me, I have 4.5 was just south there lol. I did a 8 hr radar loop and your area was in the green longer. It is still coming down good here so I might catch up. This puts me at around 37 inches for the season.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

The NWS should be dragged put back and shot,  this is the 2nd time this area has reached warning level snowfall and not be under a warning. The first time we had 9 inches and not even under a advisory! This is the only time in all the years this has happened and it's just been this year. I blame it on this younger generation of forecasting people in the office with no experience for Western Washington winters and they just use this model blend bullshit and really don't pay attention to what's actually happening outside or the general large scale pattern and what can and what had happened in the past with similar situations.  The NWS of Seattle is a joke and I hope they read this. Portland office is better and Spokane office is awesome!

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

23.2 degrees and still snowing moderately, closing in on 5 inches!! And the best part is today will be cold with dry air!!!! Man this just don't happen this time of year or any time of year to often.