PNW February 2023 Weather Discussion - Meteorological winter finale

[AlTahoe]

The great blizzard has ended. People are shell shocked at the amount of snow that has fallen 

 

 

[PuyallupChris]

11 hours ago, joelgombiner said:

Moving to Yosemite NP 

I have a friend in Wawona, inside Yosemite. She said the town lost power and water, and likely wouldn’t have it back for a week. Roads are shut down but there was a 2 hour break between storms and authorities said they were plowing in that break so anyone could evacuate if they needed, before closing the roads again.

I love snow but that is probably just a LITTLE more than I’d like.

[Olive1010]

Yeah some schools like mine are on 2 hour delay cause of icy conditions on the roads.

[AlTahoe]

Impressive 24, 3 day and 1 week totals on Donner pass!

 

[Olive1010]

Why does southerly winds hinder snow in the Willamette valley? And where do they even come from?

[Phil]

12 hours ago, gusky said:

Has anyone here learned Ncar command language (or the python version) and have insight on how hard it is/how long it would take to learn? Trying to dive into data analysis a little more

I’ve learned the basics in C++, Python, Matlab, and am learning R now. Python is actually my favorite, but was also harder for me to figure out. But R is quickly growing on me..open source, free, lots of online resources.

[Sandy rocks]

After snowing and melting most of the day yesterday, it finally snowed hard and stuck. We got about 2" but big surprise, it's melting again.

[gusky]

5 hours ago, Phil said:

I’ve learned the basics in C++, Python, Matlab, and am learning R now. Python is actually my favorite, but was also harder for me to figure out. But R is quickly growing on me..open source, free, lots of online resources.

I intend to learn all of those at some point, took first CS course this year so just working with Python for now. NCAR has a lot of resources for creating weather graphics and stuff, such as maps with ERA5 reanalysis

[snow_wizard]

The 18z ECMWF is closer to being real with that snow situation Friday night.  925mb temps are pretty much there for supporting snow and precip intensities in the South / Central Puget Sound area are shown to be pretty good.  Might be our last shot to get something.  We're due for a good break in this area.

[Blizzard777]

Mixed rain and snow currently Ferndale 36*

[Anti Marine Layer]

On 3/4/2023 at 12:16 PM, Blizzard777 said:

Mixed rain and snow currently Ferndale 36*

It's March. Never mind that it feels like January.