PNW February 2023 Weather Discussion - Meteorological winter finale

[BlvuSumit]

Snow intensity on the upswing up here in Bellevue 

[TacomaWx]

1 minute ago, GHweatherChris said:

It is gonna hold on for at least a good while, KHQM still reporting Snow.

Yeah, the heavy precip hasn’t even worked inland yet either. 

[snow_wizard]

34.5 now.  That is getting pretty decent.

[SouthHillFrosty]

1 minute ago, snow_wizard said:

34.5 now.  That is getting pretty decent.

32.7 here. Roads are just starting to get covered 

[Doinko]

2 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

34.5 now.  That is getting pretty decent.

Probably will have at least some snow on the ground for more than a week at this point. Crazy for late Feb

[snow_wizard]

1 minute ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

32.7 here. Roads are just starting to get covered 

I am really liking the looks of this.  Visibility continues to drop and the ground is already totally white.

[snow_wizard]

34.0 now and the snow is actually pretty decent quality for that.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

6 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

34.5 now.  That is getting pretty decent.

31.3. Colder tonight than I thought. 

[Brennan]

Bellingham 36 with a DP of 33 and light snow falling at the airport. South wind gusting to 30. Normally when the S wind really kicks in in these scenarios they jump into the mid 40s quickly. They’ve stayed pretty steady all evening. 

[Cold Snap]

Temperature continues to drop but DP remains the same Im liking that! Down to 33.7 with a DP of 30.

[GHweatherChris]

Radar is very deceiving right now, barely snowing.

[HuskyMaestro]

34 and chunky wet snow is mixing into the rain. C’mon, only a matter of time now. Bring that snow level all the way down.

[Ken in Wood Village]

The temperature went up to 36 degrees and we have a little light South wind but it's snowing. Not sticking to anything yet. It's to warm but I think as the precipitation increases, the temperature will fall and the snow probably stick. I'm heading to bed. It's really late for me...lol. I hope everyone gets a little snow tonight

[SouthHillFrosty]

RGEM was Improved for Tuesday 

[Ken in Wood Village]

I thought I would take a picture. It's a little hard to see the snow falling but it's awesome to see snow so late in the season

[MikeInEverett]

Ridiculous. Still raining here. Downtown Everett sucks. Looking at traffic cams I see snow pretty much everywhere that’s not downtown within five minutes of me.

[Cold Snap]

6 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

RGEM was Improved for Tuesday 

Are some of the models still showing a deformation band for that day and does that have the chance to overperform?

[Cold Snap]

I wonder if @TT-SEA is experiencing the same thing as I have because I think he was also in the zone where the 925s were above freezing.

[snow_wizard]

3 minutes ago, Cold Snap said:

Are some of the models still showing a deformation band for that day and does that have the chance to overperform?

That thing has real potential.

[snow_wizard]

Down to 33.4 here now.  I really like how steady the precip is on the radar.  My experience has been that as long precip remains steady it normally remains snow.  If it stops and restarts that's when it can turn.

[snow_wizard]

20 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

Radar is very deceiving right now, barely snowing.

That's really odd once the lower levels have been saturated.

[Cold Snap]

 

 

I have a dusting on grassy surfaces and roofs now. Once the precip rates pick up it will probably start sticking to everything.

[SnowWillarrive]

1 minute ago, snow_wizard said:

That's really odd once the lower levels have been saturated.

Those returns right off the coast look healthy. 

[MikeInEverett]

Looks like 5 minutes south of me on Evergreen Way the road is turning slushy and other surfaces are coated white.

[GHweatherChris]

3 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

That's really odd once the lower levels have been saturated.

Still light snow, nothing noteworthy.

[RCola]

Bummer, went back to more rain than snow. We might not luck out downtown.

[TacomaWx]

3 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Down to 33.4 here now.  I really like how steady the precip is on the radar.  My experience has been that as long precip remains steady it normally remains snow.  If it stops and restarts that's when it can turn.

Yeah, it’s stayed coming down decent for about 3 hours now, but gotten heavier in the last 10 minutes. It’s pretty wet stuff though we’re basically walking a tightrope with it being 33 degrees. 

[snow_wizard]

This is a really interesting event.  It's been above freezing so far and yet there is no dripping and the snow is beginning to stick to the cement and road now.  Actually have a light ENE wind here.

[snow_wizard]

2 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

Yeah, it’s stayed coming down decent for about 3 hours now, but gotten heavier in the last 10 minutes. It’s pretty wet stuff though we’re basically walking a tightrope with it being 33 degrees. 

I just need it to kick up one notch here to be really impressive.  Sounds like that might be coming.

[ShawniganLake]

Closing in on 4” here. About what I was expecting tonight.   Unofficial reports of 8-9” in parts of greater Vancouver already. 

[MikeInEverett]

Suddenly, we have full on snow!

[SouthHillFrosty]

Half an inch so far. Off to bed and hopping everybody scores some tonight!

[WeatherGeek2022]

paranoid about that heavy coast rain eating up any chances tonight.

[snow_wizard]

Another freezing min for SEA.  Down to 32 there.

[Cascadia_Wx]

Snowing beautifully here. Really started coming down in the last half hour to 45. Big fluffy flakes. Already close to 1/2”. Temp is 32, think we are pretty sheltered from the south wind right now.

[Cascadia_Wx]

4 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

Half an inch so far. Off to bed and hopping everybody scores some tonight!

Very close to how it looks here.

[snow_wizard]

1 minute ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Snowing beautifully here. Really started coming down in the last half hour to 45. Big fluffy flakes. Already close to 1/2”. Temp is 32, think we are pretty sheltered from the south wind right now.

Sheltered here also.  I think it's helping a lot.

[TacomaWx]

2 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Snowing beautifully here. Really started coming down in the last half hour to 45. Big fluffy flakes. Already close to 1/2”. Temp is 32, think we are pretty sheltered from the south wind right now.

What a blessing. Has been the real deal down there this past few days. 

[SouthHillFrosty]

Icon also looks dynamic for Tuesday for the south sound. Who knows 

[Cascadia_Wx]

Just now, TacomaWx said:

What a blessing. Has been the real deal down there this past few days. 

Main events came into view.