PNW February 2023 Weather Discussion - Meteorological winter finale

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Exactly 5 inches. Models were dead on with amounts. Back edge of front has passed. Still snowing lightly.  Hopefully it doesn't warm to much before daybreak 

[TT-SEA]

17 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Exactly 5 inches. Models were dead on with amounts. Back edge of front has passed. Still snowing lightly.  Hopefully it doesn't warm to much before daybreak 

Any wind there?    It looks like it was calm here all night but the wind just arrived with the back edge of the heavier precip.

[Cold Snap]

Just got finished sledding. Got a couple runs in before it switched back to rain and it’s now a rain/snow mix again. Still scored 0.75” out of this which isn’t bad at all though it’s over an inch less than what most models were showing for MBY. Though this is a weird setup.

[TT-SEA]

06Z ECMWF was a little farther south with the low on Tuesday... and a little better for the Seattle area compared to the 00Z run.

[Cold Snap]

2 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

06Z ECMWF was a little farther south with the low on Tuesday... and a little better for the Seattle area compared to the 00Z run.

If that could verify that would definitely make up for the underperformance tonight.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Light snow 32 degrees. Looks like 2-3" of wet snow has fallen already. 

It is very windy. Given what has already fallen, the fact ratios will get better because the airmass is cooling, and how much is left to come through on radar, we could definitely end up with 4-6" total. 

Edited February 26, 2023 by SilverFallsAndrew

[Rubus Leucodermis]

Mixing with rain now.

9.1" total.

Total for season: 30.7"

I did it! Smashed through the 30“ barrier! Now let's see if I can get 3' (36") for the season!

[MossMan]

Light sloppy snow and 32.9 degrees. Maybe an inch or so. Darn shadow. Need higher precip rates. 

[snow maniac]

2.5 inches of snow here. Still sitting at 32

[Ray]

Currently 39 degrees with wind and rain here south of Bonney Lake.  Not what I was hoping for but it is what it is.

[TT-SEA]

Wind is roaring here.   Actually woke me up.  Everything was perfectly flocked and it was calm and snowing when I first woke up at 3:30.    Nothing left on the trees now and very drippy.    Not sure if we got to 2 inches... but its going the other way now with this wind.

[T-Town]

I woke up at 1:30 and it was snowing and 34 with a dusting.  Currently 35 and melting with the wind roaring. Looks like maybe a half inch on the grass. 

[RCola]

Nothing downtown. What a disappointment. So close and yet so far. On to Tuesday...

[Ellsworb]

0.0” of snow overnight on the east shore of lake Tapps. Currently 36 degrees. Such a bummer. 

[RayRay]

Todays winner

[Skagit Weather]

The best I could manage last night out near the water (Western Skagit) was a rain/snow mix and definitely no accumulation. Every single model was incorrect up here, although the 00z WRF was the least wrong when it showed me getting only an inch. Pretty skeptical that any of the other modeled snow this week will fall here.

Fortunately, I’m currently up in Marblemount where the snow is DEEP! Only 340’ of elevation (despite being 50 miles inland) and there’s 5” on the ground.

 

[Blizzard777]

33* most the night and now bubbled up to 35*

2:30 am looks to be the time things started to mix out.  3/4-1 inch but did not go out a measure.  Everything still white excepts streets.  Gusty south winds in play  

[SnowWillarrive]

Everything wet now. Kinda disappointing after last night. Temp back to 34

[MikeInEverett]

Welp that was kind of a bust for most of us it seems. Maybe 1/4 of an inch here, very drippy now. Hoping for some convergence epicness later.

[BlvuSumit]

2.5” here in bellevue

[ShawniganLake]

Ended up with 4.3”.  Beautiful morning.   Everything is perfectly covered in snow.  27.7F. 

[ShawniganLake]

Just now, ShawniganLake said:

Ended up with 4.3”.  Beautiful morning.   Everything is perfectly covered in snow.  27.7F. 

A couple people said they were going to whistler this weekend.  They must have had an amazing storm last night. Squamish had almost 20”. 

[TT-SEA]

14 minutes ago, BlvuSumit said:

2.5” here in bellevue

Wow... that is amazing.    You have more in Bellevue than I do out here.   And it looks like you aren't getting this roaring SW wind we have out here because you have snow on the trees still.    What is your elevation there?

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Looks like we ended up with 4.5" overnight. This feature on the NAM is interesting...

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

2 hours ago, TT-SEA said:

Any wind there?    It looks like it was calm here all night but the wind just arrived with the back edge of the heavier precip.

About 10 mph while it was snowing at times but when snow stooped the wind stopped. Dead calm here, no dripping this morning yet. Probably the prettiest snow morning of the season because of no wind or melting and it is not super wet snow believe it or not. Temp was 31.2 about the entire time and now it's still only 31.8. To bad it has to warm up today. Right at 5 inches. 

[North_County]

Really nice dump overnight. Roughly 7 inches of super soft snow. Hearing reports from some of our employees of almost nothing just ten miles south.

[snowbustcity]

I’d say 3/4 inch or so total in NE Seattle…

[Rubus Leucodermis]

9.1" storm total.

Total for season: 30.7". OK, Winter, extra credit assignment complete and accepted. A+!

[YahRaEl]

About a half an inch fell overnight in Downtown Seattle that quickly melted. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

2 hours ago, MossMan said:

Light sloppy snow and 32.9 degrees. Maybe an inch or so. Darn shadow. Need higher precip rates. 

Christmas lights still up?

[Rubus Leucodermis]

19.3" overnight in Squamish.

[TT-SEA]

13 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

About 10 mph while it was snowing at times but when snow stooped the wind stopped. Dead calm here, no dripping this morning yet. Probably the prettiest snow morning of the season because of no wind or melting and it is not super wet snow believe it or not. Temp was 31.2 about the entire time and now it's still only 31.8. To bad it has to warm up today. Right at 5 inches. 

You were right about being blocked from the SW wind.   It was the opposite here... dead calm while it was snowing and the wind started roaring as soon as it stopped. 

Ironically getting some wind swept snowflakes again now though with a c-zone forming to the north of my area.   The ECMWF has been showing that c-zone this morning for several runs.

[TacomaWx]

Snow stopped really accumulating about 3am…last measurement I took before bed was 1.1”. Not too much melting yet but I’d imagine this snow won’t make it through the afternoon. 

[TT-SEA]

Current view here... those small snowbanks are leftover from last week's snow.    The new snow on the driveway has that lumpy look from the wind.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

A couple pics 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

It’s a sloppy one. Compacting and melting already here. Started mixing with rain around 5:00 AM. But, snow is snow!

Reports coming in of up to 14" in North Vancouver, so those crazy amounts on the models did actually verify for some.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Lots of snow up there.

[Winterdog]

Just a trace here.  Not disappointed at all since this is exactly what I expected.  34F DP 33

[Seattle]

1” here in north Seattle. It did get down to freezing as well. 
 

Hopeful Tuesday brings a little more.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Radar blossoming again.