PNW February 2023 Weather Discussion - Meteorological winter finale

[snow_wizard]

I'm thinking that stuff down around Yelm may actually hold together for King County.  It looks pretty impressive on the sat loop.

[Phil]

Truckee/Tahoe cams look fun.

https://hdontap.com/index.php/video/stream/cobblestone-center

https://hdontap.com/index.php/video/stream/trucke-airport-live

https://hdontap.com/index.php/video/stream/caliente-restaurant-at-kings-beach-in-lake-tahoe

https://hdontap.com/index.php/video/stream/downtown-truckee-california

https://hdontap.com/index.php/video/stream/sunnyside-resort-and-lodge

https://hdontap.com/index.php/video/stream/greenhorn-dude-ranch

 

[The Winter Warlock]

Here she comes.

[MossMan]

18 minutes ago, Cold Snap said:

RGEM is not good south of Everett.

Looks good! I wish every map had I-5 marked on it, makes finding my exact location easier to pinpoint. Some do and some don’t I have noticed. 

Edited February 28, 2023 by MossMan

[TT-SEA]

Just now, MossMan said:

Looks good! I wish every map had I-5 marked on it, makes finding my exact location easier to find. Some do and some don’t I have noticed. 

You also have the advantage of being right on a county line to help you pinpoint your location.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Tiger sent me a video. He’s getting some stickage. 

[MossMan]

Just now, TT-SEA said:

You also have the advantage of being right on a county line to help you pinpoint your location.

That helps a lot, it’s just how far east do I look when the snow depth colors are so tightly packed. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

46 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Yuck.

No reason to believe anything models are spitting out for tonight.  They are all over the place and have been changing radically from run to run.

[TT-SEA]

3 minutes ago, MossMan said:

That helps a lot, it’s just how far east do I look when the snow depth colors are so tightly packed. 

Its horrible for me.   Almost impossible because we are surrounded by mountains.    I use I-90 as a guide to pinpoint my location but I need the context of snow being shown to my west before I believe it will actually snow here.    Verbatim... my exact location is almost always in the pepto colors when there is snow in the mountains but its almost always meaningless.  

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

43 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

Yea starts to improve. Way to low for the hood canal tho 

Yup for sure. And Olympia as well. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Can’t believe we aren’t talking about this… 

[MossMan]

1 minute ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Can’t believe we aren’t talking about this… 

Yeah we really need to have a talk about plugging your phone in more often. 

[Dave]

Just a light rain/snow mix here now. Snow has mainly melted off the roads. At least down here, any more snow we receive will likely be heavily depending on precip rates.

[VancouverIslandSouth]

Ladysmith scores again, it's incredible how easily that place seems to get heavy snow:

[Deweydog]

3 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Can’t believe we aren’t talking about this… 

Mom just texted me about it. She’s up late.

[TacomaWx]

38 here with precip moving in…looks like very light rain for now. We should get some sticking snow tonight…most of the models snow between 1/4”-1”. We will see though, radar does look promising. 

[TT-SEA]

4 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Can’t believe we aren’t talking about this… 

I think we are down to just watching the radar for this system as well.  

[MWG]

2 minutes ago, Dave said:

Just a light rain/snow mix here now. Snow has mainly melted off the roads. At least down here, any more snow we receive will likely be heavily depending on precip rates.

Yeah, same here! hoping for a morning surprise! 

[Olive1010]

Theres a band of precip in the coast range of oregon right now, lets see what it does in the valley..

[SnowySeeker50]

37 degrees, dp 28. Will have to wait and see if I get skunked for the third night in a row.

[Dave]

The NWS finally added the central and southern valley to the WWA now that the snow has stopped.

[MWG]

Some school districts already on a 2 hour delay tomorrow!

[Doinko]

1 minute ago, Olive1010 said:

Theres a band of precip in the coast range of oregon right now, lets see what it does in the valley..

Snowing at Gales Creek

[Olive1010]

Yeah i was looking at that

[VancouverIslandSouth]

This is just cruel. @MossMan fire up your snow magnet to drive this sucker a bit to the east.

[KingstonWX]

I see a lot of precip moving north. Come to daddy.....

[TT-SEA]

2 minutes ago, VancouverIslandSouth said:

This is just cruel. @MossMan fire up your snow magnet to drive this sucker a bit to the east.

I was just admiring that on the UW radar... quite the deformation zone and its just parked there.   Now I know why I have been seeing so much purple and pink on the snow maps up there.  

[VancouverIslandSouth]

3 minutes ago, VancouverIslandSouth said:

This is just cruel. @MossMan fire up your snow magnet to drive this sucker a bit to the east.

For anyone who moves to the island, avoid the area to the SE of that red line at all costs if you enjoy weather. It does alright maybe once a winter, but you're constantly watching places just 10~20 miles away getting double or triple your totals on every other event. Things look good under that band out toward Shawnigan's area.

[Doinko]

Radar looks good for NW OR
 

[lowlandsnow]

What is the precip type in the South Sound currently?

[VancouverIslandSouth]

6 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

I was just admiring that on the UW radar... quite the deformation zone and its just parked there.   Now I know why I have been seeing so much purple and pink on the snow maps up there.  

It'll be interesting to see where it sets up when that low pivots around the Olympics. I have a feeling there's going to be a massive snowfall gradient, with our luck it will probably split the Saanich Peninsula right along the current radar line.

[joelgombiner]

1 minute ago, lowlandsnow said:

What is the precip type in the South Sound currently?

Most of the stations are reporting rain... which was predicted by NWS, but they think it changes to snow later overnight. 

[SnowySeeker50]

37 degrees and raining.

[thickhog]

14 minutes ago, Doinko said:

Radar looks good for NW OR
 

Yamhill getting hammered and it’s heading ENE; Beaverton’s in a good spot for this band.

[Olive1010]

Hmm, would it be heavy enough to drop the temp maybeb

[Doinko]

Albany is getting some snow now too

[Weiner Warrior]

Have you guys figured out where the low is at? If I'm seeing it correctly, looks like it's still heading east.

[Cold Snap]

King Euro time!

[Jakewestsalem]

Lotta surface meso features down here tonight.

35f and snow mixing in here. Still holding onto the S wind

[Olive1010]

Yeah my brother is in Corvallis at OSU and looks like he’s getting some snow 

1 minute ago, Doinko said:

Albany is getting some snow now too