PNW February 2023 Weather Discussion - Meteorological winter finale

[TT-SEA]

This is a Randy special on Friday morning... strong post-frontal onshore flow with a c-zone that parks itself over the Snohomish/Skagit county line for hours.    Notice that area is where the wind is calm that morning.   Its been on every run recently.   More snow pics from Randy incoming! 

[smerfylicious]

Yet another bust for me. Safe to say this winter is a D. One snow event in November and a couple cold waves. Too many rug pulls and nothingburgers.

[Olive1010]

Very wet snow now 38f

[Requiem]

Fairly certain it's all wet snow here 

[SouthHillFrosty]

6 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Light rain and 33 here.

Moderate to heavy rain and 36. 

[PuyallupChris]

34 degrees here in North Puyallup, and for the 83rd time this winter my IOS app says it's snowing, but it's clearly not.  Winter 2023!

[MWG]

Still 33F and light snow/mix. 

[Bueryan]

Quick, someone post a pepto map for the middle of March and say, "boom".

[snow_wizard]

I'm pretty well resigned to getting an inch at best out of this.  The huge amounts of snow the models had been showing for this week and in reality we will have almost nothing.  I'm sure northern areas will do well.  Yay.

[snow_wizard]

2 minutes ago, PuyallupChris said:

34 degrees here in North Puyallup, and for the 83rd time this winter my IOS app says it's snowing, but it's clearly not.  Winter 2023!

Some parts of Puyallup have actually done very well this winter.

[TT-SEA]

Something new to track... snow on Saturday!    At least Saturday morning before it warms up during the day.

[Cold Snap]

1 minute ago, Bueryan said:

Quick, someone post a pepto map for the middle of March and say, "boom".

Boom!

[Weiner Warrior]

1 minute ago, Bueryan said:

Quick, someone post a pepto map for the middle of March and say, "boom".

BOOM

[lowlandsnow]

Lowering my winter rating to a D so many busts and close calls but no good snowfalls

[RCola]

Let's get this severe cold rain event over with. We've been on a roll.

[Requiem]

Pretty much have to give this a winter a solid B+. Some of the most persistent offshore winds season-wide that I've seen since 2016-2017, along with a fair amount of cold and an ice storm in December, an impactful windstorm, more offshore winds, and the biggest single day snowfall since the 1940s for the city (with widespread 6-12 inch totals!). Really dynamic, though I do wish our January was a bit more active and eventful.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

7 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

This is a Randy special on Friday morning... strong post-frontal onshore flow with a c-zone that parks itself over the Snohomish/Skagit county line for hours.    Notice that area is where the wind is calm that morning.   Its been on every run recently.   More snow pics from Randy incoming! 

It’s weird the front ushering in that airmass is so moisture starved. And then we sit in kind of a drier onshore flow ahead of that secondary feature that comes in Saturday. It’s a strange progression. 

[VancouverIslandSouth]

Looks like the low is about to pivot over the Olympics, the dynamics are about to change a bit:

[Anti Marine Layer]

Just now, VancouverIslandSouth said:

Looks like the low is about to pivot over the Olympics, the dynamics are about to change a bit:

Lower snow levels? 

[SnowySeeker50]

All this wonderful moisture going to waste as cold rain. 

[PuyallupChris]

4 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Some parts of Puyallup have actually done very well this winter.

South Hill has managed quite a few trace-1/2” events, but overall the swamp has done pretty poorly. This was my neighborhood yesterday.  

[Anti Marine Layer]

5 minutes ago, Weiner Warrior said:

BOOM

KA POW

[SilverFallsAndrew]

4 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Something new to track... snow on Saturday!    At least Saturday morning before it warms up during the day.

Haven’t I been saying the trough this weekend is going to get more interesting as the week goes along. It’s a great pattern to be as lame as the models have been showing. Starting to look like they are catching on. 

[VancouverIslandSouth]

1 minute ago, Mr Marine Layer said:

Lower snow levels? 

Higher precip rates to the east of the Olympics, but how it affects snow potential depends on where it reforms. Small shifts to the north or south will make a huge difference in some areas.

[lowlandsnow]

Something to look forward a nice sunny 50 degree day

[Olive1010]

37.9f here, please let it get to 32 maybe.

[MikeInEverett]

Yeah I’m not expecting to see good accumulating snowfall here really despite some of the model runs, just based on how past events have gone recently. Guess I’ll see how things look when I wake up at 5. Hoping to be pleasantly surprised!

[TT-SEA]

While all of you in the Seattle area are getting precip... its dry here and the moon is shining.  

[RentonHill]

Decent mix here at the moment with this line. Huge flakes

[SouthHillFrosty]

Lower temp at sea level and closer to snow than at my house at 450ft with about the same precip level. Weird night 

[RentonHill]

Some of these dendrites are about the size of my hand

[Requiem]

Things are getting recoated-- which is always nice!

[HuskyMaestro]

B*tch where the snow at, TWC?  

[SouthHillFrosty]

4 minutes ago, RentonHill said:

Some of these dendrites are about the size of my hand

Take a photo/video if you can!

Edited February 28, 2023 by SouthHillFrosty

[Cold Snap]

Pepto for @MossMan and I!

[Bueryan]

Farmers almanac said the pacific northwest would have a brisk but average winter.  

[Katzen]

Started snowing

 

 

[Weiner Warrior]

Just was checking to see if it was snowing and a big bobcat walked by in our backyard!

[TT-SEA]

This is clearly not the last snow chance... there is still snow around a week from now.     One low sinks south offshore over the weekend and new one takes its place early next week.

[TT-SEA]

2 minutes ago, Weiner Warrior said:

Just was checking to see if it was snowing and a big bobcat walked by in our backyard!

Holy crap... that is so cool.