August 2018 Weather in the Pacific Northwest

[TT-SEA]

First day of classes so a little busy. I don’t really have the time or desire to rehash my well known opinions/observations regarding Tim’s antics.

Antics?

 

So I should just say whatever happened in Portland obviously happened here as well?

 

Am I telling you that the weather we experienced here must have also been experienced in Portland... or even Seattle?

 

I cannot ever remember the difference between PDX and here being as extreme as it was for such an extended period as it was for the first half of 2018.

 

That difference has all but disappeared in the last 2 months.

[Deweydog]

First day of classes so a little busy. I don’t really have the time or desire to rehash my well known opinions/observations regarding Tim’s antics.

Seems like it would be pretty easy once all the opinion-based, strawman bullshit gets stripped away. Seems telling that it would take such a voluminous explanation.

[Kayla]

Offshore flow is here... went from a little hazy to looking like the end of the world thanks to the fire near Chelan.    The sun is still visible though!  

 

Oh wow... That's scary looking.

[Jesse]

Seems like it would be pretty easy once all the opinion-based, strawman bullshit gets stripped away. Seems telling that it would take such a voluminous explanation.

How much is he paying you?

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Really like where that 18z ends up!

[TT-SEA]

Oh wow... That's scary looking.

 

And now the smoke plume from the fire near Lake Chelan stretches all the way down to Portland...

 

[Kayla]

So strange to see windchill readings in August. Currently 49F with a windchill of 44F here.

[Deweydog]

How much is he paying you?

$350/hour.

 

Duh.

[ShawniganLake]

PDX was suppose to get into the 90s today but as of the 3:53pm update, their only at 80 reporting smoke and overcast skies. We're not going to make it.

Much warmer to your north today. (SW BC). 91 in Abbotsford and 94 in Squamish.

[Jesse]

Finally had a chance to look at the 18z myself. Great run. Nice to see the late week trough improve.

[Front Ranger]

Yeah, but you like it. It's low hanging fruit and a battle you know just about everyone will get behind. You feed off that. Easy target given his backyard obsession, but still, I don't see where he is entirely wrong. His backyard has been a s**t ton wetter than pretty much everyone else's.

 

1. It almost always is.

2. Pretty much everyone else has seen the driest warm season in recorded history to this point.

[Front Ranger]

You posted the map back to February!  

 

And implied that it really only rained for 2 weeks.   When in fact... almost all of February, March, and early April featured unusually persistent clouds and precipitation here   Way more days with rain than usual for my already wet location.    

 

That was Phil.

 

And posting the map back to February was illustrating that the last 4 months of drier than normal weather outweigh anything the previous 2 months.

[Front Ranger]

If it’s continuing the theme of delaying major troughing, as I am hearing, my advice is to not get your hopes up too much.

 

It's better with the Friday trough (which is not a major trough), but does delay the big-time trough for early next week by a day.

 

12z

 

 

 

18z at same time

 

 

 

The big trough drops down at hour 174.

 

[Geos]

Gezzz. Up to 287 at the top of Lake Washington now.

 

https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/enviwa/StationInfo.aspx?ST_ID=23

 

Sun isn't bright enough now to cast any shadows. 

[TT-SEA]

That was Phil.

 

And posting the map back to February was illustrating that the last 4 months of drier than normal weather outweigh anything the previous 2 months.

And yet... 2018 is still wetter than normal here. So the wet periods are still outweighing the dry periods.

 

1) January through mid-April was endlessly wet here. Longest dry streak was 3 days... thanks to arctic air. Those months could have been statistically dry and I would still say it was way more miserable than usual. And we were running way above normal for precip for 2018 by the middle of April.

 

2) May and June were drier than normal and yet it still seemed like our usual crappy May and June weather. Some beautiful days and many that were chilly and damp. Did not feel like summer. Very different than the true summer weather to the south those months. We got robbed compared to the rest of the region!

 

3) July and August have been about as hot and dry as everywhere else.

 

The last 4 months (since the middle of April) have been statistically drier than normal here but only 2 of those 4 months seemed dry. May and June were not not nearly as nice here as the final monthly stats would indicate. Not true in Portland. Not true on Vancouver Island either. But luckily July and August have felt just as hot and dry here as the monthly stats imply.

[Geos]

Eerie looking outside now.

 

[TT-SEA]

Eerie looking outside now.

 

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Getting brighter here as the smoke plume pushes west.

[Geos]

Getting brighter here as the smoke plume pushes west.

 

Yeah I can tell. Air quality value on the brink of Hazardous now. 299

https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/enviwa/StationInfo.aspx?ST_ID=23

[The Swamp]

Here in Lake Chelan the smoke is thick. Smells like a giant bonfire. Staying tonight and heading home tomorrow. Nasty.

[Front Ranger]

You're just repeating everything over and over, Tim.

[TT-SEA]

Here in Lake Chelan the smoke is thick. Smells like a giant bonfire. Staying tonight and heading home tomorrow. Nasty.

Just as bad here now.

[Front Ranger]

Eerie looking outside now.

 

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Looks about the same here right now.

[TT-SEA]

You're just repeating everything over and over, Tim.

 

Hoping you get it... not all dry months are created equal.  Hence the complaining about being robbed in May and June... Randy had the same feeling.   That was a pretty crappy way to get 2 drier than normal warm season months!   Nothing like May and June of 2015 which were also statistically dry and really felt like it.  At best... this year felt fairly typical with summer finally arriving on July 4th.     

 

Not all wet months are created equal either.    The second half of April was really nice despite being a ridiculously wet month.  

[Geos]

Save this image of the smoke plume.

 

[MossMan]

Here in Lake Chelan the smoke is thick. Smells like a giant bonfire. Staying tonight and heading home tomorrow. Nasty.

Might as well stay there. Horrible over here as well.

[Deweydog]

1. It almost always is.

2. Pretty much everyone else has seen the driest warm season in recorded history to this point.

1. Seems to me the disparity has been pretty yuge.

 

2. Pretty much.

 

3. Numbering things is lame.

[TT-SEA]

Might as well stay there. Horrible over here as well.

 

 

Yeah... on the satellite it actually looks like its better over the now.  

 

I guess he would be saving lots of money if he was home though.

[Geos]

High of 79 here. Smoke kept the high a good 5 degrees under guidance.

[TT-SEA]

Hoping that this weekend is dry and pleasant. Currently driving with a loaded Penske truck with a move in scheduled on the 24th and 25th.

 

Kind of crappy to have to do that in the rain.

 

Where are you moving to again?

[The Swamp]

Might as well stay there. Horrible over here as well.

I can save $369 and be at home in these conditions.

[TT-SEA]

I can save $369 and be at home in these conditions.

 

 

Go out and wave to us on the Campbells Resort cam before you leave!  

[Front Ranger]

1. Seems to me the disparity has been pretty yuge.

 

2. Pretty much.

 

3. Numbering things is lame.

 

1. His area averages like 5x the amount of rain Portland does in June. That's pretty yuge.

 

3. Agreed.

[Phil]

Good lord. Let's hope some blocks like this happen in the cold season.

 

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Soon I’m gonna be the one complaining my face off. It’s gonna feel like f**king Dubai imby.

[Geos]

Here in Lake Chelan the smoke is thick. Smells like a giant bonfire. Staying tonight and heading home tomorrow. Nasty.

 

Tourism bureau playing the severity of the smoke down. They shouldn't be doing that when it is this bad. Hard to enjoy the outdoors in those conditions. Not much better here though.

[Front Ranger]

Go out and wave to us on the Campbells Resort cam before you leave!  

 

Run a lap around the lake first!

[TT-SEA]

Run a lap around the lake first!

 

 

It might be snowing by the time he is done with that.   

[Geos]

Seeing tweets about ash from the North Cascades fire making it to the Sound. Can anyone confirm?

 

Confirmed here. Very fine, but it is there. Sun is really dim now. 

 

KIRO 7 reporting ash is coming down across the central Sound lowlands now.

 

Looks like some ash/smoke coming from a fire just over the border from North Cascades NP.

 

[Blizzard777]

Federal way reporting ash falling

This is crazy stuff

[High Desert Mat!]

I initially read that as "jerkingoff time."

So did I. Great minds think alike. Plus if I have to hear how dreary and miserable it was anymore I think I'll goninto "jerkingofftime" as well.

[Perturbed Member]

What a beautiful sight this marine push is. Finally liberation from the hellish heat and smoke is within reach. Looking forward to some real precip soon too. Do not want to see any ridging again for a while unless it involves us getting arctic air of some kind.