September 2018 Weather in the Pacific Northwest

[Blizzard777]

Take this OT stuff to the weather side please.

WILSON!!!

[Deweydog]

Magical.

[Blizzard777]

That was depressing

[Deweydog]

You may now return to your regularly scheduled drought interpretation symposium.

[Phil]

Outer Banks NC

 

That’s all I know and all he wants us to know...lol

Ouch. No bueno.

 

Some weather stations from there (same site as before).

 

http://surfchex.com/live-weather-reports-north-carolina-coast/

[Geos]

Satellite shows the hole in the clouds that has been over King County all day...

 

 

Been catching more clouds up this way. Solid overcast since 3:30 here.

[TT-SEA]

Been catching more clouds up this way. Solid overcast since 3:30 here.

Waiting for my kids at Safeway... starting to look a little more interesting again now.

 

[GHweatherChris]

Pete needed to be a little quicker with that challenge flag in the first half...age is catching up with him.

Denver's last TD was BS, ball was caught with a foot out of bounds but not overturned, however, Seattle coaches as usual deviated from what worked in the first half on offense before Denver showed they could stop it, this loss is on the coaches....

[TT-SEA]

Almost feel like taking a road trip to Gray’s Harbor county today just to see some real rain.

You might be a curse... it still has not really started raining even out there.

[Jesse]

You might be a curse... it still has not really started raining even out there.

Big county. I’m sure the northern part has seen plenty. Such as the Lake Quinault area, where I probably would have gone.

[TT-SEA]

Big county. I’m sure the northern part has seen plenty. Such as the Lake Quinault area, where I probably would have gone.

Ahhhh... thought you meant Aberdeen or Hoquiam.

[Jesse]

Ahhhh... thought you meant Aberdeen or Hoquiam.

Time to start thinking outside the box with your geography.

[Jesse]

Bravo PDX.

 

Can’t remember the last time we actually underachieved on a high temperature.

[Jesse]

Does anyone know if we set the 85+ record as well this year?

[Deweydog]

Does anyone know if we set the 85+ record as well this year?

Your mom did.

[GHweatherChris]

You might be a curse... it still has not really started raining even out there.

Got some sprinkles here, probably will get 1 or 2 hundredths out of this.

 

Friend of mine who lives between Humptulips and Forks said he has gotten around a quarter inch today.

[Farmboy]

Raining.

[MossMan]

Wilson might as well go on injured reserve now...

 

In other news, it’s still raining and 63.

[MossMan]

Moderate to borderline heavy rain now!

[Geos]

Started raining here about 7:40. 

[ShawniganLake]

Wilson might as well go on injured reserve now...

 

In other news, it’s still raining and 63.

Didn’t you have high hopes for this team before the first snap?

[ShawniganLake]

0.29” here today. Not as wet as I was expecting.

[MossMan]

[TT-SEA]

12Z ECMWF says we get into the action starting around 9 or 10 p.m. tonight.

 

Not too bad... maybe an hour later than reality

 

[MossMan]

I wouldn’t be surprised if we were well over a quarter inch on the day here. Been a wet one.

[TT-SEA]

I wouldn’t be surprised if we were well over a quarter inch on the day here. Been a wet one.

Bellingham is at .41 for the day now.

[James Jones]

Does anyone know if we set the 85+ record as well this year?

 

We're at 48 right now, record is 51 from 2015. Our repeat of the September 1974 heatwave late this month will easily seal the deal.

 

In other news regarding the unending niceness, PDX has received just 1.38" of rain in the last 146 days. Can't expect much more than that here in the Atacama though.

[VancouverIslandSouth]

0.29” here today. Not as wet as I was expecting.

 

Picked up 0.18" here, with nearly a half inch overall this weekend. I expect things will green up a little this week, the rhodos look much happier today.

[TT-SEA]

We're at 48 right now, record is 51 from 2015. Our repeat of the September 1974 heatwave late this month will easily seal the deal.

 

In other news regarding the unending niceness, PDX has received just 1.38" of rain in the last 146 days. Can't expect much more than that here in the Atacama though.

 

 

But PDX also received over 27 inches of rain in the 170 days before that.    And almost 170 inches of rain from 2014-2017.

 

I would like to see the Atacama manage that!   

[ShawniganLake]

Picked up 0.18" here, with nearly a half inch overall this weekend. I expect things will green up a little this week, the rhodos look much happier today.

0.36” for the weekend here. I checked to see how far the rain had penetrated the parched earth. Looks like roughly 3/4” to 1”.

[Phil]

Ensemble spread is certainly lessening.

 

Western Moorehead City = ground zero?

 

[James Jones]

But PDX also received over 27 inches of rain in the 170 days before that.    And almost 170 inches of rain from 2014-2017.

 

I would like to see the Atacama manage that!   

 

Wow that's amazing. Hard to believe this entire area isn't submerged.

[Phil]

In other news regarding the unending niceness, PDX has received just 1.38" of rain in the last 146 days. Can't expect much more than that here in the Atacama though.

Yikes..that’s legitimate desert mimicry. Every single tree here would die if that happened.

[MossMan]

Ensemble spread is certainly lessening.

 

Western Moorehead City = ground zero?

 

Wow...still forecasted to become a cat 5?

[TT-SEA]

Yikes..that’s legitimate desert mimicry. Every single tree here would die if that happened.

Portland averages less rain than Phoenix in July and August.

 

We do some desert mimicry almost every summer.

[BLI snowman]

Warm night.

[Jesse]

Warm night.

I called the clouds once PDX finally hit 80 and told them they were good to move in. Got to hold onto that warmth tonight and get a toasty head start for tomorrow.

[Timmy]

Warm night.

Warm year.

[Deweydog]

We usually need clouds for rain.

[TT-SEA]

For those who think the Oregonians concerned about tree die-off are being neurotic and silly:

 

https://www.oregonlive.com/hg/index.ssf/2018/09/oregon_conifers_hit_hard_by_ye.html?ath=4d617f40620a6c90ade01b8723da6819

 

At my property, I have a perfect-storm combination of borderline climate, southwestern exposure, and shallow soils.  All my trees look stressed to some degree, and many are dead or dying.  My landscape will likely be a desert by this time next year.  Yes, things could always be worse, but it still sucks.

 

Sounds like those trees were not meant to be there and it was just a matter of time...

 

Historically conifers grew at higher elevations than the oak-dominant zone of the Willamette Valley. When Doug-firs and other conifers increased in abundance in the oak woodlands of the valley - driven by the end of controlled fires used by indigenous peoples - the trees were then on the lower end of their water needs.

 

"It's an elevation-driven thing," said Shaw, who has lost 12 Doug-firs on his five acres of land. "Precipitation drops as elevation drops. If you start out in the Coast Range where rainfall is typically over 80 or 90 inches of rain annually and go east to the middle of the valley, you're historically getting only 40 to 45 inches of rain on average. So during a drought, trees that would normally be on the edge of their drought tolerance aren't anymore. Some trees, particularly Doug-firs and grand firs, are very susceptible to drought below a certain elevation."