November 2018 Weather in the Pacific Northwest

[Jesse]

Seems logical.

If I moved out there and hated snow I would move to the snowiest microclimate possible, then spend a miserable lifetime trying in vain to bend it to my will.

[Deweydog]

Sadly no Walgreens in Bozeman...but the CVS is only 7.0 miles away!

Not the same. Two Walgreens in Fairbanks, AK. We're moving there instead.

[Jesse]

What was the legendary 10/5/18?

Coldest high so early since 1948. Dead sexy.

[BLI snowman]

SEA and OLM are heavily shadowed with the recent pattern.    You know this of course.

 

Interestingly... some places in the central and northern Cascades are already at 70% normal precip for November in just the first 6 days.   It takes a serious moisture feed to make that happen.   

 

 

Flushed out all that excess tropical moisture lingering over the Pacific after the hurricane season. 

 

 

 

 This looked way different last week in the central Pacific... it all was directed through BC and WA over the last week.   That happened.  

 

I see up at YVR they've had a not so whopping 2.14" so far this month. Seems kinda SW desert-like. Shifting north.

 

The Hoh Ranger Station is the real PNW.

[MossMan]

[SilverFallsAndrew]

I see up at YVR they've had a not so whopping 2.14" so far this month. Seems kinda SW desert-like. Shifting north.

 

The Hoh Ranger Station is the real PNW.

 

I camped near there this summer and they had a campfire ban...Desert-like.

[Jesse]

[TT-SEA]

Instead of recognizing the significant rain that actually fell in BC in WA as an interesting meteorological event... its much more fun to be bitter that it missed OR and mock anyone who is talking the recent stormy pattern on a weather forum.  

 

I think this pattern evolution is really nice and hope this continues.... focused heavy rain with decent dry spells in between.   I am not complaining at all.    I love reporting what is happening... rain or shine.      And I love the dry spells that follow heavy rain periods.    Much better than light rain every day.

[Requiem]

I feel like you complain more about the weather that you experience on a daily basis than anyone else on here. Especially during the May-October timeframe. Oh wait I forgot the !!!!!!

 

I feel that with the disappointment that was/is 2018, he has a reason to complain.

[BLI snowman]

Shouldn't Jim have been back today?

 

#countdowntowinter201920

[Jesse]

I feel that with the disappointment that was/is 2018, he has a reason to complain.

I appreciate that. There have actually been a lot of things I have enjoyed this year. Life’s not all about weather either, of course.

[Kayla]

If I moved out there and hated snow I would move to the snowiest microclimate possible, then spend a miserable lifetime trying in vain to bend it to my will.

 

Humans love to complain.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Instead of recognizing the significant rain that actually fell in BC in WA as an interesting meteorological event... its much more fun to be bitter that it missed OR and mock anyone who is talking the recent stormy pattern on a weather forum.  

 

I think this pattern evolution is really nice and hope this continues.... focused heavy rain with decent dry spells in between.   I am not complaining at all.    I love reporting what is happening... rain or shine.      And I love the dry spells that follow heavy rain periods.    Much better than light rain every day.

 

The jet has been weak sauce this year.

[Requiem]

I appreciate that. There have actually been a lot of things I have enjoyed this year. Life’s not all about weather either, of course.

 

Of course. A disappointment weather-wise is a more apt saying.

[Jesse]

Not the same. Two Walgreens in Fairbanks, AK. We're moving there instead.

What is it with you and Walgreens?

 

I never got the joke in your sig.

[Kayla]

Not the same. Two Walgreens in Fairbanks, AK. We're moving there instead.

 

Yeah...gosh, I guess your motto doesn't hold true out here.

[Requiem]

The jet has been weak sauce this year.

 

What jet? 

[Jesse]

Humans love to complain.

The happiest people I have met always complain the least.

[Jesse]

The jet has been weak sauce this year.

Yeah, that has been the #1 problem with 2018.

[TT-SEA]

The jet has been weak sauce this year.

But with lots of tropical moisture entrained over the last week.

[MossMan]

[BLI snowman]

The jet has been weak sauce this year.

 

You sound like a butthurt California surfer dude talking like that. Jealous of Forks and Rattlesnake Ridge.

[Requiem]

2018 has treated me alright...major snow event in February with snow on the ground for over 2 weeks, nice summer, extremely wet fall, and enough wind for me to try out the generator at the new place. Nice variety. Hopefully it will be topped off with another snow event before the end of the year. Too bad the weather has sucked down in PDXville but I don’t live there so ... ‍♂

 

For us 2018 has been a disaster. Minor snow in February, rather sad snowstorms anyways, flop of a windstorm in April, wildfire smoke galore in summer, terrible fall thus far. Oh well.

[TT-SEA]

Yeah, that has been the #1 problem with 2018.

I think that is related to low solar.

[TT-SEA]

You sound like a butthurt California surfer dude talking like that. Jealous of Forks and Rattlesnake Ridge.

Everyone in Oregon and the Vancouver area sounds like that lately... jealous that 2018 has actually been wetter than normal up here.

[BLI snowman]

For us 2018 has been a disaster. Minor snow in February, rather sad snowstorms anyways, flop of a windstorm in April, wildfire smoke galore in summer, terrible fall thus far. Oh well.

 

We had 0.0" of measurable snow here in the entire 2001 calendar year. This year has nothing on that.

[Requiem]

Everyone in Oregon and the Vancouver area sound like that lately... jealous that 2018 has actually been wetter than normal up here.

 

I mean, it doesn't help that our drought is far worse than yours and that you've taken most of the significant weather events of this year and of past years. I think at some point it's going to cause some frustration.

[TT-SEA]

I mean, it doesn't help that our drought is far worse than yours and that you've taken most of the significant weather events of this year and of past years. I think at some point it's going to cause some frustration.

I understand.

 

And your drought is not worse than ours... because we have no drought at all.

[Phil]

Portland had their coolest high on record for so early about a month ago. It hasn't been all bad.

Global warming.

[Requiem]

I understand.

 

And your drought is not worse than ours... we have no drought at all.

 

Oh, I swore the Puget Sound had some degree of drought, but I guess the early rain has helped out quite a bit. But it's true that you guys score every year in some regard, with PDX usually being left out.

[Jesse]

Global warming.

Yeah, just one event totally disproved mountains of scientific evidence and cancelled out the dozens of record warm events we have seen the last several years. I for one was impressed!

[Phil]

Yeah, that has been the #1 problem with 2018.

A strong jet is a bad thing..both for Arctic air in the PNW and high latitude cold in general.

[Jesse]

A strong jet is a bad thing..both for Arctic air in the PNW and high latitude cold in general.

Seems like the jet was pretty strong at times back in the 1940s-70s, when our region was much colder.

[James Jones]

Yeah, just one event totally disproved mountains of scientific evidence and cancelled out the dozens of record warm events we have seen the last several years. I for one was impressed!

 

It's kind of a weaksauce record anyway. Downtown Portland had 52/41 on 9/24/1933 and 50/45 on 9/23/1934.

[Kayla]

Oh, I swore the Puget Sound had some degree of drought, but I guess the early rain has helped out quite a bit. But it's true that you guys score every year in some regard, with PDX usually being left out.

 

January 2017 begs to differ.

[Jesse]

It's kind of a weaksauce record anyway. Downtown Portland had 52/41 on 9/24/1933 and 50/45 on 9/23/1934.

Oh yeah. The fact that it was the only cold record of note for the metro area over the last several months kind of says it all.

[Phil]

Seems like the jet was pretty strong at times back in the 1940s/70s, when our region was much colder.

The jet was shifted *equatorward* back then, but in terms of its strength (based on the observed and reconstructed 200mb U-wind anomalies) the 1950s actually had the weakest NPAC jet of any decade since WWII.

[TT-SEA]

The jet was shifted *equatorward* back then, but in terms of its strength (based on the observed and reconstructed 200mb U-wind anomalies) the 1950s actually had the weakest NPAC jet of any decade since WWII.

Interesting.

 

Hadley Cell expansion since then huh?

[Phil]

Likewise, the strongest jet years on record were 2015 and several years in the 1990s.

[Phil]

Interesting.

 

Hadley Cell expansion since then huh?

Yes, and a more +NAM/+WPO/NE-displaced warm pool, which is all essentially part of the same process.