November 2018 Weather in the Pacific Northwest

[MossMan]

Rain! 44! Had another 1/2” overnight!

[wx_statman]

15 degrees this morning in NY-Central Park. Coldest since 1880 for this early in the season. 

[TT-SEA]

Total snow over the next 10 days per the 12Z ECMWF:

 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Occasional sprinkles and 51 in Monmouth.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Total snow over the next 10 days per the 12Z ECMWF:

 

Just gotta get that Columbia Basin nice and cold.

[stuffradio]

I'm at 11.31 inches of rain this month so far.

[Bryant]

Came up on FaceBook memories!

Well, if some of these 384 maps even come close to verifying, there should be some fun times ahead

[TT-SEA]

I'm at 11.31 inches of rain this month so far.

I thought you were at just 6 inches a couple days ago?

 

Just over 7 inches here for the month.

[stuffradio]

I thought you were at just 6 inches a couple days ago?

 

Just over 7 inches here for the month.

I've had more than 3 inches of rain in the last couple days.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

I'm at 11.31 inches of rain this month so far.

 

Wow!

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Looks like Monmouth is still under an inch on the month. Station a block away has .93 and on the other side of 99W has .95

[stuffradio]

I thought you were at just 6 inches a couple days ago?

 

Just over 7 inches here for the month.

Around the 14th of November I was at 5.79 inches.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Springfield is at 1.02"

[ShawniganLake]

I'm at 11.31 inches of rain this month so far.

Is that about average for you. YXX is at 7.5” and they average 10” in November. They should end up close to that.

[stuffradio]

Is that about average for you. YXX is at 7.5” and they average 10” in November. They should end up close to that.

I was looking for the stats from The Weather Network, but they removed that. They only show individual day stats now. I think average is in the 12-14" range for me though for November.

[TT-SEA]

Bellingham is now at 4.25 inches for the month which is almost perfectly normal.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

I am around 3" now on the month. Average for the entire month is 11" so definitely running behind.

[ShawniganLake]

Ucluelet has had less than 6” since November 4th. It’s been pretty dry.

[stuffradio]

I was actually surprised when I saw over an inch in my gauge just under an hour ago. It's still raining, so that 11.31" is still rising.

[TT-SEA]

I am around 3" now on the month. Average for the entire month is 11" so definitely running behind.

 

Bellingham averages less half the rain of your area in November and they have had more rain than you this month.

 

Quite the north-south gradient... so surprising.   <_>

[Jesse]

Bellingham is now at 4.25 inches for the month which is almost perfectly normal.

Probably the only station in the I-5 corridor with that distinction this month.

[TT-SEA]

Probably the only station in the I-5 corridor with that distinction this month.

 

 

I think it was determined that the I-5 corridor from Everett southward was distinctly stuck in the rain shadow with all the heavy rain during the first week of the month.   Pretty sure we established that fact.   

[TT-SEA]

18z 3km NAM shows rain to start the Apple Cup but turning to snow around 8PM.

 

HRRR shows a changeover to snow around 7PM.

 

Should make for an even more interesting game.

Weather is going to have a big impact either way. Before it turns to snow there will be strong winds and heavy rain.

[TT-SEA]

Yeah, looks like Gaskin will be picking up the load for the Huskies. Not sure if the Cougs will be able to keep up if passing is rendered null.

 

Hoping the Cougs can pull out their first Apple Cup W in five years!

 

The bad weather seems like it will likely favor the Huskies. 

[Front Ranger]

I think it was determined that the I-5 corridor from Everett southward was distinctly stuck in the rain shadow with all the heavy rain during the first week of the month. Pretty sure we established that fact.

Biggest rain shadow on record!

 

OLM still running about 40% of normal.

[TT-SEA]

Biggest rain shadow on record!

 

 

No... very typical with persistent warm front rain with NW flow.    

 

[Front Ranger]

And yet, BLI remains the only I-5 station near normal for the month.

[TT-SEA]

And yet, BLI remains the only I-5 station near normal for the month.

 

And you can tell why based on that map from the first week of the month.

 

Everett southward to Olympia was solidly in the rain shadow and stations farther south were just too far south anyways.   Even the elevated areas in Oregon got very little.  

 

It was a BC event and NW WA focused event.   

[Front Ranger]

Been a dry month due to dry patterns for the vast majority of the region. Will probably finish that way.

[BLI snowman]

Doesn't fit with your 1976/2004 analog blend.

I'm thinking a 1933/1968 blend.

[TT-SEA]

Been a dry month due to dry patterns for the vast majority of the region. Will probably finish that way.

 

Sure was dry for the middle two weeks of the month.   Even at my location.  

 

The areas that received the heavy rain during the first week of the month will end up much closer to normal... some areas even above normal.

 

That is true for all of our BC posters and all of us in WA to the north and east of Seattle.  

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Has there ever been a year with this consistent of a N/S precip gradient? I don't recall one since I moved here in 1989.

[El_Nina]

Went up to the mountain to do a snow smoke and the amount of snow at govy seems a bit underwhelming. Only about an inch, maybe 2.

[Jesse]

Went up to the mountain to do a snow smoke and the amount of snow at govy seems a bit underwhelming. Only about an inch, maybe 2.

Yeah, I was thinking that based on the web cams too. Just a little too low. 4,500’ and higher seems to be doing better.

[Jesse]

Has there ever been a year with this consistent of a N/S precip gradient? I don't recall one since I moved here in 1989.

It’s just been a dry year for the region, with a small patch of near average north and east of Seattle.

 

The overall dryness has definitely been unusual. The May-August stretch was actually unprecedented for dryness in both the Willamette Valley and Puget Sound lowlands climate zones, according to the NCDC. #1 driest MJJA for both areas.

[Jesse]

Yeah, I was thinking that based on the web cams too. Just a little too low. 4,500’ and higher seems to be doing better.

The Mount Hood snotel site, on the slope between GC and Timberline (5,400’) has picked up about 10” since yesterday.

 

https://wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov/reportGenerator/view/customSingleStationReport/hourly/651:OR:SNTL%7cid=%22%22%7cname/-167,0/WTEQ::value,SNWD::value,PREC::value,TOBS::value?fitToScreen=false

[TT-SEA]

It’s just been a dry year for the region, with a small patch of near average north and east of Seattle.

 

The overall dryness has definitely been unusual. The May-August stretch was actually unprecedented for dryness in both the Willamette Valley and Puget Sound lowlands climate zones, according to the NCDC. #1 driest MJJA for both areas.

 

 

Not really... most of the northern half of WA is still on either side of normal for the year.  Not a big deal at all... considering very year between 2014-17 was above normal.    And the normal to wetter than normal area stetches east all the way through Montana.  

 

[Jesse]

Not really... most of the northern half of WA is still on either side of normal for the year. Not a big deal at all... considering very year between 2014-17 was above normal. And the normal to wetter than normal area stetches east all the way through Montana.

 

 

So basically what I just said.

 

Calling Montana part of your region is a stretch. You can’t X-out Eugene then include Montana. Well, at least if you want to be taken seriously.

[TT-SEA]

So basically what I just said.

 

Calling Montana part of your region is a stretch. You can’t X-out Eugene then include Montana. Well, at least if you want to be taken seriously.

Did I say it was my region?? I said the decently wet area stretches way east through Montana... actually to the Dakotas.

 

The northern part of the western US has been decently wet this year. It is what it is. That is where nature drew the line this year. I am north of that line and you are not. Oh well.

[Geos]

41° and pouring where I am in Bothell. Yuck. Would be a lot more of an interesting black Friday if it was 10° cooler.