November 2018 Weather in the Pacific Northwest

[TT-SEA]

You are mocked and teased because of your relentlessly whiny posts about rain, that have been ongoing for many years. 

 

Most of my posts are just reporting actual conditions here and around this area.    Whiny posts are fair game of course!   1.3 inches in 2 hours was worth mentioning.   No opinion was offered... just reported what was happening.     I actually prefer to get rain in heavy bursts... much better than just constant drizzle.  

[TT-SEA]

Fun little storm last night.

 

Everett gusted to 51 mph and I lost power for about 5 hours. Can't say I was expecting that front to be so potent.

 

 

I wonder if the forward speed added to the punch?   It was really moving through at a good clip.    

[Blizzard777]

Just realized there's a CZ out there. Pouring here.

 

The CZ is such a unique phenomenon! Would love to live in that area just for a couple years to experience its wrath like when I lived in Troutdale and experienced its distructional persistent winds that would chew up the neighborhood. Fun weather for short term but ya just get tired of it over time. Fun note though in Troutdale. The east wind brought many gifts from around the area and would also vortex the leaves into a nice pile.

 

Currently blue breezy skies with a temp of 56* and a low of 55*

[SilverFallsAndrew]

CFS winter forecast.

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Most of my posts are just reporting actual conditions here and around this area.    Whiny posts are fair game of course!   1.3 inches in 2 hours was worth mentioning.   No opinion was offered... just reported what was happening.     I actually prefer to get rain in heavy bursts... much better than just constant drizzle.  

 

Your dedication and loyalty to hating our climate is commendable though. Over a decade now on this very forum!

[TT-SEA]

We picked up 1/10th of our average November rainfall here in just 2 hours yesterday.

 

I would love to do that 9 more times during the month and call it good.     

[seattleweatherguy]

CFS winter forecast.

 

Wow warmth for the entire usa

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Courtesy of Brian Schmit

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Hard to imagine November won't be at least a +2-3F temp anomaly for most of the PNW.

[TT-SEA]

Your dedication and loyalty to hating our climate is commendable though. Over a decade now on this very forum!

 

 

I actually like it here more than some of the people on this forum who want to move east so badly.   I know I like it more than Jim for example.    My wife said she never wants to move... she loves North Bend so much.     Although I could probably talk her into being gone for 2-3 months in the winter eventually.   

 

I don't really mind the lack of snow and cold and a warming climate.     And I fully expect November - January to be stormy, but offshore flow does provide some nice breaks here in most years.    The April - June period is usually the toughest part of the year for me as expectations increase and nature does not follow.     

[TT-SEA]

Hard to imagine November won't be at least a +2-3F temp anomaly for most of the PNW.

 

Very simple at this point in the year... if its wet then it will be warm.    Pick your poison!     

 

Way too early to tell about this month yet.    

[SilverFallsAndrew]

I actually like it here more than some of the people on this forum who want to move east so badly.   I know I like it more than Jim for example.    My wife said she never wants to move... she loves North Bend so much.     Although I could probably talk her into being gone for 2-3 months in the winter eventually.   

 

I don't really mind the lack of snow and cold and a warming climate.     And I fully expect November - January to be stormy and offshore flow does provide some really nice breaks here in most years.    The April - June period is usually the toughest part of the year for me as expectations increase and nature does not follow.     

 

I have grown to love the climate for the most part. I love rain an coolish weather though, so by about August I am ready for fall. But overall I like the PNW. 

 

I think I would enjoy Maine because they are cold with lots of snow in the winter and not to warm with lots of rain in the summer. I always loved the summer rain of the Midwest when I would visit my grandmother in Ohio as a kid. 

 

Other climates I would enjoy would probably be Spokane (About as dry as I could handle), and definitely somewhere like Forks. I could retire on the wet side of the Olympics. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Very simple at this point in the year... if its wet then it will be warm.    Pick your poison!     

 

Way too early to tell about this month yet.    

 

Coolest air of the season making a weak back door push mid-week on the 12z.

 

[TT-SEA]

Coolest air of the season making a weak back door push mid-week on the 12z.

 

Love that!

[TT-SEA]

I have grown to love the climate for the most part. I love rain an coolish weather though, so by about August I am ready for fall. But overall I like the PNW.

 

I think I would enjoy Maine because they are cold with lots of snow in the winter and not to warm with lots of rain in the summer. I always loved the summer rain of the Midwest when I would visit my grandmother in Ohio as a kid.

 

Other climates I would enjoy would probably be Spokane (About as dry as I could handle), and definitely somewhere like Forks. I could retire on the wet side of the Olympics.

Spokane and Forks are close to polar opposites.

[BLI snowman]

Snoqualmie River added to flood watch... flooding during a drought!  

 

I sent the SEA NWS an e-mail letting them know flooding is impossible unless the city of Seattle gets heavy rain according to Justin.     They replied with some gibberish about a "rain shadow".   Never heard of it.  

 

 

 

Still mad.

[Geos]

The CZ is such a unique phenomenon! Would love to live in that area just for a couple years to experience its wrath like when I lived in Troutdale and experienced its distructional persistent winds that would chew up the neighborhood. Fun weather for short term but ya just get tired of it over time. Fun note though in Troutdale. The east wind brought many gifts from around the area and would also vortex the leaves into a nice pile.

 

Currently blue breezy skies with a temp of 56* and a low of 55*

 

Yeah it is unique. Similar to the bands of lake effect that occur around the Great Lakes. 

 

If there was a Fraser Outflow for this, it would be pretty sweet. 

 

Winds have been calm here all morning.

Looks like it is sinking south now. 

 

[TT-SEA]

Yeah it is unique. Similar to the bands of lake effect that occur around the Great Lakes. 

 

If there was a Fraser Outflow for this, it would be pretty sweet. 

 

Winds have been calm here all morning.

Looks like it is sinking south now. 

 

 

 

Really strong wind here south of that c-zone.    It will go totally calm though if the c-zone gets down here.  That is when the snow begins with a cold air mass.  

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Courtesy of "Salem Cwv Weather" on Facebook. The driest May-October period on record for Salem (1892-present).

 

[BLI snowman]

Courtesy of Brian Schmit

 

 

 

 

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[ShawniganLake]

Most of my posts are just reporting actual conditions here and around this area. Whiny posts are fair game of course! 1.3 inches in 2 hours was worth mentioning. No opinion was offered... just reported what was happening. I actually prefer to get rain in heavy bursts... much better than just constant drizzle.

I think due to the volume of whiny posts that you do make, people just read all of your posts with a whiny tone, whether they are meant to be or not. To me, it certainly came across that you were complaining about the rain and darkness yesterday.

[TT-SEA]

Courtesy of "Salem Cwv Weather" on Facebook. The driest May-October period on record for Salem (1892-present).

 

 

Impressive.

 

There was 16.02 inches of rain down in the valley here from May-October this year.    Well over 20 inches up here in that period.

 

[Omegaraptor]

About 6.3” have fell in Portland May-Oct. The October rainfall alone was more than the entire May-September total.

[TT-SEA]

I think due to the volume of whiny posts that you do make, people just read all of your posts with a whiny tone, whether they are meant to be or not. To me, it certainly came across that you were complaining about the rain and darkness yesterday.

 

The darkness was quite amazing for awhile around mid-day.  And it did get brighter later in the afternoon as I mentioned.

 

Definitely was not complaining about getting heavy rain though.    I really prefer that over constant light rain.    I would love to get all of our rain in heavy bursts like that. 

[Blizzard777]

CZ storming it up with plenty of lightning

[stuffradio]

2.92" of rain has fallen this November so far.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Celebrate brief periods of troughing in this land of constant ridging. 

[TT-SEA]

Short video of the wind here on the south side of the c-zone...    

 

https://vimeo.com/298621048

 

 

No thunder yet... but it appears to be close by to the north.  

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Coolest air of the season making a weak back door push mid-week on the 12z.

 

The 540 line actually made it down to the south valley a week or so ago. Let's see if we can go the entire cold season without the 534 line dropping down to us like 2002-03.

[Front Ranger]

Most of my posts are just reporting actual conditions here and around this area.    Whiny posts are fair game of course!   1.3 inches in 2 hours was worth mentioning.   No opinion was offered... just reported what was happening.     I actually prefer to get rain in heavy bursts... much better than just constant drizzle.  

 

We don't need your opinion at this point. Like I said, you've provided over a decade of material! 

[TT-SEA]

The 12Z is really dry after the system tomorrow into Sunday. Hard to beat that in November.

[Jesse]

Your dedication and loyalty to hating our climate is commendable though. Over a decade now on this very forum!

Been mostly lurking off and on the past few days since I have been busy and haven’t had much time to post. Doing that I always sort of realize how much this is basically Tim’s forum with other people posting every now and then. Almost like a twitter feed.

[Front Ranger]

Hard to imagine November won't be at least a +2-3F temp anomaly for most of the PNW.

 

Following a near normal October for the PNW overall (cooler than normal mostly east of the mountains). Definitely better to see that than a blowtorch October and cool November, especially with +ENSO.

 

[Front Ranger]

Courtesy of Brian Schmit

 

 

 

Disproportionate number of good years on that list......

[Jesse]

Following a near normal October for the PNW overall (cooler than normal mostly east of the mountains). Definitely better to see that than a blowtorch October and cool November, especially with +ENSO.

 

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Bit of a stretch to call this October cool. Unless of course not being a blowtorch is the new cool. Seems to be what you are implying here.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Bit of a stretch to call this October cool. Unless of course not being a blowtorch is the new cool. Seems to be what you are implying here.

 

He literally said it was near normal.

[Front Ranger]

I actually like it here more than some of the people on this forum who want to move east so badly.   I know I like it more than Jim for example.    My wife said she never wants to move... she loves North Bend so much.     Although I could probably talk her into being gone for 2-3 months in the winter eventually.   

 

I don't really mind the lack of snow and cold and a warming climate.     And I fully expect November - January to be stormy, but offshore flow does provide some nice breaks here in most years.    The April - June period is usually the toughest part of the year for me as expectations increase and nature does not follow.     

 

The past 4 years at SEA have seen:

 

.58" in May 2015

.23" in June 2015

1.19" in April 2016

.94" in May 2016

.12" in May 2018

.63" in June 2018

 

I realize that you don't live by SEA, but your comments were referencing the general climate. There have been quite a few dry and warm spring months lately.

[Jesse]

He literally said it was near normal.

It was a good deal warmer than normal for most areas west of the Cascades.

[Front Ranger]

Bit of a stretch to call this October cool. Unless of course not being a blowtorch is the new cool. Seems to be what you are implying here.

 

I said near normal for the region overall. Not a stretch at all. Western OR was the outlier in warmth.

[Jesse]

I said near normal for the region overall. Not a stretch at all. Western OR was the outlier in warmth.

2006-12 redux.