PNW March 2023 Weather Discussion (2012 Redux)

[MossMan]

All snow now. 

[BlvuSumit]

Snowing 1170’ bellevue

 

 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

1 minute ago, BlvuSumit said:

Snowing 1170’ bellevue

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I can't believe your elevation there that's crazy! How often do you have snow and there not be any down the road? At that elevation you should get a ton of snow.

[MossMan]

Dumping snow now and windy. Temp down to 34.2 and DP 33

[BlvuSumit]

3 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

I can't believe your elevation there that's crazy! How often do you have snow and there not be any down the road? At that elevation you should get a ton of snow.

Sometimes a decent dump up here and nothing but rain below

[Deweydog]

28 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Complete with a snow tutorial from my 4yr old! 

Phil says no points awarded due to her explanation’s complete lack of acronyms.

[TT-SEA]

I noticed that the last band of precip bought a coating of snow on Hwy 18 at Tiger Mountain just west of here.   That area is somewhat protected from the east wind.   No precip at all here... not even rain with that band.   Up to 42 in North Bend.

[MossMan]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

12Z GFS... snow yet to fall from now through tomorrow morning.     I looked back at the 00Z run just for fun and it showed that all of King County should have 3-6 inches of snow on the ground right now.   It really struggles with surface temps and the drying effect of offshore flow in these situations.

This is wrong since I now have slushy accumulation on my deck! 1st shade of grey territory! 

[SnowWillarrive]

Just now, MossMan said:

This is wrong since I now have slushy accumulation on my deck! 1st shade of grey territory! 

I’m amazed it’s snowing there after all the rain last night.

[TT-SEA]

1 minute ago, MossMan said:

This is wrong since I now have slushy accumulation on my deck! 1st shade of grey territory! 

Nice!   When is the GFS ever right? 

[TT-SEA]

7 minutes ago, MossMan said:

This is wrong since I now have slushy accumulation on my deck! 1st shade of grey territory! 

The ECMWF actually showed a little snow up there morning.   

[Cold Snap]

Currently 37.7 and raining kind of hard. I Don’t think it ever snowed here last night.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Snowing pretty hard off and on but not really amounting to anything. 

[Winterdog]

18 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Dumping snow now and windy. Temp down to 34.2 and DP 33

Just rain and boring weather here.  39F and moving up.  

[BurienSnowGlobe]

Snow mix in Burien

[MWG]

Light snow but not sticking. I think it will be turning into a snow/mix. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

 

She loves the snow!

[TT-SEA]

2 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

She loves the snow!

You have a decent amount now.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

11 minutes ago, MWG said:

Light snow but not sticking. I think it will be turning into a snow/mix. 

Grants Pass really got nailed. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Climate change means getting stuck in the same old same old pattern for weeks or months. Either abnormally cold and wet or abnormally hot and dry. Blocking blocking blocking.

[TT-SEA]

Interesting temperature gradient on Thursday per the 12Z ECMWF. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Green on radar over me and.not a thing falling. Wtf is going on

[TT-SEA]

1 minute ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Green on radar over me and.not a thing falling. Wtf is going on

Its been like that for the last 12 hours here.   Offshore flow must be reaching out there now.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

1 hour ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

I can't believe your elevation there that's crazy! How often do you have snow and there not be any down the road? At that elevation you should get a ton of snow.

The parts of Bellevue and Newcastle that are built on the slopes of Cougar Mountain can be quite high. The highest elevations one can get that close to the City of Seattle, in fact.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

58 minutes ago, SnowWillarrive said:

I’m amazed it’s snowing there after all the rain last night.

It is allowed to snow now that it is daylight and will not accumulate significantly.

[TT-SEA]

12Z ECMWF takes an entirely different path later this coming week... suppresses the moisture much farther south.  

[SilverFallsAndrew]

1 minute ago, TT-SEA said:

12Z ECMWF takes an entirely different path later this coming week... suppresses the moisture much farther south.  

At this point I’d like to get on with our melt. It can snow more later, but not til this melts. It’s just 20” of slush. 

[TT-SEA]

1 minute ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

At this point I’d like to get on with our melt. It can snow more later, but not til this melts. It’s just 20” of slush. 

Looks like its just temporary... the moisture is being pulled north shortly after.  

[TT-SEA]

5 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

At this point I’d like to get on with our melt. It can snow more later, but not til this melts. It’s just 20” of slush. 

Also why I am glad we missed out entirely on the big snow events over the last 10 days.    Small snowfalls are fine but I didn't want to have to wait out 2 feet of snow melting slowly.  

[TT-SEA]

@SilverFallsAndrew this should do the trick... only 8 days away.

[Timmy]

A friend around 1100’ 7 miles west of me send this pic. They said about 6” new.  They have had snow cover for nearly 2 weeks there. Incredible stretch for the above 1000’ level here. 

[Fircrest]

Cold and gray 39 degrees here.  I think we're done with lowland snow chances in the Tacoma area. And my garden is thinking spring!  

[Anti Marine Layer]

Variety is the spice of life and it's something we have not seen in the weather recently.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

18 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

@SilverFallsAndrew this should do the trick... only 8 days away.

Nice. I don’t mind a few days like that in the spring. Pretty typical to have at least a few of those in March. I don’t mind the snow cover as long as it’s frozen, but it’s just a slushy mess now. These 36/30 type days don’t really melt it more than an inch or two a day, and they don’t totally freeze it solid at night either. 
 

We actually had a day in the mid 60s in early March 2012, before the cold pattern re asserted itself. 

Edited March 4, 2023 by SilverFallsAndrew

[SilverFallsAndrew]

23 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Also why I am glad we missed out entirely on the big snow events over the last 10 days.    Small snowfalls are fine but I didn't want to have to wait out 2 feet of snow melting slowly.  

This is probably the biggest disparity in snow for our locations since March 2012. 

[TT-SEA]

3 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

This is probably the biggest disparity in snow for our locations since March 2012. 

Yeah... it seems that your area is much more favored in March.   

[T-Town]

18 minutes ago, Fircrest said:

Cold and gray 39 degrees here.  I think we're done with lowland snow chances in the Tacoma area. And my garden is thinking spring!  

Time to turn the page. The deck furniture yearns for its cushions. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Not sure I mentioned this, but the 11.6” we got last Sunday was out biggest calendar day snowfall since March 21, 2012.

Hard to complain about these last two Nina’s. A few dull stretches in January I suppose, but overall hard to ask for more aside from a legit PNW centric arctic blast. Back to back 50”+ snow seasons, for the first time in 12 years. Solidly cold winter this year. Sure there are nits to pick, but why waste the energy. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

2 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Yeah... it seems that your area is much more favored in March.   

Or late February. We’ve only managed a total of 1.3” so far this March, and I don’t see a ton more in the next week, but yeah, late season when the events are more onshore based, I think the elevation plays a bigger role, and the troughing is more full latitude. I guess last April is another good example, we had 18”, I don’t think you had much. 

[TT-SEA]

1 minute ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Or late February. We’ve only managed a total of 1.3” so far this March, and I don’t see a ton more in the next week, but yeah, late season when the events are more onshore based, I think the elevation plays a bigger role, and the troughing is more full latitude. I guess last April is another good example, we had 18”, I don’t think you had much. 

We had a couple inches but it took forever to melt... it kept snowing a little each night then melting a little each day but held steady overall for a week which is crazy for the middle of April.