PNW March 2023 Weather Discussion (2012 Redux)

[Tyler Mode]

It cleared off enough last night to dip to 29.  It was the slickest commute in this morning, worse than any of the snow.  Black ice everywhere, I slid several times.  Took it 15-25 mph under the speed limit during the rest of the drive.

I saw several cars into guardrails, my dad saw one on it's top etc. 

[Winterdog]

46F after a high of 49.9F (wheew! missed that 50F ) and a respectable low of 27F.  Nice day but cloudy now.

[Requiem]

Snowing and sticking occasionally 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Saw this on Facebook. The Rogue River at Agness. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just had a shower roll through and drop another half inch or so. Partly sunny and 34 now. 

[TT-SEA]

4 minutes ago, Requiem said:

Snowing and sticking occasionally 

Amazing... considering it's been in the low 50s in many places in western WA.   And could be snowing like that tonight in spots up here.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

SLE put up a 43/31 today. 
 

35/29 here with another 2” of snow. 

[Deweydog]

Jesse MySpace’d me this morning and asked if I thought there was any snow on White Pass. I got the hint, so here it is. You owe me $50 for gas!

[Timmy Supercell]

Nice to see you all still rocking late season snow. The northwest looks like it'll enter a moderate drought which took me for a surprise. I just thought this would be a 2019 like year.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

10 minutes ago, Timmy Supercell said:

Nice to see you all still rocking late season snow. The northwest looks like it'll enter a moderate drought which took me for a surprise. I just thought this would be a 2019 like year.

Looked like K-Falls got a lot of snow these past few days. 

[Phil]

Paul Roundy believes the El Niño will build from east to west. Haven’t seen that since 1997. 

 

[Cascadia_Wx]

Ended up with a chilly 44/32 day here. Moderate shower moving over at the moment and the temp is down to 41.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

4 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Ended up with a chilly 44/32 day here. Moderate shower moving over at the moment and the temp is down to 41.

Sitting here at the kitchen table looking out on a snow covered landscape, with flurries falling and the late evening sun peaking out. Doesn't get much better. #blessedlyfebestlyfe

[Phil]

2 hours ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

A 2019-esque summer is my high bar at the moment.

East-based developing +ENSO years should serve as the best analogs. Not too many of those, but 2019 and 1997 are both on the list.

[Timmy Supercell]

Can't get away from the confused reacts.. there something confusing I said? lol

[Cascadia_Wx]

6 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Sitting here at the kitchen table looking out on a snow covered landscape, with flurries falling and the late evening sun peaking out. Doesn't get much better. #blessedlyfebestlyfe

I had a snow flurry for about ten minutes this morning too Andrew.

[GHweatherChris]

3 minutes ago, Timmy Supercell said:

Can't get away from the confused reacts.. there something confusing I said? lol

Probably cuz there is no basis to yet to say it looks like the NW is going to enter in to a moderate drought.

Edited March 6, 2023 by GHweatherChris

[Phil]

5 hours ago, TT-SEA said:

I know.   And I wasn't talking about leaf out.  Just the start of greening up.   It's unusually dormant for early March.   Just an observation.  

Need to get back to biggest summer Karens mocking the snow Karen. 

We’re running way ahead of you guys this year. Willows have already leafed out, daffodils past peak, cherry blossoms blooming. Insane, incessant torching.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

5 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

I had a snow flurry for about ten minutes this morning too Andrew.

I trust it set a positive tone for your day.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

[Timmy Supercell]

5 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

Probably cuz there is no basis to yet to say it looks like the NW is going to enter in to a moderate drought.

The map was probably before the last decent storm, can't remember but central and eastern Oregon still had one going. Lowlands had removal likely.

[Cascadia_Wx]

9 minutes ago, Timmy Supercell said:

Can't get away from the confused reacts.. there something confusing I said? lol

I found the post a little confusing since you said you were surprised the PNW is going into moderate drought but also that you were expecting a year in which they were also exceptionally dry around this time.

[Cascadia_Wx]

5 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

I trust it set a positive tone for your day.

Blessed day best dae.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

2 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

I found the post a little confusing since you said you were surprised the PNW is going into moderate drought but also that you were expecting a year in which they were also exceptionally dry around this time.

There were fires caused by escaped slash piles in late March 2019 up in the Santiam Canyon. One of the fires burned into Santiam State Park. The following March I walked through the burn on a cool sunny March day between snowstorms. I was inspired, in those early days of the pandemic, to see the renewal of life among the burn. Unbeknownst at the time would be the horror several months later. 

[BLI snowman]

 

15 minutes ago, Phil said:

We’re running way ahead of you guys this year. Willows have already leafed out, daffodils past peak, cherry blossoms blooming. Insane, incessant torching.

Actually saw some cherry blossoms going off in DT Portland yesterday, which took me for a bit of a surprise. Otherwise total dormancy as far as the eye can see.

[Cascadia_Wx]

1 minute ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

There were fires caused by escaped slash piles in late March 2019 up in the Santiam Canyon. One of the fires burned into Santiam State Park. The following March I walked through the burn on a cool sunny March day between snowstorms. I was inspired, in those early days of the pandemic, to see the renewal of life among the burn. Unbeknownst at the time would be the horror several months later. 

I still remember our nemesis wickedly chortling at his throne that day.

[Timmy Supercell]

3 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

I found the post a little confusing since you said you were surprised the PNW is going into moderate drought but also that you were expecting a year in which they were also exceptionally dry around this time.

May was the first real dry month in 2019 where I was. 

Feb-Mar 2019 was good in those areas.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, BLI snowman said:

 

Actually saw some cherry blossoms going off in DT Portland yesterday, which took me for a bit of a surprise. Otherwise total dormancy as far as the eye can see.

It seems there are usually daffodils blooming by late February down here. Haven't seen any yet, took a picture of some daffodils that were a week or two away when I was down in Lebanon the other day, but forgot to post for @TT-SEA.

[Cascadia_Wx]

1 minute ago, Timmy Supercell said:

May was the first real dry month in 2019 where I was. 

Feb-Mar 2019 was good in those areas.

Is it bad that I’m still confused?

[BLI snowman]

Just now, SilverFallsAndrew said:

It seems there are usually daffodils blooming by late February down here. Haven't seen any yet, took a picture of some daffodils that were a week or two away when I was down in Lebanon the other day, but forgot to post for @TT-SEA.

I think Tim has an app that tells him when every single flower in the entire region has begun budding, so we can all just live vicariously through his updates.

[GHweatherChris]

12 minutes ago, Timmy Supercell said:

The map was probably before the last decent storm, can't remember but central and eastern Oregon still had one going. Lowlands had removal likely.

Ah gotcha, you were looking at more location centric, not regional.

[westcoastexpat]

7 hours ago, snow_wizard said:

I think the continental flavor is what you and I really crave.  To me there is nothing like the bite of a cold continental airmass.

That is incredibly generous of you BTW!

You pay the price with uncomfortably hot summers in a continental climate tho

[SilverFallsAndrew]

IIRC the late March 2019 "heatwave" came with very low dewpoints and offshore winds. Up here we still had about a foot of snow cover, so there were no fire concerns, but down in the Santiam Canyon, the snow had melted off, and given the green up had not yet occurred, fuels got very dry. 

[Timmy Supercell]

2 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

Ah gotcha, you were looking at more location centric, not regional.

Maybe not the entire northwest.. 

[Blizzard777]

Currently catching the ferry at Clinton!  Such a cool formation of clouds as the moisture is streaming towards me!

[GHweatherChris]

5 minutes ago, Timmy Supercell said:

Maybe not the entire northwest.. 

Its the IMBY syndrome, except your back yard isn't close anymore, I get it... 

[Christensen87]

Carbonado! 

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

2 hours ago, Forum Admin said:

That’s an east coast thing that I miss.

A humid evening in the mid 80s.

A horizon bounded by distant thunderheads whose peaks are illuminated by a silver glow from the moon, punched with purple flashes of lightning that never goes heard. The field in the foreground finds its own light show with the dazzle firefly’s doing their best to steal the show.

All enjoyed with a cold mid Atlantic sour.

I miss my southeast thunderstorms in summer. I don’t miss baseball sized hail and tornados

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Had a snow shower move through awhile ago and it was 38 degrees.  Dewpoint is 31 though.

[BLI snowman]

Not sure if it's been mentioned before, but with this year's performance PDX has now seen a staggering 18/29 daily record low maximums in February come since 2006. With 8 different years in that bunch accounting for all of that.

For added effect you can also see January, which has had 2 record low maximums in the same timeframe.