PNW March 2023 Weather Discussion (2012 Redux)

[Doinko]

21 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

We had a really nice snow event up here in mid February 2021. Lots of ice from about the Clackamas County line southward though.

We were right on the mix line. Never stayed one precip type for long. We ended up with around 4.5" of snow, maybe a half inch of ice and then some sleet

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Sun finally popping out here in Salem. 

Looks like there is no data for Silver Falls in February. That is a huge bummer. Would have likely ranked as one of their top 5 coldest, possible their data gets uploaded later on. 

Looking at Silverton's data for November-February. They ran a -2.5 departure for that period. Pretty impressive. 

[TT-SEA]

Gorgeous day.

[T-Town]

3 hours ago, Mr Marine Layer said:

Another example of The Man keeping us down by limiting our supply of delicious seafood. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

2 hours ago, MossMan said:

Wow! And oh 2019

Currently 36 and cloudy. 

In Utah in 1983 and 1984 there were similar scenes of chair lifts needing to be dug out in places, and ski areas having to close due to too much snow. Have memories of riding such lifts.

[Cascadia_Wx]

Looks like PDX scored a low of 35. Still just 44 there.

Managed to bump down to 32 a little after sunrise here. Mostly sunny now with some high clouds but still on the cool side, just 42.

[snow maniac]

only about 7 inches of snow total all winter here, lots of potential but my location is blocked by NW flow, south of the convergence zone and to far east for Hood canal snow. but just a few miles west of me scored much, much, more this year.                                              

[TT-SEA]

6 minutes ago, snow maniac said:

only about 7 inches of snow total all winter here, lots of potential but my location is blocked by NW flow, south of the convergence zone and to far east for Hood canal snow. but just a few miles west of me scored much, much, more this year.                                              

I think your area does really well with overrunning events and we didn't have too many of those scenarios this winter.  

[TT-SEA]

Looking forward to Friday and Saturday.

[AlTahoe]

30 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

In Utah in 1983 and 1984 there were similar scenes of chair lifts needing to be dug out in places, and ski areas having to close due to too much snow. Have memories of riding such lifts.

Alta had a huge run from 1981-1985. Just incredible #'s 

688" in 1981-1982 

834" in 1982-1983

875" in 1983-1984

680" in 1984-1985

 

[MossMan]

1 minute ago, AlTahoe said:

Alta had a huge run from 1981-1985. Just incredible #'s 

688" in 1981-1982 

834" in 1982-1983

875" in 1983-1984

680" in 1984-1985

 

How’s your thaw going? Or is it back to snow there? 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

9 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Looking forward to Friday and Saturday.

Noticed swelling magnolia buds on the ride into the office this morning. That should make them open.

[AlTahoe]

1 minute ago, MossMan said:

How’s your thaw going? Or is it back to snow there? 

More rain today. It's the final stress test on buildings. Whatever survives today will make it through anything.

Currently 3 out of our 4 Grocery stores are red tagged from snow cave ins.

High school is closed because of a cave in. 

Probably another 15 businesses are closed because of roof cave ins and dozens of homes so far. 

Looks like another 5 feet of snow next week. Hurry up spring! 

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

2 minutes ago, AlTahoe said:

More rain today. It's the final stress test on buildings. Whatever survives today will make it through anything.

Currently 3 out of our 4 Grocery stores are red tagged from snow cave ins.

High school is closed because of a cave in. 

Probably another 15 businesses are closed because of roof cave ins and dozens of homes so far. 

Looks like another 5 feet of snow next week. Hurry up spring! 

Got any pictures?

[TT-SEA]

8 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Noticed swelling magnolia buds on the ride into the office this morning. That should make them open.

Our magnolia tree buds are getting fatter as well.

[AlTahoe]

12 minutes ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

Got any pictures?

 

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

17 minutes ago, AlTahoe said:

 

Oh my....

[Cascadia_Wx]

Lake Tahoe basin seems like a stressful place to live. 

Edited March 14, 2023 by Cascadia_Wx

[TT-SEA]

ECMWF is pretty dry for the next 10 days for western WA and SW BC... and a significant portion of the wet anomaly of CA is happening today.    

10-day map on top and just days 3-10 on the bottom.

[SouthHillFrosty]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

Looking forward to Friday and Saturday.

Looks good for yard work!

[High Desert Mat?]

Just started snowing over here with the temp hovering around 33. Looks like it could snow for awhile today and then maybe stick a little once the sun goes down. Happy Marchuary. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

1 minute ago, High Desert Mat? said:

Just started snowing over here with the temp hovering around 33. Looks like it could snow for awhile today and then maybe stick a little once the sun goes down. Happy Marchuary. 

Beautiful. 

[AlTahoe]

40 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Lake Tahoe basin seems like a stressful place to live. 

Apparently just every hundred years or so. lol 

total structure list so far. 

[TT-SEA]

Sort of tough to get work done today... the outdoors and yard work is calling me.    Its so nice out there.    

[TT-SEA]

12Z EPS is quite dry for western WA over the next 15 days... but the wet and dry anomaly signals along the west coast are much weaker during the last 7 days of the run.  

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Up to 37 back at the house now. Mid 40s in Salem, upper 30s to low 40s in the south valley. In Lebanon where it is about 40, everyone is complaining about how cold it is. 

[FroYoBro]

Very nice day and change of pace from yesterdays soaker. 

[FroYoBro]

15 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Up to 37 back at the house now. Mid 40s in Salem, upper 30s to low 40s in the south valley. In Lebanon where it is about 40, everyone is complaining about how cold it is. 

Up to 51 here with lots of sun breaks.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

1 minute ago, FroYoBro said:

Up to 51 here with lots of sun breaks.

Sounds aWfuL

[TT-SEA]

Most stations in King County into the low 50s now.   50 at SEA and 52 in North Bend with full sun.

[TT-SEA]

Actually SEA back down to 48 now... wind might have picked up from the west.   

But lots of low 50s across the EPSL with some of the warmer temps closer to the foothills.

[Phishy Wx]

4 hours ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Three years ago today it was snowing and pandemicking.

It still is

[Phishy Wx]

who's looking forward to wildfire smoke and heatwaves???

[SilverFallsAndrew]

3 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

who's looking forward to wildfire smoke and heatwaves???

@TT-SEA

[TT-SEA]

13 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

who's looking forward to wildfire smoke and heatwaves???

Could be a smoke free summer like 2019.  And we still have it so good in the modern era in terms of wildfire smoke compared to the pioneer days.    Smoke is naturally a permanent fixture in the western and central US in the warm season.    I was reading the weather journals from Fort Snelling in Minnesota from 1820-1850 and one the most consistently mentioned weather phenomenons they wrote about every year was smoke.    I love reading old records like that in their words.  Also endlessly fascinating is Thomas Jefferson's weather records.   He had a unbroken streak of 40 years of weather records from 1776-1816.

[Cascadia_Wx]

1 hour ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Up to 37 back at the house now. Mid 40s in Salem, upper 30s to low 40s in the south valley. In Lebanon where it is about 40, everyone is complaining about how cold it is. 

Meanwhile PDX is rocketing to their warmest day of the month to date.

#sun

[SilverFallsAndrew]

1 minute ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Meanwhile PDX is rocketing to their warmest day of the month to date.

#sun

Hopefully still a below average day THO.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

Most stations in King County into the low 50s now.   50 at SEA and 52 in North Bend with full sun.

Lots of 50’s up this way today, too.

[Cascadia_Wx]

20 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Hopefully still a below average day THO.

Tim e will tell.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

1 minute ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Tim e will tell.

East winds, they suck, but hey it worked out for you in February 2021.