January 2019 Weather in the Pacific Northwest

[MossMan]

Agree, we are far from ready if a disaster occurred

I feel like we are quite prepared for a fairly long disruption of normal routine life whatever that might be...but I almost offered the sellers of the house we bought an extra grand if they kept their arsenal of disaster prep they had in the loft of the garage...it was impressive. Saw it when I was with the house inspector going through the house. The seller was a retired federal agent of some sort and took safety and security very seriously. I want to at some point get up to the level of supplies that he had!

[Requiem]

Jay Albrecht‏ @AlbrechtJay 2m2 minutes ago

 

 

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WRF shows gusts to 75 in PDX yesterday

 

Now it should be more in the 45-60 range like the other models.

 

 

 

and here is 1.33 km UW WRF for 4 AM. Winds are peaked here with inflow through the Strait of Juan de Fuca getting really strong.

 

 

 

 

[Brian_in_Leavenworth]

Jay Albrecht‏ @AlbrechtJay 50s50 seconds ago

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This map and prev tweeted map of 40mph gusts to 60 mph in Seattle Tacoma area peaking 3-5 AM looks very close to the official NWS forecast!

 

 

 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

I feel like we are quite prepared for a fairly long disruption of normal routine life whatever that might be...but I almost offered the sellers of the house we bought an extra grand if they kept their arsenal of disaster prep they had in the loft of the garage...it was impressive. Saw it when I was with the house inspector going through the house. The seller was a retired federal agent of some sort and took safety and security very seriously. I want to at some point get up to the level of supplies that he had!

After loosing power for 9 days november 2010 i freaked out and upgraded my generator setup. I now have a 7k remote start gen. I can drink a beer and start the gen at same time from my chair.

[Requiem]

WRF showed gusts of 70 for PDX yesterday- I’m sure it’s more in-line with the 45-60 that other models are showing now.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

 

Jay Albrecht‏ @AlbrechtJay 2m2 minutes ago More

WRF shows gusts to 75 in PDX yesterday

Now it should be more in the 45-60 range like the other models.

and here is 1.33 km UW WRF for 4 AM. Winds are peaked here with inflow through the Strait of Juan de Fuca getting really strong.

 

 

This map has a small area of 60 knot winds around the metro. Thats no joke.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Looks like things have wrapped up here.  Not much in the way of crazy wind in this part of town but certainly some spots lost some power briefly.

[TT-SEA]

 

Jay Albrecht‏ @AlbrechtJay 50s50 seconds ago

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This map and prev tweeted map of 40mph gusts to 60 mph in Seattle Tacoma area peaking 3-5 AM looks very close to the official NWS forecast!

 

 

 

 

 

 

That map shows North Bend being protected by Rattlesnake Ridge... hope its right.  

[Requiem]

This map has a small area of 60 knot winds around the metro. Thats no joke.

Which metro? SEA, PDX, or both?

[Jbolin]

Which metro? SEA, PDX, or both?

Did you look at the map?

 

It's for KSEA metro

[Timmy]

Euro snow maps?

[seattleweatherguy]

Red on the map near Lake wa even bothell means 50?

[Jbolin]

Red on the map near Lake wa even bothell means 50?

Those are gusts so add roughly another 10mph 

[seattleweatherguy]

Those are gusts so add roughly another 10mph

You kidding me wow need to head to safeway to get non heated foods

[Omegaraptor]

Big gusts over here.

[MossMan]

After loosing power for 9 days november 2010 i freaked out and upgraded my generator setup. I now have a 7k remote start gen. I can drink a beer and start the gen at same time from my chair.

Nice!! I am not quite up to that level since I still have to wheel it out and plug it into the house and hit the transfer switch, but it runs the over half the house including the vitals like the well pump, septic pump, the kitchen, and many of the lights. Big upgrade from my old house where I had to run extension cords into the house from my older smaller generator to run the refrigerator and a light. No well, etc. I’m glad the previous owners left the generator! I was quite amazed with how little fuel it used, my power was out for 24hrs and I had the generator running for 20 of those hours...Used less than 10 gallons.

[Brian_in_Leavenworth]

Which metro? SEA, PDX, or both?

Go to this site, select 1 1/3 km, and look for your area.

https://atmos.washington.edu/wrfrt/gfsinit.html

[Andrew.]

Just had a huge gust here,i would guess near 50mph, but no clue. Power flickering like crazy

[TT-SEA]

Euro snow maps?

[Andrew.]

Outages growing rapidly around the Portland metro area

 

[seattleweatherguy]

Zoomed on the gusts

Somehow green looks like under 30 for gusts maybe my eyes are bad

 

No wonder why bothell isn't under any advisory

[Timmy]

 

Euro snow maps?

Wow, all other hi res models went more bullish for snow here, euro still looks paltry. We will see!

[MossMan]

 

Euro snow maps?

Could you post the close up of western Wa?

[Jbolin]

Gameplan as of now

- Federal Way Shari's for coffee and pie

- Slow drive north to Alki

- Driving the viaduct during peak

- Driving DT Seattle

- Taking 99 back to Everett

Wanna meet for coffee and a salt water bath at constellation park?

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

The easy to read Seattle Light map.

How did you get that image?

[MossMan]

60+ gusts make their way into the south sound by 2am. This would bust the "barely an ant fart of a breeze will grace my Bonney Lake property" forecast.

Is it bad that I am hoping that things are a little north of what is modeled and my area gets in on some action?

[luvssnow_spokane]

widespread sustained winds of 30mph with gusts a bit higher. For Bothell, sustained of 25mph, and for B nn y L k   - sustained of 30ish as well. The windfield looks to be healthy for the eastern lowlands.

Cool! This storms impact looks similar to others this year just different locations.

[luvssnow_spokane]

[Andrew.]

16,157 without power in the PDX metro area now

[MossMan]

Here you go

The Image is quite small but it looks to show some accumulation up in my area!

[Frontal Snowsquall]

Strong gust right now in Gresham!

[jcmcgaffey]

Pressure falls/warm advection within the warm sector of the low in the absence of solar insolation? Might be tough to mix down the good winds until the pressure surge arrives.

 

At least that’s how it works here. I don’t know about your microscale stuff/topography.

looks like your right and a bit of the vacuum effect: https://earthsky.org/earth/why-is-there-a-calm-before-a-storm

[Andrew.]

16,157 without power in the PDX metro area now

 

Make that 21,467. Climbing insanely fast

[Requiem]

From what people are describing it looks quite strong here in PDX right now, still increasing. Apparently transformers are blowing all over the place.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

Make that 21,467. Climbing insanely fast

I'm surprised I still have power.

[Requiem]

Make that 21,467. Climbing insanely fast

Make that 21,467. Climbing insanely fast

Gusts are climbing fast too!

[Andrew.]

I'm surprised I still have power.

 

Same, flickering and dimming pretty good here, but still on. The wind is really roaring up above the trees now too.

[Requiem]

49 at PDX. Gets my seal of approval already.

[Andrew.]

[Jbolin]

49 at PDX. Gets my seal of approval already.

Are you happy now, got the "wind bug" out of your system?