February 2019 Weather in the Pacific Northwest - Part 1

[Requiem]

All I wanted was an inch to maybe give me a late start for school. What a letdown.

[FroYoBro]

It would be crazy if we had the technology to see where precipitation was falling.

[HighlandExperience]

If you're following the models verbatim. There's some positive signs to the south around Tacoma so we'll see what happens.

Looks like some good stuff streaming north now

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Seems, judging by obs that precip is becoming more spotty, though the coastal reporting stations are receiving precip again...Hard to say flying blind.

[Perturbed Member]

Snowing on the OR coast. Some of the cameras near Astoria showing 32F and show some snow falling.

[Deweydog]

Fair point, yeah seems the cold and the moisture never line up exactly as we need, too many ways for these things to screw up. I'm always skeptical of these BC slider low snow setups, seems we never end up with quite enough precip, have a southerly breeze until the low ends up passing to the south, etc. Too many moving parts.

 

Nothing like an overrunning event with a juicy low out of the south and a frigid Columbia basin.

Gotta appreciate them when they come. The Sunday night event last February wasn’t a blockbuster but it was pretty exceptional for us. An actually windshift line with focused precip. January 2007 kinda qualified too but I thought that was more happenstance than something actually frontal.

[snow_wizard]

Looks like some good stuff streaming north now

 

When I looked about a half hour ago it was petering out and now...BOOM!  Snow is picking up nicely here.

[BLI snowman]

Winds out of the NNE at Kelso now, looking at the Wundermap it seems to confirm the cooler air has made it in there. 

[Perturbed Member]

That is odd. Sounds like the Metro area hasn't had much precip. I'm around 0.80" of precip on the day. 

 

He isn't exaggerating, there is pretty much nothing happening at all here. I haven't even had rain in a few hours. 

[Guest hawkstwelve]

Well that last band dropped about 1.5 inches here and looked to pickup intensity as it went north so I bet a lot of places are at least fully coated now.

 

Looks like a little break with possibly another band developing south of I-90 moving NNW.

[Dave]

Is tibits running slower than molasses for anyone else? Also, what is the preferred NAM, 32km, 12, or 3 that is generally used on this forum?

[snow_wizard]

I really like the Euro loks for late this week and the weekend.  A few inches of dry snow falls over a couple of days, then a blast, then cold and clear weather.  Pretty hard to beat.

[BLI snowman]

Gotta appreciate them when they come. The Sunday night event last February wasn’t a blockbuster but it was pretty exceptional for us. An actually windshift line with focused precip. January 2007 kinda qualified too but I thought that was more happenstance than something actually frontal.

 

I hear 1/10/17 was kinda nice.

[TT-SEA]

Well that last band dropped about 1.5 inches here and looked to pickup intensity as it went north so I bet a lot of places are at least fully coated now.

 

Looks like a little break with possibly another band developing south of I-90 moving NNW.

 

Yep... snowing harder here again now.

 

How much do you have now?

[snow_wizard]

The change in trajectory is really helping out places further west now.  Coming more from the SSE instead of straight south.

[Deweydog]

I hear 1/10/17 was kinda nice.

Seattle folks were pretty irked about that one as I recall. Probably because it was a completely different animal.

[Meatyorologist]

Seattle folks were pretty irked about that one as I recall. Probably because it was a completely different animal.

I don't wanna talk about that one.

[wxmet]

North Sound special. The EPSL is getting dry-slotted at the moment. Pixie dust in the metro. 

[MossMan]

Snow picking up again. 25.2 degrees.

[Requiem]

Seattle folks were pretty irked about that one as I recall. Probably because it was a completely different animal.

At least that one was never forecast to affect Seattle. Also, they got compensated with 2/6/17.

[MikeInEverett]

At least that one was never forecast to affect Seattle. Also, they got compensated with 2/6/17.

That was not even close to a compensation! Three inches of slop. Always irks me when people say that.

 

That’s all I have to say no more complaining from me for the foreseen future.

[HighlandExperience]

The change in trajectory is really helping out places further west now. Coming more from the SSE instead of straight south.

When do you think the heaviest snow will occur? Midnight to 8am?

[BLI snowman]

Seattle folks were pretty irked about that one as I recall. Probably because it was a completely different animal.

 

That was frontogenesis in action. The low took a favorable track of course, and the convergence from the wind shift did its job.

[Deweydog]

At least that one was never forecast to affect Seattle. Also, they got compensated with 2/6/17.

That one wasn’t really forecast at all. The weather can be difficult to predict!

[MossMan]

Pic was posted earlier via the city of Marysville Facebook page...my area must have had a lot more since we always out perform Marysville!

[BLI snowman]

North Sound special. The EPSL is getting dry-slotted at the moment. Pixie dust in the metro. 

 

Radar actually looks fine for all of King County....

[Blizzard777]

When I looked about a half hour ago it was petering out and now...BOOM!  Snow is picking up nicely here.

now mine is petering !

[Deweydog]

That was frontogenesis in action. The low took a favorable track of course, and the convergence from the wind shift did its job.

It sure did. Like most military minds will tell you, attack angle can be YUGE.

[Deweydog]

Radar still looks good down here.

[bainbridgekid]

That one wasn’t really forecast at all. The weather can be difficult to predict!

You must be thinking of a different event. 2/6/17 was predicted. It was Superbowl Sunday and I remember anxiously waiting for the 35 degree snow I was getting all day to finally start sticking. It started sticking around 8 PM and I ended up getting 5". Areas of the South Sound had heavier precip rates and got close to a foot.

[Guest hawkstwelve]

Yep... snowing harder here again now.

 

How much do you have now?

Just shy of 5. Way more than the 1-2 inches I expected out of this.

[Deweydog]

You must be thinking of a different event. 2/6/17 was predicted. It was Superbowl Sunday and I remember anxiously waiting for the hours of 35 degree snow I was getting to start sticking. It started sticking around 8 PM and I ended up getting 5". Areas of the South Sound had heavier precip rates and got close to a foot.

Yeah I was referring to 1-10-17 down here.

[BLI snowman]

It sure did. Like most military minds will tell you, attack angle can be YUGE.

 

12/9-10/19 was pretty nice, too. 21 inches of arctic front.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Snow mixing in.

[MossMan]

We’re #2!! Bitchin!!

[SilverFallsAndrew]

12/9-10/19 was pretty nice, too. 21 inches of arctic front.

 

That one was impressively widespread too, well at least compared to 1/10/17.

[Deweydog]

12/9-10/19 was pretty nice, too. 21 inches of arctic front.

[GHweatherChris]

[snow_wizard]

Snowing more heavily now and beginning to freeze up.  It has arrived!

[Deweydog]

South winds are back at Kelso. Pesky little f*ckers...