February 2019 Weather in the Pacific Northwest - Part 1

[TT-SEA]

What was your final? what's temp there?

 

10 inches here.. exactly the same as North Bend which is 570 feet lower.  

 

Temperature is 25 right now and dead calm... snow is still hanging onto every branch of every tree.  

[Cloud]

Not sure there is much to it anyways... its technically now over me and its not doing anything at all.

 

Of course its a little harder to tell when its snowing when the entire world out there is all white.

The bulk of the action is to your south Enumclaw and Maple Valley are receiving snow showers from this band.

[Deweydog]

Flurreee!

[Jesse]

Cold with a stiff NW breeze in Salmon Creek.

Down to 33. Flurries have ended for now.

[Guest Sounder]

Someone spotted Cliff Mass walking around with a wig and lipstick on today. Wierd.

Should we keep a tally of how many times he's been right, or would that get in the way of everyone jerking each other off over hating him?

[TT-SEA]

The bulk of the action is to your south Enumclaw and Maple Valley are receiving snow showers from this band.

 

 

Looks really light even down there on the traffic cams.   I think I did just see a snowflake though.

[MossMan]

My driveway and my one mile commute to work. Not a single car and roads unplowed...love watching the dry snow blowing around behind my truck as I drove in.

[Guest hawkstwelve]

Looks fairly weak but stretches a little further north so it might allow some parts of King County to see more snow flying in the air.

[Cloud]

Looks really light even down there on the traffic cams. I think I did just see a snowflake though.

Yeah. I don’t think it will amount to anything and will fizzle as it track west.

[jakeinthevalley]

He’s just not that kind of guy. He had a lead position at a Kinkos in Renton. He just lost it. He’s also hypertensive which doesn’t help.

Desktop publishing is a stressful job though.

[seattleweatherguy]

There is another band developing from the east and heading towards DT Seattle.

Need it to go more north than that but there is hope now

[Blizzard777]

26.8* and wind gust to 22

My snow is blowing away!

Watching the light band of snow move my way in hopes of replacing what was lost

[Deweydog]

Desktop publishing is a stressful job though.

A lot of term papers pass through your hands...

[luvssnow_spokane]

Not sure there is much to it anyways... its technically now over me and its not doing anything at all.  

 

Of course its a little harder to tell when its snowing when the entire world out there is all white.   

Been snowing here lightly for the last 30min. I assume it is related to that.

[Cloud]

Need it to go more north than that but there is hope now

It’s tracking NNW so it might get there. Kent, Renton will get something.

[Phil]

FWIW, this is good news for at least a more more normal summer *if* it proves to be persistent. Off-equator NE-Pacific cooling (-PMM tendency) right here. Would help tighten the EPAC ITCZ and displace the 4CH to the SE. The SE-Pacific warming is good news too, as is the modest -SIOD tendency (meaningless at this stage, of course).

 

Goes to show how wavebreaking in the extratropics of the winter hemisphere can feed-back on the tropics and subtropics of that hemisphere.

 

[Gradient Keeper]

Day 3.5 Absolutely remarkable agreement between the 12z GFS, ECMWF, GEM, and now 18z NAM handling the 500mb pattern identically in lock-step. Colder runs ahead. Money Back Guarantee.

 

00z ECMWF in 8 hour 37 minutes

[Blizzard777]

Splat!

Also check out one of the building cams from the roof and it is all snow up there

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

I just realized that band heading west extends clear over the mountains into eastern wa. You can now see it backfilling

[Deweydog]

I’m gonna bump up the hyperbole and call this LIGHT SNOW.

[Phil]

My driveway and my one mile commute to work. Not a single car and roads unplowed...love watching the dry snow blowing around behind my truck as I drove in.

Awesome photos, man!

 

I wish conic evergreens grew well here. The way they look in the snow (and hold it) is just perfect.

[BLI snowman]

Another prediction I fear will come true: We will waste pages splitting hairs and debating over whether a few tenths of a degree centigrade in niño 3.4 SSTs made the difference in the outcome of the winter.

 

Our threshold-bounded empirical orthogonal functions are not suitable for a system that does everything it possibly can to avoid threshold-bounded behavior (when it fails to do so, it’s evident to everyone..no debate needed).

 

Yeah, I don't think the difference between weak Nino and strongly positive neutral is such that it has any tangible impacts on our weather. All that matters for now is that Nino forcing hasn't kicked in to put its usual death stamp on our late winter.

[seattleweatherguy]

It’s tracking NNW so it might get there. Kent, Renton will get something.

How soon gonna need to plow drive way later with snow shovel

[HighlandExperience]

[Codyjack]

Light snow blowing around downtown Portland

[Frontal Snowsquall]

Day 3.5 Absolutely remarkable agreement between the 12z GFS, ECMWF, GEM, and now 18z NAM handling the 500mb pattern identically in lock-step. Colder runs ahead. Money Back Guarantee.

 

00z ECMWF in 8 hour 37 minutes

 

We need to pay Gorton's Fisherman again just to be sure!

[Andrew.]

Dumping snow in downtown Portland right now

[Blizzard777]

I just realized that band heading west extends clear over the mountains into eastern wa. You can now see it backfilling

I have this feeling it will dissipate but will gladly enjoy it if it hold together

[Phil]

Baseball season is looming..it’s 55*F and sunny..I could be in the cages shaking off the winter rust.

 

Instead I’m obsessively tracking a snowstorm on the other side of the continent. I have no life.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

The PNW got a mention today from Ryan Maue:

 

'Only 25°F in Seattle with light snow. A small piece or lobe of the "polar vortex" escaped British Columbia on a retrograde course down the U.S. West Coast. This is the Pacific NW's version of an "Arctic Blast"'

 

https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1092453435033743360

[kokaneekidz]

I see rotation on that band coming out of the Cascades. Are you getting snow yet in North Bend?

[Frontal Snowsquall]

Dumping snow in downtown Portland right now

 

Nice! Snow picking up here in Gresham.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Meso models do show that band filling in the seattle area for a few hrs. Its the upper edge of the deformation band that is a little further north than previous solutions.

[Blizzard777]

Dumping snow in downtown Portland right now

https://katu.com/weather/cameras

 

See the sky cam

[epiceast]

This is a super impressive deformation band for such a cold polar low, approximately forms a quadrilateral between Seattle, Portland, Baker city and Lewiston, about 200*350 miles

[kokaneekidz]

Nice .... I like how this thing is like a gift that keeps giving

Meso models do show that band filling in the seattle area for a few hrs. Its the upper edge of the deformation band that is a little further north than previous solutions.

[Phil]

Those obs out of BLI last night were pretty amazing. That’s something you’d expect to see on the backside of a bombing nor’easter, not a low elevation maritime climate.

 

I’m officially impressed. Bigly.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Nice to see all you nuts down south getting action!

[Tyler Mode]

Finally seeing a decent drop in temps.  From just below 40 at noon to 36 now.  Light snow.

[FroYoBro]

Still have not seen a snowflake, but I think it is coming in the next couple of hours.