February Snowfalls 2/10-2/12, Part III & IV

[MossMan]

Temp steadily dropping. 26.6.

With a little over a foot on the ground.

[GHweatherChris]

Happy thoughts!!

[Guest Sounder]

For what its worth

- models are not 100% on the direction of a low, even hours out

- we have seen shifts of 20-50 miles a day before

- mixing at all levels is always difficult to model and in my experience has either been overdone or underdone

- as much as some have been playing up the rain factor - sleet and freezing rain might be more likely if cold is stubborn or low a little further south

- I-90 north still will most likely add to their snow totals in most scenarios

- still cold after this and there are still chances to be had to add

- it can still snow at sea level in March

- the last time we had a Feb this snowy was 1949...

 

April 2008 would like a word with you.

[joelgombiner]

Cold air flowing back into Puget Lowland.

[Guest Sounder]

What if this pattern stays until July!!! We could have a year round snow pack this year!!!!!

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

For me, this was better than 2008.

There is a chance I'll have close to 30 inches of snow here by late tomorrow night. That's the deepest since 96 when there was 34 to 38 inches. Crazy.

[MossMan]

What if this pattern stays until July!!! We could have a year round snow pack this year!!!!!

Just need to have a very large meteor impact earth...that should give us a snowy July!

[MossMan]

There is a chance I'll have close to 30 inches of snow here by late tomorrow night. That's the deepest since 96 when there was 34 to 38 inches. Crazy.

Good thing you brought your plow truck home!

[χιόνι (chióni)]

Finally made it home from Texas. Measured 12.5 inches

[bainbridgekid]

Cold air flowing back into Puget Lowland.

Anacortes down to 20 degrees with a NE wind gusting to 25 mph. An 11 degree drop in the last 3 hours. 

 

https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KWAANACO17#history

 

Looks like the low tracked right over Mt. Vernon, and the cold air is spilling back in from the North West of there. It will be very interesting to see how far South down the Sound this cold air is able to make it tonight. Huge implications for tomorrow's forecast.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Good thing you brought your plow truck home!

I was in it yesterday most of day plowing for clients i have. GOOD MONEY! this will make the 28 years I've been plowing with that truck.

[kokaneekidz]

Yeah it is in teens again in bli

[kokaneekidz]

That front really mixed up the atmosphere. Now things are cooling down again ...... Reload the cold for the main enchilada tomorrow

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

My gut feeling is this will be a big snow event for the sound with 4-12 inches common from tacoma north. Probable 12-20 on the kitsap peninsula.

[kokaneekidz]

My gut feeling is this will be a big snow event for the sound with 4-12 inches common from tacoma north. Probable 12-20 on the kitsap peninsula.

[snow_wizard]

It's going to come down to how cold the east winds are tomorrow for King County.  Obviously the strength of this first disturbance really wrecked havoc on our store of cold air.  It is 12 on Stampeded Pass and 19 in Lester so the outflow could be pretty cold tomorrow.  Just wish the stupid thing today could have worked out better here.  At least I got an inch.

[MossMan]

Anacortes down to 20 degrees with a NE wind gusting to 25 mph. An 11 degree drop in the last 3 hours.

 

https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KWAANACO17#history

 

Looks like the low tracked right over Mt. Vernon, and the cold air is spilling back in from the North West of there. It will be very interesting to see how far South down the Sound this cold air is able to make it tonight. Huge implications for tomorrow's forecast.

Seems like those temps up north are colder than the original arctic outflow event on Friday.

[snow_wizard]

Anacortes down to 20 degrees with a NE wind gusting to 25 mph. An 11 degree drop in the last 3 hours. 

 

https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KWAANACO17#history

 

Looks like the low tracked right over Mt. Vernon, and the cold air is spilling back in from the North West of there. It will be very interesting to see how far South down the Sound this cold air is able to make it tonight. Huge implications for tomorrow's forecast.

 

It does appear the north interior may be colder than it was expected to be tonight.

[MossMan]

Going out to the living room to check my temp one more time...stand by...

[runninthruda206]

My gut feeling is this will be a big snow event for the sound with 4-12 inches common from tacoma north. Probable 12-20 on the kitsap peninsula.

yes pls

[bainbridgekid]

Really easy to track the cold air using the Wundermap.

 

20 degrees with a NE wind in Anacortes and 27 with a SW wind in Mt. Vernon 15 miles East of there.

 

[MossMan]

25.7

[MossMan]

Going out to the living room to check my temp one more time...stand by...

68.

[snow_wizard]

My gut feeling is this will be a big snow event for the sound with 4-12 inches common from tacoma north. Probable 12-20 on the kitsap peninsula.

 

I hope you're right.  The combo of getting screwed today and the awful GFS run really pissed me off earlier.

[bainbridgekid]

A station on the North side of Whidbey Island is also down to 23 degrees now with a North wind.

 

They were sitting at 32 at 10 PM.

 

https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KWAOAKHA89

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Bremerton airport north wind now also.

[snow_wizard]

I'm getting graupel here of all things and the temp has dropped below freezing.  The cold is making a quick comeback.

[snow_wizard]

Wind has even switched to NW here now.  Amazing return of cold air.

[kokaneekidz]

Tonight sure has been bizarre. At least the super cold air is so close by . It has already reacquainted itself here firmly in the last hour quite the tease tonight

[snow_wizard]

Things were getting a bit drippy earlier, but now it has refrozen.  North winds have made it to Auburn.  I feel much better about our chances now.  The cold air getting wiped out earlier really freaked me out.  I want this one!

[snow_wizard]

Tonight sure has been bizarre. At least the super cold air is so close by . It has already reacquainted itself here firmly in the last hour quite the tease tonight

 

 

For sure.  I was D**n near throwing things an hour ago.  Now it's snowing and frozen.

[bainbridgekid]

Tonight sure has been bizarre. At least the super cold air is so close by . It has already reacquainted itself here firmly in the last hour quite the tease tonight

How much snow did you get tonight? Got 3" here a couple miles East of you.

I noticed Everett pulled off a 32/13 day today. Impressive.

[snow_wizard]

Some really cold air in the river valleys on the west slopes of the Cascades.  That will be needed tomorrow.

[kokaneekidz]

3.5 new about 13" total on ground. It sure looks lovely. Wish it was like this 3 months out of the year every year. Just like whitefish Montana... Lol

[Skagit Weather]

24F here. Maybe I'll be right on the boundary of the cold air like I was in 2012 I think...It snowed for a day straight and it came out to 2.00" of liquid water equivalent. Unfortunately it was also 33F outside and accumulated to a grand total of 2" of snow.

 

On the other hand I would have to get precipitation to have that happen and the NAM and the Icon have now trended drier with the NAM saying no snow up here at all.

 

Here's the 3km Nam. Whether we should put any stock in it is another issue.

 

[Silverfin]

Looks like its finally stopping, a solid 10 1/2 hours of continuous snowfall south Bellingham.

 

Nevermind 2am still snowing.

[snow_wizard]

^{This cold air coming in from the north is a really big deal.  Tomorrow the easterly outflow will act like a brick wall keeping the southerly winds from making it past the King / Pierce County line.  That will protect all of the cold air that flows in tonight from being scoured out.}

[TigerWoodsLibido]

^{This cold air coming in from the north is a really big deal. Tomorrow the easterly outflow will act like a brick wall keeping the southerly winds from making it past the King / Pierce County line. That will protect all of the cold air that flows in tonight from being scoured out.}

See this kind of thing will never occur in the Willamette Valley ever again. It’s nice that your climate is still capable of it.

[snow_wizard]

Geeze.  Every post has a different font.  What's up with that?

[snow_wizard]

See this kind of thing will never occur in the Willamette Valley ever again. It’s nice that your climate is still capable of it.

 

You had an epic event in Feb 2014.  We largely missed out on that.