April 2019 Weather Discussion in the PNW

[GHweatherChris]

Some of the stuff posted on here today is beyond stupid.

Yep!!

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Yep!!

 

I wish we could just talk about the weather without all getting butthurt due to our personal preferences. And then others could show some restraint at least when that invariably happens... 

[Jesse]

I wish we could just talk about the weather without all getting butthurt due to our personal preferences. And then others could show some restraint at least when that invariably happens...

Are you getting any rain today?

[GHweatherChris]

Been in Seaside since yesterday, so glad today's system is falling apart, weather has been great!!

[Deweydog]

Wow...

 

No more NAM after August 31, 2019. ‘Bout time they put that ***** out to pasture.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Are you getting any rain today?

 

It has been drizzling all day here in Salem. I doubt where I am there has been more than a couple hundredths. SLE has picked up 0.05" so far. 

[TT-SEA]

70 for a high so far in North Bend and 69 here.

 

Our cottonwoods are leafing out today.     

[SilverFallsAndrew]

70 for a high so far in North Bend and 69 here.

 

Our cottonwoods are leafing out today.     

 

The cottonwoods leafed out in February back in 2015. 

 

Cottonwoods leafing out is not really a weather topic though. Perhaps a separate thread would suffice, especially since some find such posts especially triggering.

[TT-SEA]

The cottonwoods leafed out in February back in 2015. 

 

Cottonwoods leafing out is not really a weather topic though. Perhaps a separate thread would suffice, especially since some find such posts especially triggering.

 

 

Late March or early April seems about normal here.

 

Looks like they leafed out in early to mid March here in 2015... but that was really early.

[GHweatherChris]

Personally leafing out isn't my thing... opinions matter!

[SilverFallsAndrew]

18z looking pretty wet over the next week and pretty troughy, though not super wet beyond that. 

[Jesse]

The cottonwoods leafed out in February back in 2015.

 

Cottonwoods leafing out is not really a weather topic though. Perhaps a separate thread would suffice, especially since some find such posts especially triggering.

I was really astounded how far along the cottonwoods were in the Salem area the other day.

 

But yes as you said not really a weather topic...

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Late March or early April seems about normal here.

 

Looks like they leafed out in early to mid March here in 2015... but that was really early.

 

There was essentially no winter here in 2014-15.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

I was really astounded how far along the cottonwoods were in the Salem area the other day.

 

But yes as you said not really a weather topic...

 

Live look at the cottonwood outside my office window. Incredible how much it has leafed out!

 

[GHweatherChris]

Live look at the cottonwood outside my office window. Incredible how much it has leafed out!

 

Wrong thread!

[Cloud]

Terrific day. It’s up to 67 with a slight breeze. Gotta enjoy this since mid-week is when we transition to a more active pattern.

[Jesse]

Live look at the cottonwood outside my office window. Incredible how much it has leafed out!

 

 

Don’t make me whip out the traffic cams.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Don’t make me whip out the traffic cams.

 

This is such a pointless topic. 

[Jesse]

The winds are still offshore with relatively low dewpoints up here in the Portland area. Really not much of a surprise today’s system fell apart on us all things considered. Let’s hope the other systems this week don’t suffer the same fate.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

The winds are still offshore with relatively low dewpoints up here in the Portland area. Really not much of a surprise today’s system fell apart on us all things considered. Let’s hope the other systems this week don’t suffer the same fate.

 

GFS is showing basically average precip through the first half of the month.

 

[Jesse]

GFS is showing basically average precip through the first half of the month.

 

Looks nice.

[TT-SEA]

Live look at the cottonwood outside my office window. Incredible how much it has leafed out!

 

 

 

Horrible!  

 

They are much farther along up here.  

[TT-SEA]

Looks intolerable.

 

 

Looks nice.   We need the rain.   

[TT-SEA]

Live look at the cottonwood outside my office window. Incredible how much it has leafed out!

 

 

Took this yesterday in North Bend... I am sure these trees are farther along now after another 70-degree day.

 

[GHweatherChris]

Good lord

[Omegaraptor]

Of course, people are talking about the upcoming rain as if it's a bad thing. 

 

Do you want to spend a quarter of the year shrouded in wildfire smoke?

[TacomaWaWx]

We absolutely need the rain. Looks like the upcoming week will feature lots of November like weather we really need that.

[TT-SEA]

Beautiful evening... still 68 here.

 

[MossMan]

We absolutely need the rain. Looks like the upcoming week will feature lots of November like weather we really need that.

I’m okay with a few days of rain but hopefully we don’t get into a constant wet pattern.

[Jesse]

Sprinkles!

[TacomaWaWx]

I’m okay with a few days of rain but hopefully we don’t get into a constant wet pattern.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was like last April, wet at the beginning and more dry towards the end.

[Jesse]

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was like last April, wet at the beginning and more dry towards the end.

As long as we continue courting severe drought I will be a happy camper.

[TT-SEA]

As long as we continue courting severe drought I will be a happy camper.

 

 

If we have a top tier wet April up here like last year... our short period of "abnormally dry" on the drought maps will be wiped out and all will be good. 

[El_Nina]

As long as we continue courting severe drought I will be a happy camper.

I'm praying that the grass turns brown in May again. Might actually happen too.

[Front Ranger]

Those upper 70s were a huge aberration. Would have been warm by July standards.

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They were the warmest temps on record that early in the year for many places.

[TT-SEA]

They were the warmest temps on record that early in the year for many places.

 

Interesting... we had no idea it was aberration.   That was good information from Phil!   Maybe all record highs and lows are an aberration?     

 

Nahhhh.  

[Front Ranger]

Antics?   Hiding?

 

Saying there must be lots of UHI out here today is hiding my intentions?  

 

Phil can't stand the thought that it can actually be warm at SEA and many times even warmer out here.    

 

Nature trolls Phil all the time... 

 

 

Nature trolls us all. 

 

But especially you, Jesse, and Phil.

[TT-SEA]

Nature trolls us all. 

 

But especially you, Jesse, and Phil.

 

 

Very true.

[Front Ranger]

Wow...

 

No more NAM after August 31, 2019. ‘Bout time they put that ***** out to pasture.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w

 

I'm sad. What model will we say "now it's in ___ range" for? 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Said it in the March thread accidentally, but RIP yard work for a while.  Models have the S Valley being rainy enough at some point every day for the next 2 weeks that it will be unfeasible to do the mowing.  I just mowed 2 days ago and it's already almost as tall as it was.  Not looking forward to trying to mow grass that will be a foot tall or more in the back half of the month.

 

We need the rain but it would be nice to have one 24 hr period to be able to get something done outside in the next 14 days.

 

I'm not sure of the year, but I remember there was at some point 3 straight weeks in April-May with no days being feasible to mow. Had to go and fill up the gas can in the middle of mowing because the push mower used all of it.  Stalled out every 10 feet or less with too much wet grass on the one day there was even a small chance to do it, and then it was like another 2 weeks without being able to do it again.