PNW April 2023 Weather Discussion

[Meatyorologist]

10 minutes ago, Meatyorologist said:

It's about to pop off for sure.

Total april fool's joke. Prank'd hard. Not even a sprinkle, just some grey clouds and gusty winds as the lifting mechanism (advancing cold air pool) fell apart fast. Actually really funny how things played out given today's holiday.

These parcels are sharing no pause spilling their contents all over southern snohomish county though. There have been red echoes there for like an hour now. As is the way things typically seem to play out.

[Winterdog]

Having a few blobs with the rain.  36F now and also the low so far after a high of 42.  Picked up .29" of precip since midnight.  Thanks for being you.

[Meatyorologist]

Wow.

[Slushy Inch]

13 minutes ago, Winterdog said:

Having a few blobs with the rain.  36F now and also the low so far after a high of 42.  Picked up .29" of precip since midnight.  Thanks for being you.

I heard Everett is down to 36 as well. Crazy.

[TacomaWx]

Had some moderate rain earlier but we’re just a little too far north with this WSW flow coming in. Flow needs to turn a bit more southerly for us to get nailed. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Up to 41 here. Precip type was hail with the last shower. 

[NWbyNW]

The over hour long hail event left a THICC slush behind. 

[T-Town]

2 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

Had some moderate rain earlier but we’re just a little too far north with this WSW flow coming in. Flow needs to turn a bit more southerly for us to get nailed. 

Getting a good soaking here from this shower.  Some splats mixed in. 

[NWbyNW]

It has been a few minutes and the roads are starting to clear, but you can still see the heavy slush buildup on the sides and in the parking lot.  Stunning this hail event we had.  

 

 

 

 

[TacomaWx]

7 minutes ago, T-Town said:

Getting a good soaking here from this shower.  Some splats mixed in. 

Seems quite possible that there could be snowflakes in the overnight hours with how cold this airmass is. That’s if there’s precipitation of course. It’s pretty darn chilly hit 41 a bit ago in mid afternoon that’s pretty cold. 

[TacomaWx]

As cold as this airmass is, april 2022 was a beast in its own league. That was mid month and we pulled off 2 days with trace accumulations of snow. Coldest April day I’ve ever recorded with a 42/32 temp spread on 4/13 last year…which was totally insane for that time of year. 

[Omegaraptor]

Two separate showers with hail today, one with a few flashes of lightning, plenty of sun as well. Really fun and active weather day to kick off April!

[jcmcgaffey]

Quite the temp difference on either side of the convergence. Upper 40s to low 50s to the north and south while 30s with snow within the convergence. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

12 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

As cold as this airmass is, april 2022 was a beast in its own league. That was mid month and we pulled off 2 days with trace accumulations of snow. Coldest April day I’ve ever recorded with a 42/32 temp spread on 4/13 last year…which was totally insane for that time of year. 

Yeah this isnt much different than April airmasses we have seen in 2020, 2018, and 2015. Potential to be in the same league as 2012 which was a very cold early April airmass. Early April 2009 seems like a decent analog too. 

Edited April 1 by SilverFallsAndrew

[smerfylicious]

Welp it's pouring hail upon me in Gold Bar. I'm just sitting in my car waiting for a break to go inside. 

[Front Ranger]

14 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

As cold as this airmass is, april 2022 was a beast in its own league. That was mid month and we pulled off 2 days with trace accumulations of snow. Coldest April day I’ve ever recorded with a 42/32 temp spread on 4/13 last year…which was totally insane for that time of year. 

That same airmass briefly affected us here, delivering a low of 10 on 4/13, the second latest DEN has been that cold.

And then 9 days later we hit 89, the second earliest to reach that temp.

[SnowySeeker50]

Couple of hail showers today. Currently 46 degrees

[smerfylicious]

Decided to snap a couple of pics.

 

[GHweatherChris]

5 minutes ago, smerfylicious said:

Decided to snap a couple of pics.

 

Looks like some snow flakeage too!!

 

[TacomaWx]

7 minutes ago, smerfylicious said:

Decided to snap a couple of pics.

 

Shades of the April 2008 convergence zone up north today

[Slushy Inch]

12 minutes ago, smerfylicious said:

Welp it's pouring hail upon me in Gold Bar. I'm just sitting in my car waiting for a break to go inside. 

Anything serious has bypassed Bothell again.

[TacomaWx]

12 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

That same airmass briefly affected us here, delivering a low of 10 on 4/13, the second latest DEN has been that cold.

And then 9 days later we hit 89, the second earliest to reach that temp.

That month stayed pretty cold here the entire time besides a very quick temp spike in early April. Went from me kayaking on the sound in the mid 70s to snow and 34 degrees in mid afternoon and stickage just a couple days later. 

[SnowySeeker50]

Some ice pellets mixing in with this shower.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Hope y’all up north can get some snow so you can acknowledge this was a stellar winter. Probably won’t see one this good in the west region for another 40 years. Though I’m sure at some point we get a great arctic outbreak.

[SnowySeeker50]

Nice hail shower from this one.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

Backyard magnolia.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

12Z Euro is still on the snow train for tonight.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

12Z GFS.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

HRRR now covers tomorrow morning. Is forecasting snow.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

NAM 3km says “No snow for you!”

[Rubus Leucodermis]

HRDPS says April snow.

[TacomaWx]

46/38 today currently 43. We will see if we can manage some flakeage at some point tonight! 

[TacomaWx]

18 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Hope y’all up north can get some snow so you can acknowledge this was a stellar winter. Probably won’t see one this good in the west region for another 40 years. Though I’m sure at some point we get a great arctic outbreak.

It was a great winter up here. A lot of people just have different preferences and expectations for what makes a great winter. Statistically it was one of the best of the 21st century. Most people don’t really care about the statistics of it…and are more focused on if they got a big snow or not. Kinda how your favorite winter 2020-2021 was considered amazing because of 1 huge snow event but the rest of it was the opposite of statistically impressive. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

At this stage, I would say that the most reasonable forecast is for at least some wet snow to fall IMBY tonight or more precisely tomorrow morning. The preponderance of models are calling for it, and the Euro has been quite insistent about it most of the past week.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

Official Environment Canada forecast for Vancouver is now for wet flurries IMBY tomorrow morning.

It’s happening.

[MossMan]

Saw the cloud coming a few minutes ago…Now we have hail! 

[MossMan]

11 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Saw the cloud coming a few minutes ago…Now we have hail! 

And now it’s sunny again. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

38 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Hope y’all up north can get some snow so you can acknowledge this was a stellar winter. Probably won’t see one this good in the west region for another 40 years. Though I’m sure at some point we get a great arctic outbreak.

It’s been a stellar winter for me already! If I score some sticking snow tomorrow morning, it will the cherry on top of the sundae.

[Phil]

holy mother of gawd this wind is bonkers. Almost hurricane force gusts. can see transformers popping off like lightning.

[Phil]

I just hit 72mph. What the heeeck. And somehow still have power.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

Just had a hail/graupel shower move through. 42.8˚F.

[GHweatherChris]

2 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Hope y’all up north can get some snow so you can acknowledge this was a stellar winter. Probably won’t see one this good in the west region for another 40 years. Though I’m sure at some point we get a great arctic outbreak.

Winter has been over for quite some time man, it was not a stellar winter for here, it was lame.  But hey, fun spring weather is fun!!

 

[T-Town]

[Deweydog]

HAIL

[SilverFallsAndrew]

We ll be talking about this one for a very very long time. One for the ages for sure!

[FroYoBro]

51 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

We ll be talking about this one for a very very long time. One for the ages for sure!

Yeah, everyone besides Washington posters. It’s really strange how a lot of people up there aren’t interested in extreme weather. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Three years ago today. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

Don’t worry guys, I’m ok. I’m waiting until midnight to report my daily obs since it’s likely I will have a midnight low by then.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

GFS is pretty wet Thursday and Friday. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

17 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Don’t worry guys, I’m ok. I’m waiting until midnight to report my daily obs since it’s likely I will have a midnight low by then.

That's one of the more weather-geeky things I have seen posted here in some time.

Congratulations!