PNW April 2023 Weather Discussion

[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.

[KeyPeninsula_Wx]

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. 

[SnowySeeker]

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.

[SnowySeeker]

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.

[KeyPeninsula_Wx]

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

[KeyPeninsula_Wx]

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!

[MWG]

Crazy start of April.

[MV_snow]

4 hours ago, TacomaWx said:

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. 

Yeah, I’d give the winter here a solid B for here. Only thing missing was a big snow event but we got plenty of small events and even January didn’t totally suck since we got some action at the end. Plus Dec 22 was an unforgettable day with highs in the low 20s with gusts in the 40s and had a Midwest winter feel to it for sure. Sucks that we were so close to big snow events many times but just couldn’t quite pull it off.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Solid 00z GFS run. Looks like 3 nice warm days. Should be a nice gift for our fair weather fans. 

[Blizzard777]

Traveled down to PDX….as reported heavy hail showers and one clap of lightning ️

While under the heavy showers the temp dropped to 37*   

[KeyPeninsula_Wx]

Some very very chunky rain falling. Seems pretty darn close to flakeage under this heavy shower. 

[RayRay]

Waiting to see some snowflakes 

[Slushy Inch]

31 minutes ago, RayRay said:

Waiting to see some snowflakes 

Better save that battery so you can video.

[Deweydog]

Five minutes left for foolin’ folks…

[TT-SEA]

00Z ECMWF shows a rainy weekend next week for western WA.   Feels like that is how it usually works when ridging tries to build in the spring.   Warm rain is good too.  This run shows some rain next Sunday with dewpoints in the mid to upper 50s.

[snow maniac]

Getting some light snow this morning. Pretty wet stuff though