PNW April 2023 Weather Discussion

[TigerWoodsLibido]

26 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

Where are you?  Did you take a vacation?

Embassy suites at PDX. Kiddo had an event up here at Parkrose area.

[TT-SEA]

1 minute ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Embassy suites at PDX. Kiddo had an event up here at Parkrose area.

Great breakfast there!  

[TigerWoodsLibido]

1 minute ago, TT-SEA said:

Great breakfast there!  

Me tomorrow…

[Cascadia_Wx]

5 hours ago, Phil said:

 

Ya think we’re flipping back?

[Cascadia_Wx]

Ended up with a 65/47 day here. Partly to mostly cloudy and mild. Warmest day in over a month. You could visibly see the leaf out progress from this morning to this evening today.

Looks like a decent front along the coast now. That long range 18z also looked lit.

[Phil]

21 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Ya think we’re flipping back?

It’s trying to. Whether it’s successful or not remains to be seen.

If we did flip back that would be hella awesome for a number reasons, so I hope so.  

[AlTahoe]

Warmest day of the year so far at 56F. Felt amazing. Skied in a t shirt and no gloves. 

[Jakewestsalem]

3 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Beautiful evening looking out over the DeSantis Ridge development. I would love for one of you fellow weenies to be one of my new neighbors. 5 to 11 acre homesites available July 1. Lot 6 will border my property. 6.39 acres.

Seems like everything up there is owned by that family

[Doinko]

That cell near Albany is dumping rain according to my friend, a lightning strike too

[GHweatherChris]

No lighting registered....

[Doinko]

9 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

No lighting registered....

Must've been cloud to cloud or they saw something else and thought it was lightning

[MossMan]

Glad I mowed earlier today! Started raining quite moderately this evening. 
Up to .31” on the day, 3.71” for the month. 
61/44 on the day, currently 51 degrees. Finally got a little bloomage going on. 

[Doinko]

Heavy rain outside

[MossMan]

Heavy duty rain currently!! 

[the_convergence_zone]

It’s juicy out there.

53.6 / 53.2 

Rain is starting to pile up as well. 

[Deweydog]

DROUGHT BUSTER!

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Looks like it will be chilly in Chicago this week. A good 10-12 degrees below normal it looks like the next few days. Be a shock for the rest of the fam when they join me from Southern California. 

[Tyler Mode]

A wet and warm morning out there. 54 with 0.34" of rain, now up to 7.06" for the month.

[MossMan]

.46” so far on the day, 1.02” since last evening. 
Raining and 46 degrees. 

[Skagit Weather]

It's pretty clear to see where the Olympic rain shadow has been located this month. Less than 70% of normal for the NW interior while the Portland and Hood Canal areas are up over 200%. Up to 1.48" so far here after .18" yesterday and .15" today.

[Cold Snap]

12 hours ago, Phil said:

It’s trying to. Whether it’s successful or not remains to be seen.

If we did flip back that would be hella awesome for a number reasons, so I hope so.  

Isn’t 1980 about the time when the January curse started?

[Phil]

Lots of EPS members with dynamic solutions in the NW during the first week of May. Lot much agreement yet, but increasing number of members crash the ridge with ULL activity.

Looks like terrain circulations leading to convection under steep lapse rates in the stronger ULL solutions. Interesting.

[Phil]

3 minutes ago, Cold Snap said:

Isn’t 1980 about the time when the January curse started?

Interesting. I hadn’t thought about that but I think you’re right.

[BLI snowman]

19 minutes ago, Cold Snap said:

Isn’t 1980 about the time when the January curse started?

1980 and 1982 were great Januaries and they generally sucked after that.

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

53 minutes ago, Skagit Weather said:

It's pretty clear to see where the Olympic rain shadow has been located this month. Less than 70% of normal for the NW interior while the Portland and Hood Canal areas are up over 200%. Up to 1.48" so far here after .18" yesterday and .15" today.

Shadow has been particularly brutal for the last few months

[Cold Snap]

1 hour ago, Phil said:

Interesting. I hadn’t thought about that but I think you’re right.

Yeah it makes me wonder if the flip back ends up being successful that it may be able to break the January curse.

[T-Town]

Sunny and breezy and 54 here. 

[MossMan]

Heavy drizzle and 45 degrees.

.55” so far on the day, 4.51” for the month, 19.65” for the year. 

Edited April 23, 2023 by MossMan

[Cascadia_Wx]

Heavy drizzle and 51 here. Low for the day so far. Picked up a juicy .36” rain overnight.

[Anti Marine Layer]

2 hours ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

Shadow has been particularly brutal for the last few months

It can be sunny in the rain shadow.

[Meatyorologist]

3 hours ago, Phil said:

Lots of EPS members with dynamic solutions in the NW during the first week of May. Lot much agreement yet, but increasing number of members crash the ridge with ULL activity.

Looks like terrain circulations leading to convection under steep lapse rates in the stronger ULL solutions. Interesting.

This would be awesome. ULL's create zany, variable weather here, compared to our usual zonal fair.

[Cascadia_Wx]

Hefty crash between Friday and Sunday on the 12z Euro. From low 80s to around 60, for Portland.

Saturday looks decent still with highs in the low to mid 70s. 

[jcmcgaffey]

4 hours ago, Skagit Weather said:

It's pretty clear to see where the Olympic rain shadow has been located this month. Less than 70% of normal for the NW interior while the Portland and Hood Canal areas are up over 200%. Up to 1.48" so far here after .18" yesterday and .15" today.

Normally that map would signify a lot of storms from the south or pineapple express pattern. Don’t see that sort of precip dispersement with the colder weather we have been having.  Pretty interesting to see. 

[Winterdog]

.66" today, 1.08" last 24 hours, 5.72" so far this month and 21.65" for the year so far.  Cloudy but not raining and 50 after a not so low of 46.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Who messed up the color scheme?

[Anti Marine Layer]

14 hours ago, 1 said:

A surprise 0.24" from a heavy shower this evening. Monthly total of 4.70" now exceeds last April's total. 25.33" for the water year is still below normal but if there has to be a deficit, it came at the right time. I'd rather have a wet spring follow a dry winter than the reverse.

Are you Fred?

[FroYoBro]

Lol. I like the new website picture. Very cool. 

[Iceresistance]

Okay!? Who hacked here to change The Weather Forums logo and ranks to a man with cash??

[Anti Marine Layer]

3 minutes ago, Iceresistance said:

Okay!? Who hacked here to change The Weather Forums logo and ranks to a man with cash??

Climate change 

[Deweydog]

Cash money!