October 2019 Weather Discussion for the PNW

[Deweydog]

PDX warming!!!

 

#f*****gairports

[Requiem]

PDX gusted to 36, Glen Jackson to 40. It's here!

[TacomaWaWx]

Wind has roared to life very suddenly in Tacoma.

[Gradient Keeper]

Strong winds now at my house near West Gresham! I can hear the roar coming from my east before it even reaches my house. Power Outages now steadily increasing.

 

 

 

[ShawniganLake]

Calm winds. 31.8F

[Requiem]

Strong winds now at my house near West Gresham! I can hear the roar coming from my east before it even reaches my house. Power Outages now steadily increasing.

 

 

 

 

Gust to 47 mph at Glen Jackson Bridge!

[Gradient Keeper]

Gust to 47 mph at Glen Jackson Bridge!

G 50mph now!

[TacomaWaWx]

Really steady east winds going now pretty loud outside.

[Perturbed Member]

Winds have arrived in the western metro now too. Temps shot up 10F in just minutes from the mixing and dewpoints are crashing. 

 

Now we just need the low to make landfall in Newport and track ENE  and the PDX NWS shall issue a WSW.

[Gradient Keeper]

Okay.... That was huge! Wind has ramped up another few notches. Just heard limbs breaking too. Sooo tired......

[TacomaWaWx]

Wind has been steady and loud here. Several large limbs are down and the powers flickered a couple times.

[Blizzard777]

35* and still, dp 24*

stars seem brighter 

[umadbro]

That 2-5 mph E wind has keep my temp up about 13 degrees above forecast. Sitting at 41. DP is 14

[Gradient Keeper]

6z GFS alert! The wind woke me up heard some loud "bang", so here I am. I thought I would check out the 6z GFS. YEAH. About that. Wow. Pattern develops at just Day 5. Watch the offshore ridge merge with the Aleutian ridge forming a formidable block. Note the low pressure cut off holding under the Block. Wow! BC slider and if this were late November to December we would score! Could this possibly have some ensemble support? Could we be seeing a new trend emerge to reset our current cold pattern in the 8-10 day period? Let's not get ahead of ourselves. We'll find out in about an hour.

 

Day 5.5

 

Day 7

 

Day 8

[Gradient Keeper]

Just had my loudest gust yet. Absolutely raging with that 'roar' wow. This has to be 50mph. This might be the peak occurring. This is probably now reaching east wind event status. Not yet and probably won't get to east wind storm levels.

[ShawniganLake]

Every night while I’m sleeping I dream of something very similar to the 6Z GFS

 

[umadbro]

39. DP of 8. E wind gusting to 6mph.

 

Hopefully I don't have to go searching for my garbage can later...

[Jesse]

Thinking I should bring some chapstick to work today.

[Jesse]

What a nutty setup for this early in the season. The Dalles has advected down to 31, DP 3 in a well mixed airmass with ENE winds all night. Even PDX is already down into the 30s with the wind.

 

37, DP 9 here with ENE winds gusting 40-45mph.

[Blizzard777]

30*

dp 17

wind free

[Blizzard777]

What a nutty setup for this early in the season. The Dalles has advected down to 31, DP 3 in a well mixed airmass with ENE winds all night. Even PDX is already down into the 30s with the wind.

 

37, DP 9 here with ENE winds gusting 40-45mph.

Those are worthy winds! 

[Chewbacca Defense]

Had the winds blast through my area between midnight and 4, the temp held in the 40’s until about 5am when it quickly dropped to 30, and we are still falling. Fun system, kinda bummed I slept through it!

 

It has been a lot of fun reading all the reports this morning.

[Jbolin]

Thinking I should bring some chapstick to work today.

You act like it's super dry out there or something?

[wx_statman]

What a nutty setup for this early in the season. The Dalles has advected down to 31, DP 3 in a well mixed airmass with ENE winds all night. Even PDX is already down into the 30s with the wind.

 

37, DP 9 here with ENE winds gusting 40-45mph.

 

Silly numbers everywhere right now. Baker City advected down to 18 on strong NW'erlies. Kalispell dropped to -2 without even really trying, setting their earliest subzero on record. Cheyenne, WY is sitting at 3 degrees with snow falling. I'm sitting here thinking that I would be tracking these numbers as a legit Arctic airmass even in January. 

[wx_statman]

Seeing PDX at 39/10 with strong easterlies is pretty surreal on October 29th.

[Kayla]

Silly numbers everywhere right now. Baker City advected down to 18 on strong NW'erlies. Kalispell dropped to -2 without even really trying, setting their earliest subzero on record. Cheyenne, WY is sitting at 3 degrees with snow falling. I'm sitting here thinking that I would be tracking these numbers as a legit Arctic airmass even in January. 

 

I'm sitting here at -9F right now with 15" of snow on the ground and thinking the same thing...

[wx_statman]

Getting noticeably bigger gusts the past 15 minutes out here on NE 164th. 

[umadbro]

DP at 1.4! Wow!

[Jesse]

Silly numbers everywhere right now. Baker City advected down to 18 on strong NW'erlies. Kalispell dropped to -2 without even really trying, setting their earliest subzero on record. Cheyenne, WY is sitting at 3 degrees with snow falling. I'm sitting here thinking that I would be tracking these numbers as a legit Arctic airmass even in January.

The CAA in the basin has really thrown me for a loop. I guess I should have expected it to a degree based on the models, but I just didn’t think there would be such large, sustained temperature drops along with the wind. Pendleton is 20 degrees currently with NE winds, Pasco is 23, Hermiston is 27. All in totally free air conditions. Good chance many places in the basin see sub-freezing highs under full sun and mixing today.

[Jesse]

Getting noticeably bigger gusts the past 15 minutes out here on NE 164th.

PDX down to 37, DP 7 with east winds sustained at 33, gusts to 45mph. Wow.

[Jesse]

Down to 35 here, DP 4. Gusts easily in the 45-50mph range at points.

[wx_statman]

The CAA in the basin has really thrown me for a loop. I guess I should have expected it to a degree based on the models, but I just didn’t think there would be such large, sustained temperature drops along with the wind. Pendleton is 20 degrees currently with NE winds, Pasco is 23, Hermiston is 27. All in totally free air conditions. Good chance many places in the basin see sub-freezing highs under full sun and mixing today.

 

Wow, I didn't even notice the Pendleton reading. 20 degree readings there are close to top tier in October even under radiational cooling.

[umadbro]

-0.4 dp at now. DP plummeting crazy fast.

[Phil]

Not saying that at all. This winter could be like 2009-10. There is almost no chance of a 2002-03 type winter.

 

I looked up extreme cold events in Pullman and was surprised at how cold 2002 and 2009 were... wanted to see what those patterns looked like out of curiosity.

I wouldn’t go that far. There are ways this one could fall apart just as any other year could.

[Jesse]

I wouldn’t go that far. There are ways this one could fall apart just as any other year could.

Holy sh*t!

[ewnichols25]

I'm sheltered from the east winds here in Ballard. Currently 29 with a DP of 22. Meanwhile KSEA is at 38 with a dewpoint of 6.

[Kayla]

Down to 35 here, DP 4. Gusts easily in the 45-50mph range at points.

 

That's incredible.

[Phil]

Just caught up on the past day or so. Keep the family drama in DMs and if you have two Maryland cents to add, don't.

Cents are a national currency, so I’m off the hook.

[Jesse]

Part of me was expecting much of the east metro to be stuck in the 40s all night once the wind kicked in, with a stubborn downslope component. Maybe PDX would get lucky and eke out a 24 hour low in the 30s this evening. The efficiency of cold air delivery even with the strong winds has been impressive.

[TT-SEA]

A week ago today there was flooding here... now the ground is hard as a rock.