Pacific Northwest Weather - May 2023

[TacomaWx]

83 here after a low of 52. Thankfully we get a “sea breeze” here with offshore flow and it keeps us one of the cooler spots in western WA during hot days. 

[TacomaWx]

Just got back to Tacoma after a week of being in Yellowstone. Trees really leafed out while I was gone. Had such a good time out there with all kinds of wildlife. Feels downright hot compared to the weather over there the last week! 

[T-Town]

85 here but with the breeze it doesn’t feel that warm. Rhodies in full bloom now. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

93 at PDX today. 92 here. Silly stuff. Gusty east winds and severe clear. You can almost see the snow flash melting when you look at the cascade peaks.

The crazy thing is we could see another day or two of 90s tomorrow and Monday. Then we have another shot later next week.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Unreal 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/05/13/west-coast-early-heat/

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Not quite a record at SLE today. They hit 94 back in 1939. I haven’t checked, all time warm May on our bingo card this year? 

[TT-SEA]

Had no idea the Kraken were playing so early.   Way too summery for hockey but they won!   Game 7 coming up.

[Omegaraptor]

Upcoming week at PDX, starting today, is forecasted to be warmer than Monterrey, Mexico and just a bit cooler than Dakar, Senegal by average temp.

[Omegaraptor]

21 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Not quite a record at SLE today. They hit 94 back in 1939. I haven’t checked, all time warm May on our bingo card this year? 

I saw HIO apparently hit 92 yesterday in 1939 and didn’t set a daily record. However PDX only hit 86 that day. Pre-1960 HIO data kind of smells of overexposure.

[Deweydog]

12 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Had no idea the Kraken were playing so early.   Way too summery for hockey but they won!   Game 7 coming up.

KNIGHTS/KRAKEN ROUND THREE???

[FroYoBro]

Safe to say pdx will also get the highest minimum for this date with the 57 they had this morning. Previous record was 56 from 1981. 

Edited May 14 by FroYoBro

[Cascadia_Wx]

12 minutes ago, Omegaraptor said:

Upcoming week at PDX, starting today, will be warmer than Monterrey, Mexico and just a bit cooler than Dakar, Senegal by average temp.

Weird considering the week hasn’t happened yet.

[RentonHill]

1 hour ago, Deweydog said:

KNIGHTS/KRAKEN ROUND THREE???

y r u a nights fan

[Rubus Leucodermis]

54/84 for the day IMBY.

[SouthHillFrosty]

Summer vibes today Fosho

[TacomaWx]

83/52 today…first +80 of the year. We will see about 90 tomorrow…doubt it happens here but I’m sure SEA will find a way. 

[Ken in Wood Village]

I was a little curious to see the low pressure system that will be undercutting the high pressure system. It looks like some dry air is making its way to the West side before a little bit more moist air comes back to the West side again. We'll have a better focus on how much thunderstorms we could see the next couple of days. 

As you can see, a lot of the Portland area either tied or broke a record today. Those temperatures we before 5pm so those temperatures could have increased a little but I was impressed with Astoria's high. It was set the year when Titanic sank over a 100 years

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Pleasant evening . 

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

Hit our high temp at 7 pm, 83.5. 

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

Feels like summer, first grilling of the season!

 

[Deweydog]

1 hour ago, RentonHill said:

y r u a nights fan

We have some family that lives down there and we also had some ties to a kid who played here in Portland and was Vegas’ first ever draft pick back in 2017. Some of it is timing too. If Seattle had beat Vegas to the punch it might be a different story, but here we are. So, my brother and I will be one of the annoying folks in Knights sweaters for games 3 and/or 4 at the vegan palace if the starz align.

[Phil]

Dr. Roundy’s MJO based projection is very impressive with the duration of the warm pattern, keeping it cranking until mid-June (which is longer than I expect). Perfect high/low frequency overlap/constructive interference during this time period either way.

Also an impressive closed low over the 4-corners region in July.

https://www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/roundy/waves/rmmcyc/indexmjo.html

[Slushy Inch]

4 minutes ago, Phil said:

Dr. Roundy’s MJO based projection is very impressive with the duration of the warm pattern, keeping it cranking until mid-June (which is longer than I expect). Perfect high/low frequency overlap/constructive interference during this time period either way.

Also an impressive closed low over the 4-corners region in July.

https://www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/roundy/waves/rmmcyc/indexmjo.html

So we may stay warm until mid June?

[Slushy Inch]

6 minutes ago, Phil said:

Dr. Roundy’s MJO based projection is very impressive with the duration of the warm pattern, keeping it cranking until mid-June (which is longer than I expect). Perfect high/low frequency overlap/constructive interference during this time period either way.

Also an impressive closed low over the 4-corners region in July.

https://www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/roundy/waves/rmmcyc/indexmjo.html

Certainly not seeing an end yet.

[Slushy Inch]

11 minutes ago, Phil said:

Dr. Roundy’s MJO based projection is very impressive with the duration of the warm pattern, keeping it cranking until mid-June (which is longer than I expect). Perfect high/low frequency overlap/constructive interference during this time period either way.

Also an impressive closed low over the 4-corners region in July.

https://www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/roundy/waves/rmmcyc/indexmjo.html

Maybe we’ll get June 2021 redux for the finale

[Cold Snap]

13 minutes ago, Slushy Inch said:

Certainly not seeing an end yet.

The fact that we are seeing this long of a heatwave already kind of has me worried for what this summer has in store. But Spring doesn’t define what summer is going to be like.

[Eugene-5SW]

Easterlies broke through at Florence and the temp shot up from 61º at 10:15 p.m. to 81º at 11 p.m.

77º here after a high of 88º. Too early in the year to have to sleep with the a/c on!

[Slushy Inch]

5 minutes ago, Eugene-5SW said:

Easterlies broke through at Florence and the temp shot up from 61º at 10:15 p.m. to 81º at 11 p.m.

77º here after a high of 88º. Too early in the year to have to sleep with the a/c on!

According to Cliff Mass these are cool easterlies.

[iFred]

Summer is here.

Hit 88º in Everett.

[Slushy Inch]

Ridge continues to just  sit over us next weekend. But I don’t see upper 80s heat.

 

 

[Eugene-5SW]

35 minutes ago, Slushy Inch said:

According to Cliff Mass these are cool easterlies.

Well, of course. And 6/28/21 was just an ordinary pleasant early summer day. 

[flya00]

Peaked at 91 in Chilliwack today, currently 75

[NWbyNW]

It was forecasted for 79F at my places Saturday, but thankfully only hit 75F.  Beautiful day though.  Didn't feel too hot thankfully. Hope everyone had a great Saturday. 

[Phil]

3 hours ago, Slushy Inch said:

So we may stay warm until mid June?

I think it’ll end ~ one week earlier than that, but either way this is one heck of a subseasonal event (augmented by developing El Niño low frequency state).

At least you’re getting the ridgefest out of the way early this year. Relative to average, this is almost certainly going to be the warmest, ridgiest pattern of the entire summer (*relative to average*, of course). And the most prolonged of such spells, as well.

After the zonal pattern in June, the rest of the summer looks like a pattern on sedatives. I’m already bored lol. Looks like a saggy, baggy, slow-moving pattern with muted anomalies but easy access to moisture in most regions. Only consistencies are (probably)? cooler/wetter SW US and Texas, warm in NW Canada and Northern Plains, while PNW region ends up in no-man’s land as none of the locally imprtant EOFs are matched following the flip to +NPO.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

1 hour ago, Phil said:

I think it’ll end ~ one week earlier than that, but either way this is one heck of a subseasonal event (augmented by developing El Niño low frequency state).

At least you’re getting the ridgefest out of the way early this year. Relative to average, this is almost certainly going to be the warmest, ridgiest pattern of the entire summer (*relative to average*, of course). And the most prolonged of such spells, as well.

After the zonal pattern in June, the rest of the summer looks like a pattern on sedatives. I’m already bored lol. Looks like a saggy, baggy, slow-moving pattern with muted anomalies but easy access to moisture in most regions. Only consistencies are (probably)? cooler/wetter SW US and Texas, warm in NW Canada and Northern Plains, while PNW region ends up in no-man’s land as none of the locally imprtant EOFs are matched following the flip to +NPO.

I sure hope you are right. Some of us see this as just a harbinger of the rest of summer. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Some gusty offshore winds, a ridiculous 66 out there currently. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

One other note. I don't see how this doesn't end up the warmest May on record...

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Models keep teasing us in the long range.

[Ray]

Good morning.  66 here south of Bonney Lake.  There is a surprisingly brisk wind out of the east too.

[TacomaWx]

Only hit 62 here…first +60 low of the year it looks like. Probably upper 80s today even if we have a good NE sea breeze here. 

[T-Town]

64 here when I got up at 5:30. Beautiful morning for a walk around the neighborhood. 

[Ken in Wood Village]

The low looks a little more impressive than it did last night. The SPC is forecasting thunderstorms on the Eastside of Oregon, close to the Cascade range during the day. I'm kind of thinking there could be thunderstorms pushing into the Westside of the Cascade foothills overnight. I'll just need to see how fast this low moves during the day.

Looks like another warm day ahead. I think we may see the humidity rise today, which means it could feel a lot warmer  

I hope all the mothers out there have a fabulous Mothers Day

[T-Town]

Up to 69 here already. Yikes. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

67 and very windy this morning. 

[SunAndSnow]

73° at 8am. Did get down to 59 though. Need to get the dog out before it’s too hot!

[AlTahoe]

3 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Models keep teasing us in the long range.

nice little bullseye over my house!

[Ken in Wood Village]

This is ridiculous. Troutdale Airport is showing 74° but a sensor close to where I live says 75° and another further West is showing 76° a little past 8am. Those East winds sure are making the temperatures rise really fast this morning

[FroYoBro]

3 minutes ago, Ken in Wood Village said:

This is ridiculous. Troutdale Airport is showing 74° but a sensor close to where I live says 75° and another further West is showing 76° a little past 8am. Those East winds sure are making the temperatures rise really fast this morning

77 degrees at pdx for the 8am reading. Gross for May. 

[Phishy Wx]

 

[Ken in Wood Village]

It's wrong when it's almost 80° at 9am