Pacific Northwest Weather - May 2023

[Omegaraptor]

32 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Our February weather would have made a good December... March would have made a good January... April would have made a good February.  It was unusually cold.    Now May would have made a good June.    

I actually quite enjoyed our March weather this year. Although it was several degrees colder than average it didn't feel gloomier than a typical March around here. Very continental feel with the deep troughing and 850s doing most of the heavy lifting (while shunting most of the precip well south into CA).

[TT-SEA]

1 minute ago, Omegaraptor said:

I actually quite enjoyed our March weather this year. Although it was several degrees colder than average it didn't feel gloomier than a typical March around here. Very continental feel with the deep troughing and 850s doing most of the heavy lifting (while shunting most of the precip well south into CA).

Would have been a nice cold January.

[Anti Marine Layer]

19 minutes ago, Omegaraptor said:

I actually quite enjoyed our March weather this year. Although it was several degrees colder than average it didn't feel gloomier than a typical March around here. Very continental feel with the deep troughing and 850s doing most of the heavy lifting (while shunting most of the precip well south into CA).

We here in gloomy Southern California would be glad to give you your regular climate back. 

 

[roadtonowhere08]

No we wouldn't.  Ignore the man above 

[Doinko]

37 minutes ago, Omegaraptor said:

I actually quite enjoyed our March weather this year. Although it was several degrees colder than average it didn't feel gloomier than a typical March around here. Very continental feel with the deep troughing and 850s doing most of the heavy lifting (while shunting most of the precip well south into CA).

A lot of snow in the air here too. Even some sticking on the 10th and 25th here

[MossMan]

Down to 49! 

[Cold Snap]

2 hours ago, MossMan said:

Down to 49! 

Still 53.4 here.

[YahRaEl]

Ranging 47-51° overall 48° at Eastside Tacoma as of 2:45am

[YahRaEl]

Dropped to 46-49° at Eastside Tacoma overall was 47° for those who like one particular exact temp reading. 

[Blizzard777]

9 hours ago, Chewbacca Defense said:

Beautiful day up here in Bellingham.  I didn't get a chance to take any pictures but I ventured down to the waterfront to drop a kayak off for a friend who is doing ski to sea.  Temp was nice but it was pretty blustery with whitecaps on the bay.  They run a 3 mile short course that stays closer to shore when the water is rough (I think 15kn is the threshold) If the race was today, it probably would have been a short course day.  I think the winds will be calmer tomorrow so hopefully they get to do the full 5 mile course.

 

Here at the house the temp topped out at 72 after a low of 53.

 

 

We spend the afternoon in the Fairhaven historic district ( just south of Bellingham).  Cool fun location. Explored the buildings and shops. Of course had ice cream  

Cloud cover this morning with some blue sky in between. Cool and breezy as well 

[Chewbacca Defense]

4 minutes ago, Blizzard777 said:

We spend the afternoon in the Fairhaven historic district ( just south of Bellingham).  Cool fun location. Explored the buildings and shops. Of course had ice cream  

Cloud cover this morning with some blue sky in between. Cool and breezy as well 

I love that building!  Fairhaven is a pretty cool little part of town.  Will you guys be going to be down there today to check out the Ski to Sea festivities?  It gets very crowded but it is a lot of fun watching the teams coming in to cross the finish line/ring the bell.  I have a lot going on today, so I'll just be there long enough to watch my friend come in, collect my kayak and get out of there.

Zuanich is another good place, you can watch the cyclocross racers come in and do the handoff to the kayakers.  The kayakers launch off a dock across the marina entrance from the Hotel Bellwether.

A few of the local companies hire teams of "ringers" and can complete the race in about 5-6 hours.  Most of us "mere mortals" finish the race in 8-10 hours.  The hired guns complete the 5 mile kayak leg in about 40-45 minutes on surf skis, and the "mere mortals" do it in about 1:10 to 1:20.

[Cascadia_Wx]

Low of 48 here. Always nice to see lows in the 40s. Hit 51 by midnight so improved on yesterday’s low as well.

Overcast and 54 currently.

[YahRaEl]

Up to a range temp of 51-54° overall 53° around the Eastside Tacoma area as of 9:59am under Overcast skies. 

[YahRaEl]

I expect temps today in Tacoma area to reach around 72-75° range about a degree warmer than yesterday per wx stations. Skies should start to clear slowly but steadily around/after 12pm. Notice the range in temps predicted vs one particular exact temperature which I don't agree with. As Cliff Mass stated once we should be giving probabilities and temps in ranges instead of one particular temp/observation. I use many different weather apps, providers, sources for forecasts instead of one. TWC, AccuWeather, Morecast, Windyapp, Weatherbug, NWS pinpoint and Zone forecasts, Aerisweather, Weather&Radar (Wetter.com) and Forecast Advisor. Weatherpro is decent to.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

11 hours ago, Omegaraptor said:

I actually quite enjoyed our March weather this year. Although it was several degrees colder than average it didn't feel gloomier than a typical March around here. Very continental feel with the deep troughing and 850s doing most of the heavy lifting (while shunting most of the precip well south into CA).

March was fantastic. Would not have been a cold January, but it would have been a cold pattern in January….

[SilverFallsAndrew]

37 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Low of 48 here. Always nice to see lows in the 40s. Hit 51 by midnight so improved on yesterday’s low as well.

Overcast and 54 currently.

Severe clear down this way today. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

49 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Overcast and 54 currently.

Too bad you can't have it that way forever there

 

[Cascadia_Wx]

12 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Severe clear down this way today. 

Bummer 

[MossMan]

Cloudy and 55. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Wow, it has been a dry year there.

This Christmas I'm asking Santa Claus to make Los Angeles sunny and warm again and make Seattle/Portland gray and rainy again.

Might need to do that when Hallmark Channel's "Christmas in July" begins.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Will there ever be another year like 1954?

[T-Town]

Cloudy and 56 here. Skies are brightening so guessing it will burn off in the next couple hours.  

[Ray]

4 hours ago, Blizzard777 said:

We spend the afternoon in the Fairhaven historic district ( just south of Bellingham).  Cool fun location. Explored the buildings and shops. Of course had ice cream  

Cloud cover this morning with some blue sky in between. Cool and breezy as well 

Love the Black Cat Cafe there.

[Phil]

1 hour ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Will there ever be another year like 1954?

I mean, obviously answer is yes. Whether it happens within our lifetimes is another question.

[Phil]

Everclear shots + high altitude =

[Phil]

Beautiful cooling of the subtropical/off-equator NPAC and WPWP over the last week. Should make a big difference this summer, even though it’s a warm signal in the PNW during AMJ (though it’s a right-tailed distribution).

Also confirms the ENSO/low pass change is not a mirage. We have definitively left the La Niña regime.

 

[Phil]

Also holy smokes at that +IOD/+AMO. Not at all what we’ve come to expect in El Niño years during 21st century.

[Anti Marine Layer]

1992 was Portland's hottest May with an average high of 76.61

[Cascadia_Wx]

2 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Severe clear down this way today. 

Starting to burn off here now. Temps will probably end up in the same range as yesterday. Low to mid 70s.

[Blizzard777]

1 hour ago, Ray said:

Love the Black Cat Cafe there.

I’ll look that one up! We did the Irish Pub and oh man, the chowder delicious

ok, I do remember this one.  I actually wanted to eat at several places up there but the one meal did me in 

[Blizzard777]

5 hours ago, Chewbacca Defense said:

I love that building!  Fairhaven is a pretty cool little part of town.  Will you guys be going to be down there today to check out the Ski to Sea festivities?  It gets very crowded but it is a lot of fun watching the teams coming in to cross the finish line/ring the bell.  I have a lot going on today, so I'll just be there long enough to watch my friend come in, collect my kayak and get out of there.

Zuanich is another good place, you can watch the cyclocross racers come in and do the handoff to the kayakers.  The kayakers launch off a dock across the marina entrance from the Hotel Bellwether.

A few of the local companies hire teams of "ringers" and can complete the race in about 5-6 hours.  Most of us "mere mortals" finish the race in 8-10 hours.  The hired guns complete the 5 mile kayak leg in about 40-45 minutes on surf skis, and the "mere mortals" do it in about 1:10 to 1:20.

I’m back home in overcast Federal Way  

That would of been fun to just sit back and watch the action though!

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Perfectly sunny day in the willamette Valley. 

[YahRaEl]

Still cloudy but looks like it's going to burn off here soon here at Eastside Tacoma area. Current temperature range 56-59° overall 58°. 

[TT-SEA]

Clouds just dissolved here... a true burn off.   Clouds became thinner until they disappeared.  Wall to wall blue sky now.

[ShawniganLake]

There was no marine layer here this morning. Just a few high clouds, otherwise blue skies and a bit breezy.  Close to 70 for a high. 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Fuck this…

[T-Town]

Finally burned off here. 63 degrees. 

[HuskyMaestro]

22 hours ago, NWbyNW said:

If Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano does fully blow, I wonder what implications is could have on our climate?  We theorized what other's have may have done, giving us cooler periods in the PNW.  Hopefully people there have had plenty of time to get away.  

This really bears watching going into the summer, El Popo ain't no joke. Mexico City's a massively dense city with 20+ million in the CDMX, with additional millions within 60 miles around the volcano. If it gets worse, I really really hope people have a plan in place. It's essentially North America's version of Tokyo with Mount Fuji but more active. 

[TT-SEA]

35 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

**** this…

This was yesterday... not sure if it's related.    Fire department says it was a "long and wet winter".  

[HuskyMaestro]

Skies cleared up in Fife, maintaining at 63F. Finished up the last of the gardening and set up two garden beds.