March 2020 Weather Discussion for the PNW

[Jesse]

The food industry agrees with you.

#bringtransfats2eug

[Jesse]

Unfortunately, this morning scrubbed anything of interest from the 20-21 schedule. Cancellation season continues!

Pretty back loaded.

[TT-SEA]

Got up to 46F. Seasonably cool day.  Hasn't felt all that interesting though.  If someone lived here and didn't pay a ton of attention to the weather, they would have never known that the entire rest of the PNW had a more interesting winter than we did.

 

 

 

Today was an uneventfully beautiful day here... light jacket weather for most with bright sunshine.  Certainly not noteworthy for stormy weather.   Far nicer than most weekend days this year out here.  

 

It was only noteworthy up north with the wind and in Portland with the snow.

[Deweydog]

Pretty back loaded.

Unloaded.

[Jesse]

Unloaded.

It’s either loaded my way or no way!

[Deweydog]

It’s either loaded my way or no way!

Millennials...

[Jesse]

Millennials...

Weren't you born in like ‘75?

 

Six years early...front loaded!!

[Deweydog]

Weren't you born in like ‘75?

 

Six years early...front loaded!!

I know, right?

 

You wouldn’t think it would make such a difference, but lo and behold...

[Jesse]

I know, right?

You wouldn’t think it would make such a difference, but lo and behold...

It’s only double the inches of snow you had this morning...

[Deweydog]

It’s only double the inches of snow you had this morning...

It was pretty!

 

And it’s gone.

[TT-SEA]

00Z GFS is cooler next weekend... make sense given all weekends have been chilly lately.

 

Hopefully that trough coming down from the GOA shifts west again on future runs.

[Deweydog]

Cold springs kill.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Last weekend of March looks wet too. 

[Jesse]

Cold springs kill.

I hear Warm Springs has a disproportionately high homicide rate.

[Jesse]

Last weekend of March looks wet too.

 

Lots of good news tonight on the weather front.

[MossMan]

Down to 35.

[Omegaraptor]

Looks like 62 might be the warmest temp we see all March. Same as January and February.

[VancouverIslandSouth]

Outflow seems to have picked up again here this evening (currently 33.6F). Ended up with a high/low of 35.7F/30.9F; a pretty cool March day considering it was sunny most of the day. With these conditions here I would have expected to see some sub-freezing highs in the Fraser Valley, but even Hope managed to break the freezing mark today.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Ensemble improvements. 

[Jesse]

Ensemble improvements.

 

You already saw them Andrew, didn’t you? You sly dog...

[Jesse]

31 DP 5 in Bellingham with NNE winds gusting close to 50mph. Pretty brutal conditions for mid-March.

 

Meanwhile the wind is dying off a little here and it’s already getting close to freezing. DP is 23 currently. Could see a low in the 26-28 range if the wind slacks off.

[Jesse]

There are still some small piles of snow out front where it was shoveled earlier. There is even some in the grass still in shaded spots.

[ShawniganLake]

Ensemble improvements.

Looking pretty dry

[Jesse]

Looking pretty dry

Thank you in advance for the soaker. ️

[ShawniganLake]

Outflow seems to have picked up again here this evening (currently 33.6F). Ended up with a high/low of 35.7F/30.9F; a pretty cool March day considering it was sunny most of the day. With these conditions here I would have expected to see some sub-freezing highs in the Fraser Valley, but even Hope managed to break the freezing mark today.

Was sort of annoying that it clouded up right at sunset tonight. 32F here with a breezy NE wind. We don’t get as much outflow as Victoria, especially at night it seems, but it has stayed breezy.

[MossMan]

Temp plummeting now...31.

[ShawniganLake]

Thank you in advance for the soaker. ️

Looks calm too.

 

Hope that’s a sturdy umbrella

[MossMan]

One year ago today...I was at day 40 with snow cover.

[TT-SEA]

00Z ECMWF is really nice.

 

Dry until day 10 and even that is not much... very pleasant temps for March as well.

[TT-SEA]

10-day precip anomaly per 00Z ECMWF...

 

[Deweydog]

Conflicting reports and opinions!!!

[umadbro]

Feels like January. 33 with a DP of 25, East wind doing it's thing.

[ShawniganLake]

10-day precip anomaly per 00Z ECMWF...

 

Looking pretty dry

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Down to 38F DP approaching 32F. Airport is already below freezing DP.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

28 under clear skies. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Really starting to look like there is a good chance we close the month with troughing. 

[Tyler Mode]

I'm not sure I've ever experienced a gusty east wind and snow in March before right down near sea level! Beware the Ides of March!

[TT-SEA]

Really starting to look like there is a good chance we close the month with troughing. 

 

 

00Z EPS shows a continuation of the pattern for this coming week during the last week of the month... great news for CA.     And this usually results in Oregon being wetter than WA.

 

 

 

[TT-SEA]

You're being a putz.

 

 

Yeah... I actually agree.    It was a pointless comment on my part probably out of frustration about the current crisis situation.

 

Like Jesse constantly mocking anyone for liking warm/dry weather... who will think of the trees???     

[TT-SEA]

I guess there is no east wind out here yet... 27 this morning and crystal clear.     

 

It appears that there is still a NE component to the wind in the foothills per the ECMWF which leaves this area blocked.   It comes around to more easterly tonight... so tomorrow morning should be a little warmer.