Pacific Northwest Weather -June 2023

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

2 minutes ago, Slushy Inch said:

Very cool 

Called the local bee farm and they came and gave them a new home!

[SilverFallsAndrew]

9 minutes ago, Slushy Inch said:

Dam, Cliff calls Michael Snyder an amateur. Wonder what the makes me.

Cliff is 100% spot on here. 

[the_convergence_zone]

5 minutes ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

Got visited by a swarm of honey bees yesterday!

 

Ohhhhh that's a tremendous mass of free bees. I would have taken those in a second, but it would have taken two of my big hive boxes to fit them all! 

[the_convergence_zone]

17 minutes ago, Slushy Inch said:

Idk man Cliff Mass says this is totally normal 

Totally normal...

https://twitter.com/curious_founder/status/1666108255452692480?s=20

[Slushy Inch]

Just now, the_convergence_zone said:

Totally normal...

https://twitter.com/curious_founder/status/1666108255452692480?s=20

Oh it certainly isn’t.

[the_convergence_zone]

Ouch, that's an inaccurate and uncalled for burn by Cliff. 

However, it doesn't surprise me one bit that Cliff feels threatened by the success of Michael's Youtube channel and social media following. 

[Phishy Wx]

9 minutes ago, the_convergence_zone said:

Ohhhhh that's a tremendous mass of free bees. I would have taken those in a second, but it would have taken two of my big hive boxes to fit them all! 

a Cliff Mass of bees, if you will?

[Slushy Inch]

14 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Cliff is 100% spot on here. 

I thought Michael had a degree?

[SilverFallsAndrew]

4 minutes ago, Slushy Inch said:

I thought Michael had a degree?

Just in terms of he is blaming in Nino that doesn't exist for current patterns. 

[Slushy Inch]

16 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

a Cliff Mass of bees, if you will?

When I was kid I thought the “Cliff Mass” on the cover of his book was just labeling a Cliff on the cover.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Southerly surge is past Brookings 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

21 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Just in terms of he is blaming in Nino that doesn't exist for current patterns. 

I am sure that if a fellow meteorologist posted something that denied the existence of Mass’s degree, he would promptly go into high dudgeon about being “cancelled” (and how this proves the low moral character of his critics).

[the_convergence_zone]

31 minutes ago, Slushy Inch said:

I thought Michael had a degree?

He does and he is an operational meteorologist for Alaska Airlines. He's responsible for planning and diverting flight paths around extreme weather. Not exactly the kind of job you would entrust to an amateur...

[Phishy Wx]

18 minutes ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Southerly surge is past Brookings 

SD?  DANG

[SilverFallsAndrew]

4 minutes ago, the_convergence_zone said:

He does and he is an operational meteorologist for Alaska Airlines. He's responsible for planning and diverting flight paths around extreme weather. Not exactly the kind of job you would entrust to an amateur...

Yet he couldn't divert that Tesla in his own neighborhood...

[Cascadia_Wx]

Mass and Snyder are both boobz.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

2 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Mass and Snyder are both boobz.

Snyder's general forecast is that it is not possible for it to snow south of Tacoma Narrows. 

[SnowWillarrive]

54 minutes ago, the_convergence_zone said:

Ouch, that's an inaccurate and uncalled for burn by Cliff. 

However, it doesn't surprise me one bit that Cliff feels threatened by the success of Michael's Youtube channel and social media following. 

I thought Michael recently interviewed Cliff. Maybe he’s getting a bit jealous. But he was just stating a fact. 

[Phil]

2 hours ago, the_convergence_zone said:

Woah woah woah, that's like 5 steps too far! As a PNWer who hates the smoke, I'll admit to feeling a little schadenfreude about the east coast smoke -- and as I mentioned yesterday, I'm cheering for it to blanket the big east coast cities as much as possible, especially Washington DC. 

Oh I should add, I'm not an academic! I work in the private sector. 

You’re a rude person.  

1 hour ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Just in terms of he is blaming in Nino that doesn't exist for current patterns. 

It’s more complicated than niño = cold SW US, especially in the warm season. However, the regime of circulation producing this outcome is also associated with the developing El Niño (and the unusual route it is taking compared to other modern-era niños).

This type of pattern would be almost impossible to pull off during La Niña.

[fubario]

me coming into the forum seeing posts about "ufo's" and "bees"..

 

[TT-SEA]

A little rain moving into western WA on day 10 per the 12Z ECMWF.    

[LowerGarfield]

Looks like the weekend could be cooler depending on cloud cover.

[Omegaraptor]

15 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

A little rain moving into western WA on day 10 per the 12Z ECMWF.    

Always just 10 days out.

[Slushy Inch]

26 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

A little rain moving into western WA on day 10 per the 12Z ECMWF.    

Of course EPS sucks the trough down into California after that.

[TacomaWx]

I get hating cliff mass but don’t understand hating on mike Snyder. Anyways it’s to d*mn dry out here still. Need several rounds of regional heavy rains that probably aren’t coming. 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

81F and gorgeous out there today. Been lost playing TotK so I gotta take breaks every few hours.

[Omegaraptor]

11 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

I get hating cliff mass but don’t understand hating on mike Snyder. Anyways it’s to d*mn dry out here still. Need several rounds of regional heavy rains that probably aren’t coming. 

Doesn’t help that our window for it is kind of closing over the next couple weeks.

[Omegaraptor]

Quillayute at 84 with 15% RH!

[MossMan]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

A little rain moving into western WA on day 10 per the 12Z ECMWF.    

You mean to tell me my app is WRONG? Rain incoming in just a few days!!!

[MossMan]

36 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

I get hating cliff mass but don’t understand hating on mike Snyder. Anyways it’s to d*mn dry out here still. Need several rounds of regional heavy rains that probably aren’t coming. 

Yeah I’m going to get the impact sprinklers going in the landscaping this evening…Which I usually don’t do until August. 

[Cold Snap]

This is absolutely horrid…

[Phil]

17 minutes ago, Cold Snap said:

This is absolutely horrid…

Yeah I’ve developed a productive cough this afternoon. Not even covid managed to do that.

[TT-SEA]

77 at SEA now... 79 out here.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

21 minutes ago, Cold Snap said:

This is absolutely horrid…

Not even close to what we have seen out here pretty much every summer since 2015. Not impressed. 

[Phil]

10 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Not even close to what we have seen out here pretty much every summer since 2015. Not impressed. 

Grotesque. What was the concentration out there in μg/m^3?

[Phil]

I’ll probably have to wear a mask tomorrow evening if the 18z 48hr HRRR is correct. Verbatim it quadruples the amount of boundary layer smoke vs today.

If this is what it’s like in the West, how can anyone root for ridging out there? You’d have to be a psychopath or something.

[TT-SEA]

Our tomatoes are growing so fast... no visible negative effects from the recent cool nights.  In fact sort of the opposite. 

[TT-SEA]

Entire garden is doing so well... beyond my expectations.

[Eugene-5SW]

With peak fall smoke numbers routinely in the 500s and now peak spring grass pollen numbers in the 1,300s, we Eugenians have a hard time feeling much sympathy for the East Coasters complaining about a little Canadian wildfire smoke.

Good thing I developed tough lungs growing up in inland SoCal during the peak smog years of the 1970s.

Speaking of which, it amuses me when I see all the hysteria over SoCal air quality numbers that are at least 90% better than they were 50 years ago. These people have no concept of how much better they have it today.

 

Oh... and get off my lawn.

[Phil]

10 minutes ago, Eugene-5SW said:

With peak fall smoke numbers routinely in the 500s and now peak spring grass pollen numbers in the 1,300s, we Eugenians have a hard time feeling much sympathy for the East Coasters complaining about a little Canadian wildfire smoke.

Good thing I developed tough lungs growing up in inland SoCal during the peak smog years of the 1970s.

Speaking of which, it amuses me when I see all the hysteria over SoCal air quality numbers that are at least 90% better than they were 50 years ago. These people have no concept of how much better they have it today.

 

Oh... and get off my lawn.

I guess smoke is to east coasters as humidity is to west coasters. Foreign. Don’t know how y’all live with this shit.

Our pollen counts demolish yours though.