June 2020 Weather Discussion for the PNW

[Omegaraptor]

Raining pretty nicely here. Hopefully my reverse jinx is working.

[Timmy]

Wow some of the most impressive rain I have seen all year here.

[TT-SEA]

ECMWF cut-off bias on full display for next weekend... it accidentally shows a decent weekend as a result.    

 

GFS says that will not happen.    GFS will be right.     And the GEM (as a tie-breaker) sides with the GFS.

[Jesse]

Wonder how much warmer and drier than average this month will ultimately end up despite all the bellyaching. Stay tuned!!

[TT-SEA]

12Z ECMWF is just a painful tease... knowing the only way it works out is if it's not displaying it usually cut-off bias. And the chance of that is close to zero.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Hillsboro was actually 57% of average for spring using 1991-20 averages. The 54% is using the entire POR.

 

PDX got 5.43" which is 59% of average. McMinnville got 6.28" which is 75% of average. Aurora Airport got 6.67" which is 67% of the 1998-20 average (no data exists before 1998).

 

Hillsboro is normally the driest place in the Willamette Valley. It's actually quite similar to your area, it gets little precipitation in NW flow because of rainshadowing mountains to the west. This spring HIO was the driest place in Western Oregon that I know of north of the Rogue Valley.

 

For May only, you actually have to go all the way down to Red Bluff, CA to find anything drier west of the mountains (although that was mostly just rotten luck and southern OR got very lucky).

 

Monmouth/Independence is very dry too. Shadowed by Mary's Peak and tall Coast Range mtns to the west.

 

Rain has finally started here. Temp dropped some 8 degrees.

[MossMan]

Wonder how much warmer and drier than average this month will ultimately end up despite all the bellyaching. Stay tuned!!

I just put my winter socks on.

[TT-SEA]

Just had a downpour move through here... now temporarily sunny.

 

[Timmy Supercell]

Hillsboro seriously the driest in the valley?

 

When I lived there they weren't such a donut hole like it is now.

They used to get more t'storms, more wind, and very juicy spring rainfalls in Washington Co. compared to any of the SE metro.

[MossMan]

Major dumpage!

Up to .21” on the day.

[VancouverIslandSouth]

Sunny and dry here, it's been that way all morning. Only 0.05" of rain so far this month, the drought returns...

[Blizzard777]

Nice little storm line just went through SE PDX.

Some good wind and heavy rain 

[TacomaWaWx]

Rain is finally here.

[Jesse]

Rain is finally here.

Here too. Moderate to heavy rain. Temp is down to 54.

[TacomaWaWx]

Here too. Moderate to heavy rain. Temp is down to 54.

Nice heavy rain burst here.

[Jesse]

Fortunately the 12z EPS looks a lot better than the operational days 6-10.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

Hillsboro was actually 57% of average for spring using 1991-20 averages. The 54% is using the entire POR.

 

PDX got 5.43" which is 59% of average. McMinnville got 6.28" which is 75% of average. Aurora Airport got 6.67" which is 67% of the 1998-20 average (no data exists before 1998).

 

Hillsboro is normally the driest place in the Willamette Valley. It's actually quite similar to your area, it gets little precipitation in NW flow because of rainshadowing mountains to the west. This spring HIO was the driest place in Western Oregon that I know of north of the Rogue Valley.

 

For May only, you actually have to go all the way down to Red Bluff, CA to find anything drier west of the mountains (although that was mostly just rotten luck and southern OR got very lucky).

Yeah, a while back Mark posted a nice map of average yearly rainfall totals for PDX Metro. Around Hillsboro is one of the driest spots in the area.

 

"The driest parts of the metro area are in the lowest elevations in the Tualatin Valley and along the Columbia River from Vancouver Lake to NE Portland. That includes the Hillsboro, Portland, and Vancouver airports. These areas typically average less than 38″ of rain each year. Another dry spot, although not quite as dry, is the northern Willamette Valley south of Wilsonville."

 

 

https://fox12weather.wordpress.com/2015/09/06/a-neat-old-metro-rainfall-map/

[Timmy Supercell]

Dark sky just to my southern vicinity, nice precip shaft visible. 

 

Listening for thunder if it does that.

[MossMan]

Thunder... feel the thunder... the thunder and the lightning lightning

[Timmy Supercell]

Yeah, a while back Mark posted a nice map of average yearly rainfall totals for PDX Metro. Around Hillsboro is one of the driest spots in the area.

 

"The driest parts of the metro area are in the lowest elevations in the Tualatin Valley and along the Columbia River from Vancouver Lake to NE Portland. That includes the Hillsboro, Portland, and Vancouver airports. These areas typically average less than 38″ of rain each year. Another dry spot, although not quite as dry, is the northern Willamette Valley south of Wilsonville."

 

 

https://fox12weather.wordpress.com/2015/09/06/a-neat-old-metro-rainfall-map/

 

Well at least Wilsonville is even worse! So HIO isn't entirely hopeless. 

[TacomaWaWx]

Up to 0.09” so far...nice band of rain about to slide through clouds have moved in. Hasn’t been any thunderstorm activity here today in this area yet.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

Not in sight.

 

I was reading through the July 2012 thread and it was interesting to see everyone was cheering for summer and thought cold rain at this time of year was pretty miserable.

 

Whatever happened to KVUO snowman?

[Jesse]

Well at least Wilsonville is even worse! So HIO isn't entirely hopeless. 

He said Wilsonville isn’t quite as dry. Map shows that too.

[Omegaraptor]

So far for June, PDX is at 0.66" and HIO is at 0.21".

 

Got a few very good showers in this location today though. For reference I live right near the line between Tigard and Beaverton. Looking forward to some nice warm weather Wednesday-Friday.

[Timmy Supercell]

He said Wilsonville isn’t quite as dry. Map shows that too.

 

In the snow department, Wilsonville is rock bottom. My brother hasn't been in a single legitimate snowstorm, while Hillsboro has seen at least two in that span of time he's lived there.

[Deweydog]

[TacomaWaWx]

Strong cells on the kitsap peninsula and just south of Olympia.

[TT-SEA]

Whatever happened to KVUO snowman?

Ironically its Justin and he was living Bellingham at the time with the KVUO name and now he has BLI.

[Omegaraptor]

I see some blue skies off to the far west but it is DARK for 4:30 PM in June right now. Looks like winter out there.

[Jesse]

I see some blue skies off to the far west but it is DARK for 4:30 PM in June right now. Looks like under a heavy shower in a typical early June cold core trough out there.

Definitely.

[BLI snowman]

Whatever happened to KVUO snowman?

 

 

Brutally murdered.

[Timmy Supercell]

It's hailing. Very tiny though.

[jcmcgaffey]

Thunder... feel the thunder... the thunder and the lightning lightning

big fan of imagine dragons

[GHweatherChris]

big fan of imagine dragons

The Thunder song is so dumb

[Jesse]

[Timmy Supercell]

[Frontal Snowsquall]

Ironically its Justin and he was living Bellingham at the time with the KVUO name and now he has BLI.

Ahhhhhh makes sense with the Bellingham location.

[Tyler Mode]

Just finished a huge deluge here in Battle Ground.  3.79"/hour rainfall rate and it dropped 0.63" of rain in 15 minutes.  Now sitting at 1.16" for the DAY, easily my wettest June day on record.

[TacomaWaWx]

Just finished a huge deluge here in Battle Ground.  3.79"/hour rainfall rate and it dropped 0.63" of rain in 15 minutes.  Now sitting at 1.16" for the DAY, easily my wettest June day on record.

d*mn and you guys probably are going to get more rain before midnight!

[MossMan]

The Thunder song is so dumb

I agree...However my 6yr old does a killer job of singing it!