July 2023 PNW Observations and Discussions

[MossMan]

Lake perfection! Low 70’s and a brisk NW wind but it didn’t feel chilly at all. Well unless you spent half the day in the water…

[Deweydog]

13 minutes ago, Jbolin said:

Wassup losers, what'd I miss? 

Hope you're all doing well.

Knights won the cup!!!

[Anti Marine Layer]

7 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

Knights won the cup!!!

Long time ago

[Jbolin]

25 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

Knights won the cup!!!

Could be worse 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

Hoping everybody is having a great start to their 4th of July weekend. . Tuesday and Wednesday are looking like the hottest 2 days this week, at least for PDX.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

44 minutes ago, Jbolin said:

Wassup losers, what'd I miss? 

Hope you're all doing well.

On a cruise ship. Arrr matey!!

[MossMan]

1 minute ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

On a COVID boat!!! Arrr matey!!

 

1 minute ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

On a COVID boat!!! Arrr matey!!

 

1 minute ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

On a COVID boat!!! Arrr matey!!

 

1 minute ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

On a COVID ship. Arrr matey!!

 

Just now, TigerWoodsLibido said:

On a cruise ship. Arrr matey!!

Looks like you are REALLY enjoying your first cruise evening! 

[Jbolin]

8 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

On a cruise ship. Arrr matey!!

Enjoy you scurvy dog 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

I am entirely too low-class for this fancy dining room

[lowlandsnow]

What are max temps looking like for this heatwave?

[RentonHill]

3 minutes ago, lowlandsnow said:

What are max temps looking like for this heatwave?

 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Lost count of the amount of free booze. Wow I can’t even imagine the amount of blow rich people must do on these yachts.

[Cascadia_Wx]

82/52 day here. Cool start but another warmish day.

[Phil]

1 hour ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

I am entirely too low-class for this fancy dining room

Haha. You and I are quite similar.

[Phil]

It’s so humid here the base of the kitchen window just caved in due to condensation leaking through the external lining.

This will cost $$$.  

[TigerWoodsLibido]

28 minutes ago, Phil said:

It’s so humid here the base of the kitchen window just caved in due to condensation leaking through the external lining.

This will cost $$$.  

Ugh that sucks. Not to mention the insects that will get in.

[TT-SEA]

Checking out central and northern BC web cams this morning (yes I am really bored and this is a weenie post) after that system passed through yesterday and overnight looking to see how bad the smoke might be later this week down here.    Not bad this morning.  In fact there might be little dusting of snow on the mountains and fairly clean air in most places.    First one is Fort Nelson way up in the NE corner of BC where its been really bad in terms of smoke... second one in Smithers farther south in the central part of BC.   It will be interesting to see if the fires get more active today and tomorrow with a north wind.

[TT-SEA]

Also a good sign...

[TT-SEA]

But the HRRR shows smoke coming south into WA tomorrow. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Beautiful morning on the clam beds in Charleston. 

[TT-SEA]

Blessings for Anchorage on the 4th... a peak of sun!   Endless daylight there and cloudy every day. 

[Phil]

19 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Blessings for Anchorage on the 4th... a peak of sun!   Endless daylight there and cloudy every day. 

Not ideal but preferable to 90° w/ 100° heat indices.

[ShawniganLake]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

Checking out central and northern BC web cams this morning (yes I am really bored and this is a weenie post) after that system passed through yesterday and overnight looking to see how bad the smoke might be later this week down here.    Not bad this morning.  In fact there might be little dusting of snow on the mountains and fairly clean air in most places.    First one is Fort Nelson way up in the NE corner of BC where its been really bad in terms of smoke... second one in Smithers farther south in the central part of BC.   It will be interesting to see if the fires get more active today and tomorrow with a north wind.

It was chilly up in the central and northern Interior last night.   My mom reported a low of 31F from our Cabin up at Watch Lake.  

[TT-SEA]

13 minutes ago, Phil said:

Not ideal but preferable to 90° w/ 100° heat indices.

I would prefer neither extreme!

[ShawniganLake]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

But the HRRR shows smoke coming south into WA tomorrow. 

Here’s what the BC wildfire service forecast has for their smoke map for late tomorrow 

 

[Phil]

Interesting tidbit. When drought-stressed hardwoods suddenly receive a boatload of rain, they begin transpirating like crazy since they’re still in a state of water conservation. Vascular tissues initially saturate, then attempt to equilibrate.

Result is stooopid high dews in forested areas. There’s literally fog developing under the canopy under full sunshine at 12 noon. Sensor in the woods reads 81/81 right now.  

[ShawniganLake]

31F at Clinton BC and 29F at Tatlayoko Lake BC this morning.  Not too uncommon to get frosts up there in early July.  Only mid July to Mid August is reliably frost free at our Cabin. 

[Phil]

20 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

31F at Clinton BC and 29F at Tatlayoko Lake BC this morning.  Not too uncommon to get frosts up there in early July.  Only mid July to Mid August is reliably frost free at our Cabin. 

That’s epic. Is it the topography there augmenting radiational cooling or something else?

[Cascadia_Wx]

Pretty morning. Partly cloudy with a low of 55 here. Now 66 and mostly sunny.

Nice to see the models trend toward a shorter spike of heat the last few days. Hope it keeps up, but looking at the ensembles not sure if we’re out of the woods yet for this one.

[Phishy Wx]

gunna get high and go pull some weeds and trim some scrubs and trees in the yard before it gets ridiculously hot.  supposed to be 84 today, but mid 90s next week

 

[ShawniganLake]

29 minutes ago, Phil said:

That’s epic. Is it the topography there augmenting radiational cooling or something else?

That section of the interior plateau is expensive and high elevation with just a few small rolling hills and mountains to the west and east.  Watch lake is close to 3500ft.   Nights are typically clear and calm in the summer and you get exceptional radiational cooling.  We can have frost at dawn and be drinking our coffee on the deck in 60F sunshine by 8 or 9am.  100 mile house sits in a depression just to our north and their record low for August is 21F. 

[TT-SEA]

Top map is current ground level smoke per Canadian smoke model and bottom map is forecast on Wednesday morning.  Looks like some low level smoke will make it into western WA by then... although it doesn't look too bad.   The current map shows a similar amount of ground level smoke in eastern MN right now as projected for western WA on Wednesday morning but its not really visible on web cams there.

[Deweydog]

Severe clear here at the coast!

[Cascadia_Wx]

Not too bad. Although both the op and GEFS are probably being too bullish with the cooler weather for week two. Euro and EPS both look warmer, albeit cooler than they were a few days ago when there was more agreement on a perma heatwave.

[TT-SEA]

5 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

Severe clear here at the coast!

Appears that right now there are not any clouds anywhere in the state of WA.   Really close on the NW coast but technically over the water!  

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Honestly no hangover except my right eye in front of where I had my surgeries got a little puffed up during alcohol excretion. Definitely not pink eye since I touch both eyes a lot and my right eye is fine.

Most I’ve drank since college.

M’lady says I’m a fun drunk. I become extremely gregarious.

[Deweydog]

2 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Honestly no hangover except my right eye in front of where I had my surgeries got a little puffed up during alcohol excretion. Definitely not pink eye since I touch both eyes a lot and my right eye is fine.

Most I’ve drank since college.

M’lady says I’m a fun drunk. I become extremely gregarious.

I get sarcastic when I drink.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

13 hours ago, lowlandsnow said:

What are max temps looking like for this heatwave?

I think PDX can get to 100 on Wednesday. Probably around 98-100.

[Phishy Wx]

1 hour ago, Deweydog said:

Severe clear here at the coast!

what am I supposed to be looking at here?

[Cascadia_Wx]

Euro stubbornly keeps things warm to hot in the 6-10 day range. It will end up right. 

[ShawniganLake]

43 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Honestly no hangover except my right eye in front of where I had my surgeries got a little puffed up during alcohol excretion. Definitely not pink eye since I touch both eyes a lot and my right eye is fine.

Most I’ve drank since college.

M’lady says I’m a fun drunk. I become extremely gregarious.

Everyone thinks I’m a fun drunk except for my wife.  I can’t explain it.  Must be a problem on her end.  

[TT-SEA]

12Z ECMWF keeps SEA below 90... consistent warmth but no extreme heat.   

[Cold Snap]

2 hours ago, TT-SEA said:

Appears that right now there are not any clouds anywhere in the state of WA.   Really close on the NW coast but technically over the water!  

Yeah I took this pic flying in a few hours ago. Wasn’t a cloud in sight. Though it looks like some convection is starting to fire a bit over the cascades.

[MossMan]

1 hour ago, ShawniganLake said:

Everyone thinks I’m a fun drunk except for my wife.  I can’t explain it.  Must be a problem on her end.  

I’m a happy chatty drunk! Unfortunately I rarely drink anything at all since anything more than one drink and I am in horrific shape the next day…More than a few drinks and I am down for two days. My body completely rejects alcohol. 

[Jakewestsalem]

2 hours ago, Deweydog said:

I get sarcastic when I drink.

How long since you've been sober?

[T-Town]

Liking the new weather station so far. Temp seems to track pretty close to Tacoma Narrows, which is a few miles to my west. So seems accurate. 

[Deweydog]

1 hour ago, Jakewestsalem said:

How long since you've been sober?

What year is it?

[HuskyMaestro]

2 hours ago, MossMan said:

I’m a happy chatty drunk! Unfortunately I rarely drink anything at all since anything more than one drink and I am in horrific shape the next day…More than a few drinks and I am down for two days. My body completely rejects alcohol. 

I got two sides when drinking — happy chatty drunk or sad melancholic drunk. I do creative writing so I gotta channel some inner depression while drinking. I've been all about Kraken Rum lately.

[MossMan]

57 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

What year is it?

1985! 

[Deweydog]

1 minute ago, MossMan said:

1985! 

HOTT JULY!