July 2023 PNW Observations and Discussions

[NWbyNW]

The next few days should be smoke free for Western Washington.  The biggest smoke producer in the northwest right now is the Flat Fire in the Rogue River Valley of Oregon.  It is the sole fire producing smoke that is covering southern and central Oregon and flowing up towards Eastern Washington.  Yes there are other fires, but they are not producing much smoke according to models.  Still, but of that smoke will be at higher atmosphere elevations unless you are in Grants Pass who has had three years of terrible smoke now.  Smoke conditions should not effect much of Western Oregon and the smoke does dissipate moving into early next week.

The massive smoke-fest that is British Columbia is currently blowing smoke east and northeast.  So we should be good for the short term. Cooler weather next week will hopefully help firefighters.

The wildfire season in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho has been very very tame.  Much like last year, it has been very quiet.  

[NWbyNW]

On 7/22/2023 at 10:13 AM, ChristheElohim said:

I'd love to live up around Everett especially in fall/spring with the PSCZ.

Come on over!  We're the last unfounded location in the Puget Sound!  Development is just starting and prices are just now starting to go up.  You can get it in before you get priced out! For example, it is 74F right now while Seattle is 82F.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

8 minutes ago, NWbyNW said:

The next few days should be smoke free for Western Washington.  The biggest smoke producer in the northwest right now is the Flat Fire in the Rogue River Valley of Oregon.  It is the sole fire producing smoke that is covering southern and central Oregon and flowing up towards Eastern Washington.  Yes there are other fires, but they are not producing much smoke according to models.  Still, but of that smoke will be at higher atmosphere elevations unless you are in Grants Pass who has had three years of terrible smoke now.  Smoke conditions should not effect much of Western Oregon and the smoke does dissipate moving into early next week.

The massive smoke-fest that is British Columbia is currently blowing smoke east and northeast.  So we should be good for the short term. Cooler weather next week will hopefully help firefighters.

The wildfire season in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho has been very very tame.  Much like last year, it has been very quiet.  

Since we aren’t projected to get any rain, once the Bedrock Fire near Fall Creek blows up after this mini cooldown, the Willamette Valley will feel the effects of it….

[LowerGarfield]

7 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Since we aren’t projected to get any rain, once the Bedrock Fire near Fall Creek blows up after this mini cooldown, the Willamette Valley will feel the effects of it….

We have certainly received several whiffs of smoke here in SE WA, but it's high aloft as the air quality has consistently been in the green for my location the last several days.

[TT-SEA]

15 minutes ago, NWbyNW said:

The next few days should be smoke free for Western Washington.  The biggest smoke producer in the northwest right now is the Flat Fire in the Rogue River Valley of Oregon.  It is the sole fire producing smoke that is covering southern and central Oregon and flowing up towards Eastern Washington.  Yes there are other fires, but they are not producing much smoke according to models.  Still, but of that smoke will be at higher atmosphere elevations unless you are in Grants Pass who has had three years of terrible smoke now.  Smoke conditions should not effect much of Western Oregon and the smoke does dissipate moving into early next week.

The massive smoke-fest that is British Columbia is currently blowing smoke east and northeast.  So we should be good for the short term. Cooler weather next week will hopefully help firefighters.

The wildfire season in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho has been very very tame.  Much like last year, it has been very quiet.  

It's been great so far in terms of smoke.   But still long way to go.

[Omegaraptor]

2 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

Finishing August off like 1997 would be decent. Not incredible, but decent.

August 2021 had a genuinely chilly back half after the big midmonth heatwave, even from the perspective of 1951-2000 climo. Maybe we can squeak something like that in given the modern precedent?

Wet September that year basically everywhere west of the Cascades. Now considering how latitudinally hit-or-miss fall storms can be in the Northwest...

[Deweydog]

29 minutes ago, LowerGarfield said:

We need a Mariners miracle gif now. Going to bot 9th. 

Juuuuuuuuuuliooooooooooooo!!!

[Cold Snap]

18z ICON had an uptick in rainfall.

[LowerGarfield]

13 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

Juuuuuuuuuuliooooooooooooo!!!

I was convinced they had it there. Still won the series at least. 

Son is already wanting to go back to Seattle next April, maybe for the Guardians series during break. I'm guessing with this El Nino, maybe less risk of snow over Snoqualmie? Of course that's Barbenheimer range right now.

[Deweydog]

1 minute ago, LowerGarfield said:

I was convinced they had it there. Still won the series at least. 

Son is already wanting to go back to Seattle next April, maybe for the Guardians series during break. I'm guessing with this El Nino, maybe less risk of snow over Snoqualmie? Of course that's Barbenheimer range right now.

Poor Julio has a massive elephant on his back right now. Thinks he should be carrying them to 100+ win season when it’s really a team that looks as good as its record has been from day one.

[TT-SEA]

18 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

Poor Julio has a massive elephant on his back right now. Thinks he should be carrying them to 100+ win season when it’s really a team that looks as good as its record has been from day one.

It seems so predictable that Julio will strike out when the game is on the line.    Really annoying.  

[Cold Snap]

18z Euro showing more for the Seattle area and Less for the Portland area. But the rain does make it all the way down to Eugene on this run.

[TT-SEA]

83 for a high (so far) at SEA.   87 in North Bend and on Lake Sammamish.   Visually beautiful day.  

[ShawniganLake]

11 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

It seems so predictable that Julio will strike out when the game is on the line.    Really annoying.  

I was out of town camping this weekend.  Looks like the blue Jays bullpen blew a couple games Friday and Saturday.  They are pretty hot and cold.  

[SilverFallsAndrew]

That fire near Eugene is almost 600 acres now. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

92 in Eugene. Wow! 13th 90 of the month. 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

9 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

92 in Eugene. Wow! 13th 90 of the month. 

Just another summer here in the south valley. This is headed north in the future BTW.

[Tyler Mode]

39 minutes ago, Cold Snap said:

18z Euro showing more for the Seattle area and Less for the Portland area. But the rain does make it all the way down to Eugene on this run.

Bye bye fire danger in western Washington for a bit...in the Olympics maybe for the season.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Smoke now coming over town. Fuckk this shitt so much.

[Blizzard777]

8 hours ago, BLI snowman said:

Midsummer convective setups went from rare to unicorn status here this decade.

Glad I can now just travel to them!!  
Hopefully vids work…some pretty cool War of the Worlds lightning strikes! 

[Blizzard777]

And some fun still shots ! Luv Az! 

[Blizzard777]

4 hours ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

I love the clear summer nights in the yard!

Nice!!! 

[TT-SEA]

Big smoke plume exploded in Oregon this afternoon.   Really needed this rain to extend farther south. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

12 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Big smoke plume exploded in Oregon this afternoon.   Really needed this rain to extend farther south. 

Fall Creek drainage right out of Eugene. That area has had a lot of fires in the past 10-15 years. 

[Omegaraptor]

1 hour ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Just another summer here in the south valley. This is headed north in the future BTW.

PDX is basically pre-2013 Roseburg climo.

[Deweydog]

Smells like a campfire outside.

[Omegaraptor]

Light smoke smell present in Tigard.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Welcome to beautiful Springfield, OR

[Cascadia_Wx]

86/61 day today after and 88/60 yesterday. The persistence of high end warmth this month has been pretty crazy this month even though we haven’t technically seen as many 90s as some recent Julys. That theme looks to continue after our near miss for rain tomorrow evening.

[TT-SEA]

5 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Welcome to beautiful Springfield, OR

That is not too bad.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

21 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

That is not too bad.

Other than the wildfire in the background…

[TT-SEA]

1 minute ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Other than the wildfire in the background…

But the smoke is not bad there.    And the flow is favorable the next few days to keep it heading east.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

26 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

That is not too bad.

It’s not good.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

7 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

But the smoke is not bad there.    And the flow is favorable the next few days to keep it heading east.

For now.

[BLI snowman]

Newell Road Fire in Klickitat County absolutely exploded today to over 50k acres, after starting the day around 20k.

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

An engine just left Drakes Crossing en route to Bonanza and the Golden Fire. 

[Deweydog]

The REAL DEAL

[NWbyNW]

Currently 65F.  I can see clouds to the west and north!  Beautiful day and her are some photos from earlier.

 

[TT-SEA]

Nice uptick for King County on the 00Z GFS and back to showing a very chilly day tomorrow.

[NWbyNW]

6 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

The REAL DEAL

I'M READY.