October 2023 Weather in the PNW

[LowerGarfield]

2 hours ago, Phishy Wx said:

local news saying 1-2" here with the majority hitting between like 6-10am tomorrow.  glad I WFH but wife has to deal with the idiots driving in the first snow of the season, oof

They prefer to be called Seattleites or Californians.

[Gradient Keeper]

1 minute ago, Snownerd3000 said:

Took my dog for a walk. Not recommended 

What kind of dog?

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[MossMan]

.83” now! 

[Gradient Keeper]

.41" here.

[Ken in Wood Village]

I guess my other post wasn't the front. Looks like this is. 

[FroYoBro]

Breezy and raining hard.
 

Hell yeah. 

[Requiem]

Unrelated to any topics at hand-- but absolutely ridiculous to see the extraordinary intensification of Hurricane Otis in the Pacific. A mere tropical storm yesterday, it is now a category 5 expected to bare down on the city of Acapulco.

[High Desert Mat?]

31 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Steady rain and 49F. Really nice to start the water year off with 3.30" in the bucket this month already.

I hope y'all get buried the fall/winter. So fun to root for it and track it together.

What is your average precip amount for October and what did you get in October of 2016?

[Phishy Wx]

29 minutes ago, LowerGarfield said:

They prefer to be called Seattleites or Californians.

and Texans

[Snownerd3000]

37 minutes ago, Gradient Keeper said:

What kind of dog?

00z GFS in 58 minutes

Black lab German Shepard mix

[Frontal Snowsquall]

4 hours ago, Ken in Wood Village said:

Timberline 🌨

Termination Dust!  

[Snownerd3000]

12 minutes ago, Requiem said:

Unrelated to any topics at hand-- but absolutely ridiculous to see the extraordinary intensification of Hurricane Otis in the Pacific. A mere tropical storm yesterday, it is now a category 5 expected to bare down on the city of Acapulco.

Was just reading about this. Pretty nutty. 

[Ken in Wood Village]

13 minutes ago, Requiem said:

Unrelated to any topics at hand-- but absolutely ridiculous to see the extraordinary intensification of Hurricane Otis in the Pacific. A mere tropical storm yesterday, it is now a category 5 expected to bare down on the city of Acapulco.

Here is a loop.

[Cold Snap]

Up to 0.37” of rain for the day. Currently 44.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

13 minutes ago, Requiem said:

Unrelated to any topics at hand-- but absolutely ridiculous to see the extraordinary intensification of Hurricane Otis in the Pacific. A mere tropical storm yesterday, it is now a category 5 expected to bare down on the city of Acapulco.

WOW! I’ve been tracking this Arctic Blast and this is the first time I read about this. Cat 5 into Acapulco is crazy!!!

[Cold Snap]

16 minutes ago, Requiem said:

Unrelated to any topics at hand-- but absolutely ridiculous to see the extraordinary intensification of Hurricane Otis in the Pacific. A mere tropical storm yesterday, it is now a category 5 expected to bare down on the city of Acapulco.

It intensified by 110mph in 24 hours. More than three times the wind speed to be qualified as rapid intensification. Breaks the old 24 hour record of 75mph set by Patricia.

[Ken in Wood Village]

I'll be going to bed soon but wanted to post all the radars around the PNW and the satellite loop and a close up of the low coming in. 

[Kolk1604]

I feel like we say this every year. 

[Tanis Leach]

15 minutes ago, Cold Snap said:

It intensified by 110mph in 24 hours. More than three times the wind speed to be qualified as rapid intensification. Breaks the old 24 hour record of 75mph set by Patricia.

Patricia's 24 hour record is intact (the 75 you're referring to is 12 hour, Patricia intensified 120 in 24 hours). The 12 hour record was broken though, since it intensified by 90 mph. 

Edited October 25, 2023 by Tanis Leach
Fat thumbs

[Frontal Snowsquall]

7 minutes ago, Ken in Wood Village said:

I'll be going to bed soon but wanted to post all the radars around the PNW and the satellite loop and a close up of the low coming in. 

I have a feeling we will see this pattern again sometime this winter. This time with colder air in place! 

[Ken in Wood Village]

One more post...lol. I thought I would show everyone the velocity too. It's a little hard to tell which way the winds are going on the Langley radar but you can see the rotation of the low pressure system. 

[Gradient Keeper]

6 minutes ago, Ken in Wood Village said:

One more post...lol. I thought I would show everyone the velocity too. It's a little hard to tell which way the winds are going on the Langley radar but you can see the rotation of the low pressure system. 

Thanks.

[Gradient Keeper]

Sorry, a tad late. There probably won't be too much of anything exciting to track on the models for awhile. Well, that's my take based on what I see right now. The weather will probably become active again in November.

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[Mercurial]

Taken during some snow showers this morning.  We have a bit more now.  Hoping for 2" total here in WF but we'll see.

[MossMan]

I can hear my gutters working overtime! 
.96”! Should be hitting the 1” mark soon! 
2.82” for the month. 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

41 minutes ago, High Desert Mat? said:

What is your average precip amount for October and what did you get in October of 2016?

EUG should be at 2.08" by now and they're currently at 1.81" per ACIS so they should be back on track after tonight. Springfield has seen significantly more than the airport so that has been very nice.

[Gradient Keeper]

Acapulco is in extreme danger. This looks terrifying.

[Snownerd3000]

5 minutes ago, Gradient Keeper said:

Sorry, a tad late. There probably won't be too much of anything exciting to track on the models for awhile. Well, that's my take based on what I see right now. The weather will probably become active again in November.

00z GFS Day 1

Every 4ish weeks would be cool with me

[Gradient Keeper]

Day 2

[HuskyMaestro]

1 minute ago, Gradient Keeper said:

Acapulco is in extreme danger. This looks terrifying.

That last minute shift to the right just doomed so many people. This was just a tropical storm less than 24 hours ago. Second fastest explosive intensification within a 24 hour span, only behind Hurricane Patricia. 

[Gradient Keeper]

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[Gradient Keeper]

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[Front Ranger]

Gorgeous fall storm.

[Gradient Keeper]

[Gradient Keeper]

Day 5

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[Deweydog]

GORGEOUS WEEKEND UPCOMING

[Gradient Keeper]

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[Front Ranger]

19 minutes ago, Mercurial said:

Taken during some snow showers this morning.  We have a bit more now.  Hoping for 2" total here in WF but we'll see.

Nice. I'm in Casper, WY for the next few days, looks like we'll go from a high near 70 tomorrow to a little snow by Thursday afternoon. High of just 28 by Saturday.

Also looks like I'll be getting home Saturday evening to our first snowfall of the season in Denver.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

This is going to be one to remember. It's going to destroy a city of 1M people.

[Chewbacca Defense]

Temp at 38, rainfall up to 0.95" on the day.  Quite the soaker up here, I think the models were only showing about .4" or so for Bellingham. 

 

KBLI is showing winds out of the NE blowing 20 with gusts to 28.  Peak gust so far was 35 about a half hour ago.