November 2023 Weather in the PNW

[Cascadia_Wx]

4 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Lovely snaps.

It’s also a sacred site where tribal youth would go for vision quests, to find their lifelong spirit guide. What’s your spirit guide Andrew?

[Chewbacca Defense]

6 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Chemtrails.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Last nights CFS is interesting. Pretty chilly around the 20th of December and then a December 1996 like set up later on. So a lot of rain and 50 degree temps down here, maybe nice up norte.  Gonna be a great winter for y'all. 

Edited November 27, 2023 by SilverFallsAndrew

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, Cascadia_Wx said:

It’s also a sacred site where tribal youth would go for vision quests, to find their lifelong spirit guide. What’s your spirit guide Andrew?

My manitou spirit is that of the noble and humble porcupine. 

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

12 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Last nights CFS is interesting. Pretty chilly around the 20th of December and then a December 1996 like set up later on. So a lot of rain and 50 degree temps down here, maybe nice up norte.  Gonna be a great winter for y'all. 

Lmao. This is about as likely to happen as depicted as me becoming president. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

Lmao. This is about as likely to happen as depicted as me becoming president. 

Hope you asked your significant other for a snow plow for the HOLIDAY.

[Omegaraptor]

Another low of 21 in Corvallis this morning. Very pretty outside with frost covering everything. I hope that is not the coldest temp of the entire winter right there, but it very well might be.

[Cascadia_Wx]

3 minutes ago, Omegaraptor said:

Another low of 21 in Corvallis this morning. Very pretty outside with frost covering everything. I hope that is not the coldest temp of the entire winter right there, but it very well might be.

I was REALLY close to hearting this one when I first started reading it. You got off to such a good start! Baby steps.

[TacomaWx]

12 minutes ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

Lmao. This is about as likely to happen as depicted as me becoming president. 

Not exactly the same, but we had a similar set up in February 2021. Not extremely uncommon to get big snows like this. Low came in a bit further south and PDX was on the borderline however this fantasy land example is further north. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

SLE hit 24, EUG 23. 

[TacomaWx]

Hit 32 for freeze #11 this morning on the season. Pretty decent amount of freezing low temps for it not even being winter yet. Still 36 at home. 

[TT-SEA]

48 and sunny here... east wind continues.   No frost at all here even in places that are shaded all day.  

[Omegaraptor]

10 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

I was REALLY close to hearting this one when I first started reading it. You got off to such a good start! Baby steps.

D**n, I missed out on the highly coveted Jesse like. How will I ever recover from this?

[Timmy Supercell]

Brian MacMillan shared this on facebook, Seattle sunrise from Capitol Hill tower cam. 

[ShawniganLake]

54 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Last nights CFS is interesting. Pretty chilly around the 20th of December and then a December 1996 like set up later on. So a lot of rain and 50 degree temps down here, maybe nice up norte.  Gonna be a great winter for y'all. 

Wow. Looks like the snow depth reaches 4ft over the EPSL.  Stock up on supplies while you still can. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

East wind has kicked up at PDX. Seems to be transitioning to more of a gap wind setup today with stratus building westward through the Gorge. Hopefully will keep temps cooler metro wide today. PDX is still waiting for their first sub-50 high of the season.

[iFred]

1 hour ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Last nights CFS is interesting. Pretty chilly around the 20th of December and then a December 1996 like set up later on. So a lot of rain and 50 degree temps down here, maybe nice up norte.  Gonna be a great winter for y'all. 

I have to be in New Mexico for a wedding between the 27th and 2nd. This would be prime time for a Storm King to arrive.

[Winterdog]

Had a low of 25 here, Arlington came in at 23 and KSEA at 28.  Pretty unusual for Seattle to be within 5 degrees of Arlington on clear nights.  Usually its 10 to 14 degrees lower here if there is any kind of easterly wind influence at KSEA.  Nice to see KSEA rack up some freezes.

[Phil]

At the very least, a warm/wet mod/strong niño December in the PNW does winnow down the analog pool.

[TT-SEA]

9 minutes ago, Phil said:

At the very least, a warm/wet mod/strong niño December in the PNW does winnow down the analog pool.

This might be something like December 2015 with a non-stop storm train.    But that pattern absolutely buried the mountains.   Hopefully the upcoming pattern trends colder over time.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, Phil said:

At the very least, a warm/wet mod/strong niño December in the PNW does winnow down the analog pool.

Been interesting that fall ended up essentially average in every way. 

[TT-SEA]

SEA had 11.21 inches of rain in December 2015 (normal is 5.72)... and the only dry days were the 29th-31st.  

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, TT-SEA said:

SEA had 11.21 inches of rain in December 2015... and the only dry days were the 29th-31st.  

This is just off memory, but I feel like that one trended colder as we got later into the month. Until 2021 that was my only white Christmas up here. 

[Slushy Inch]

1 hour ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

Lmao. This is about as likely to happen as depicted as me becoming president. 

Yeah would probably threaten 24 hour snowfall record in Seattle.

[Slushy Inch]

Should be a killer trough for mountain snow.

[TT-SEA]

1 minute ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

This is just off memory, but I feel like that one trended colder as we got later into the month. Until 2021 that was my only white Christmas up here. 

Definitely trended colder.   I believe we had a white Christmas here as well.  

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Below 0 in the Antelope Desert last night while it remained above freezing on the rim of Crater Lake. 

[Slushy Inch]

1 hour ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Last nights CFS is interesting. Pretty chilly around the 20th of December and then a December 1996 like set up later on. So a lot of rain and 50 degree temps down here, maybe nice up norte.  Gonna be a great winter for y'all. 

2020 heatwave level extremity 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, TT-SEA said:

Definitely trended colder.   I believe we had a white Christmas here as well.  

I'm sure you did, we had about 6-8" on the ground. I remember there was some thought that trough might have lowland snow potential, didn't really work out for the lowlands as 500-1000mb thickness bottomed out around 524dm down here. 

[TT-SEA]

Just now, Slushy Inch said:

Should be a killer trough for mountain snow.

This is what the 12Z ECMWF shows with that system on Friday/Saturday:

[Slushy Inch]

Just now, TT-SEA said:

This is what the 12Z ECMWF shows with that system on Friday/Saturday:

Oh yeah I saw that.

[MossMan]

1 hour ago, TacomaWx said:

Not exactly the same, but we had a similar set up in February 2021. Not extremely uncommon to get big snows like this. Low came in a bit further south and PDX was on the borderline however this fantasy land example is further north. 

What a lovely weekend that was. 

[TacomaWx]

Just now, MossMan said:

What a lovely weekend that was. 

Only thing that would’ve made that event better was if the snow had stuck around longer. It was a fun weekend though. 

[Snownerd3000]

4 hours ago, Chewbacca Defense said:

Facebook was full of posts yesterday afternoon of pictures contrails from aircraft in circling holding patterns over southern BC/northern Whatcom county.  Here is a sampling, this flight was supposed to go to Nanaimo as well.  The photos were posted on the Whatcom County Weather page

 

[Requiem]

Nice to see some bonafide active weather to kick December off 

[Snownerd3000]

1 hour ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

Lmao. This is about as likely to happen as depicted as me becoming president. 

Please run, I need someone to vote for.  Currently, Comet is winning.

[Phil]

Sizable outbreak of arctic air into Eurasia during week-2. Also fits with warm/wet west coast theme (and possibly -WPO) going into December. But this also shuts down all conduits to arctic air (or even continental air) for the foreseeable future.

[TacomaWx]

February 2021 was a winter saving event for sure. 13.5” of snow in 18 hours. Then another 2” on Valentine’s Day. 

[Slushy Inch]

1 minute ago, Requiem said:

Nice to see some bonafide active weather to kick December off 

Looks like 1 maybe two decent systems.

[Slushy Inch]

1 minute ago, Phil said:

Sizable outbreak of arctic air into Eurasia during week-2. Also fits with warm/wet west coast theme (and possibly -WPO) going into December. But this also shuts down all conduits to arctic air for the foreseeable future.

This is how far out I have to look for something remotely interesting. Hope we won’t get skunked like 2015.