December 2023 Weather in the PNW

[Front Ranger]

1 hour ago, Phil said:

I never use the word “definitely” in seasonal forecasts because there is no such thing. But I hope you’re right.  

Definitely. 

[TT-SEA]

1 minute ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

With the short days this time of year, you probably won’t be able to score a 60-burger today. Sorry.

Yeah... its tough reach 60 without an AR event in December and January.   But 55 and sunny is better than 60 and pouring rain anyways.    

[MossMan]

20 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Yeah... its tough reach 60 without an AR event in December and January.   But 55 and sunny is better than 60 and pouring rain anyways.    

Yeah at least the cascade’s are mostly holding onto what little snow they have at least. 

[the_convergence_zone]

4 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Yeah at least the cascade’s are mostly holding onto what little snow they have at least. 

60-80% of normal...which feels like an overachievement given the patterns we've been stuck in over the past month. 

52 here today. Even these high clouds are enough to prevent the mid-December sum from doing any mixing. 

[TT-SEA]

2 minutes ago, the_convergence_zone said:

60-80% of normal...which feels like an overachievement given the patterns we've been stuck in over the past month. 

52 here today. Even these high clouds are enough to prevent the mid-December sum from doing any mixing. 

Normal high today is 48... I think 52 means at least some mixing.

[the_convergence_zone]

1 minute ago, TT-SEA said:

Normal high today is 48... I think 52 means at least some mixing.

It's pretty much dead calm in Seattle. My 10-min average wind is 0.2 mph. Mixing was a little better this morning I think...1 PM is practically dusk at this time of year. 

 

[ShawniganLake]

Ski hills in coastal BC are looking to be in a bad spot leading up to the Christmas season.  Base depths are generally 12-18” and trending downward 

[TT-SEA]

Just now, the_convergence_zone said:

It's pretty much dead calm in Seattle. My 10-min average wind is 0.2 mph. Mixing was a little better this morning I think...1 PM is practically dusk at this time of year. 

 

The entire day is like evening in the summer at this time of year.     

I see that its pretty much calm at SEA as well.   But if there was a strong inversion and no mixing at all it would probably be foggy and in the low 40s.

[TT-SEA]

25 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Yeah at least the cascade’s are mostly holding onto what little snow they have at least. 

My son is anxiously texting me every other day wanting to know when more snow is coming.  I wish I had a good answer for him.   He lives for skiing.  

[TT-SEA]

Looks like low clouds are banked against the east side of the Cascades but the rest of central and eastern WA is a little more sunny now than earlier in the week.  

[T-Town]

Finally burned off here. A crisp 45 degrees. 

[Ken in Wood Village]

On this day 7 years ago in Wood Village, we had a lot of snow. The city closed 238th going up the hill to Glisan. It was fun for all the kids (and adults) because people used the hill to slide on without worrying about cars.

[Phil]

1 hour ago, ShawniganLake said:

I think this has felt pretty typical El Niño crap to most people.  Perhaps a few have had their blinders up or are looking hard for something else.  

Oh yeah, I wasn’t necessarily referring to this form in particular, just general commentary amongst the Wx community that I’ve seen.

[Cold Snap]

53 here right now.

[SouthHillFrosty]

Merry Christmas snow weenies. This winter can literally only get better!

[Phil]

Finally got my anemometer back up and running. Looks like one of the 18650 batteries had a short. Hopefully it doesn’t happen again.  

[Snownerd3000]

2 hours ago, RentonHill said:

its all about the journey man

Thank god for that June bug.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Really nice GFS run!

[Snownerd3000]

19 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Really nice GFS run!

Quite stormy!  Its only 384 hours out but there does look to be a ridge moving from the Bering Straight into GOA.  

[TT-SEA]

52/39 at SEA today.  

[Phishy Wx]

Winter is Closed, Moose out front should've told ya

[CloudJunkie]

Wow, the fog is coming back in force! Gonna try some moody landscape photography tomorrow morning.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

1 hour ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

Merry Christmas snow weenies. This winter can literally only get better!

What a precious little man! Here s my

little guy when we were camping the other day. 

[TT-SEA]

31 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

What a precious little man! Here s my

little guy when we were camping the other day. 

He really looks like his mom.  

[T-Town]

Colorful tonight. 

[HuskyMaestro]

Been a great PNW day weather-wise, gonna head up to Seattle with friends to celebrate a little bit with finals being over. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

1 hour ago, Phishy Wx said:

Winter is Closed, Moose out front should've told ya

El Nino cancelled winter. He just told me so. 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

In Creswell for a Christmas party. Down to 40F and foggy.

[ShawniganLake]

32 minutes ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

El Nino cancelled winter. He just told me so. 

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

19 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

In Creswell for a Christmas party. Down to 40F and foggy.

Home of Luke Jackson

[TT-SEA]

Found winter...

[Gradient Keeper]

A tad late. No big deal. Looking for anything interesting Day 7+ and that's about it.

00z GFS Day 1 (4-run trend)

[Gradient Keeper]

Day 2 (4-run trend)

[Gradient Keeper]

Day 3 (4-run trend)

[Gradient Keeper]

3 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

What a precious little man! Here s my

little guy when we were camping the other day. 

Outstanding.... Shot in the dark. Molalla River?

[Gradient Keeper]

Day 4 (4-run trend)

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, Gradient Keeper said:

Outstanding.... Shot in the dark. Molalla River?

Nehalem. 

[Snownerd3000]

3 hours ago, HuskyMaestro said:

Been a great PNW day weather-wise, gonna head up to Seattle with friends to celebrate a little bit with finals being over. 

Have fun and be careful young man

[Gradient Keeper]

1 minute ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Nehalem. 

I was WAY off!

[Gradient Keeper]

Day 5 (4-run trend)