December 2023 Weather in the PNW

[Rubus Leucodermis]

50.4˚F.

 

[snow_wizard]

1 hour ago, Deweydog said:

Found out yesterday that one of my nephews has officially caught the bugg. Proof that genetics in some is ABSOLUTELY a part weather nerdery. Can’t tell you how many fights with my old man ended with me storming out of the room and yelling “I’M SORRY I WAS BORN THIS WAY!”

It was a lot of fun sitting with him for about an hour and I gave him the run down on how to read models, soundings, meteograms, differences between ops/ensembles, model bias tendencies, etc. We did NOT touch on SSW’s though. You could tell he was seriously infected with the virus and the poor kid has a long road to recovery ahead of him in a warming climate. Reminded me of my grandpa and I as he definitely passed on a lot of geekery as he of would mesmerize me with stories of January 1969 and such. Nice to know there will be some new guard in the family though.

Don't forget about the GLAAM!!

[Meatyorologist]

1 hour ago, Phil said:

Yikes, wave-2 transition is pathetic on 12z EPS even in members that go that route.

Odds of a “dud” are increasing for NW half of North America (if you’re hoping for a pattern reversal) assuming this isn’t a blip.

All according to plan. 

[Meatyorologist]

1 hour ago, Deweydog said:

Found out yesterday that one of my nephews has officially caught the bugg. Proof that genetics in some is ABSOLUTELY a part weather nerdery. Can’t tell you how many fights with my old man ended with me storming out of the room and yelling “I’M SORRY I WAS BORN THIS WAY!”

It was a lot of fun sitting with him for about an hour and I gave him the run down on how to read models, soundings, meteograms, differences between ops/ensembles, model bias tendencies, etc. We did NOT touch on SSW’s though. You could tell he was seriously infected with the virus and the poor kid has a long road to recovery ahead of him in a warming climate. Reminded me of my grandpa and I as he definitely passed on a lot of geekery as he of would mesmerize me with stories of January 1969 and such. Nice to know there will be some new guard in the family though.

Awesome to hear.

[Meatyorologist]

2 hours ago, NorthBend RainEnthusiast said:

I lived on the Greenland Ice Sheet for a month in Summer 2012 and it absolutely torched, record melt at the time. No summer ‘duds’ allowed, only winter. 

What! That had to have been one hell of an experience. How long did you stay out there? What were you doing?

[Snownerd3000]

11 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

50.4˚F.

 

I'll take this burger any day of the week

[MossMan]

What a day! Out doing some yard stuff and it feels like April, not late December. 

[Kolk1604]

Ryan channeling his inner Hulk Hogan

 

 

[Phishy Wx]

 

 

[Phishy Wx]

yes I know

[TT-SEA]

36 minutes ago, MossMan said:

What a day! Out doing some yard stuff and it feels like April, not late December. 

Definitely has a spring-like feel out there today... despite Andrew's protests from the gloomy WV.

[the_convergence_zone]

51 minutes ago, MossMan said:

What a day! Out doing some yard stuff and it feels like April, not late December. 

Same, perfect weather for taking down the Christmas decorations. 

[TT-SEA]

4 minutes ago, the_convergence_zone said:

Same, perfect weather for taking down the Christmas decorations. 

Wow... you don't waste any time!   We usually wait until at least New Years Day.  

[Phishy Wx]

11 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Wow... you don't waste any time!   We usually wait until at least New Years Day.  

up on xmas eve, down on boxing day.  tradition

[MossMan]

My outside lights stay up until the end of March usually. Because…SNOW! 
Tree will need to come down this week, it’s mighty dry. 

Edited December 26, 2023 by MossMan

[RentonHill]

Winter is saved. Hip hip

[the_convergence_zone]

6 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

up on xmas eve, down on boxing day.  tradition

Up on Black Friday, down after Christmas. Just happened that a nice weather day fell on the 26th this year. 

I did see someone putting theirs up on Sunday 

[Snownerd3000]

13 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

up on xmas eve, down on boxing day.  tradition

How do you have time to enjoy them? 

[TT-SEA]

Looking at the satellite you would think we are about to be deluged.   But there isn't a rainy day (like yesterday) in sight.   Just a few showers at times over the next week.

[Slushy Inch]

Farthest south the real cold anomalies have been modeled. Nice that cold in B.C isn’t gone like it was for a few runs. 

[TT-SEA]

53/44 at SEA with sun most of the day and light wind.    Maybe a little spring-like @SilverFallsAndrew?    Doesn't mean there won't be plenty of wintery days still ahead. 

[Phil]

1 minute ago, TT-SEA said:

53/44 at SEA with sun most of the day and light wind.    Maybe a little spring-like @SilverFallsAndrew?    Doesn't mean there won't be plenty of wintery days still ahead. 

The winter solstice was a few days ago. Ease off the gas, sparky.

[TT-SEA]

7 minutes ago, Phil said:

The winter solstice was a few days ago. Ease off the gas, sparky.

There are usually some spring like days near the summer solstice as well.   Such is the nature of our climate.    We almost always have some days in the 50s in both June and December.  

[T-Town]

1 hour ago, MossMan said:

My outside lights stay up until the end of March usually. Because…SNOW! 
Tree will need to come down this week, it’s mighty dry. 

Our tree is extremely dry. Also plastic. 

[AbbyJr]

@Phil Is this a wave-2/split? Forgive me for my lack of knowledge in this area.

[snow_wizard]

11 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

There are usually some spring like days near the summer solstice as well.   Such is the nature of our climate.    We almost always have some days in the 50s in both June and December.  

I've been seeing 50s in the upper Midwest this month as well.

[Phil]

6 minutes ago, AbbyJr said:

@Phil Is this a wave-2/split? Forgive me for my lack of knowledge in this area.

That’s a wave-2, yes.

Think of wave-1 as vortex shoved off the pole with anticyclone nosing in

Wave-2 split vortex, into 2 daughter vortices, with 2 anticyclones nosing in

Rarely you can have a wave-3. IIRC either 17/18 or 18/19 had 3 daughter vortices.

[snow_wizard]

9 minutes ago, AbbyJr said:

@Phil Is this a wave-2/split? Forgive me for my lack of knowledge in this area.

Bring that down to the 500mb level and we're golden!

[TT-SEA]

5 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

I've been seeing 50s in the upper Midwest this month as well.

Its been nuts over there.   My friends and family are mostly loving it... exception being my brother-in-law who is really into snowmobiling.  

Seeing lots of posts like this:

 

[snow_wizard]

The GFS is all over another surge of warming at the 10mb level during week 2.  We just recently had a lesser SSW which has already left the PV fairly weak with -AO.

[Blizzard777]

2 hours ago, Phishy Wx said:

 

 

I’m going to focus on Santa village instead 

live stream 

https://santaclausvillage.info/live-video-webcam/

 

[Phishy Wx]

1 hour ago, Snownerd3000 said:

How do you have time to enjoy them? 

I don't like to force holidays. that's plenty, besides no kids and all the fam is on the east coast, but my parents do the same.  apparently it was a tradition of my paternal great grandparents

[westiztehbest]

3 hours ago, Phishy Wx said:

Euro locked and loaded on the SSWE

save winter with a fun Feb? (again).  Re: 2019?

was a fun month as i recall

[TT-SEA]

18 minutes ago, Blizzard777 said:

I’m going to focus on Santa village instead 

live stream 

https://santaclausvillage.info/live-video-webcam/

 

Finland?

[NorthBend RainEnthusiast]

3 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

What! That had to have been one hell of an experience. How long did you stay out there? What were you doing?

I stayed on the ice sheet in the summers of 2012, 2013, and 2014 for my grad school research. I flew into Kangerlussuaq by C-130 one year, other times I flew in from Denmark. There is a science support base in town, and then we’d helicopter our gear, our drill rig, and ourselves onto the ice sheet. We used hot water drilling to make boreholes through the ice, and then we’d drop in strings of various sensors with a logger at the surface. Let the ice refreeze and come back a year later to get the readings. 

No contact on the ice besides an emergency sat phone, and it was mostly manual labor once on the ice. The melted ice was so pure that we could just have active power strips sitting in puddles. A very unique opportunity.

[Phishy Wx]

2 minutes ago, NorthBend RainEnthusiast said:

I stayed on the ice sheet in the summers of 2012, 2013, and 2014 for my grad school research. I flew into Kangerlussuaq by C-130 one year, other times I flew in from Denmark. There is a science support base in town, and then we’d helicopter our gear, our drill rig, and ourselves onto the ice sheet. We used hot water drilling to make boreholes through the ice, and then we’d drop in strings of various sensors with a logger at the surface. Let the ice refreeze and come back a year later to get the readings. 

No contact on the ice besides an emergency sat phone, and it was mostly manual labor once on the ice. The melted ice was so pure that we could just have active power strips sitting in puddles. A very unique opportunity.

did you do anything with NCAR?  when I was on Mt Washington in winter 2000-01 we did some rime ice studies and collection for NCAR and the FAA.

[NorthBend RainEnthusiast]

12 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

did you do anything with NCAR?  when I was on Mt Washington in winter 2000-01 we did some rime ice studies and collection for NCAR and the FAA.

We didn’t, we were kinda our own group. We were NSF-funded but also oddly funded by a coalition of countries looking to use our research to determine the possibility of glaciers re-advancing and impacting buried nuclear waste long in the future.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Went up the Santiam canyon a bit today. Didn’t attempt to get to Daly Lake though we probably could have gotten there. Had my kids with me and didn’t tell anyone where we were going so it didn’t seem like a good idea. Still a nice wintry day. Kids brought back some snow. 

[MossMan]

Just a slight difference from 2yrs ago today. 

[GHweatherChris]

6 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Just a slight difference from 2yrs ago today. 

You need to do a better job with these comparison pics man, can barely see the shed window in todays..... and you should have been on the tractor with the plow as well today, just sayin