December 2023 Weather in the PNW

[CliffMassYelledAtMe]

13 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

There is overpass portions of highway near the HWY 16 interchange in the Tacoma area that were planned wrong originally and just end and will never be removed or fixed, they got it wrong and just left them.

Probably cost even more money to do so, so just leave it, I guess.

 

They had somehting similar off of 520 near Montlake on Seattle. Not sure if they are fixing it/have fixed it. Between the toll and all the construction still going on over there, I try to go I90 across the lake instead.

[Gradient Keeper]

00z GFS re-cap. 10 Day GIFs: 500mb Height Anomaly, 850mb Temps, 1000-500mb Thickness/MSLP/Precip

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00z GFS 10 Day Rainfall, Snowfall totals

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00z ECMWF re-cap. 10 Day GIFs: 500mb Height Anomaly, 850mb Temps, 1000-500mb Thickness/MSLP/Precip

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00z ECMWF 10 Day Rainfall, Snowfall totals

[GHweatherChris]

29 minutes ago, CliffMassYelledAtMe said:

Probably cost even more money to do so, so just leave it, I guess.

 

They had somehting similar off of 520 near Montlake on Seattle. Not sure if they are fixing it/have fixed it. Between the toll and all the construction still going on over there, I try to go I90 across the lake instead.

The issue is how much money people including us that helped paid for  it for no reason, we don't get our money back and the roads in that area are still and will continue to be some of the worst in the state.

[Front Ranger]

Wow, the Euro is a unmitigated torch for Canadia. Truly horrific for cold lovers in the great white north. 

[CliffMassYelledAtMe]

4 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

The issue is how much money people including us that helped paid for  it for no reason, we don't get our money back and the roads in that area are still and will continue to be some of the worst in the state.

Well, yeah of course that sucks. And I honestly don't want them wasting more money "fixing" it. There need to be better contracts that claw money back when engineers or construction crews screw up like that.

[CliffMassYelledAtMe]

2 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

Wow, the Euro is a unmitigated torch for Canadia. Truly horrific for cold lovers in the great white north. 

Was reading some posts on Reddit from concerned Canadians worried about wildfires this year.

[GHweatherChris]

17 minutes ago, CliffMassYelledAtMe said:

Well, yeah of course that sucks. And I honestly don't want them wasting more money "fixing" it. There need to be better contracts that claw money back when engineers or construction crews screw up like that.

That will never happen, the roads to nowhere have been there for decades and yet we will keep paying for bull chit!!

 

[Tanis Leach]

I'd like to get people's thoughts on this whether it's clickbait, or not. I personally don't think PDX will see anything frozen for the record.

 

https://www.koin.com/weather/freezing-rain-low-elevation-snow-possible-in-portland-area-around-christmas/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=referral&fbclid=IwAR0UU426K1X-TLTIi3-RHyBP2brjj8vNgyE-0Cx7v5vgHOpaGMnT60-Gjvs

 

Addendum, story writer is not a meteorologist, but cites one of their meteorologists.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

13 minutes ago, Tanis Leach said:

I'd like to get people's thoughts on this whether it's clickbait, or not. I personally don't think PDX will see anything frozen for the record.

 

https://www.koin.com/weather/freezing-rain-low-elevation-snow-possible-in-portland-area-around-christmas/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=referral&fbclid=IwAR0UU426K1X-TLTIi3-RHyBP2brjj8vNgyE-0Cx7v5vgHOpaGMnT60-Gjvs

Total clickbait. 

[Gradient Keeper]

18 minutes ago, Tanis Leach said:

I'd like to get people's thoughts on this whether it's clickbait, or not. I personally don't think PDX will see anything frozen for the record.

 

https://www.koin.com/weather/freezing-rain-low-elevation-snow-possible-in-portland-area-around-christmas/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=referral&fbclid=IwAR0UU426K1X-TLTIi3-RHyBP2brjj8vNgyE-0Cx7v5vgHOpaGMnT60-Gjvs

 

Addendum, story writer is not a meteorologist, but cites one of their meteorologists.

Yeah. 100% clickbait. The Gorge or Hood River Valley might though. This is shameful honestly.

[Gradient Keeper]

It might be raining around McMinnville

[Ken in Wood Village]

Great, I have to drive through some heavy rain to work

[Tyler Mode]

Pouring rain and 46 here.  Pressure is pretty low to at 29.42".  0.28" so far.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

Al mild 46.9˚F this morning. Only a bit of drizzle so far.

[Slushy Inch]

Every run shows more and more retrogression.

[Tyler Mode]

Just hit 10" for the month.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

3 hours ago, Ken in Wood Village said:

Great, I have to drive through some heavy rain to work

Beats driving through an ice storm.

[Phishy Wx]

South America was having triple digit heat in July in the middle of their Winter.  you guys act surprised our cold season is all screwy this year.

[TT-SEA]

8 years ago today on 12/19/15 at Snoqualmie Pass.     That was such a great month up there.  

[Timmy Supercell]

1 minute ago, TT-SEA said:

8 years ago today on 12/19/15 at Snoqualmie Pass.     That was such a great month up there.  

December's snowfall record was broken at Crater Lake NP in 2015. They were lucky the snow levels didn't skyrocket with some of those AR's. Months like Dec 2010 fluctuated from snow to rain and back to snow.

[Slushy Inch]

6 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

8 years ago today on 12/19/15 at Snoqualmie Pass.     That was such a great month up there.  

Mountains actually had decent snow in 2015?

[Timmy Supercell]

2 minutes ago, Slushy Inch said:

Mountains actually had decent snow in 2015?

Yup, not sure to what stretch exactly. While rainfall was being measured in feet in Portland, most of that moisture was snowfall above 3k feet. Back at my place in K-Falls 33" fell that month, but I had missed that while visiting my brother up in Wilsonville. lol

[Phishy Wx]

15 years ago yesterday was Spokane Snomeggedon.  24" in 24 hours

[Timmy Supercell]

To be expected though with a lot El Nino's, it was a short lived blast of winter. January 2016 started a drying trend, and February had below average snowfall in places.

[TT-SEA]

16 minutes ago, Slushy Inch said:

Mountains actually had decent snow in 2015?

December 2015 was the snowiest December ever at Snoqualmie Pass.   Might have been snowiest month all time there... would have to look it up.

[May Grey]

[MossMan]

One year ago today it was imminently coming! 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, Thunder98 said:

That's pretty ridiculous. 

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Haven't checked the rain gauge yet, but it seemed like it rained quite a bit during the night, pretty much pouring out there at the moment. Haven't even checked the radar. Got back from the airport around midnight and then had to get up early to get the kids to school. 

[MossMan]

.01” so far on the day, 5.18” for the month. 

[ShawniganLake]

24 minutes ago, MossMan said:

One year ago today it was imminently coming! 

Yea. It was 23/20 here last year on this date.  With almost 14” of snow that night. 

[Canadian guy]

11 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

Yea. It was 23/20 here last year on this date.  With almost 14” of snow that night. 

That was such a great event for the South Island. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

One year ago today I awoke to thundersnow.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

I barely remember the glancing blow blast from this time last year. It did deliver a sub freezing day at SLE I believe, and a very solid coating of ZR up here. But in a season with 95" of snow, an even that only brought ZR doesn't stand out too much. Though it was the most significant icing event I've had up here as the layer of cold air was pretty thick (As thick as it can be for ZR I suppose.).

[westcoastexpat]

You can see that the ECMWF and GFS Ensembles continue to signal cooler than normal temperature pattern for western NA for the early-mid January period.

The main caveat being that ensemble means aren't as effective as looking at teleconnections in the long range, such as the MJO, which via extrapolation would likely be in phases 3/4/5/6 for the early-mid January period. And there is statistical confidence that temp anomalies in the west are warmer than normal in those MJO phases. And of course, the ENSO influence which is not in our favour and statistically has its strongest influence on our temp anomalies for the late Jan through to April period.

But at least the ensembles are picking up on something bubbling up for the west in January. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

The CFS put a lump of coal in our stocking last night. 

[Deweydog]

25 years ago RIGHT NOW a cooling trend was in our midst! Also, I was working at Costco this day which proved to be the company’s first million dollar grossing day in its history at a single store. Oh the .com bubble days…