January 2024 Weather in the PNW (Part II)

[Gradient Keeper]

1 minute ago, Everleigh said:

Checking in from Yelm. I have about 4 inches of snow this morning. It started with the pellety type snow around 8:30pm, and it's still very lightly snowing now at 5am. No call from the school district yet though.... 

Wow 4 inches.... Very nice

[LowerGarfield]

1 minute ago, Everleigh said:

Checking in from Yelm. I have about 4 inches of snow this morning. It started with the pellety type snow around 8:30pm, and it's still very lightly snowing now at 5am. No call from the school district yet though.... 

I feel you. I'm awake now waiting for the call. I'm tempted to just call and lie, saying my child is sick and not go but I'll probably end up taking him to school anyway lol.

[awright-31]

2 minutes ago, Everleigh said:

Checking in from Yelm. I have about 4 inches of snow this morning. It started with the pellety type snow around 8:30pm, and it's still very lightly snowing now at 5am. No call from the school district yet though.... 

Yelm is closed. They posted on Facebook.

[Everleigh]

1 minute ago, awright-31 said:

Yelm is closed. They posted on Facebook.

I don't do The Facebook, but I just got the email. I figured that was gonna be the outcome though!

[LowerGarfield]

Our district is closed!!!!!!!!! It's a January 12th miracle!!! You know it's bad when they actually close. Now it's going to be hard to go back to sleep.

[The Blob]

Had chunky rain at home about 20 minutes ago.

[T-Town]

Ended up with a dusting here. 23.5 degrees. 

[antipex]

-12.2 and still dropping here. No idea how much snow fell with the Arctic boundary last night because of gusty wind.

[TT-SEA]

6 degrees in Bellingham with N23G46 is North Dakota weather!   23 here and cloudy but skies should be clearing this morning.  

Hopefully this kills off some of the bugs.    A nice reset by nature.  

[Ellsworb]

23 degrees and a thin dusting of pellet snow on the east shore of lake tapps. I’m calling it an overperform because I was expecting ZILCH!

[Rubus Leucodermis]

3 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

6 degrees in Bellingham with N23G46 is North Dakota weather!   23 here and cloudy but skies should be clearing this morning.  

Hopefully this kills off some of the bugs.    A nice reset by nature.  

BLI recorded single digits the past two winters as well.

9.0˚F IMBY.

[TT-SEA]

Looks like another northward shift ion the 06Z runs for the system tomorrow.     Still might end up getting parts of the Seattle area and Olympia is definitely in the game.   And the 06Z control run showed the Wednesday snowstorm... it might be happening.  

[Front Ranger]

-29 in Princeton, far southern BC.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

4 hours ago, Doinko said:

06z GFS

 

06z GFS still snowy for PDX. 11.4” and only 0.1” ice. Looks like it keeps PDX with mainly negative 850mb temps. Hopefully the GFS is right with the warm tongue.

[umadbro]

I think the models are being too aggressive with the WAA. 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

As of 6am the Arctic Front has made its way to Olympia west of the Cascades and is almost at The Dalles east of the Cascades. Spokane only at 2.

[westcoastexpat]

Pretty impressive wind chill up here, -19!

[westcoastexpat]

8 hours ago, snow_wizard said:

Looks like it's about done.  The radar looks good over me right now, but it's just a light flurry.  Ended up with about quarter inch.  Pretty disappointing when you consider this could be the best January Arctic blast in decades.

Really sorry to hear that it didn't work out for you Jim. At least that quarter of an inch should still be around? No way it can melt! Unless it sublimated because it's so D**n dry!!

[Rubus Leucodermis]

3 minutes ago, westcoastexpat said:

Pretty impressive wind chill up here, -19!

If you had forecast this fall that it was going to get into the Fahrenheit single digits this winter despite it being a Niño, I would have openly wondered if @snow_wizard had hacked your account.

8.8˚F and still falling.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

4 hours ago, Perturbed Member said:

A 992mb low there with solid cold air in place and good outflow, it just looks like a classic setup for us. I think we're set for at least a few solid inches, especially out west in WA county. I think PDX metro in general should be ok. Probably will see some sleet in parts of the metro for at least part of this but I think enough will still be snow to get a solid event. 

06z EURO shows the highest snow amounts in Washington county. With a warm tongue up into Clackamas County. You could be right, Hillsboro especially out to Cornelius and Forest Grove could be the big winners. I think Central/East PDX Metro will be fine though. I think it’s overdoing the warm tongue in those areas.

 

[westcoastexpat]

I'm down to 8 F. Looks like we've tied last winter's low. Might be a close call if we can reach December 2021's 4 F

[Anti Marine Layer]

14 minutes ago, Frontal Snowsquall said:

As of 6am the Arctic Front has made its way to Olympia west of the Cascades and is almost at The Dalles east of the Cascades. Spokane only at 2.

Florence is torching. 

[Blizzard777]

Got reports from my X it is pretty brutal up at Sandy Point ( Ferndale)  Wa

35 mph winds and 6* currently 

 

My place 23*  and winds gusting to 16 
 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

6 minutes ago, Frontal Snowsquall said:

06z EURO shows the highest snow amounts in Washington county. With a warm tongue up into Clackamas County. You could be right, Hillsboro especially out to Cornelius and Forest Grove could be the big winners. I think Central/East PDX Metro will be fine though. I think it’s overdoing the warm tongue in those areas.

 

Probably a lot more reasonable than those double-digit GRAF amounts, which are high outliers. Euro is going for 3" so probably still on the high end.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

12z NAM is very aggressive with the warm tongue and sleet into PDX. It’s going to be wrong because on the leading edge of moisture it’s showing cold rain.  

[Doinko]

Just now, Frontal Snowsquall said:

12z NAM is very aggressive with the warm tongue and sleet into PDX. It’s going to be wrong because on the leading edge of moisture it’s showing cold rain.  

HRRR looks a bit better, 4-5" of snow for Washington county.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

8.4˚F. Getting close to my Dec. 2021 reading.

[Prairiedog]

4 hours ago, DeepFriedEgg said:

That looks like a more classic warm nose. Hoping it works out like that even if unlikely.

Warm nose right over the top of my house.  Right on schedule.  I would expect nothing less.  Earlier it looked like I might escape it.  Nope.

[jakerepp]

My parents left Boise but my brother is still there. He's in for a treat this weekend.

 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

11 minutes ago, Doinko said:

HRRR looks a bit better, 4-5" of snow for Washington county.

Just saw it. The HRRR is usually over aggressive with the warm tongue. Still showing sleet into PDX Metro and also just cold rain into Clackamas County. I’m confident we’ll see more snow than what these mesoscale models are showing.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Holy crap what a blast this is.  

[Doinko]

-31 degrees at Hart's Pass, WA

[Kayla]

Lots of windchills of -40F to -60F out here this morning.

Current actual temp here is -25F which is my low for the day. Midnight "high" was -12F which will likely be my high for the day. Cold air has pushed in more aggressively than modeled.

[Doinko]

Midnight high of 38, 36 right now. Should see a sub-40 day, along with Hillsboro.

[T-Town]

Brrrr. 

[Chewbacca Defense]

4.5 degrees this morning with a DP of -13.5.  Had the power flicker a few times, but so far the lights have stayed on.  Still quite windy out.

Looks like 56mph is still  the peak gust at KBLI, and they just hit 4 degrees as well

[Doinko]

RGEM looks improved, decent shift of heaviest totals south. Looks like about 10" here

 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

8.2˚F, a notch colder than I reached in 2021. And I see BLI has now tied its 2021 low as well.

[Doinko]

GRAF looks okay

[Ken in Wood Village]

7 minutes ago, Doinko said:

Midnight high of 38, 36 right now. Should see a sub-40 day, along with Hillsboro.

That's your high temperature for today. Temperatures are just going to keep falling through the day.