January 2024 Weather in the PNW (Part II)

[Slushy Inch]

1 minute ago, TT-SEA said:

12Z GEFS shows substantial increase in snow for Wednesday... but the spread is pretty significant for being only 4 days away.   Some members showing lots of snow and others showing none.  

We are going to need euro and it’s ensemble to change in the right direction this morning 

[Timmy]

3 minutes ago, GobBluth said:

Mostly sleet in Beaverton.

Switched to all snow here

[DeepFriedEgg]

Dumping and blizzard-like!!

[DeepFriedEgg]

Wow that is crazy heavy band passing me on radar

[Doinko]

1 minute ago, DeepFriedEgg said:

Dumping and blizzard-like!!

Yeah this band is insane. Never thought I'd get to experience something like this here

[DeepFriedEgg]

I think the mid levels cooled with the heavy precip. Massive flakes so ratio are probably close to 10:1 or lower despite being 14F

[Kayla]

9 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

I tried that with the kids last night.  We just all ended up being scalded by hot water falling on us!  
 

. I know it wasn’t cold enough for the full effect but it did make a pretty big cloud of steam.  

Haha good attempt at least! What was your temp when you tried?

Done it many times since moving here. I've found it needs to be at least -20F but works best around -30F.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Haha Portland is going to get crushed today, radar looks great.

[Timmy]

1 minute ago, DeepFriedEgg said:

I think the mid levels cooled with the heavy precip. Massive flakes so ratio are probably close to 10:1 or lower despite being 14F

850’s dropped .5 to -2.5 last obs over pdx

[Roman-Dallas Snow-Zone]

An absolute sleeting mess!! 

 

 

[DeepFriedEgg]

1 minute ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Haha Portland is going to get crushed today, radar looks great.

Yes just need mid level to hold the line!

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, Dave said:

Me too, although I'm not exactly sure how to deal with sleet. Eugene usually only gets freezing rain or snow.

I'm gonna hope for the best. I'm sure the modeled ZR amounts won't pan out. But even if they did, I'll be fine. I love camping and have supplies for days and warm everything that would be needed.

Sleet is interesting. When we had the big sleet storm when I was out in Oklahoma everyone treated it like snow, kids went sledding, etc.. However, if you fall on it, it is a pretty hard and grating surface. I had a couple friends (We were in college doing stupid things.) who got injured falling on it. 

[FroYoBro]

1 minute ago, Roman-Dallas Snow-Zone said:

An absolute sleeting mess!! 

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At least it looks nicer than freezing rain!

[ShawniganLake]

2 minutes ago, Kayla said:

Haha good attempt at least! What was your temp when you tried?

Done it many times since moving here. I've found it needs to be at least -20F but works best around -30F.

It was around 10F.  I wasn’t expecting much but it wasn’t too bad.  They saw people on the news doing it and wanted to try. 

[MossMan]

Just took an 11 degree walk around the property with the dogs. Ferns and rhododendrons are not happy about it. Dogs are fine with it. 
And I pretended the crunching under by boots was snow compacting down…Instead of frozen mud that has heaved up. 

[ShawniganLake]

Dropped to 7F this morning. Coldest since 2008.  Not too bad considering we don’t have much snow. 

[Perturbed Member]

Have remained snow here as far as I could tell. Possibly some cold air damming against the coast range helping out here earlier but glad to see mid levels wet bulbing to change over most of the metro to snow. Hopefully stays that way. 

Radar looking pretty nice. 

 

[GHweatherChris]

Cloud deck is getting girthier here.

[DeepFriedEgg]

Radar reminds me of 1/10/17. Just need to stay snow as long as possible!

[MossMan]

My weather station just started trolling me with the angry flashing snowflakes. 

[Timmy]

Icon looks fine

[Rubus Leucodermis]

4 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

Dropped to 7F this morning. Coldest since 2008.  Not too bad considering we don’t have much snow. 

Same here. A degree colder than yesterday morning.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

2 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

Cloud deck is getting girthier here.

It is so close! With the east flow I think I will start to see precip building on the east slopes of Olympics,  I think I will get a light coating today. Going to be close.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

8 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Just took an 11 degree walk around the property with the dogs. Ferns and rhododendrons are not happy about it. Dogs are fine with it. 
And I pretended the crunching under by boots was snow compacting down…Instead of frozen mud that has heaved up. 

Those sword fern fronds are probably toast. These sort of temperatures usually do them in. They will of course make new ones in the spring. One of my standards for a cold winter is whether or not the sword ferns get blasted.

[FroYoBro]

Definitely still some sleet mixed in depending on the intensity, but this is overall very epic. Down to 15 degrees!

[ajreich]

Down to 11 and enormous flakes. Visibility is probably less than a quarter mile? Just an astounding event

 

 

 

[SpaceRace22]

Got a thin coating of diamond dust here and getting ready to get nuked soon. So happy after 15 years in the PNW I'm FINALLY I'm going to be in state and in the right city for a major snow event. I'm feeling really good that I could be in the absolute bullseye here and this could very well be the first time I've ever seen more than 7-8" on the ground in the lowlands. Fingers crossed that warm tongue has an active warrant in WA and doesn't want to risk crossing the border.

Really sorry for everyone else who's getting screwed this time. I truly do know how crappy that can feel. I'll be pulling for you all big time on the next one.

[TT-SEA]

Wow.... wind is howling here.  Just had a whiteout in the back yard with snow blowing off the roof.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

3 minutes ago, ajreich said:

Down to 11 and enormous flakes. Visibility is probably less than a quarter mile? Just an astounding event

 

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It's just getting started, wait till it really gets going!

[Frontal Snowsquall]

Currently 13 degrees with strong east winds and heavy snow out here. Never experienced this in my life!

[MikeInEverett]

12 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Just took an 11 degree walk around the property with the dogs. Ferns and rhododendrons are not happy about it. Dogs are fine with it. 
And I pretended the crunching under by boots was snow compacting down…Instead of frozen mud that has heaved up. 

[Doinko]

Very low visibility, I'm guessing a quarter mile. Looks like 95% snow which is really nice. Down to 15 degrees!

[TacomaWx]

Back down at the waterfront this morning and some shallow parts of the beach starting to freeze. Very nice morning with great visibility up to a balmy 17. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

2 minutes ago, Doinko said:

Very low visibility, I'm guessing a quarter mile. Looks like 95% snow which is really nice. Down to 15 degrees!

This is crazy!

[RCola]

Good luck down south today! Hope the freezing rain is as minimal as possible.

Fully prepared for Seattle to miss out on Wednesday, too. It's on brand for us to miss one snowstorm because we are too far north and another snowstorm because we are too far south.  The writing is on the wall.

[SnowWillarrive]

2 minutes ago, RCola said:

Good luck down south today! Hope the freezing rain is as minimal as possible.

Fully prepared for Seattle to miss out on Wednesday, too. It's on brand for us to miss one snowstorm because we are too far north and another snowstorm because we are too far south.  The writing is on the wall.

I’ll be livid if we go straight to rain after all this record cold

[Dave]

55 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

I'm rooting for it to stay sleet as long as possible. Hope you are prepared for a natural disaster, because it sure looks like one is coming to your city.

Me too. It will probably moderate though and the models will miss and only be a suck assss situation for a little while. We'll see.

[TacomaWx]

2 minutes ago, RCola said:

Good luck down south today! Hope the freezing rain is as minimal as possible.

Fully prepared for Seattle to miss out on Wednesday, too. It's on brand for us to miss one snowstorm because we are too far north and another snowstorm because we are too far south.  The writing is on the wall.

Way too early to tell what’s going to happen mid week. Really not expecting anything but we will see. Will probably get some freezing rain. 

[TT-SEA]

GEM ensemble members for Wednesday morning... might be an all or nothing deal for snow.