January 2024 Weather in the PNW (Part II)

[Rustysprocket]

A bit of a lull at the moment, been mainly sleet.  Seems to be a heavy bad moving through Salem, hopefully it'll bode well for my area if it can hold. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

1 minute ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Is the shield of overcast reaching up there at least? That should help. I love that we’re getting cold and snow when sun angles are still so weak they’re barely a factor.

Yep! My favorite time for this to happen is dec1 through Feb 1. Those sun angles make a huge difference with road melting. 

[Phishy Wx]

saw that Missoula airport could not open this morning because the de-icing equipment was frozen and would not start

[snow_wizard]

1 minute ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Don’t expect the sleet to last too long. The energy late afternoon could give Clark county 1-2” an hour snowfall rates if everything works out. 

Once that low center gets underneath you the cold will deepen quickly.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, Rustysprocket said:

A bit of a lull at the moment, been mainly sleet.  Seems to be a heavy bad moving through Salem, hopefully it'll bode well for my area if it can hold. 

My brother just texted and said he’s at 19.4 with heavy sleet. He sent me this pic a couple hours ago. 

[SimplySmoothWX]

21 F and all snow here in Beaver country.

Since there are no hills nearby some kids are trying to sled by holding on to a rope attached the back of a pickup truck. Average college student shenanigans 

[snow_wizard]

1 minute ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Yep! My favorite time for this to happen is dec1 through Feb 1. Those sun angles make a huge difference with road melting. 

I can tell you for a fact a little after Feb 1 can be ok too.  In Feb 1989 roads that were in the sun all day stayed totally white.

[Phishy Wx]

looks like we got colder than KGEG last night, which is rare.  I had a 1/-11 day yesterday IMBY

KGEG had a 13/-7

 

Almanac for Spokane Area, WA (ThreadEx)
January 12, 2024

Daily Data	Observed	Normal	Record Highest	Record Lowest
Max Temperature	13	34	53 in 1983	3 in 1909
Min Temperature	-7	24	44 in 1953	-7 in 2024
Avg Temperature	3.0	29.2	47.0 in 1953	-1.0 in 1909

[icyasf]

Can sleet cover cool temperatures down the same way snow cover can?

[Slushy Inch]

Better than the 0z.

[Cascadia_Wx]

Just now, snow_wizard said:

I can tell you for a fact a little after Feb 1 can be ok too.  In Feb 1989 roads that were in the sun all day stayed totally white.

Valentine’s Day has always been the cutoff in my mind for true mid-winter like conditions to be possible. But it’s still nice to have this happen in the relatively short days of mid-January. We’ve had a lot of mid to late February events lately.

[Sometimesdylan]

Couple photos from work (flight nurse)

 

Pretty amazing what a few days of below 0f will do; the Stikine river is frozen 

Bonus photo of Stikine Icefield and Sunset over Puget Sound.

3 degrees in Juneau and 30something in Seattle but sunny and pretty views the whole way. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, icyasf said:

Can sleet cover cool temperatures down the same way snow cover can?

Yes

[Groundhog]

While Oregon is enjoying a wintry mix, here north of the 49th, it’s a sunny day. It’s beautiful. Took the kiddos to see ice flows on the Fraser.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Sleet piling up in Salem. 

[TT-SEA]

Incoming comma!   Nice structure to this storm.     And in Bellingham its sunny.   I can see the sun through the cloud deck here but it's has zero warming effect. 

[luterra]

3 minutes ago, SimplySmoothWX said:

21 F and all snow here in Beaver country.

Since there are no hills nearby some kids are trying to sled by holding on to a rope attached the back of a pickup truck. Average college student shenanigans 

Have not seen any actual snow in my (SW) part of town.  Light ZR glaze then around an inch of sleet.  Switched back to ZR while I was out walking over the last couple of hours and now have sleet mixing back in.  About 0.2" of ice accumulation, I'm feeling like we dodged a bullet with this one.  Temp steady at 23-24.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

1 minute ago, TT-SEA said:

Incoming comma!   Nice structure to this storm.     And in Bellingham its sunny.   I can see the sun through the cloud deck here but it's has zero warming effect. 

It's pretty amazing how close this was to a real crusher for Seattle. 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

Crazy that while we are experiencing extreme cold/snow/wind, 2 NFL wildcard games this weekend are being impacted by winter weather as well. They just postponed the Bills/Steelers game because of blizzard conditions to Monday. They were thinking of postponing the Chiefs/Dolphins because of extreme cold/windchill but they decided to move on with the game. This storm will be forever remembered as the NFL Wildcard Saturday PDX blizzard snow/sleet/wind storm!

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

3 minutes ago, luterra said:

Have not seen any actual snow in my (SW) part of town.  Light ZR glaze then around an inch of sleet.  Switched back to ZR while I was out walking over the last couple of hours and now have sleet mixing back in.  About 0.2" of ice accumulation, I'm feeling like we dodged a bullet with this one.  Temp steady at 23-24.

It's just starting to ramp up, long ways to go still

[Frontal Snowsquall]

6 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Sleet piling up in Salem. 

Looks just like snow!  

[Phishy Wx]

Sea Smoke on Lake Coeur D'Alene

 

 

 

[Perturbed Member]

17 minutes ago, Doinko said:

Weather.com seems to think we get 8-12" still. I think we have 1-2" right now, too much wind to tell though

Yeah this low is gonna need to put in some work this afternoon for us to crank up the accumulations. I am probably in the 1.25-1.5 inch range right now and there is a lot more sleet now, maybe 50% sleet falling. 

Hopefully mid levels start to cool soon. 

[T-Town]

25 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

I would do anything possible to keep the house warm.  Camp stove, gas cooking range if he has that, wood stove, whatever.  The sad fact is many people have no backup heat source these days.

He’s got a wood burning fireplace and gas stove so he’ll be ok. 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

1 minute ago, Perturbed Member said:

Yeah this low is gonna need to put in some work this afternoon for us to crank up the accumulations. I am probably in the 1.25-1.5 inch range right now and there is a lot more sleet now, maybe 50% sleet falling. 

Hopefully mid levels start to cool soon. 

The heavy snow has tapered off here but looks like juicier moisture is about to arrive soon in the Metro area.

[Tanis Leach]

Has been more sleet than snow in Sherwood today. Really hoping for a change back.

 

If it took 12 more hours for this to setup, I truly believe the warm layer would've been closer to non-existant. 

[MossMan]

Why do I feel so sad and disappointed that the temp is all the way up to 18 degrees now? I would have killed for mid 20’s just a few days ago. Something serious wrong with me

Enjoying a little outdoor fire now. 

[ajreich]

Yikes. 100k PGE customers without power now

[Deweydog]

3 minutes ago, Perturbed Member said:

Yeah this low is gonna need to put in some work this afternoon for us to crank up the accumulations. I am probably in the 1.25-1.5 inch range right now and there is a lot more sleet now, maybe 50% sleet falling. 

Hopefully mid levels start to cool soon. 

Yeah we’re probably 60/40 snow right now, but it seems to change by the minute.

[Tanis Leach]

Just lost power for 3 seconds. 

[Phishy Wx]

up to -3, maybe I'll get the elusive sub zero High today, thin cloud layer filtering the sun now

[umadbro]

Michael Snyder live streaming from crown point right now.

[MikeInEverett]

17 minutes ago, Slushy Inch said:

Better than the 0z.

You got PAE by chance?

[Timmy]

The 18z nam backed way off on the sleet

[SouthHillFrosty]

Any snow in Olympia?

[luterra]

7 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

It's just starting to ramp up, long ways to go still

Maybe but looking at radar and hi-res models it appears that the main precip focus is moving north of us and also the upper levels are cooling from here on out so I'm thinking we've passed our peak icing potential.

Even if all of the remaining ~0.4" of QPF were to fall as ZR we would be mostly OK, but that seems unlikely with the current transition back to sleet moving past peak heating.  I feel confident in saying the 1" of ice scenario is not happening here.

[Cold Snap]

Heading over to our house by the gorge. Current temperature there is just 1. Also some snow cover over there too. In north bend right now where the east winds are ripping.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

4 minutes ago, umadbro said:

Michael Snyder live streaming from crown point right now.

Is there a wind station up there to watch online?

[TT-SEA]

Wind is blowing the snow away in North Bend.   Not as nice as yesterday. 

[Roman-Dallas Snow-Zone]

The wind is so strong snow is coming in under the front door at my mom & step dads house. They live on top a hill in Gresham. Looks like some new weather stripping is needed.