January 2024 Weather in the PNW (Part II)

[TigerWoodsLibido]

32F in Newport

52F in Waldport

Very sharp temp gradient.

Also

27F in Creswell

51F in Sutherlin just a few miles down the road.

[Phishy Wx]

9 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Crap... SEA at 22 at 4 p.m.  

Top ten record would have been fun.

whomp whomp.  Garden Variety'd

[TT-SEA]

New 18Z ECMWF shows lots of freezing on Tuesday night... but I don't think the surface temps represent something that would be damaging.   

First map is highs on Tuesday... then temps at 9 p.m.... then freezing rain map.  

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

10 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Crap... SEA at 22 at 4 p.m.  

Top ten record would have been fun.

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Down to 23 at EUG. -7 at Santiam Pass. 

 

[Olive1010]

So what deformation band are we looking at 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

Arctic air has made it as far south between Eugene and Florence/Roseburg. Almost a 30 degree temperature difference.

[Phishy Wx]

Just now, Olive1010 said:

So what deformation band are we looking at 

what one are you looking at?

[Omegaraptor]

1 minute ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

32F in Newport

52F in Waldport

Very sharp temp gradient.

Also

27 in Creswell

51F in Sutherlin just a few miles down the road.

-1°F in La Pine

5°F in Crescent

33°F in Chemult

[Snownerd3000]

 

 

[Requiem]

Just now, Olive1010 said:

So what deformation band are we looking at 

What's the question here 

[Ken in Wood Village]

Here is the current radar. Looks like a good amount of moisture (probably snow) coming NE. 🌨

[snow_wizard]

The 18z ECMWF is slightly south with the low the middle of next week.  Doesn't go far enough to see what the outcome would be.

[MossMan]

10 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Crap... SEA at 22 at 4 p.m.  

Top ten record would have been fun.

Like the Seahawks not deserving to win some of those games, SEA does not deserve the top 10…Its their fault this whole thing screwed up leaving the majority of us PS’ers snowless. If they had deep snow on the ground they would have stayed solidly in the teens today. 

[TT-SEA]

2 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

 

I like records... nice to get credit for an event!  

[Snowdome]

1 minute ago, Ken in Wood Village said:

Here is the current radar. Looks like a good amount of moisture (probably snow) coming NE. 🌨

Please be snow please be snow please be snow 

[Phishy Wx]

I'm pretty safe in thinking I don't make it above 0 today.  still sitting at 0

 

 

[TT-SEA]

3 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

The 18z ECMWF is slightly south with the low the middle of next week.  Doesn't go far enough to see what the outcome would be.

For sure... track will be key.  

[snow_wizard]

Here I thought I had thought of everything regarding pipes freezing.  I did all of the recommended stuff except I totally forgot about the laundry room.  Sure enough the pipes to the washer are frozen.  Hope this helps some of you avoid that.

The problem was the water in the laundry runs a different direction from everything else in the house so it was on an isolated circuit which got no circulation to keep the pipes from freezing.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

3 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

The 18z ECMWF is slightly south with the low the middle of next week.  Doesn't go far enough to see what the outcome would be.

I thought it was just a freezing rain event?

[Olive1010]

I was reading an oregon live article and "

Meteorologists forecast the freezing rain and sleet that has pelted the Portland area Saturday will shift into heavier snow in the late afternoon.

 

That shift is expected around 4 p.m., bringing larger snowflakes until 1 a.m. Sunday morning, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Briana Muhlestein. The Portland area can expect roughly 2-6 inches of snowfall, she said.

 

Temperatures through the evening are expected to hit a high of 17 degrees, and will trend as low as 10 degrees overnight. There could be windchill as cold as -7 degrees with wind speeds of 33 mph, the weather service said."

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

3 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

I like records... nice to get credit for an event!  

Yeah but it is still crazy cold for that station especially for a daytime high! 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

2 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

For sure... track will be key.  

Wow, there’s still going to be a strong Cold Pool in the Columbia Basin. If that low tracks south into Oregon. We could see a big overrunning event.

[Phishy Wx]

2 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

For sure... track will be key.  

hoping this thing hammers us, might be the biggest storm chance of this crappy snow season so far

[snow_wizard]

8 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Down to 23 at EUG. -7 at Santiam Pass. 

 

EUG has got to be ugly.

[snow_wizard]

1 minute ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Yeah but it is still crazy cold for that station especially for a daytime high! 

Indeed.  22 has to be one of their coldest ones.  Looks like 20 here.

[MossMan]

4 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

I'm pretty safe in thinking I don't make it above 0 today.  still sitting at 0

 

 

As Tim and Rich Marriott would say…Should be a much nicer day for you tomorrow! 

[TT-SEA]

1 minute ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Yeah but it is still crazy cold for that station especially for a daytime high! 

Very true.   And @RentonHill comment about grouping events is also a great point.  

[Winterdog]

Maxed out at 21.3 today.  Currently 20, this cold spell came very close to great up here but ended up exceptional for cold and a non-starter for snow.  The final chapter next week at best will be a couple inches of slop followed by temps near 50 by next weekend.  I just popped the head off a hummingbird but I think I’m nearing the end of my tantrum.

[TT-SEA]

6 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

I thought it was just a freezing rain event?

Run goes through Wednesday morning.  Marginal temp freezing rain event Tuesday evening and then warm up happens overnight in Seattle area.   But that is just one run.  Lots of moving parts.

[Phishy Wx]

3 minutes ago, MossMan said:

As Tim and Rich Marriott would say…Should be a much nicer day for you tomorrow! 

a whopping 12 forecasted for tomorrow, might leave the house

[Slushy Inch]

18z euro another improvement 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

7 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

For sure... track will be key.  

Unfortunately that is a famous track for a low of that strength,  but the trend has been to push it south and its almost in a good spot already and we have time still.

[Phishy Wx]

just dropped to -1

 

so yeah a 0 high, soooo close to a sub zero high.

[snow_wizard]

9 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

I thought it was just a freezing rain event?

It doesn't go to where we get the cold backwash behind the low on this run.  ZR seems kind of marginal, but who knows.

[Slushy Inch]

14 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

The 18z ECMWF is slightly south with the low the middle of next week.  Doesn't go far enough to see what the outcome would be.

Another notch or two south coming up hopefully 

[snow_wizard]

The high of 5 in Lester today seems like a really big deal.  Could one of their coldest ever.

[SnowWillarrive]

2 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

It doesn't go to where we get the cold backwash behind the low on this run.  ZR seems kind of marginal, but who knows.

Inglorious end to a beautiful cold spell. 

[Slushy Inch]

4 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Unfortunately that is a famous track for a low of that strength,  but the trend has been to push it south and its almost in a good spot already and we have time still.

But if does end up going far enough south a crazy  snow event is in play.

[WhoNeedsAC]

Snow has really picked up here in the last half-hour. Looks like we may end up with some decent accumulation, after all.