January Weather In The PNW 2024 (Part III) - The Warming Shot

[Tanis Leach]

This was our Creek (as we call it) 

[snow_wizard]

3 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Quite the S/N gradient. Kind of like last March which was the 3rd coldest in Oregon history. 

Well...BLI is the absolute winner for cold on this one.

[ajreich]

2 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

The fact of the matter is we landed a top tier cold wave in January.  That is a huge deal.  We haven't been able to do that in forever.

[Ziess]

1 minute ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

The 21mph gust? lol

What were the temps? Do you have a link to the “5 min Obs”?

[the_convergence_zone]

The silver lining is that the lack of a large mountain gap near Seattle saves us from catastrophic wildfires. 

[Dave]

2 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

The 21mph gust? lol

The 21mph gust that keeps repeating itself, plus the thermometer decided that the temperature was null.

[Dave]

1 minute ago, Ziess said:

What were the temps? Do you have a link to the “5 min Obs”?

https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=KEUG

[Tyler Mode]

Euro doesn't show Eugene going above freezing until 9 PM

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, TacomaWx said:

Feels like things are a little bit more even after this event and February 2023. Not all the way but a couple decent wins for Oregon. 

Last February and March was incredible. IMBY I would take that stretch over 2019. I had literally no expectations for this winter so this stretch which will end up 35/26, 26/15, 24/14, 26/16, 33/15 along with 10" of snow going back to the 6th is just gravy. I don't expect to exceed what we had last winter for a very long time. 

[SnowySeeker50]

32f and light rain is starting up

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, Dave said:

https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=KEUG

Speaking of temps. Creswell just dropped to 29. 

[the_convergence_zone]

This may end up being a rare example of rain with sub-freezing surface temperatures near Seattle, which can happen if the surface cold layer isn’t deep enough to allow the rain drops to become supercooled prior to contact. 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

After this band rolls on through, the latest HRRR says next round comes right after midnight.

[Cascadia_Wx]

4 minutes ago, the_convergence_zone said:

The silver lining is that the lack of a large mountain gap near Seattle saves us from catastrophic wildfires. 

The Snoqualmie gap is the lowest in the crest of the Washington Cascades, aside from the Columbia Gorge of course.

[Everleigh]

30.6*f DP 24.2*f in Yelm. Light freezing rain has just started to fall. 

[TacomaWx]

2 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Last February and March was incredible. IMBY I would take that stretch over 2019. I had literally no expectations for this winter so this stretch which will end up 35/26, 26/15, 24/14, 26/16, 33/15 along with 10" of snow going back to the 6th is just gravy. I don't expect to exceed what we had last winter for a very long time. 

Pretty solid run here. I had 0 expectations for anything in a strong nino let alone something historic. 
1/10 39/34

1/11 43/27 Tr. Snow

1/12 27/17

1/13 24/14

1/14 30/13

1/15 37/21

1/16 35/18 ZR*

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, TacomaWx said:

Pretty solid run here. I had 0 expectations for anything in a strong nino let alone something historic. 
1/10 39/34

1/11 43/27 Tr. Snow

1/12 27/17

1/13 24/14

1/14 30/13

1/15 37/21

1/16 35/18 ZR*

 

Incredible stretch. The low level cold was more impressive than what we had up here, but it was a great stretch regardless. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

33 minutes ago, Ziess said:

Wondering the same, radar doesn't show anything out there after this band. 

Another low forms off the coast and precip starts streaming in from the west later

[Roman-Dallas Snow-Zone]

That first batch of moisture moved through so fast it didn’t have time to severely glaze trees. If it was a slow crawl we would be in bad shape. 

[Slushy Inch]

Whats going on with NAM? Idk. Looks like snow line is much farther south this run and freezing rain and snow again on Thursday 

[Blizzard777]

42 minutes ago, The Winter Warlock said:

Precip is moving into Tacoma already.

 

Temp of 33* and dp 17 

Will be in for a little not wanted fun

[Snownerd3000]

Lol

[TT-SEA]

20 minutes ago, the_convergence_zone said:

Same happened to my coastal strawberries — and those are a fairly hardy native plant with waxy leaves. I assume they will grow back but they are all dead on top for now. 

Most native vegetation and all the fruit trees in the PNW require below freezing time to thrive.    This is good.  If someone plants things damaged permanently by cold then those plants probably won't last long anyways.   Rhodies aren't native to this area... but wow do they thrive here.   They will go into their droopy frozen look during cold but then pop right back up as soon as it warms up.  

On other note... we have seen stink bugs coming into the house this winter.   We have never seen that before.   These bugs are not native and accidentally arrived in Allentown, PA from Asia around 2010 and have spread across most the country now.    But I read this cold will kill off most of them.  Obviously they will come back, but cold like this is good for keeping all kinds of things in check!    

[Blizzard777]

5 hours ago, The Ms. Anthrop said:

Good luck to you as well, I hope you've got it mitigated and fixed!

Ours is going to be quite expensive, me thinks. There was definitely a leak in the control room because the spray of water took the fire control panel out; the FD finally just turned off the alarm a couple of hours ago so they don't have to come back and check it every time. And as the fire suppression system is totally off, it means that we get to do hourly "fire watch" checks of the building. Other than that, we don't know if any of the other pipes have been affected... which worries me greatly given we don't know when we can get someone in to check. Oh, and the HOA president is out of town so it's me and couple of other folks trying to bodge together a fix. LOL good thing I have an excellent homeowners policy with USAA. 

All this hassle and no snow to show for it. Not sure I want mother nature to throw us the bone of an ice storm at this point. BOO. 

I think you win!  Lol and ugh.

Good news my end as the area i mended held….bad news is two more sprung up downstream from that one!!!!

I’ll address those another day as it was a long day in the garage going through damaged stuff. 

No water to house but ill survive 

[Snownerd3000]

Slushy Inch, or should I say Michael Snyder 

[BLI snowman]

23 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

25 here with a sleet/zr mix continuing. There is a glaze on everything out there now.

Street is a sheet of snowy ice now. Great running conditions.

[Slushy Inch]

NAM much father south with snow this run.

[bainbridgekid]

30 with rain in Centralia now. They only had a high of 32 though so tough to extrapolate that to the rest of the sound since it was a bit warmer up here.

[Snownerd3000]

So just got off work. Am I getting shafted here in the central sound or is a decent winter mix coming? 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Hmmm...

[MossMan]

2 minutes ago, Slushy Inch said:

NAM much father south with snow this run.

Holy crap!! 

[KingstonWX]

2 minutes ago, Slushy Inch said:

NAM much father south with snow this run.

This is the most realistic scenario. Do you know how I know? The snow/rain line is about 2 miles north of me and I'm on the rain side. That's par for the course. 

[Tyler Mode]

9 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Most native vegetation and all the fruit trees in the PNW require below freezing time to thrive.    This is good.  If someone plants things damaged permanently by cold then those plants probably won't last long anyways.   Rhodies aren't native to this area... but wow do they thrive here.   They will go into their droopy frozen look during cold but then pop right back up as soon as it warms up.  

On other note... we have seen stink bugs coming into the house this winter.   We have never seen that before.   These bugs are not native and accidentally arrived in Allentown, PA from Asia around 2010 and have spread across most the country now.    But I read this cold will kill off most of them.  Obviously they will come back, but cold like this is good for keeping all kinds of things in check!    

Precisely, rhodies do the same in the heat.  This was from today.  I watch my security cam timelapse and they do this every night, then pop back as it warms.

[Snownerd3000]

Just now, MossMan said:

Holy crap!! 

Got your name written all over dude 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

8 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Most native vegetation and all the fruit trees in the PNW require below freezing time to thrive.    This is good.  If someone plants things damaged permanently by cold then those plants probably won't last long anyways.   Rhodies aren't native to this area... but wow do they thrive here.   They will go into their droopy frozen look during cold but then pop right back up as soon as it warms up.  

On other note... we have seen stink bugs coming into the house this winter.   We have never seen that before.   These bugs are not native and accidentally arrived in Allentown, PA from Asia around 2010 and have spread across most the country now.    But I read this cold will kill off most of them.  Obviously they will come back, but cold like this is good for keeping all kinds of things in check!    

The Pacific Rhododendron (Rhododendron macrophyllum) is native to Washington state. White rhododendrons are common at sub-alpine elevations in the Olympic and Cascade mountains. Western Labrador

[Slushy Inch]

1 minute ago, MossMan said:

Holy crap!! 

Snow went from Bellingham to where it is on this map. Biggest change is low pressure is less baggy.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

The nam really likes the idea of snow here all day Thursday! Crazy

[KingstonWX]

3 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

The nam really likes the idea of snow here all day Thursday! Crazy

That's probably not all that far fetched. 

[Slushy Inch]

Thursdays high? This can’t be right. This is why I don’t like high res models. Sometimes they put out ridiculous stuff.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, TT-SEA said:

Most native vegetation and all the fruit trees in the PNW require below freezing time to thrive.    This is good.  If someone plants things damaged permanently by cold then those plants probably won't last long anyways.   Rhodies aren't native to this area... but wow do they thrive here.   They will go into their droopy frozen look during cold but then pop right back up as soon as it warms up.  

On other note... we have seen stink bugs coming into the house this winter.   We have never seen that before.   These bugs are not native and accidentally arrived in Allentown, PA from Asia around 2010 and have spread across most the country now.    But I read this cold will kill off most of them.  Obviously they will come back, but cold like this is good for keeping all kinds of things in check!    

Too bad those ash borers aren't killed off by the cold. The Willamette Valley is full of native ash and in 10 years they will all be dead. Talk about an extreme fire hazard. Can't use them for firewood either because transporting the wood spreads the insect. I guess Oregon State has millions of seeds they are saving so they can replant once the infestation runs its course. 

This may at least kill the murder hornets.