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

[MossMan]

1 minute ago, Front Ranger said:

Miracle of miracles - Randy scores.

Guess I will take what I can get in a strong El Niño…So close to epicness this last week though 

[RentonHill]

2 minutes ago, Slushy Inch said:

Some slush. Again it had zero falling for me.

I wish pivotal had hourly frames for the precip maps...i think weatherbell ones can be a bit funky. Pivotal at 10am shows an area of mix pretty close to your area. Maybe the Euro is back to being the conservative one on precip types. 

[Phishy Wx]

Heavy Snow back down to 17, DP 15 with less than 1/4mile visibility 

[MikeInEverett]

Looks very wintery near Paine Field right now!

[ShawniganLake]

28 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

I am so envious.  I thought about moving up there so many times several years back.

You should have.  Your location is awful for the type of weather you enjoy.  

[Rubus Leucodermis]

2 minutes ago, the_convergence_zone said:

The Euro is usually right, unless it shows no snow at Randy's house. Then it is wrong every time. 

Actually it was a stingy outlier for snowfall amounts up this way until it caved at the last minute.

[the_convergence_zone]

Nice rain dumping with that frontal passage, but it was 38 degrees at the time. Now down to 36 with a wind shift to the NNW behind the front. 

[BLI snowman]

Up to 31.1 with some drippage increasing. So close. Over 1/2" now on the plants and cars. 

[KingstonWX]

47 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

You will get some today 

I'm not all that sure. Seems the precip dried up as soon as the snow started. Now we're at 35 with drizzle. 

[Omegaraptor]

Still 38 down in Corvallis while SLE and EUG are in the mid-40s. Low level cold proving much more difficult to scour out in the west valley than expected.

OSU has thrown in the towel and closed completely for another day.

[MossMan]

Too bad there isn’t a CZ or something to keep the precip going longer. 

[Front Ranger]

1 hour ago, snow_wizard said:

I have to admit seeing Whatcom County get hit like this today hurts a bit.  They are on such a roll up there.  No doubt it's Seattle's turn now.  However, when you consider we just got hit really good in Dec 2021, and did ok last winter it goes to show how great this decade has been so far.

I'm still in awe at the 10/3 BLI put up last week. Coldest January high in history, beating out a lot of great events.

For cold records this century, that's right up there with the -10 EUG put up on 12/8/13 and the 5 OLM saw on 2/26/11.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

I noticed if you look at the komo 4 radar and zoom in you can see ice on some inlets over the puget sound. It shows it near the ship yard and bremerton and when i drove over near there it had ice like the map showed.

[MossMan]

Snow is slacking off at work so I’m going to run home and play with the kids and dogs in it before it flash melts 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

1 minute ago, Front Ranger said:

I'm still in awe at the 10/3 BLI put up last week. Coldest January high in history, beating out a lot of great events.

For cold records this century, that's right up there with the -10 EUG put up on 12/8/13 and the 5 OLM saw on 2/26/11.

It really is amazing how many places escaped a dump of snow. Many things had to go just right for it to happen. But as with most cold spells i will get snow tomorrow with the real warm up lol.

[Cold Snap]

Roads are turning white here.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Was bellingham forecasted to have a sub freezing high today? They might not today during the daylight hrs.

[Cascadia_Wx]

10 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

Up to 31.1 with some drippage increasing. So close. Over 1/2" now on the plants and cars. 

Same here. 31 after a low of 24 set just after midnight. There is a half inch or so of glaze on everything.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

Just now, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Was bellingham forecasted to have a sub freezing high today? They might not today during the daylight hrs.

Several models indicated outflow would keep them in the icebox today.

[iFred]

22 minutes ago, the_convergence_zone said:

The Euro is usually right, unless it shows no snow at Randy's house. Then it is wrong every time. 

I can ban him too for his unrealistic demands of our climate and his weenie reign of terror that is damaging to the community.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

Three! We have three! Three winters in a row featuring double-digit snowstorms!

Just had a super heavy burst of snow move through. Now up to 11.2". 31.5˚F.

[Weiner Warrior]

Snowflakes coming down now in bellevue. If only it was colder when the heavy stuff came through. 34 degrees

[smerfylicious]

If only it could last a few more hours...

[Front Ranger]

6 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Three! We have three! Three winters in a row featuring double-digit snowstorms!

Just had a super heavy burst of snow move through. Now up to 11.2". 31.5˚F.

That's wild. Wonder when the last time that happened in Vancouver...maybe 2006-2009? Other possibilities are 1995-98 or 1979-82. Maybe not since the early 1950s.

[bainbridgekid]

47 minutes ago, LowerGarfield said:

The silliest one is the last day of school when districts start at 8am (or whenever) and "end at 10am" thing.

Our last day is a MONDAY (June 24th ) and ends at 11:30. Wish we'd make today's snow day the next Tuesday but instead we changed our 4-day Presidents Day weekend to a 3-day one. Super dumb.

[CliffMassYelledAtMe]

Waiting to see if we get any snow for dessert after the regular rain cleansed our palette from the freezing rain last night. 

[iFred]

Freezing drizzle with temps back up to 32. Looking in the distance, the trees up the hill have a light touch of snow clinging to their needles, casting each branch in a faint white outline against the deep conifer green. Some of the larger cottonwoods have an apparent glaze on them, but the stuff closer to the ground has already started to drip off.

I hate how quickly I find joy in cold and snowy weather. My wife once asked me if I loved snow more than her. The pregnant pause in my response was enough for her to give me the silent treatment for the rest of the night.

[Phishy Wx]

DUMPING

 

https://www.srtmc.org/@-117.17996,47.65931,14?show=travelImpacts,roadwork,normalCameras,trafficSpeeds#camera/60/2108872547

 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

Just now, Front Ranger said:

That's wild. Wonder when the last time that happened in Vancouver...maybe 2006-2009? Maybe not since the early 1950s.

I’m in the eastern part of the city near the summit of a ridge, so I have the advantage of elevation and being inland against the official airport reporting station, so it is easier to make this sort of score IMBY. In fact, I don’t think the airport reported a 25+ cm snowfall in the winter of 21/22.

[bainbridgekid]

3 minutes ago, iFred said:

I hate how quickly I find joy in cold and snowy weather. My wife once asked me if I loved snow more than her. The pregnant pause in my response was enough for her to give me the silent treatment for the rest of the night.

I didn't even pause. The answer was yes. 

[Phishy Wx]

whiteout pretty much on I-90

 

 

[SpaceRace22]

Spring is just around the corner!!

[WhoNeedsAC]

Cold rain and 34. Finally above freezing and the great melt off has begun. Going to take a while for the ground to warm up, though, especially with the snow cover. Have had snow on the ground since Saturday and what's here is going to take another day to melt off - not a bad run at all.

[Doinko]

Solid icing on everything, but we're up above freezing right now. It's been a great stretch, below freezing since Friday with over 33 hours below 20 degrees.

[Groundhog]

No official measurement yet as it’s still coming down. It’s over a foot by my guess. I’ll do that once it stops. Kids and I were out in it for a couple hours. 

[SpaceRace22]

15 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Three! We have three! Three winters in a row featuring double-digit snowstorms!

Just had a super heavy burst of snow move through. Now up to 11.2". 31.5˚F.

It's seriously impressive how much better Vancouver can do compared to every other lowland location south of the border. I would move there in a heartbeat if work and geopolitical boundaries allowed it. Know any Canadians who will sell me their marriage so I can have citizenship?

[iFred]

3 minutes ago, Groundhog said:

No official measurement yet as it’s still coming down. It’s over a foot by my guess. I’ll do that once it stops. Kids and I were out in it for a couple hours. 

Where are you out of again? I'll just update your profile with location.

[iFred]

Working on running Graphcast at home. If anyone has done high resolution WRF at home, let me know.

[westcoastexpat]

This is my third winter in a row consisting of hitting a temperature below 10F and a >8" snowfall.

I call that a win!

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

Landed! Looks like I got a couple of inches at the house!