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

[TT-SEA]

Some damage around NB but not nearly as bad as it could have been.  

[Phishy Wx]

you guys get respiratory illness more than you get snow.

I haven't been sick in over 5 years, never had covid or flu in my life

 

weather wise, still below freezing and has been for like 10 days or so.  its 29 with Freezing rain, gross

[MossMan]

2 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

you guys get respiratory illness more than you get snow.

I haven't been sick in over 5 years, never had covid or flu in my life

 

weather wise, still below freezing and has been for like 10 days or so.  its 29 with Freezing rain, gross

How many kids do you have in your house? 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, MossMan said:

How many kids do you have in your house? 

Haha there is your answer! 

What's interesting though is my daughter NEVER had been sick in her life until kindergarten last year. She was then sick half the year, but has been fine this year. Our son got RSV, last November, but that's the only time he's been sick (knock on wood.). My wife is really into indigenous medicine, which I think is quackery, but the kids are pretty healthy...

Edited January 20 by SilverFallsAndrew

[Phishy Wx]

4 minutes ago, MossMan said:

How many kids do you have in your house? 

0.000

and yeah probably the answer.  but I do travel a lot for work and spend a lot of time on planes.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

11 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

you guys get respiratory illness more than you get snow.

I haven't been sick in over 5 years, never had covid or flu in my life

 

weather wise, still below freezing and has been for like 10 days or so.  its 29 with Freezing rain, gross

I had covid once, breezed through it. I have had the flu 2 times in my life. Only thing I do that might help is I have been taking 3k milligrams of c for the last 20 years every day, and vitamin d.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, TT-SEA said:

Some damage around NB but not nearly as bad as it could have been.  

Not too bad at all. My guess is the douglas fir damage was probably done by the wind. They hold up really well with ice. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

I can say... Having 5 kids, a wife, and an ex-wife is not amazing for ones health.

[ajreich]

3 hours ago, iFred said:

 

I think this is an artifact of dynamic ip addresses used by various ISPs. When someone gets banned, the IP address they posted from are added to a pool to ban as well. Ten years of this place and a couple hundred bans across the Pacific Northwest has yielded just around under a thousand IPs being marked.

I am working on that this week. I figure at this point if your account gets banned, but you find ways to get back on and harass people or pull a Link and threaten to murder me, then I'll just add your IP address to a table to drop.

It happens consistently to me when I’m on my Verizon data plan (but not AT&T), so that makes sense. 

[MossMan]

6 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Haha there is your answer! 

What's interesting though is my daughter NEVER had been sick in her life until kindergarten last year. She was then sick half the year, but has been fine this year. Our son got RSV, last November, but that's the only time he's been sick (knock on wood.). My wife is really into indigenous medicine, which I think is quackery, but the kids are pretty healthy...

We got hammered with everything last season and apparently our immune systems have remembered since we have all been (knock on wood) healthy this season while everyone around us at work and school have been sick with everything. I do not want to relive last year for a very long time, being sick from the first week of November to the week before Christmas with only a few day reprieve between sickness was terrible. 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

For the moment the internet is back. Hallalujah!!!

38F and cloudy in downtown Springfield. A lot of work left to do but progress is gradually being made.

Many parts of the city are still without power, including parts of Mohawk, where there are 2 major traffic lights still out. The city park has been devastated by the fallen trees, many of which just straight up got uprooted and fell into the park.

The kiddo's school had the water system break and some structural damage resulting in 75% of the school's floors being underwater and having to completely replace those floors, which could take quite a while. Meanwhile, the school itself is still without power.

Really hoping for a cool summer but if it's another inferno then all these broken-off tree branches and other parts of the trees that fell will dry out and become a really easy way to rapidly spread wildfire throughout the city. Maybe we'll get lucky and have a wet Apr-early Jun and save our a$$ a bit, but I'll be surprised.

In any event. Hope y'all are doing well. Maybe February can be the snow month again.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, TigerWoodsLibido said:

For the moment the internet is back. Hallalujah!!!

38F and cloudy in downtown Springfield. A lot of work left to do but progress is gradually being made.

Many parts of the city are still without power, including parts of Mohawk, where there are 2 major traffic lights still out. The city park has been devastated by the fallen trees, many of which just straight up got uprooted and fell into the park.

The kiddo's school had the water system break and some structural damage resulting in 75% of the school's floors being underwater and having to completely replace those floors, which could take quite a while. Meanwhile, the school itself is still without power.

Really hoping for a cool summer but if it's another inferno then all these broken-off tree branches and other parts of the trees that fell will dry out and become a really easy way to rapidly spread wildfire throughout the city. Maybe we'll get lucky and have a wet Apr-early Jun and save our a$$ a bit, but I'll be surprised.

In any event. Hope y'all are doing well. Maybe February can be the snow month again.

Glad lyfe is slowly returning to normal.

[Phishy Wx]

23 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

I can say... Having 5 kids, a wife, and an ex-wife is not amazing for ones health.

maybe some more kids may help

[TT-SEA]

My 80 year old mother couldn't stand being trapped by snow in her sloped driveway up in Bellingham so she figured out how to use the electric snowblower that my dad bought years ago and cleared her driveway today and then took pics and sent them to me and my sister.  I specifically told her not do that... particularly since there was a layer of ice under the snow.    If it hadn't melted by today then I was going up there tomorrow but she couldn't wait.    They have lots of snow on the ground up there still.  

[AbbyJr]

2 hours ago, Phil said:

 

There’s more that goes into these reanalyses than just the ET/500mb pattern. You’d think 2016/17 was a strong niña based on how the 500mb pattern played out, but in reality it wasn’t a niña at all (Jan onwards).

Ha, I’d never actively root against you guys. If anything I’m empathetic since you guys struggle as much, if not more than we do in this climate era.

If I was going to root against anyone it would be Scandinavia since troughing there is a winter killer for all of North America.

Oh yeah, we’re all gonna torch for the next 2-3 weeks. Or at least average well above climo. Alaska and Greenland will score, though!

There’s a chance we could sneak a southern stream system in here without cold (technically it can snow here with above average 850mb temps) but that is threading the needle and usually doesn’t work.

Less than here, but yeah.

It’s the GFS, bro. There won’t be much if any cold in Canada in a +EPO/+PNA pattern. Alaska will probably get cold, but it’s at everyone else’s expense.

And it’s probably correct. Essentially repeating the subseasonal evolution of December (with some minor differences, of course).

At least North America was able to score mid January with that SSW event. Back to El Niño.

[MossMan]

4 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

My 80 year old mother couldn't stand being trapped by snow in her sloped driveway up in Bellingham so she figured out how to use the electric snowblower that my dad bought years ago and cleared her driveway today and then took pics and sent them to me and my sister.  I specifically told her not do that... particularly since there was a layer of ice under the snow.    If it hadn't melted by today then I was going up there tomorrow but she couldn't wait.    They have lots of snow on the ground up there still.  

Yep…Seniors always in a hurry even though they don’t need to be…Sounds about right

[CliffMassYelledAtMe]

1 hour ago, Phishy Wx said:

you guys get respiratory illness more than you get snow.

I haven't been sick in over 5 years, never had covid or flu in my life

 

weather wise, still below freezing and has been for like 10 days or so.  its 29 with Freezing rain, gross

Don't you work from home, though? That would eliminate 60% of my exposure. The rest comes from my kids. (Little germ factories!)

[Phishy Wx]

1 minute ago, CliffMassYelledAtMe said:

Don't you work from home, though? That would eliminate 60% of my exposure. The rest comes from my kids. (Little germ factories!)

yes but on the road travelling for work when not in my home office.

[CliffMassYelledAtMe]

How's the skiing today? Looks like it would be a beautiful day for it. I miss skiing

Edit: Never mind. Webcams look gray. Snoqualmie probably got rain on top of all the new snow, which is gross. Not sure about Crystal or Stevens though.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

The high mountain snow pack is going to take a beating this week

 We are already way behind so hopefully it doesn't last long.

 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

44 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

My 80 year old mother couldn't stand being trapped by snow in her sloped driveway up in Bellingham so she figured out how to use the electric snowblower that my dad bought years ago and cleared her driveway today and then took pics and sent them to me and my sister.  I specifically told her not do that... particularly since there was a layer of ice under the snow.    If it hadn't melted by today then I was going up there tomorrow but she couldn't wait.    They have lots of snow on the ground up there still.  

Way to go mom!!

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

2 minutes ago, CliffMassYelledAtMe said:

How's the skiing today? Looks like it would be a beautiful day for it. I miss skiing

Edit: Neverending. Webcams look gray. Snoqualmie probably got rain on top of all the new snow, which is gross. Not sure about Crystal or Stevens though.

It is 40 degrees on much of the upper slopes today. Cold air trapped at pass level

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Here is a crazy stat.

Station 1/4 from cabin has only been above freezing a total of 4hrs this entire month so far

 Incredible!

[The Cats Meow]

Looks like we are going to be pretty wet for about a ten day stretch.

 

[ShawniganLake]

2 hours ago, Phishy Wx said:

you guys get respiratory illness more than you get snow.

I haven't been sick in over 5 years, never had covid or flu in my life

 

weather wise, still below freezing and has been for like 10 days or so.  its 29 with Freezing rain, gross

Never had the flu in your life.   

[Rubus Leucodermis]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

My 80 year old mother couldn't stand being trapped by snow in her sloped driveway up in Bellingham so she figured out how to use the electric snowblower that my dad bought years ago and cleared her driveway today and then took pics and sent them to me and my sister.  I specifically told her not do that... particularly since there was a layer of ice under the snow.    If it hadn't melted by today then I was going up there tomorrow but she couldn't wait.    They have lots of snow on the ground up there still.  

I don't know how warm it is where you are, but it still hasn't warmed out of the 30's Fahrenheit from Bellingham north. Pair that with how much snow fell on Wednesday, and there is still a lot of snow and slush around.

[Phishy Wx]

4 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

Never had the flu in your life.   

nope

[ShawniganLake]

5 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

nope

Not even as a kid?  That’s just weird.  
 

I went years and years without getting sick through my 20s.  But it’s different now we have kids  

[TT-SEA]

12 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

I don't know how warm it is where you are, but it still hasn't warmed out of the 30's Fahrenheit from Bellingham north. Pair that with how much snow fell on Wednesday, and there is still a lot of snow and slush around.

That's for clarifying fahrenheit... I would have assumed you meant it hasn't reached 40C yet!

51 at SEA and in North Bend today.

[Phishy Wx]

2 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

Not even as a kid?  That’s just weird.  
 

I went years and years without getting sick through my 20s.  But it’s different now we have kids  

I know I haven't as long as I can remember.  I asked my mother and she said I had Mono somehow at age 6 from drinking after someone that had it.  Only other time I remember being very ill was a nasty bout of the noravirus in like 2003 that put me in the hospital in my late 20s.  had some nasty cold 5 years ago (was tested for flu and was neg) but that was pre covid.  may have been RSV I suppose but wasn't tested

[Deweydog]

Sounds phishy

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

24 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

Never had the flu in your life.   

My wife had never had the flu ever before she passed away in 2016

 I was just blown away she got cancer because she was such a healthy person. 

Edited January 21 by MR.SNOWMIZER

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

My cousin who is only 32 has stage 3 colon cancer, just found out. God I hate cancer!!!

[Phishy Wx]

1 minute ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

My cousin who is only 32 has stage 3 colon cancer, just found out. God I hate cancer!!!

there was a story on the news the other day that they're seeing this in younger and younger people (Colon cancer specifically).  they think it's something environmental affecting our food supply but they're not sure what yet.  it's happening in people who are otherwise completely healthy 

[ShawniganLake]

16 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

That's for clarifying fahrenheit... I would have assumed you meant it hasn't reached 40C yet!

51 at SEA and in North Bend today.

It would be interesting to see how fast the snow would melt if it was in to 40s Celsius today. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

3 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

there was a story on the news the other day that they're seeing this in younger and younger people (Colon cancer specifically).  they think it's something environmental affecting our food supply but they're not sure what yet.  it's happening in people who are otherwise completely healthy 

It's scary to think about our food supply.  Who knows what the heck the put in it. 

[ShawniganLake]

BC snowpack is really low

 

 

[Blizzard777]

20 hours ago, The Blob said:

Whelp, went to work and ended up in a firedrill because the auger is on fire. But here's some ice photos from Troutdale. 

A really pretty scene earlier this morning as I cruised through your area into the Gorge! 

[Meatyorologist]

1 minute ago, ShawniganLake said:

BC snowpack is really low

 

 

Niño climo going strong

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

2 minutes ago, Meatyorologist said:

Niño climo going strong

Yep it's going to take more than a week of winter to make for a decent snow pack.  Also much of the snow that fell the last 10 days has a lower water content than normal.