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

[Cascadia_Wx]

1 minute ago, MossMan said:

It was a 12 degree hellish non white landscape that was definitely vomit worthy! Even the vegetation was pissed off!

Yes but you also like boating and warm summer weather. So you are above reproach  

[MossMan]

4 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Thank you for providing an objective voice of reason here. I notice this sort of hypocrisy all the time but don’t even feel like it’s worth pointing out anymore.

Everyone from Olympia to Skagit Co was puking a lot during that Puget Sound bone dry stretch while people to the north and south were scoring! 

Edited January 31 by MossMan

[iFred]

37 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

Would have been cool to see Graphcast pulling ahead of Euro, but doesn't appear to be the case yet.

The delta between the two is always going to be small unless the Euro-Graphcast uses a higher resolution orthograph, abandons the iso-to-grid, or goes into 2 week+ territory.

You can initialize it with GFS and you can retrain with the same high res iso-orthographic polygons that the icon uses, but that requires 4k v5p TPUs over two weeks.

[TT-SEA]

1 minute ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Thank you for providing an objective voice of reason here. I notice this sort of hypocrisy all the time but don’t even feel like it’s worth pointing out anymore.

Nice.  Go ahead and puke 400 times a day if that's what you want.  That seems like a personal problem and I feel empathy for you then.

But there is no hypocrisy in pointing out the high usage of puke react.    And no idea how you define hypocrisy.   That would imply I am puking on every post but calling you out for it.   You are the negative reaction champion by a wide margin on here.    I rarely use them at all.  

 

[Front Ranger]

[Cascadia_Wx]

Got a nice walk in at the Vancouver waterfront before dark, earlier today. Some kind of neat looking clouds out there.

 

[TT-SEA]

Side note... I don't see the weenie react as actually being negative.    We are all weenies to some degree.

[ShawniganLake]

30 minutes ago, SnowWillarrive said:

That would probably mean we are living in the last days.

If it’s the last days hopefully it’s sunny so everyone can enjoy it. 

[TT-SEA]

GFS is Nino on steroids.  

[Rubus Leucodermis]

39 minutes ago, DareDuck said:

Where was this when Randy puked to every snow map that didn’t show snow for him?

Those were clearly for the most part puke-worthy, at least in the initial parts of the cold snap. All people of quality and taste find southerly trends nauseating.

And any accusations of bias on my part will be met with a puke react. Consider yourselves warned.

[iFred]

13 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Side note... I don't see the weenie react as actually being negative.    We are all weenies to some degree.

I just asked the image generator to “Paint Tim from the Seattle weather forum like one of your French girls”. It seems to know your real feelings about weiners.

[TT-SEA]

Still 60 at SEA... but looks like the rain might make it to Seattle before midnight which would prevent setting the record of 4 consecutive days at 60+.    It would have to happen before dawn tomorrow if its going to happen.   ECMWF shows an afternoon high in the mid 50s.  

[lowlandsnow]

This is really a horrible winter like 2014-2015. Only bright spot was the cold snap. Snowpack is crazy low, and the glaciers will likely suffer another terrible year but unlike the last 3 the snowpack to begin is terrible. 

 

 

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

Just checked, now we're up to 93 subfreezing lows, 11 lows that got below 20 (not including the lows below 10), and 14 lows that got below 10. Pretty surprised that there has been more low temps below 10 then there has been between 10 and 19.

 

[MossMan]

Up to 60 degrees and I can hear the frogs from inside the house! 

[Dave]

Team Jessie here. It looks like some mountain snow is on the way. It is definitely needed. Nice to see.

[Cascadia_Wx]

1 minute ago, Dave said:

Team Jessie here. It looks like some mountain snow is on the way. It is definitely needed. Nice to see.

Please spell my name as it is spelled in the Bible.

[Dave]

1 minute ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Please spell my name as it is spelled in the Bible.

Crap. Sorry about that Jeese. I was inhaling some paint fumes.

[TT-SEA]

Beautifully formed storm offshore.  Surprisingly we don't get much rain from it.

[Front Ranger]

59 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Side note... I don't see the weenie react as actually being negative.    We are all weenies to some degree.

Embrace the weenie.

[ShawniganLake]

1 hour ago, MossMan said:

Everyone from Olympia to Skagit Co was puking a lot during that Puget Sound bone dry stretch while people to the north and south were scoring! 

 

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

On February 23rd-24th there will be a widespread snowstorm from Everett to Medford. Mid to south Willamette valley and South Puget Sound will get the most snow though, both ending up with a minimum of 11 inches, the region will have 4 subfreezing highs from the 24th-27th, and the night of the 26th-27th afternoon will drop a widespread few inches, then we will slowly warm up as the cold air filters out, no overrunning event. Then from March 4th-29th there will be a long stretch of mountain snow, and cold rain in the lowlands, bringing the snowpack up to 150%.

 

 

Edit: and in April there will be some type of poison from bugs that will wipe out all palm trees in the pnw, they will be all gone by spring 2025.

[the_convergence_zone]

I finished loading up on Vitamin D in San Diego, I see I missed a three peat of record highs at Sea-Tac. Haven’t done that since that 4-peat last May. I’m sure my bees are loving it, they get antsy for spring by late January. 

[MossMan]

I’m sorry to all of the weather extreme haters out there…But this is awesome!! It’s not even that common to still be at 60 degrees at 10:30pm on a July or August evening…So amazing!! 

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

7 minutes ago, MossMan said:

I’m sorry to all of the weather extreme haters out there…But this is awesome!! It’s not even that common to still be at 60 degrees at 10:30pm on a July or August evening…So amazing!! 

Still 60? That's insane! 51 degrees here now, pretty rare to be this warm at 10:40Pm in winter. Kinda weird because 3 hours ago it was 37.

 

 

Atleast I'm saving firewood with this weather, I unfortunately didn't get as much as I usually do, so I was worried I'd run out by March, but it seems like I'll be fine.

[GHweatherChris]

How does one not that long ago go from preaching about how they don't worry about emojis and people using them and then become someone totally infatuated with them and have to post incessantly and psychotically about what emojis are being used.... again, just asking for a friend.

Good night all.

[CliffMassYelledAtMe]

Been watching Alone Arctic Challenge reruns for all that beautiful snow and ice and wind footage. Interestingly, the contestants on the first couple of seasons on north Vancouver Island looked more miserable despite the obvious weather differences. 

[Cloud]

Considering taking off my winter tires this weekend for my Subie. Which would be the earliest I’ve done in a while. About a month ahead. Feels like no need for them anymore. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Oh cool, we just jumped into the mid-60s...

[TigerWoodsLibido]

53F and cloudy.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

At the stations slightly lower down around 1200' it is now approaching 70.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Up to 60F at midnight. Oof.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Roseburg just hit 70!

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Downsloping from the Kalapuyas and Pisgah is evident.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Up to 60F at midnight. Oof.

I see a 68 at a station along 126 just east of you. It's coming up along the foothills. EUG is at 52. 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Just now, SilverFallsAndrew said:

I see a 68 at a station along 126 just east of you. It's coming up along the foothills. EUG is at 52. 

Always gets us first and it’s only gonna get worse.

[bainbridgekid]

SEA held at 61 past midnight despite the incoming rain and for the first time ever has 4 straight 60+ degree days in the month of January.

[Deweydog]

Breezy!

[TT-SEA]

5 hours ago, GHweatherChris said:

How does one not that long ago go from preaching about how they don't worry about emojis and people using them and then become someone totally infatuated with them and have to post incessantly and psychotically about what emojis are being used.... again, just asking for a friend.

Good night all.

So cute Chris.   Always trying to "get me".   

None of that happened of course.   I said a couple years ago that I never looked back at the reactions to my posts.   Still don't!   And didn't post obsessively about it today either.   I made the totally obvious point that the puke react is filling up every page.   You would have to be completely blind to not notice that.  Don't even think it's happening to my posts but is to everyone else talking about the current weather.   

[May Grey]

8 hours ago, TT-SEA said:

GFS is Nino on steroids.  

Im going to get washed away