February 2024 Weather in the PNW

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

10:1 ratio map from ECMWF for the rest of this event. Still looks like there's potential for salem tonight, going to be a lot of radar riding today instead of model riding.

[Snownerd3000]

33 minutes ago, bainbridgekid said:

What is he even talking about bringing up man made? Do people think we towed a giant iceberg up to the Equator?

No idea.  I haven't gotten past kindergarten which is why i said look at the model outputs only and to ignore his gibberish.

[Snownerd3000]

42 minutes ago, CliffMassYelledAtMe said:

I know we're looking at equatorial temps, but those temps in the Arctic are off the charts and Antarctica isn't looking great either.

Because all of the arctic's cold is going to be sitting over the PNW.  Get your snow shovels ready.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

1 hour ago, ShawniganLake said:

Has the HRDPS been running on weatherbell.  Seems like it’s been offline on the timbits site. 

Something is wrong with the HRDPS. WeatherBell is only showing the first two or three hours of each run’s time frame. Most frustrating. Would be nice to have a second high-res mesoscale model available to confirm the NAM 3km.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

4 minutes ago, Snownerd3000 said:

Because all of the arctic's cold is going to be sitting over the PNW.  Get your snow shovels ready.

There are exactly three more days where I have a chance of seeing sticking snow IMBY. Everything on or past March 1st (i.e. most of what the lying models show) is pure phantom snow. At least for me.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

18 minutes ago, Sunriver Snow Zone said:

10:1 ratio map from ECMWF for the rest of this event. Still looks like there's potential for salem tonight, going to be a lot of radar riding today instead of model riding.

Looks like we could get 2-3” this evening. Will all come down to moisture. Much bigger potential later in the week. 

[iFred]

First snow of the season at the valley floor in Everett. Graupel, soft hail, and now snow.

[snow_wizard]

Significant snow this weekend on the ECMWF.  It snows during the night with temps below freezing both Saturday and Sunday nights.

[BLI snowman]

Snowing here at 350'.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

3 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Significant snow this weekend on the ECMWF.  It snows during the night with temps below freezing both Saturday and Sunday nights.

Let’s see an Oregon map here!

[bainbridgekid]

High-res WRF for tonight.

 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

5 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Significant snow this weekend on the ECMWF.  It snows during the night with temps below freezing both Saturday and Sunday nights.

Gfs was showing something like this as well, maybe earlier.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

TWL gets over a foot of terrain bleed!

[bainbridgekid]

Snowing and sticking to the highway near Paine Field in South Everett.

 

[Phishy Wx]

1 hour ago, snow_wizard said:

Antarctica was actually running quite cold earlier this century.  Not sure how it's been the last few years.

sea ice down there was at an all time low this past southern hemisphere winter

[Phishy Wx]

#Tonga'd

[FroYoBro]

Getting some nice sun breaks and up to 43 degrees here. Could get some pretty dynamic showers this afternoon/evening before it dries out. 

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

My son in the south salem hills just got a mixed snow/graupel/rain shower! It's coming!

[bainbridgekid]

I'm not home, but am missing out on a very heavy snow shower there. I-5 suddenly turning white right by my house.

 

[Cascadia_Wx]

1 hour ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

How high is the bridge?

[Cascadia_Wx]

20 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

Snowing here at 350'.

How are you feeling about this evening? I’m thinking some hit or miss light accumulations are possible.

[Cascadia_Wx]

25 minutes ago, iFred said:

First snow of the season at the valley floor in Everett. Graupel, soft hail, and now snow.

Is this really your first snow of the winter?

[LowerGarfield]

I did get 0.28 of rain last night which was cool.

[SouthHillFrosty]

9 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Is this really your first snow of the winter?

Most of western wa hasn’t had snow this year so it wouldn’t surprise me. 

[SnowWillarrive]

35 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Significant snow this weekend on the ECMWF.  It snows during the night with temps below freezing both Saturday and Sunday nights.

I’ll have faith in this if we got snow this evening. Euro looks like it wants to drop up to 1 inch on EPSL.

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

12z ECMWF, I'm sure there's a lot of phantom snow on this, could someone post the kuchera map for all of the PNW?

[Deweydog]

Grapple!

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

16 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

My favorite rich guy.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

45F with some showers.

[Cold Snap]

7 minutes ago, Sunriver Snow Zone said:

12z ECMWF, I'm sure there's a lot of phantom snow on this, could someone post the kuchera map for all of the PNW?

 

[Cascadia_Wx]

Had a decent rain/snow shower move through here a bit ago. Had some slushy accumulation on the car windshield. Temp dropped to 36 which is the new low for the day so far.

[Cascadia_Wx]

10 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

Grapple!

On Larch?  

[ShawniganLake]

11 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

45F with some showers.

Blue skies and 44F here.  You’re winning by 1.   

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Up to 46F, come on let's see if we can get a 50F burger!

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

10 minutes ago, Cold Snap said:

 

30" for me! 

[Cascadia_Wx]

1 minute ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Up to 46F, come on let's see if we can get a 50F burger!

I’m sure you’ll say you got one regardless of what actually happens.

[Phishy Wx]

Graupel season, the best!

[Cascadia_Wx]

1 minute ago, Phishy Wx said:

Graupel season, the best!

Then smoke season, then drizzle season, then AR season, then graupel season again. I hate everything

[BLI snowman]

35 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

How are you feeling about this evening? I’m thinking some hit or miss light accumulations are possible.

Same. Half of Slushy Inch could smile upon any of us, but I just don't see anything organized enough for much more.

Saturday OTOH looks like it could be semi-legit. 

[bainbridgekid]

5 minutes ago, Sunriver Snow Zone said:

30" for me! 

How in the world can you tell with such a sharp elevation/rain shadow based cutoff there?