February 2024 Weather in the PNW

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

On 2/6/2024 at 11:44 PM, Sunriver Snow Zone said:

It's still coming, just watch. Feb 26th-leap day. It's going to get nuts.

Nice. Lowlands got some snow on the 26th, and I'm sure some will tommorow. Not as good of a guess as @Willamette Weenie but still good.

[Willamette Weenie]

3 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

you have any lotto numbers to share?

If we're all able to build snowmen in our front yards next week then at the very least we all won the weather lotto. 

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

3 minutes ago, Sunriver Snow Zone said:

Nice. Lowlands got some snow on the 26th, and I'm sure some will tommorow. Not as good of a guess as @Willamette Weenie but still good.

Powerball and Megamillions both have a big jackpot. 

Mega millions numbers, 29 08 57 38 49 an 14 Megaball.

Powerball numbers, 26 64 33 48 11 and 02 powerball. If anyone here wastes their money on gambling, you'd be a legend for picking these numbers (I'm not using them)

 

 

[ShawniganLake]

1 hour ago, snow_wizard said:

Almost nothing but shadowing here so far.

Also a huge dump of snow for the mountains on Central Vancouver Island.  Mount Washington resort is close to 2ft so far

 

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

HRRR. ITS COMING!!

Edit: me and port Angeles foothill guy posted hrrr at same time...

[Doinko]

8 minutes ago, Sunriver Snow Zone said:

HRRR. ITS COMING!!

Edit: me and port Angeles foothill guy posted hrrr at same time...

Tomorrow looks really fun on the HRRR. Snowing during the afternoon and through Friday morning

[FroYoBro]

13 minutes ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

This looks 100% correct to me. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Finishing up the ski hill on the back 40!

[Doinko]

GRAF also shows a bit of snow, looks like mostly falling Friday morning

[MV_snow]

Bummer that the snow level is above Snoqualmie Pass at the moment. I guess the term “cold AR” is an oxymoron. It should drop below pass level later today at least.

[the_convergence_zone]

5 minutes ago, MV_snow said:

Bummer that the snow level is above Snoqualmie Pass at the moment. I guess the term “cold AR” is an oxymoron. It should drop below pass level later today at least.

11 PM - midnight or so according to the HRRR. Now that they flipped to rain they have to wait for the cold front passage to flip back. 

Still progged to get nearly a foot by early tomorrow though. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

That hrrr just buries me here with a perfect line up of showers rolling in. 

[Hawksfan2008]

The trade for colder air in exchange for the overrunning event is fantastic. Creates a much more realistic scenario. EPS is exciting. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

2 minutes ago, the_convergence_zone said:

11 PM - midnight or so according to the HRRR. Now that they flipped to rain they have to wait for the cold front passage to flip back. 

Still progged to get nearly a foot by early tomorrow though. 

Still 30 degrees on the top of alpental. They are getting hammered up there

[Front Ranger]

5 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Looks like SLE will end the month with around a +1 departure. Not bad. 

Around +.4 for SEA. Warmest February since 2016.

[FroYoBro]

12 minutes ago, MV_snow said:

Bummer that the snow level is above Snoqualmie Pass at the moment. I guess the term “cold AR” is an oxymoron. It should drop below pass level later today at least.

They will make up for the rain by getting tons of snow tonight. 

[the_convergence_zone]

9 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Still 30 degrees on the top of alpental. They are getting hammered up there

The snow line was halfway up Alpental on Sunday as well. Huge accumulations above 4,000 ft. The Olallie Meadows SNOTEL near Mt. Catherine might hit normal by the end of this cold period.

The Olympics and anything below 3,500 ft is in rough shape, but this weekend will help. Should get most sites of the bottom 5 at least. 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

EUG has hit the 50F-burger. Currently 52F there. We are actually cooler in Springfield. 48F here for now but we will probly be over 50F shortly. Off and on rain.

[umadbro]

Wow!

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

19 minutes ago, the_convergence_zone said:

The snow line was halfway up Alpental on Sunday as well. Huge accumulations above 4,000 ft. The Olallie Meadows SNOTEL near Mt. Catherine might hit normal by the end of this cold period.

The Olympics and anything below 3,500 ft is in rough shape, but this weekend will help. Should get most sites of the bottom 5 at least. 

Hurricane ridge still 30 degrees so maybe not so bad there.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

3 minutes ago, umadbro said:

Wow!

That's the largest shower area i have ever seen. 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

2 minutes ago, umadbro said:

Wow!

As a kid, I always thought of that pattern as "popcorn clouds" that would sometimes bring snow showers.

[DeepFriedEgg]

I just refuse to believe there will be accumulating snow in (essentially) March with a south wind and 850s at -6C or higher. 925s only get down to -1C or so. Good enough for snow in the air perhaps.

[Front Ranger]

2 hours ago, snow_wizard said:

It's showing feet on the OR coast....so yeah.

It's much more accurate for the mountains, though.

[Front Ranger]

25 minutes ago, DeepFriedEgg said:

I just refuse to believe there will be accumulating snow in (essentially) March with a south wind and 850s at -6C or higher. 925s only get down to -1C or so. Good enough for snow in the air perhaps.

What were the 850s/925s in March 2012?

[Cascadia_Wx]

3 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

What were the 850s/925s in March 2012?

Noone knows.

[DeepFriedEgg]

2 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

What were the 850s/925s in March 2012?

Wasn't that an ana front situation, not intermittent showers and occasional weak systems making landfall?

[Skagit Weather]

31 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Hurricane ridge still 30 degrees so maybe not so bad there.

Still snowing at 4,000' at Mount Baker as well. Just far enough north to escape the warmest air. Supposedly they have picked up a foot since 6 a.m.

[sherwoodor]

29 minutes ago, DeepFriedEgg said:

I just refuse to believe there will be accumulating snow in (essentially) March with a south wind and 850s at -6C or higher. 925s only get down to -1C or so. Good enough for snow in the air perhaps.

This is my take as well. Call me a heretic, I love me some snow, but I also love my fruit trees...

[TigerWoodsLibido]

1 minute ago, DeepFriedEgg said:

Wasn't that an ana front situation, not intermittent showers and occasional weak systems making landfall?

Not sure if it was some stalling front or not. But it was snowing at Siletz Bay in Taft, Lincoln City and it was awesome to see snowflakes going into the ocean.

[bainbridgekid]

36 minutes ago, umadbro said:

Wow!

What a thing of beauty. I don't remember ever seeing such a large area of continuous cold cumulus in the entire Gulf of Alaska. Looking at that you'd definitely think we'd be in for potential CZ snow in the next couple days.

[bainbridgekid]

Brief band of heavy wet snow Thursday night in the Central Sound. The orientation of that band extending straight West through the Olympics and out off the Coast looks really weird though.

 

[ShawniganLake]

Wow wow wow. That beast has its sights on SW BC and northern Washington.  The ICON is as rock solid as every!

 

[bainbridgekid]

Not out far enough to know where it goes, but that little low is back Friday night on the 18z. That's what previous runs had giving Seattle 1-4" of snow but was taken away on the 12z.

Tracking that pesky guy is gonna be really hard since it kinda spins up in the middle of a general area of low pressure and is disconnected from the jet stream.

 

[BLI snowman]

11 minutes ago, DeepFriedEgg said:

Wasn't that an ana front situation, not intermittent showers and occasional weak systems making landfall?

There was a setup on Leap Day into the 1st in 2012 that was pretty similar to this weekend, with a meso-low that produced some 1-2" totals overnight around the Portland area from training bands of showers. 

But yeah the big boys in March 2012 were the anafronts. The first one hit the OR coast the hardest on the 12th and then the second one hit the Willamette Valley on the 21st. Those isothermal heavy precip situations are very different, obviously. 

[RCola]

Anyone have bets placed for downtown Seattle to thread the needle with this event and never score a slushy inch of snow?

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

The 18z GFS buries me. 0% chance of verifying. They should probably just stop running it. 

[TT-SEA]

19 minutes ago, bainbridgekid said:

What a thing of beauty. I don't remember ever seeing such a large area of continuous cold cumulus in the entire Gulf of Alaska. Looking at that you'd definitely think we'd be in for potential CZ snow in the next couple days.

Yeah... looks like c-zone mania but that center of circulation never moves inland so we have southerly flow the next few days and no chance of traditional c-zones like we had on Monday.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

It was another win for the NAM 3km up this way last night. It was calling for a slushy dusting turning to rain well before daybreak and that's exactly what happened.