March 2024 Weather in the PNW

[SilverFallsAndrew]

1 minute ago, Deweydog said:

Have you found any trails?

Treasure trails 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Just now, Deweydog said:

Have you found any trails?

Not really. They go under some of the walls in the house.

[ShawniganLake]

29 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Anybody else not have anything last night? Springfield barely even had any brief snow in the air during this stretch.

Apart from a small portion of Vancouver island, no one in bc had snow last night. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

[Deweydog]

3 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Not really. They go under some of the walls in the house.

Probably will need a perimeter spray and depending on your type of siding you’ll need get up as close to the sill plates as possible.  We used to get them at our old place in Orchards but once I started doing that once a year it sent them packing. 

[Phishy Wx]

14 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Anybody got ideas as to how to get rid of sugar ants throughout the house?

introduce a predator

[TigerWoodsLibido]

1 minute ago, Deweydog said:

Probably will need a perimeter spray and depending on your type of siding you’ll need get up as close to the sill plates as possible.  We used to get them at our old place in Orchards but once I started doing that once a year it sent them packing. 

What are sill plates? Are they next to the windows?

[Deweydog]

1 minute ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

What are sill plates? Are they next to the windows?

Basically the bottom of the walls at the top of the foundation. 

[Deweydog]

3 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

introduce a predator

[ShawniganLake]

2 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

What are sill plates? Are they next to the windows?

If you can identify where they are coming and going from the house,  you can spread dried coffee grounds in those areas. For some reason they won’t cross it.  We do this around our kitchen window occasionally in the summer.  But it sounds like a bigger problem, so probably gonna have to spray as Dewey mentioned.  

[ShawniganLake]

6 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

introduce a predator

 

[Chewbacca Defense]

8 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

introduce a predator

[TigerWoodsLibido]

10 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

introduce a predator

[ShawniganLake]

Also, Tiger, Victoria YYJ did not record any measurable snow during this “cold snap,” so you likely outperformed that area.  

[TigerWoodsLibido]

22 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

Also, Tiger, Victoria YYJ did not record any measurable snow during this “cold snap,” so you likely outperformed that area.  

Yeah, the night we had some falling snow was nice. Just wish it could've been more.

As it is, the winter is still a solid B since we had a prolific ice storm that will be remembered for a long time as well as 2 straight sub freezing highs in an impressive low level cold airmass, which hadn't happened since Jan 2017. Nice to get that monkey off our back as well.

[RentonHill]

49 minutes ago, the_convergence_zone said:

Terro liquid traps. 

borax/sugar always worked better than the ant traps for the sugar ants, at least for our house. We just had another invasion and the borax had them gone within 24 hours. its gross to see them all come out of the woodwork to get the stuff but its only for about a day or two. 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

21 hours ago, SnowWillarrive said:

They had a huge season last year with record snow. 

 

21 hours ago, Front Ranger said:

It was a mega Nino. Minnesota's climate resembled historical Minnesota as recently as last winter. And was colder than normal the winter before that.

It might have been better last winter with more seasonal weather and more snow but ice fishing wasn’t even good last year. I read that on average, Minnesota has lost 10 to 14 days of lake ice over the past 50 years, with some popular, iconic lakes losing almost three weeks of ice. Ice fishing is huge in Minnesota and this is not good at all.

“Not everyone is fond of the warm weather in Central Minnesota this winter.  Glen Schmitt from Outdoors News feels this could be the worst ice fishing season in Minnesota.  He says last year's season wasn't good but this is worse.  Schmitt explains ice conditions really vary throughout the state with no ice fishing in southern Minnesota while northern Minnesota still has some opportunities.  He says from Brainerd north there still are opportunities to ice fish.  Schmitt says ice conditions there are much better.  He says there still are locations where people are driving trucks on lakes near Blackduck and good fishing can be had on Lake of the Woods and Red Lake.”

https://wjon.com/this-years-ice-fishing-season-may-be-the-worst-in-mn/
 

 

[Tanis Leach]

So as of today, the Portland NWS has new watches and warnings zones. 

 

I apologize if this was already posted. 

[MossMan]

The snow has some staying power with the DP at 30! Air temp is 40. Even in the sun the snow is hanging in there. My dog is loving the sun! She’s like me, loves snow and loves the sun! 

[BLI snowman]

1 hour ago, Deweydog said:

 

 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

31 minutes ago, Tanis Leach said:

So as of today, the Portland NWS has new watches and warnings zones. 

 

I apologize if this was already posted. 

118 need to be split into 2 zones. The airport is not a good indication of what's happening in Springfield or Creswell, Cottage Grove etc.

[bainbridgekid]

44 minutes ago, Tanis Leach said:

So as of today, the Portland NWS has new watches and warnings zones. 

 

I apologize if this was already posted. 

Nice to see so much detail, but wow locating a city on there is going to be very difficult for the general public.

[Cascadia_Wx]

50 minutes ago, Tanis Leach said:

So as of today, the Portland NWS has new watches and warnings zones. 

 

I apologize if this was already posted. 

Nice to see the NWS go fully off the rails. 

[icyasf]

Question? I know in the Puget Sound since it has elevations near sea level areas higher up by even 100 ft get more snow. How prevalent is that say in the Willamette Valley? My parents house consistently gets more snow than the rest of Corvallis because they are a hundred feet above most of town. Obviously I know more elevation means more snow but I didn’t really realize that even 100 ft makes quite the difference. Is that common in other parts of the valley as well?

[T-Town]

My snow total for this event matched Bluto Blutarsky’s GPA. 

[Front Ranger]

1 hour ago, Tanis Leach said:

So as of today, the Portland NWS has new watches and warnings zones. 

 

I apologize if this was already posted. 

The NWS is now run by Nickelodeon?

[Phishy Wx]

15 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

The NWS is now run by Nickelodeon?

I heard they had a job opening for Technical Climate Change Skeptic.  Requires at least a Masters Degree in Bull Shiit.  figured you'd like to apply

[Frontal Snowsquall]

3 hours ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

Inject this into my veins.

The 12z EURO shows strong offshore flow at day 10. This weekend is looking wet but next weekend is starting to look nice and sunny. We will also be able to enjoy one extra hour of daylight now in the evenings since we turn ahead the clocks this weekend.  

 

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

18z really wants to go there in the long range…

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Their forecast high at Silver Falls was 38

on this new zone forecast and it looks like that will be the high…

[Randyc321]

4 hours ago, snow_wizard said:

The 12z ECMWF only has one above normal min for SEA over the next 10 days.  I'm really liking this.

Time for Spring.  Just my opinion.  Downvote away.

[TT-SEA]

18Z GFS is crashy.

 

[Deweydog]

ALERT

[bainbridgekid]

31 minutes ago, icyasf said:

Question? I know in the Puget Sound since it has elevations near sea level areas higher up by even 100 ft get more snow. How prevalent is that say in the Willamette Valley? My parents house consistently gets more snow than the rest of Corvallis because they are a hundred feet above most of town. Obviously I know more elevation means more snow but I didn’t really realize that even 100 ft makes quite the difference. Is that common in other parts of the valley as well?

It makes a big difference everywhere in the Pacific Northwest. I've always figured that each 100 feet in elevation gain makes about a 15% increase in average snowfall. That means each 500 feet pretty much exactly doubles expected snow in a given year.

The reason it makes such a huge differnece here compared to most of the rest of the country is the temperature is almost always right around freezing for our potential snow events. That's just as true in the Willammete Valley as around Puget Sound. Only exception really is up the Fraser River Valley North of Bellingham and well East of Portland deeper into the Gorge where there is more contintental influence during snow events and elevation often doesn't matter.

[DeepFriedEgg]

18z GFS nearly goes full arctic at hour 300+

[TT-SEA]

Just now, DeepFriedEgg said:

18z GFS nearly goes full arctic at hour 300+

Yep.

[DeepFriedEgg]

Looks like upper level arctic air stops at the northern OR border.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Wow

[Deweydog]

Wife is right again!

[SilverFallsAndrew]

1 minute ago, DeepFriedEgg said:

Looks like arctic air stops at the northern OR border

You just have to wait