March 2024 Weather in the PNW

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

This weather and DST sucks. 32 currently, 40/25 day with some wet snow. Give us actually snow events, or sunny days, days like this are pretty meh. Atleast it wasn't a bunch of light/moderate rain all day though, that really sucks.

 

Good night. (It should be 10:54 right now, but here we are.)

[Meatyorologist]

3 hours ago, Omegaraptor said:

On the other end...

Their all time record of -128F was set on my birthday!

[snow_wizard]

I wanna believe!  Pretty much historic for late March.

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

4 hours ago, snow_wizard said:

I wanna believe!  Pretty much historic for late March.

 

Looks splendid. Let’s bring it on. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Not a terrible way to start March. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Harney Basin snowpack in SE Oregon is 155% of normal. Should be good redband fishing in the Blitzen River this year. 

[Timmy Supercell]

5 hours ago, snow_wizard said:

I wanna believe!  Pretty much historic for late March.

 

My area will be alternating between tornadic storms and blizzards.. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

Kinda the maps I was looking for,  but I found the old versions to be less messy.

Oregon’s in good shape. Washington on the other hand definitely has some work to be done, especially outside of the south Cascades and Blues. Let’s hope for a cool and wet next few months with lots of mountain snows up there.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

It’s coming.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

21 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Kinda the maps I was looking for,  but I found the old versions to be less messy.

Oregon’s in good shape. Washington on the other hand definitely has some work to be done, especially outside of the south Cascades and Blues. Let’s hope for a cool and wet next few months with lots of mountain snows up there.

BC is already doing drought contingency planning for this summer.

[MossMan]

Getting dark out! 

[LowerGarfield]

27 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Kinda the maps I was looking for,  but I found the old versions to be less messy.

Oregon’s in good shape. Washington on the other hand definitely has some work to be done, especially outside of the south Cascades and Blues. Let’s hope for a cool and wet next few months with lots of mountain snows up there.

Blues were doing a lot worse last month. Glad to see my local mountains get there if ever so slowly.

[RaleighHillsRunner]

6 hours ago, snow_wizard said:

I wanna believe!  Pretty much historic for late March.

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

36 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

It’s coming.

Wow. That got watered down quickly. 

[MossMan]

1 minute ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Wow. That got watered down quickly. 

You will be back to 6” of gross slush in no time!! 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

3 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Wow. That got watered down quickly. 

BuT tHe MoDeLs OnLy PuLl ThE rUg On CoLd, NeVeR tOrChInG!

[Cascadia_Wx]

12 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Wow. That got watered down quickly. 

A lot of improvements the last few days. Let’s keep it up.

[westcoastexpat]

[TacomaWx]

Normally don’t go paddleboarding in March but will probably be going out Saturday. Looks like it should be 70 out on Anderson island. Hasn’t hit 70 in March since 2019. 

[Blizzard777]

1 hour ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

It’s coming.

I shall plant a garden quickly ! 

[Phishy Wx]

NWS Spokane didn't lie

 

its over

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

We had some crazy weather at the cabin, Both days it would be sunny and 45 and then a storm would roll in, drop the temp to 30 and lay down 2 inches of snow with a bunch of wind. There is between 6-18 inches of snow up there.

[snow_wizard]

2 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Not a terrible way to start March. 

And the fact it's going back into a nice GOA block later in the month after a quick spike.

#coldregime

[TT-SEA]

14 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

NWS Spokane didn't lie

 

its over

Well we are 1/6th of the way through spring already... seems sort of obvious that winter is over.  

[snow_wizard]

Just now, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

We had some crazy weather at the cabin, Both days it would be sunny and 45 and then a storm would roll in, drop the temp to 30 and lay down 2 inches of snow with a bunch of wind. There is between 6-18 inches of snow up there.

Great climate up there.  Even colder than Winthrop a lot of times.

[T-Town]

22 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

Normally don’t go paddleboarding in March but will probably be going out Saturday. Looks like it should be 70 out on Anderson island. Hasn’t hit 70 in March since 2019. 

We went to Anthonys in Gig Harbor yesterday for happy hour and there were quite a few kayakers and paddle boarders out in the rain.  But, most of them looked liked they were training, like they’re on a school team or something. Im sure they have the right gear to get out regardless of the weather. 

[snow_wizard]

Just now, TT-SEA said:

Well we are 1/6th of the way through spring already... seems sort of obvious that winter is over.  

I'm not sure what his point is here.  We had a very cold starting March too.

[snow_wizard]

2 hours ago, Timmy Supercell said:

My area will be alternating between tornadic storms and blizzards.. 

Maybe even a tornadic blizzard!

[Cascadia_Wx]

6 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

I'm not sure what his point is here.  We had a very cold starting March too.

Twitterman just likes to gripe.

[Phishy Wx]

13 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Well we are 1/6th of the way through spring already... seems sort of obvious that winter is over.  

[iFred]

32 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

NWS Spokane didn't lie

 

its over

Sometimes I get the feeling that if I told you Safeway was both Jim and Jesse’s favorite store because of their maple bars, you’d be a prime suspect in Safeway bakery arsons.

[Cascadia_Wx]

1 minute ago, iFred said:

Sometimes I get the feeling that if I told you Safeway was both Jim and Jesse’s favorite store because of their maple bars, you’d be a prime suspect in Safeway bakery arsons.

I used to work for Safeway many years ago. The maple bars were a break time staple.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

8 hours ago, snow_wizard said:

I wanna believe!  Pretty much historic for late March.

 

The newly released EURO AI model is not waiting around for next winter, it wants to try and bring in an Arctic Blast NOW!  

 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

25 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Great climate up there.  Even colder than Winthrop a lot of times.

My low on my station for January was -34.4! If it was that cold there on a hill i know the deep canyon below my place was -40 no problem. I have seen 20 below in that canyon and 5 below at cabin. 

[T-Town]

9 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

I used to work for Safeway many years ago. The maple bars were a break time staple.

Maple bars are the king of donuts. Apple fritters a close second. 

[ShawniganLake]

56 minutes ago, westcoastexpat said:

Looks like the ridge lasts a little longer on the euro than the gfs and then we drop back to a seasonal spring pattern. The GEFS was crashing that ridge very quickly a couple days ago. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

1 minute ago, T-Town said:

Maple bars are the king of donuts. Apple fritters a close second. 

I would agree on both counts 

[T-Town]

Springtime. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

31 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

I'm not sure what his point is here.  We had a very cold starting March too.

Winter ends March 19th. 

[TT-SEA]

1 minute ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Winter ends March 19th. 

Metrological spring started on March 1st.