March 2024 Weather in the PNW

[iFred]

18 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

This month is absolutely torching too, just for good measure. Minneapolis is running a +11.5 anomaly. Just unending. 

Climate change appears to be accelerating more and more with baselines shifting. The big Nino this winter probably kicked things up a notch. 

There is that weird morbid sense of anticipation that I now have with every warm season. The termination shock from the lack of sulfur dioxide exhaust from shipping, water vapor from Tonga, and the ever growing cumulative impact of climate change are making for a slow moving disaster movie.

Clathrate gun when?

[snow_wizard]

The ENSO plunge is really underway now.  Major cold upwelling along the coast of South America spreading westward.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Finally got the internet fixed. Took them days but better late than never. Hope y’all are well. Beautiful here in Springfield and 57F.

[MossMan]

When do the raindrops start falling from the sky again? Friday? 

[Front Ranger]

2 hours ago, BLI snowman said:

This month is absolutely torching too, just for good measure. Minneapolis is running a +11.5 anomaly. Just unending. 

Climate change appears to be accelerating more and more with baselines shifting. The big Nino this winter probably kicked things up a notch. 

Not if models are right for the rest of the month.

[RaleighHillsRunner]

20 hours ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

After a week or 2 of rain, this would be awesome. Orchard/mason bee/garden season. 

Mason bees out and about at our place last couple days  

[bainbridgekid]

1 hour ago, BLI snowman said:

This month is absolutely torching too, just for good measure. Minneapolis is running a +11.5 anomaly. Just unending. 

Climate change appears to be accelerating more and more with baselines shifting. The big Nino this winter probably kicked things up a notch. 

I wish my unending torches included a potential 2 foot snowstorm like Minneapolis might have this weekend.

 

[BLI snowman]

14 minutes ago, bainbridgekid said:

I wish my unending torches included a potential 2 foot snowstorm like Minneapolis might have this weekend.

 

Temps don't look too impressive back there. A drop in the bucket next to the completely historic torching they've posted for the first 2/3 of the month. Nice for them to avoid an all-time bad snow season though. 

The last cooler than average month for MSP was April 2023.

[MossMan]

It’s coming!! 

[Cascadia_Wx]

Well the worst is over and now we have this thing mostly in the rearview mirror. Of course temps worked out in a way that even the most caffeinated of warm enthusiasts would hardly dare draw up. Five straight 70+ for PDX, which ties the March record. A post 5pm record high for them on Sunday even after it looked like we were out of the woods, and an impressive, late blooming peak of 77 yesterday (also a record high). Both without any help from offshore flow. Saturday hit 75+ too of course, so three straight 75+ for them. Only their second time on record to see that in March. Squeeee!!!

The sunshine was nice and I have been outdoors plenty since Friday, but good lord, it seems like every time we even touch a ridge these days this sort of thing happens.

[Cascadia_Wx]

Not to mention the nauseating slew of daily records/all-time monthly records up north. The Quillayute number was demoralizing.

I’m going to focus on the fact that VUO put up a relatively reasonable and impressively spready: 71/36, 76/38, 75/38, 74/39 the last four days. Neat to see them recover into the 30s every night despite afternoons in the 70s, and peak at 76 on Saturday with a slow cooling trend afterward even while PDX continued to ramp things up.

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

7 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Well the worst is over and now we have this thing mostly in the rearview mirror. Of course temps worked out in a way that even the most caffeinated of warm enthusiasts would hardly dare draw up. Five straight 70+ for PDX, which ties the March record. A post 5pm record high for them on Sunday even after it looked like we were out of the woods, and an impressive, late blooming peak of 77 yesterday (also a record high). Both without any help from offshore flow. Saturday hit 75+ too of course, so three straight 75+ for them. Only their second time on record to see that in March. Squeeee!!!

The sunshine was nice and I have been outdoors plenty since Friday, but good lord, it seems like every time we even touch a ridge these days this sort of thing happens.

If it makes you feel any better I only peaked to 65 degrees. Hit mid to low 30s every night. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

2 minutes ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

If it makes you feel any better I only peaked to 65 degrees. Hit mid to low 30s every night. 

It doesn’t. 

[TT-SEA]

Made it 70 again... 

[Doinko]

21 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Well the worst is over and now we have this thing mostly in the rearview mirror. Of course temps worked out in a way that even the most caffeinated of warm enthusiasts would hardly dare draw up. Five straight 70+ for PDX, which ties the March record. A post 5pm record high for them on Sunday even after it looked like we were out of the woods, and an impressive, late blooming peak of 77 yesterday (also a record high). Both without any help from offshore flow. Saturday hit 75+ too of course, so three straight 75+ for them. Only their second time on record to see that in March. Squeeee!!!

The sunshine was nice and I have been outdoors plenty since Friday, but good lord, it seems like every time we even touch a ridge these days this sort of thing happens.

The station nearby me hit 80 yesterday. I'm not sure if it's slightly overexposed but that's crazy for March. Also a low of 50 degrees on Saturday with the east wind.

[TT-SEA]

The key is to endlessly mock Mark Nelsen when he forecasts things you don't like.     

[Timmy]

This stretch of nice weather has been much needed and so pleasant. I’m sure we can all agree on that.

Edited March 19 by Timmy

[SilverFallsAndrew]

34 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Well the worst is over and now we have this thing mostly in the rearview mirror. Of course temps worked out in a way that even the most caffeinated of warm enthusiasts would hardly dare draw up. Five straight 70+ for PDX, which ties the March record. A post 5pm record high for them on Sunday even after it looked like we were out of the woods, and an impressive, late blooming peak of 77 yesterday (also a record high). Both without any help from offshore flow. Saturday hit 75+ too of course, so three straight 75+ for them. Only their second time on record to see that in March. Squeeee!!!

The sunshine was nice and I have been outdoors plenty since Friday, but good lord, it seems like every time we even touch a ridge these days this sort of thing happens.

I agree. SLE went up like 3 degrees after 5p yesterday to tie a record. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

6 minutes ago, Timmy said:

This stretch of nice weather has been much needed and so pleasant. I’m sure we can all agree on that.

Why? This post makes no sense. 

[TacomaWx]

11 minutes ago, Timmy said:

This stretch of nice weather has been much needed and so pleasant. I’m sure we can all agree on that.

Adding fuel to fire for the ongoing, never ending forum preferences civil war 

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

6 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Why? This post makes no sense. 

Winter is dark and long. People suffer from SAD. The sun is a welcome event. Pretty easy to understand...

[TacomaWx]

64/38 today. Thought we might end up a little cooler than yesterday but looks like we will end up about the same. The last few days have been really nice. It has been weird having such a unseasonal stretch of warm and dry weather. However the return to March climo will be much appreciated. Need whatever mountain snows and valley rains we can get the next few weeks. 

[Timmy]

11 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

Adding fuel to fire for the ongoing, never ending forum preferences civil war 

And fuel for summer fires!

[TacomaWx]

3 minutes ago, Timmy said:

And fuel for summer fires!

[Cascadia_Wx]

4 minutes ago, Timmy said:

And fuel for summer fires!

You wanna help out this year? We’re always looking for volunteers. Or will you be in Sweden or something.

[Cascadia_Wx]

1 hour ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Not to mention the nauseating slew of daily records/all-time monthly records up north. The Quillayute number was demoralizing.

I’m going to focus on the fact that VUO put up a relatively reasonable and impressively spready: 71/36, 76/38, 75/38, 74/39 the last four days. Neat to see them recover into the 30s every night despite afternoons in the 70s, and peak at 76 on Saturday with a slow cooling trend afterward even while PDX continued to ramp things up.

Y’all are brutal. I thought the big temperature spreads at my hometown station were kind of cool.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

28 minutes ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

Winter is dark and long. People suffer from SAD. The sun is a welcome event. Pretty easy to understand...

My mom had SAD. I loved her dearly, but that was definitely a weakness. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

8 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

My mom had SAD. I loved her dearly, but that was definitely a weakness. 

You usually do so good Andrew. Then you just melt those wax wings.

[MossMan]

22 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Y’all are brutal. I thought the big temperature spreads at my hometown station were kind of cool.

Do you know that Andrew lost the will to live over the weekend due to the intense heat wave while you were out galavanting around in the sun???
He really could have used your support. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

18 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

You usually do so good Andrew. Then you just melt those wax wings.

Wat 

[Timmy]

47 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

You wanna help out this year? We’re always looking for volunteers. Or will you be in Sweden or something.

I wish, on both accounts!

[TT-SEA]

70 at PDX on the hour... barely made it to 5 consecutive days.

[Cascadia_Wx]

32 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Do you know that Andrew lost the will to live over the weekend due to the intense heat wave while you were out galavanting around in the sun???
He really could have used your support. 

I caught up a little and saw that  And it looks like the rest of the forum was sitting inside all weekend obsessing over how much I was probably hating the weather!

[TT-SEA]

I haven't been outside since last Tuesday when it was chilly and raining.

I have to be inside to post here on my 8-bit Commodore 64.   I have heard about these smart phone things that allow you to have internet access outside but that sounds scary to me so I will wait a couple more years.

[T-Town]

2 hours ago, TT-SEA said:

Made it 70 again... 

 

[T-Town]

1 hour ago, TacomaWx said:

64/38 today. Thought we might end up a little cooler than yesterday but looks like we will end up about the same. The last few days have been really nice. It has been weird having such a unseasonal stretch of warm and dry weather. However the return to March climo will be much appreciated. Need whatever mountain snows and valley rains we can get the next few weeks. 

I haven’t been below 40 since the 14th. 

[TT-SEA]

The quad at UW is packed this afternoon... 

[TT-SEA]

Officially 71 at PDX and 64 at SEA today.    

And 72 in North Bend away from the cooling influence of the Sound... but down to 69 now.  

[SilverFallsAndrew]

23 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

The quad at UW is packed this afternoon... 

Did you ever hear about that Alabama fan and the trees at Auburn? 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Salem hit 65 today. I’m sure they’ll hit 70 by sunset.