March 2024 Weather in the PNW

[TigerWoodsLibido]

50F and partly cloudy.

Starting to lose feeling in my hands. Really tingly now. Let's see how much longer my brain can hold on before it's off to the hospital...

[Frontal Snowsquall]

KPTV still going with a 70 on Monday  and now Tuesday is up to 74. Then a big crash to only 53 on Wednesday when rain returns.

[Phil]

3 hours ago, Front Ranger said:

Nothing says spring like a Nor'EASTER!

Yay more cold rain followed by dry 60mph downsloping.

[Phil]

LF analog composites keep getting worse and worse for summer. Horrific coast to coast death ridge signal all the way through. Looks like some 1930s s**t.

[Phil]

That’s less than 12 weeks away.   

 

[Omegaraptor]

18 minutes ago, Phil said:

LF analog composites keep getting worse and worse for summer. Horrific coast to coast death ridge signal all the way through. Looks like some 1930s s**t.

Hopefully next winter will be like 1936-37!

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

46 minutes ago, Phil said:

Go farther NE. Our plan is to catch the eclipse at Lake Loramie, OH.

But maybe you’ll catch a tornado instead.  

Yeah we have plans made for if we need to go NE. I think the furthest we're willing to go is the missouri/Illinois border, I don't think further than that will be worthit. Ideally in Arkansas though because we made backup reservations there.

 

Do you think that'll be far enough NE?

[Deweydog]

38 minutes ago, Phil said:

That’s less than 12 weeks away.   

 

It’s absolutely astonishing how accurate long range forecasts have become.

[MossMan]

Sounds fun! 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

31 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Sounds fun! 

“Apocalypse…” “Infest…” their entomophobia is showing.

[T-Town]

Enjoying some chicken fish tonight. The 12 years of Catholic school obviously didn’t take. 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

8 hours ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

I know I shouldn’t take your bait , but that KGW forecast is laughable. Either that or it’s out of date or something.

PDX hit 64 today. KPTV was too cool and KGW was too warm.

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

Looks like I might get snow Wednesday night

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

50 minutes ago, T-Town said:

Enjoying some chicken fish tonight. The 12 years of Catholic school obviously didn’t take. 

 

 

Thefoodforums!

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

1 hour ago, MossMan said:

Sounds fun! 

I experienced on of these hatches in Tennessee in elementary school. An insane 2-3 week period. The bark on all trees were covered with bugs, the bark looked alive. The noise was deafening. We would throw tennis balls into trees and a cloud of bugs would swarm out. We would then swat them with tennis rackets. 

[Deweydog]

35 minutes ago, T-Town said:

Enjoying some chicken fish tonight. The 12 years of Catholic school obviously didn’t take. 

 

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

8 minutes ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

Looks like I might get snow Wednesday night

Sunriver is 100% getting snow next week, but I won't be here for it. Probably will see some snowfall on the 6th in Wyoming though, so I won't be missing out on much.

[Mercurial]

so glad we don't have cicadas out West.  

[TT-SEA]

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

Just now, Mercurial said:

so glad we don't have cicadas out West.  

Yep. And not only are they annoying, apparently they let out enough piss that you can feel it, so this year everybody in the east is going to be getting constantly pissed on by the cicadas.

[Cascadia_Wx]

34 minutes ago, Frontal Snowsquall said:

PDX hit 64 today. KPTV was too cool and KGW was too warm.

The KGW forecast was from two weeks ago. 

 

[RaleighHillsRunner]

Straight up banger on the coast today. 58, calm winds. I love the PNW.

 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

3 hours ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

50F and partly cloudy.

Starting to lose feeling in my hands. Really tingly now. Let's see how much longer my brain can hold on before it's off to the hospital...

Don’t risk it Tiger. Go to the ER ASAP!

[Front Ranger]

2 hours ago, MossMan said:

Sounds fun! 

That's an analog Jim can get behind!

[Frontal Snowsquall]

3 hours ago, Phil said:

LF analog composites keep getting worse and worse for summer. Horrific coast to coast death ridge signal all the way through. Looks like some 1930s s**t.

It’s going to depend on where the ridge sets up shop in the continental USA. In order for us to get big time heat we usually want to see cooler air east of the Cascades and/or Rockies so we can get offshore flow.

[Front Ranger]

35 minutes ago, Sunriver Snow Zone said:

Yep. And not only are they annoying, apparently they let out enough piss that you can feel it, so this year everybody in the east is going to be getting constantly pissed on by the cicadas.

Can't wait for the daily updates from Phil. Fortunately, profuse perspiration quickly clears the cicada pee from one's pores.

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

25 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

The KGW forecast was from two weeks ago. 

 

To be fair, the timing of the warmth, sun, clouds, and precip matched up pretty well in both forecasts. Easy to see how he'd make that mistake.

[T-Town]

28 minutes ago, RaleighHillsRunner said:

Straight up banger on the coast today. 58, calm winds. I love the PNW.

 

Hallmark card. Beautiful. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

9 minutes ago, Sunriver Snow Zone said:

To be fair, the timing of the warmth, sun, clouds, and precip matched up pretty well in both forecasts. Easy to see how he'd make that mistake.

Yeah, saving a TV forecast and then accidentally posting it 14 days later. We’ve all been there.

[Cascadia_Wx]

20 minutes ago, Frontal Snowsquall said:

It’s going to depend on where the ridge sets up shop in the continental USA. In order for us to get big time heat we usually want to see cooler air east of the Cascades and/or Rockies so we can get offshore flow.

Last one for today, because I know that with each reply you only grow stronger, but the cool air east of the mountains driving offshore flow is typically more of an autumn type heat pattern. 

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

2 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Yeah, saving a TV forecast and then accidentally posting it 14 days later. We’ve all been there.

Yeah, having @Jesse, @CascadiaWx and @Cascadia_Wxaccounts, we've all been there.

[Cascadia_Wx]

Just now, Sunriver Snow Zone said:

Yeah, having @Jesse, @CascadiaWx and @Cascadia_Wxaccounts, we've all been there.

I don’t like you.

[Phil]

3 hours ago, Sunriver Snow Zone said:

Yeah we have plans made for if we need to go NE. I think the furthest we're willing to go is the missouri/Illinois border, I don't think further than that will be worthit. Ideally in Arkansas though because we made backup reservations there.

 

Do you think that'll be far enough NE?

Can’t say at this range but my hunch is the farther NE you go the clearer the skies will be.

[Cascadia_Wx]

Ended up with a 62/40 day here. Morning high overcast then puffy clouds and blue skies the rest of the day. Light offshore flow with the system to our south. All in all a pretty nice day.

Edited March 30 by Cascadia_Wx

[Phil]

3 hours ago, MossMan said:

Sounds fun! 

We had ours in May/June 2021 and holy s**t it was loud. When I spent more than 10 minutes outside my hearing was muffled afterwards for the next hour or so.

The buzzing ones were so loud my phone couldn’t handle the decibel load, you can hear how it gets kind of fuzzy at each crescendo. 

 

[iFred]

1 hour ago, Mercurial said:

so glad we don't have cicadas out West.  

I thought there was a species in the Willamette Valley.

[Cascadia_Wx]

Just now, iFred said:

I thought there was a species in the Willamette Valley.

I think there is but they’re not the periodical type - they don’t mass breed in the same cyclical fashion.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

4 hours ago, Phil said:

That’s less than 12 weeks away.   

 

The days do get shorter but summer still lags behind. The average peak of summer here in the continental USA is July 24. So more than a month after the Summer Solstice. Out here west of the Cascades we usually peak the first week of August. Some areas on the Coast are even later.

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

13 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

I don’t like you.

Who the hell would've guessed after you've insulted me multiple times. What a miserable person you are Jessie. 

[Phil]

16 minutes ago, Phil said:

We had ours in May/June 2021 and holy s**t it was loud. When I spent more than 10 minutes outside my hearing was muffled afterwards for the next hour or so.

The buzzing ones were so loud my phone couldn’t handle the decibel load, you can hear how it gets kind of fuzzy at each crescendo. 

 

It was also amazing to watch how they overwhelmed predators by sheer numbers.

The first day they started emerging there were birds and squirrels everywhere eating them like candy and I was thinking how hell do they survive such predation.

But the number emerging kept increasing each night, until those crunchy crawling sounds filled the night air, and every tree was encased in cicada husks. It was an onslaught, almost beyond comprehension. They just kept coming. Predation was overwhelmed within a week.