March 2024 Weather in the PNW

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

2 inch total overnight but only 1 inch on ground when I left . Had a warm cell with heavy wind lift freezing level for a few hrs overnight 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Gold mountain is plastered behind my house at about 900ft. Probably 8 inches up there 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

A couple pics 

[Dave]

Blech. 36 degrees with moderately splatty rain. I only know this because I'm a big enough dork to go into my car and view the windshield.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

33 at Corvallis with snow. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

3 minutes ago, Dave said:

Blech. 36 degrees with moderately splatty rain. I only know this because I'm a big enough dork to go into my car and view the windshield.

Was the windshield legally obtained for your viewing?

[Rubus Leucodermis]

It's even snowing in Tofino this morning.

But, of course, not in Vancouver.

March is such an unmitigated turd burger of a month.

[Dave]

1 minute ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Was the windshield legally obtained for your viewing?

I downloaded the windshield from a questionable website.

[ShawniganLake]

0.01” of rain overnight.  Also a trace of slushy snow.   

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Ashame that big batch of showers is coming during the daytime headed up this way.  Looks like the snow level will be lower tonight than last night

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Meso models are showing the low tracking through southern sound and gfs keeps it off coast. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Nam 3km looks really good for the sound tonight and tomorrow morning and again sat night.

[TT-SEA]

9 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Ashame that big batch of showers is coming during the daytime headed up this way.  Looks like the snow level will be lower tonight than last night

Yeah... its lined up now to move through right in the middle of the day.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

1 minute ago, TT-SEA said:

Yeah... its lined up now to move through right in the middle of the day.

Looks like it will hit here in about 1.5 hrs. Tonight looks good on the meso models, probably the best shot for the sound.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

2 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Yeah... its lined up now to move through right in the middle of the day.

That link i sent you shows some good snow in matlock

[bainbridgekid]

Got the lightest coating of snow possible last night. Actually had an abundance of showers temps were just barely too warm.

 

[Dave]

Holy carp a heavy shower rolled in and I have downloaded some snowflakes. 35 degrees. Obviously not sticking though. Only the 2nd time of the season I've seen flakes.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

1 minute ago, bainbridgekid said:

Got the lightest coating of snow possible last night. Actually had an abundance of showers temps were just barely too warm.

 

I had over 1 inch at midnight and it was 32 degrees so i figured i was set for the night for a few inches and boom a strong shower came in with 30mph winds and mixed the cold air i had and snow level popped up to 1000ft for about 4 hrs during the heavy precip. I checked obs and this shower warmed up everyone it passed. Turned back to snow at 4am. Total of 2 inches but maybe just 1 inch on ground at 7am. Tonight should be a tad colder and the meso models like taking that low right through south sound.

[TT-SEA]

7 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

I had over 1 inch at midnight and it was 32 degrees so i figured i was set for the night for a few inches and boom a strong shower came in with 30mph winds and mixed the cold air i had and snow level popped up to 1000ft for about 4 hrs during the heavy precip. I checked obs and this shower warmed up everyone it passed. Turned back to snow at 4am. Total of 2 inches but maybe just 1 inch on ground at 7am. Tonight should be a tad colder and the meso models like taking that low right through south sound.

ECMWF actually shows 925mb temps warmer overnight than during the day... then goes back down by morning.

[ShawniganLake]

Looks like our big snow storm potential up here for Monday has trended south. Heading for Oregon now.  Kind of unfortunate Oregon keeps stealing the precip that is desperately needed to the north. 

[ShawniganLake]

14 minutes ago, bainbridgekid said:

Got the lightest coating of snow possible last night. Actually had an abundance of showers temps were just barely too warm.

 

Nice.  Slightly more than I got. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

3 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

ECMWF actually shows 925mb temps warmer overnight than during the day... then goes back down by morning.

I should of been more clear, between 4 am and 11am looks good

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

2 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

Looks like our big snow storm potential up here for Monday has trended south. Heading for Oregon now.  Kind of unfortunate Oregon keeps stealing the precip that is desperately needed to the north. 

It has been a strange winter. I can never remember the sound missing out on so many events, Payback will be fun though next winter. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

It has been a strange winter. I can never remember the sound missing out on so many events, Payback will be fun though next winter. 

Yeah Oregon has had so many snow storms this winter...

[ShawniganLake]

7 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

ECMWF actually shows 925mb temps warmer overnight than during the day... then goes back down by morning.

Decent chance that little low tracks west of the sound. So probably some southerly wind mixing things up for a time. 

[ShawniganLake]

5 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Yeah Oregon has had so many snow storms this winter...

I thought your snow pack situation was looking pretty good down there.  

Here’s southern Vancouver Island 

 

 

[TT-SEA]

4 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

Decent chance that little low tracks west of the sound. So probably some southerly wind mixing things up for a time. 

Yeah... appears to be an embedded low that tracks along the WA coast overnight.  That also causes the band to split out here.  

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, ShawniganLake said:

I thought your snow pack situation was looking pretty good down there.  

Here’s southern Vancouver Island 

 

 

Fair enough. I thought you were talking about the lowlands. I think you've had more snow than I have this winter, or at least until this week you definitely have. 

Snow pack is at just about average in the Oregon Cascades. 

[the_convergence_zone]

15 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

It has been a strange winter. I can never remember the sound missing out on so many events, Payback will be fun though next winter. 

20 inches at KSEA next year. Book it. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, TT-SEA said:

Yeah... appears to be an embedded low that tracks along the WA coast overnight.  That also causes the band to split out here.  

 

The EURO has been absolutely abysmal with this pattern. 

[TacomaWx]

1 minute ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Fair enough. I thought you were talking about the lowlands. I think you've had more snow than I have this winter, or at least until this week you definitely have. 

Snow pack is at just about average in the Oregon Cascades. 

Lol yeah some people keep saying the lowlands in Oregon are having all the fun this winter. The January event was pretty decent for you guys but it’s not like you guys have had multiple big snow events and we’ve had nothing up this way. 

[TT-SEA]

3 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

The EURO has been absolutely abysmal with this pattern. 

GFS shows the same thing overnight but even farther west.  

That low shows up perfectly on the high res RGEM as well... in the same general place. 

 

[umadbro]

14 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Yeah... appears to be an embedded low that tracks along the WA coast overnight.  That also causes the band to split out here.  

 

Really kicks up a good south wind with it that will kill any chances of lowland snow

[ShawniganLake]

7 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Fair enough. I thought you were talking about the lowlands. I think you've had more snow than I have this winter, or at least until this week you definitely have. 

Snow pack is at just about average in the Oregon Cascades. 

I’m mostly just giving you a hard time.  I’m at 21” for the winter.  I think we might get another couple at some point this weekend.  
 

Snow pack situation is pretty bad here right now but I think some parts of southern BC have done really well in the mountains the past few days.  

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

Finally spring!

[TT-SEA]

In terms of performance... the ECMWF yesterday showed 1-2 inches across all of King County by this morning.     Its been way too aggressive with snow for my area.

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

A LOT of precip in the willamette valley, too bad it didn't come 6 hours earlier.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

8 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

GFS shows the same thing overnight but even farther west.  

That low shows up perfectly on the high res RGEM as well... in the same general place. 

 

rgem tracks it through south sound just like the nam

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

3 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

In terms of performance... the ECMWF yesterday showed 1-2 inches across all of King County by this morning.     Its been way too aggressive with snow for my area.

So far the icon has done the best here.

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

3 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

In terms of performance... the ECMWF yesterday showed 1-2 inches across all of King County by this morning.     Its been way too aggressive with snow for my area.

Every model has been treating this like December and not March. Why do we keep getting fooled every year?