April 2024 Weather in the PNW

[Meatyorologist]

6 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Sadly this is my view currently…

Lamotrigene medication still won’t come thru so I’m in the hospital. Really wish it would get approved.

Epilepsy sucks.

Hang in there Brian.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

16 minutes ago, Brian_in_Leavenworth said:

Big 7.5 earthquake in Taiwan.  Check #Taiwan for tweets, lots of videos there.  And check the latest.

They are evaluating possibilities for tsunamis for the US West Coast.

 

EDIT:  NO threat to the US

And a 2.9 earthquake 90 miles north of PDX in Lewis County this afternoon.

https://www.kptv.com/2024/04/02/29-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-90-miles-north-portland/

 

[Cascadia_Wx]

Looks like PDX hit 78 today. A massive overachievement per their usual but at least it wasn’t a record high. They missed the record high of 79 (1944 and 1992) by a degree.

76/43 at VUO.

75 here for a 75/44 day.

[Doinko]

1 minute ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Looks like PDX hit 78 today. A massive overachievement per their usual but at least it wasn’t a record high. They missed the record high of 79 (1944 and 1992) by a degree.

76/43 at VUO.

75 here for a 75/44 day.

Nice temp drop going on though. Down to 67 from a high of 77 here with a west wind and really cool clouds. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

Just now, Doinko said:

Nice temp drop going on though. Down to 67 from a high of 77 here with a west wind and really cool clouds. 

I was just going to post about that. Awesome looking clouds out there and it’s down to 66 here now. Looking forward to afternoon high temps being 20-25 degrees cooler tomorrow. This sort of stuff makes spring enjoyable around here.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

39 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Sadly this is my view currently…

Lamotrigene medication still won’t come thru so I’m in the hospital. Really wish it would get approved.

Epilepsy sucks.

Stay positive Tiger! I’m glad you’re at the hospital getting treatment.

[T-Town]

Quite the temp drop here as well. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

33 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Looks like PDX hit 78 today. A massive overachievement per their usual but at least it wasn’t a record high. They missed the record high of 79 (1944 and 1992) by a degree.

76/43 at VUO.

75 here for a 75/44 day.

1992, interesting. Coming off a YUGE Nino. Not sure what SLE hit but they were 73 last I checked. Only a high near 40 here on Thursday. Or so they say. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Gorgeous evening. 

[Blizzard777]

1 hour ago, T-Town said:

Kool klouds. 

It was another crazy day of odd looking clouds!  

[Blizzard777]

69/42 today

 

[Cloud]

7.5 quake followed immediately by 7.4 aftershock. There was also a landslide caused by the quake. Some of the images and videos are amazing. 

[MossMan]

1 hour ago, T-Town said:

Kool klouds. 

I have the flames going! 

[Blizzard777]

Nest cam timelapse of todays clouds….not too exciting but fun in the same 

https://video.nest.com/clip/4c7f307f38ea4517b2332c615bba2789.mp4

[TT-SEA]

2 minutes ago, Blizzard777 said:

Nest cam timelapse of todays clouds….not too exciting but fun in the same 

https://video.nest.com/clip/4c7f307f38ea4517b2332c615bba2789.mp4

Cool ending... also think the sun was just about to pop out under the cloud deck right before it sets at the end there.   I saw that happen on the Mariners game broadcast about 15 minutes ago.

[Blizzard777]

3 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Cool ending... also think the sun was just about to pop out under the cloud deck right before it sets at the end there.   I saw that happen on the Mariners game broadcast about 15 minutes ago.

It was unfortunately denied

[TT-SEA]

Just had some huge raindrops here... totally calm still.   Not enough to even wet the deck but the petrichor smell is strong right now.   Smells like rain!

[Frontal Snowsquall]

2 hours ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Maybe an early April 80-burger for @TigerWoodsLibido ?

I don’t think any Valley location got there but plenty of 80 elsewhere. Roseburg, The Dalles, Redmond and also Pasco.

[Deweydog]

Bye summer.

[MossMan]

2 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Just had some huge raindrops here... totally calm still.   Not enough to even wet the deck but the petrichor smell is strong right now.   Smells like rain!

Healthy gusts of wind here now, but no rain yet. 

[MossMan]

1 minute ago, Deweydog said:

Bye summer.

It’s over 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Hope we get some flakes tomorrow night. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

The turkeys are going wild in the forest right now.

[TT-SEA]

5 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Hope we get some flakes tomorrow night. 

Crazy.  0% chance of that here.

After the front tonight there is not much precip the rest of the week up here except for a little wrap around light rain Thursday afternoon. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

10 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Healthy gusts of wind here now, but no rain yet. 

Been coming down for the past hour or so here. 0.18" so far.

[Chewbacca Defense]

5 hours ago, TT-SEA said:

We have to re-sod our lawn this year.   Probably going to wait until early May though since I am still on crutches and don't want to deal with watering yet.   Really should have irrigation system installed but that is pretty expensive. 

I went the redneck irrigation route.  I bought the Hinter pop up sprinker heads, mounted  them on a sprinkler spike base with an adapter, and daisy chained them together.  I used a wifi faucet timer, and hid the whole set up in the landscaping.  It worked really good last year for the front yard.

I need to figure out the backyard this year as I'll be completely redoing the grass back there in the next few weeks.

 

In the fall I drain the hoses, roll it up and throw the set up on a hook in the garage.  It cost me $100-150 or so with the most expensive part being the wifi timer.  It will probably cost me about $200 or so for the backyard.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

42 minutes ago, Cloud said:

7.5 quake followed immediately by 7.4 aftershock. There was also a landslide caused by the quake. Some of the images and videos are amazing. 

Seeing these big earthquakes always makes me nervous about a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake. It will happen again just a matter of when.

[Phil]

28 minutes ago, MossMan said:

It’s over 

Not soon enough.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

32 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

Bye summer.

It will return early next week!

 

[Chewbacca Defense]

1 hour ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Sadly this is my view currently…

Lamotrigene medication still won’t come thru so I’m in the hospital. Really wish it would get approved.

Epilepsy sucks.

That really sucks man, I'm sorry you are going through this.  Insurance companies are so ridiculous.  When I was in urgent care this weekend for my eye the MA who took my vitals happened to be the MA for my Primary care Doc.  We were talking about my insurance issue, and she said it seems like all they do now is fight with insurance companies.

 

Hopefully someone at some point will recognize a year's worth of your prescription is less expensive than a hospital stay!!  I  doubt it, insurance companies are too f*uckin' stupid.

 

[MWG]

NWS in Medford, let's see if I see some flakes in  April! 

[Cascadia_Wx]

27 minutes ago, Frontal Snowsquall said:

It will return early next week!

 

A summer full of 65/44 type days would be pretty cold  

[Cascadia_Wx]

Caught a cool sunset down by the Columbia with some wicked looking clouds off to the east. Gusty NW winds along the river with temps cooling, and we even had big fat raindrops falling at one point.

 

[MossMan]

Heavy duty rain now! 

[Cold Snap]

68/42 day here.

[MossMan]

Thunder! 

[Slushy Inch]

Quite the cold front hitting me and the central/north sound!

[Cold Snap]

Raining pretty hard here.

[bainbridgekid]

Really dynamic evening today.

Everett went from 70 degrees at 4:30pm to 46 with heavy rain just 5.5 hours later at 10:00.

 

[MossMan]

16 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Thunder! 

It was only one, but wow was it deep rumble that started like a freight train, then a big thud that actually made the house creak… I almost thought we were in the beginning stages of an earthquake. Definitely not the usual clap of thunder.