April 2024 Weather in the PNW

[Anti Marine Layer]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

12Z EPS on board with the warm up... and in no rush to crash back to troughing.

Oh no! Why hasn't Jesse puked on this yet?

[TT-SEA]

Just now, Anti Marine Layer said:

Oh no! Why hasn't Jesse puked on this yet?

He pretends he doesn't see my posts.   

[Anti Marine Layer]

1 minute ago, TT-SEA said:

He pretends he doesn't see my posts.   

Same with me

[TT-SEA]

Mariners 2024... pitching sucks, batting sucks, defense sucks.    Great combo.   They sure made improvements in the offseason.   

[Frontal Snowsquall]

22 hours ago, Phil said:

Looks like she’s in one piece.  

She’s such a trooper! If I’m the professor I’m giving her an A+ for the class!

[MossMan]

25 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Mariners 2024... pitching sucks, batting sucks, defense sucks.    Great combo.   They sure made improvements in the offseason.   

They will blame it on the early/late season cold marine air like they did last spring and fall. 

Edited April 3 by MossMan

[Frontal Snowsquall]

43 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

He pretends he doesn't see my posts.   

 

42 minutes ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Same with me

Maybe one day I will join you guys on Jesse’s pretend ignore list.  

[Cascadia_Wx]

Good lord….

[Cascadia_Wx]

12z EPS. At least a little more spread in the 7-10 day range. So mildly interesting. The control is pretty nightmarish though.

[Meatyorologist]

Maybe my call for a cool April was a little off. Kind of looks like we'll hit an unavoidable mid month warm spell... And it could be the first real heat of the year, not counting the highly anomalous mild weather in early March and late January.

[Meatyorologist]

A balance of dynamic troughing and amplified ridging w/ thunderstorms on the backend of the ridging is my ideal warm season pattern. It looked before like the upcoming ridge would be the same transitory sort we've come to grow used to this year, but now it looks like ridging may become our default base state for the mid-late month. Seems to be the new normal these days.

I'm looking forward to the beautiful Spring weather, but I do hope May answers a bit and brings wetter weather.

[fubario]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

Mariners 2024... pitching sucks, batting sucks, defense sucks.    Great combo.   They sure made improvements in the offseason.   

Mariners Baseball: Who cares about winning games! We've got garlic fries! lol

[Cascadia_Wx]

13 minutes ago, Meatyorologist said:

Maybe my call for a cool April was a little off. Kind of looks like we'll hit an unavoidable mid month warm spell... And it could be the first real heat of the year, not counting the highly anomalous mild weather in early March and late January.

Pretty early in the month still.

[HuskyMaestro]

4 minutes ago, fubario said:

Mariners Baseball: Who cares about winning games! We've got garlic fries! lol

May John Stanton experience perpetual 33F cold rain and rug pulls for eternity. 

[DareDuck]

2 hours ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Same with me

He’s probably like me and has you on ignore. Since you don’t contribute very much you don’t get quoted after and I don’t see it. 

[MossMan]

19 minutes ago, fubario said:

Mariners Baseball: Who cares about winning games! We've got garlic fries! lol

And the Double MitchWich! 

[TT-SEA]

The ECMWF was actually pretty good for most of the path of totality.  

[MV_snow]

1 hour ago, Meatyorologist said:

A balance of dynamic troughing and amplified ridging w/ thunderstorms on the backend of the ridging is my ideal warm season pattern. It looked before like the upcoming ridge would be the same transitory sort we've come to grow used to this year, but now it looks like ridging may become our default base state for the mid-late month. Seems to be the new normal these days.

I'm looking forward to the beautiful Spring weather, but I do hope May answers a bit and brings wetter weather.

I tend to root for either strong ridging or strong troughing this time of year. Strong ridging to get traditionally “nice” Spring weather and strong troughing for the dynamic and interesting, showers and sun breaks type of days, hopefully with hail and lightning if we’re really lucky.

[MossMan]

.51” on the day, .78” since last evening. 
Currently 46 degrees. 
47/36 on the day. 

[Eugene-5SW]

29º crash from 78º yesterday to a midnight high of 49º today. Could have been even more dramatic if the front had arrived a bit sooner, as it didn't get above 46º during the day.

Rare rain over-performance too with 0.33" in the gauge and more coming down.

[T-Town]

Bummed that we missed out on the rain here but it turned out to be a nice day.  52/41 so far with mostly sunny skies. 

[Frontal Snowsquall]

Impressive 24 degree crash from the high yesterday at PDX.  

[Meatyorologist]

1 minute ago, Eugene-5SW said:

29º crash from 78º yesterday to a midnight high of 49º today. Could have been even more dramatic if the front had arrived a bit sooner, as it didn't get above 46º during the day.

Rare rain over-performance too with 0.33" in the gauge and more coming down.

Highs going from the 70s to the 40s in one day is exceedingly rare here. With a bit more downsloping or if the pattern had developed just a week or two later, some could have threaded the needle to go from the 80s to the 40s. I wouldn't be surprised if some foothill locations did. Plains type stuff.... Though Summertime crashes from the 90s to the 60s do happen from time to time, as we saw last year.

[Meatyorologist]

The Canadian today was a Jesse special. Circumvents any ridging and forces down some clippy troughs and chilly NW flow in the long range. One way to thread the needle to avoid a heatwave mid month.

[Frontal Snowsquall]

46 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

The ECMWF was actually pretty good for most of the path of totality.  

Parts of Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky are going to have another chance to see a total solar eclipse again. Looks like clear weather for them.

[MossMan]

Hit a YouTube rabbit hole and yeah…I get quite claustrophobic (I guess the term is Enochlophobia) in crowded places and all I want to do is get out of that environment immediately! Sometimes I think 5 acres is not even enough of a buffer from the masses. Don’t think I would last long here, though the water looks great for jetsking! (Other than all of the trash my engine coolant system would suck in) 

 

Edited April 4 by MossMan

[T-Town]

Missed the peak by a couple minutes but good sunset. 

[Meatyorologist]

29 minutes ago, T-Town said:

Missed the peak by a couple minutes but good sunset. 

I can see that shower from here in Interbay

[Front Ranger]

8 hours ago, TT-SEA said:

Still so brown in Minnesota.    Trees don't like cold and snow in the spring.   Of course despite the delayed start... it stays incredibly lush green there all summer.   More so than here.  

Been an impressively cold start to spring in some of the areas that torched hardest this winter.

[Front Ranger]

5 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

A balance of dynamic troughing and amplified ridging w/ thunderstorms on the backend of the ridging is my ideal warm season pattern. It looked before like the upcoming ridge would be the same transitory sort we've come to grow used to this year, but now it looks like ridging may become our default base state for the mid-late month. Seems to be the new normal these days.

I'm looking forward to the beautiful Spring weather, but I do hope May answers a bit and brings wetter weather.

2022 wasn't that long ago.

[Deweydog]

4 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

2022 wasn't that long ago.

Two years.

[Front Ranger]

4 hours ago, fubario said:

Mariners Baseball: Who cares about winning games! We've got garlic fries! lol

I'm going to the Rockies home opener Friday. Could be witnessing history (one of the worst starts to a season ever/worst teams ever).

[MossMan]

14 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

I'm going to the Rockies home opener Friday. Could be witnessing history (one of the worst starts to a season ever/worst teams ever).

Probably will still end up being better than the Mariners. Wish Oregon would take them off our hands. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

3 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

The Canadian today was a Jesse special. Circumvents any ridging and forces down some clippy troughs and chilly NW flow in the long range. One way to thread the needle to avoid a heatwave mid month.

Definitely some meaty troughs on there. Would hate to have to go to the urologist and miss a heavy afternoon graupel shower.

[Deweydog]

Bye Mariners.

[Phishy Wx]

1 minute ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Definitely some meaty troughs on there. Would hate to have to go to the urologist and miss a heavy afternoon graupel shower.

Graupel the best

[Cascadia_Wx]

Just now, Phishy Wx said:

Graupel the best

It good. Like dippin dot fall from sky.

[the_convergence_zone]

I think we can score an 80 burger in the next heat wave at KSEA. We’ve gotten one (or more) in 5 of the last 10 Aprils. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

1 minute ago, the_convergence_zone said:

I think we can score an 80 burger in the next heat wave at KSEA. We’ve gotten one (or more) in 5 of the last 10 Aprils. 

How dismal.

[the_convergence_zone]

1 minute ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

How dismal.

Gotta get acclimated for our usual upper-80s heat wave in May.