April 2024 Weather in the PNW

[Phishy Wx]

17 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Yeah why isn’t anyone going up to Maine? That would have been my first choice, especially since it sounds like the Texas path is going to be just crawling with people. 

I think the time in totality is shorter or something up there.  I think MO was supposed to be the greatest.  but snow + eclipse would be awesome

[Phishy Wx]

made it to 40

[TT-SEA]

Buffalo would have been very easy since the center line of the totality path goes almost right over the airport there.   You could land in the morning and walk outside and watch the eclipse and then go right back inside and catch a flight home.  

[BLI snowman]

27 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Yeah why isn’t anyone going up to Maine? That would have been my first choice, especially since it sounds like the Texas path is going to be just crawling with people. 

I'm only taking a day off work so just not quite worth it with the time it would take to get out there between flying and driving a rental car up north of Bangor. MO/AR/TX was a little more accessible. 

[Deweydog]

HEAVY RAIN!

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

Buffalo would have been very easy since the center line of the totality path goes almost right over the airport there.   You could land in the morning and walk outside and watch the eclipse and then go right back inside and catch a flight home.  

Flight I’m sure are 2-3k a pop 

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

[Tanis Leach]

Today is the anniversary (52 years) since the F3 Vancouver Tornado, the strongest tornado west of the Cascades. 

This video from about a year ago goes into what caused the tornado to form, the extent of the damages, and why the Northwest tends to dodge tornadoes.

Some of you may have seen this, but for those who haven't I would reccomend watching this (15 min long).

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

44/31 today.

[T-Town]

[TT-SEA]

Starting to actually hate the 2024 Mariners. 

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, or Illinois? Leaving moab tommorow morning so I should be decided on where to view the eclipse from. It seems like Texas is the worst of the 4, right?

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Nice snow event in the central sierra foothills yesterday too. Magnificent!

[MossMan]

Sprinkles! 

[ShawniganLake]

3 hours ago, TT-SEA said:

Starting to actually hate the 2024 Mariners. 

They have 154 more games to try to win you over.  

[TT-SEA]

Pretty significant change for the EPS at one week out compared to its 12Z run.   Looks like next weekend will be quite troughy now.  

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Wonder how many 90F burgers we're gonna have this summer?

[Deweydog]

3 hours ago, ShawniganLake said:

They have 154 more games to try to win you over.  

Maybe more!!!

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

1 hour ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Wonder how many 90F burgers we're gonna have this summer?

Why do people here always slap the word "burger" on any temperature above 40..

[Cascadia_Wx]

Looked out the hotel window this morning, and immediately thought of Phil. Currently 64 and houmid in Houston.

 

[RentonHill]

8 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Looked out the hotel window this morning, and immediately thought of Phil. Currently 64 and houmid in Houston.

 

Don’t forget to bring a towel

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

1 hour ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Looked out the hotel window this morning, and immediately thought of Phil. Currently 64 and houmid in Houston.

 

Where you chasing the eclipse? Arkansas? Texas is a no-go at this point if you want a good chance of seing the eclipse. Of course it could be clear in TX, but it's much more likely to be clear in AR/MO

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

Mid 20s and some light snow here in nw New Mexico currently 

[Cascadia_Wx]

12 hours ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

Flight I’m sure are 2-3k a pop 

Pocket change.

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

Some weather stats from the last few days at my home station, some of them are pretty interesting for April. April 2nd 76/24 day, April 3rd 46/29 day with a midnight high and midnight low, April 4th 38/24 day with 5" of snow, April 5th 43/15 day. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

30 minutes ago, Sunriver Snow Zone said:

Were you chasing the eclipse? Arkansas? Texas is a no-go at this point if you want a good chance of seing the eclipse. Of course it could be clear in TX, but it's much more likely to be clear in AR/MO

Yes. Sticking to the original plan of trying to see it in the Austin area. The whole shifting motel reservations by hundreds of miles every time a new GFS run comes out approach isn’t very appealing to me.

Not too hung up either way. If we luck out with some clear or even partly cloudy skies, fantastic. Going to make a solid effort to chose the best spot within reasonable driving distance from Austin that day. If that doesn’t pan out, not gonna whine about it too much. 

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

9 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Yes. Sticking to the original plan of trying to see it in the Austin area. The whole shifting motel reservations by hundreds of miles every time a new GFS run comes out approach isn’t very appealing to me.

Not too hung up either way. If we luck out with some clear or even partly cloudy skies, fantastic. Going to make a solid effort to chose the best spot within reasonable driving distance from Austin that day. If that doesn’t pan out, not gonna whine about it too much. 

Every model shows the further northeast you go, the better. It's not just the GFS.

Goodluck with your cloudy eclipse, I hope you get a clear one, but realistically you're probably screwing yourself if you're staying in the Austin area. 

[TT-SEA]

Sure is going to be warm for the eclipse... even areas well to the NE of Texas.

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

3 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Sure is going to be warm for the eclipse... even areas well to the NE of Texas.

Jessie's going to implode in mid 80s degree heat in Texas, while I soak in and enjoy mid-upper 70s in NE Arkansas/Missouri 

[TT-SEA]

The ECMWF also shows lightning happening right during the eclipse in parts of central Texas.   

There is a video of something similar happening in Nebraska during the 2017 eclipse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stmE9uNsSjw

[MossMan]

Currently 41 with dribbles. 
.12” so far on the day, .95” for the month, 15.34” for the year. 

[MossMan]

Judging by how many forum members are traveling to see the eclipse, and the fact that my other set of In-Laws that live in central California and never go anywhere are traveling to see it…That swath of the states will (I guess IS at this point) be seeing tourism like never before! 

Edited April 6 by MossMan

[SilverFallsAndrew]

I don’t understand spending a bunch of time and energy to see a two minute eclipse. Especially when we just had one here a few years ago. To be completely transparent I don’t remember much about it. I thought it was going to be the most incredible thing I’d ever seen, but it just got dark for a couple minutes and then the sun came out again. It’s rare, I get that, but other than that, we’ve all seen the sun go behind a dark cloud for a few minutes and come back out. It was like a more intense version of that. 

[Phishy Wx]

2 hours ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Looked out the hotel window this morning, and immediately thought of Phil. Currently 64 and houmid in Houston.

 

did you go to the Disco Biscuits concert last night there?

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Unsurprisingly many educators are taking a medieval approach to the eclipse. 
 

https://www.thefp.com/p/school-safetyism-classes-closed-solar-eclipse

[ShawniganLake]

6 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

I don’t understand spending a bunch of time and energy to see a two minute eclipse. Especially when we just had one here a few years ago. To be completely transparent I don’t remember much about it. I thought it was going to be the most incredible thing I’d ever seen, but it just got dark for a couple minutes and then the sun came out again. It’s rare, I get that, but other than that, we’ve all seen the sun go behind a dark cloud for a few minutes and come back out. It was like a more intense version of that. 

The thought of flying across the country to see the sun go away for a couple minutes isn’t appealing to me either.  

[Frontal Snowsquall]

11 hours ago, Sunriver Snow Zone said:

Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, or Illinois? Leaving moab tommorow morning so I should be decided on where to view the eclipse from. It seems like Texas is the worst of the 4, right?

I would want to be somewhere in nature and avoid the large crowds. I would choose to watch the total solar eclipse somewhere in the Ozarks. It’s beautiful and kind of reminds me of the PNW. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Raining and 36 this morning. Jesse is missing a mighty fine day!

[ShawniganLake]

7 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Unsurprisingly many educators are taking a medieval approach to the eclipse. 
 

https://www.thefp.com/p/school-safetyism-classes-closed-solar-eclipse

Kids won’t be able to look at the sun when they aren’t at school .  That seems insane. 
 

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

4 minutes ago, Frontal Snowsquall said:

I would want to be somewhere in nature and avoid the large crowds. I would choose to watch the total solar eclipse somewhere in the Ozarks. It’s beautiful and kind of reminds me of the PNW. 

Ozarks are fantastic. It’s all hardwoods though, so a bit different than here.