April 2024 Weather in the PNW

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

Oh look, there's a new page now! Made some dessert to eat tonight, I noticed some weird stuff on the cake, I wonder what it is... looks delicious, kinda like cotton candy. It wasn't there 2 weeks ago.

[Front Ranger]

2 hours ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

In this case, SLE will be the outlier, since most other station in NW Oregon/SW WA should end up above average for the month.

Glad you have identified an Olympia, Oregon though!

That was the point, sir.

Although PDX will still be the outlier on the opposite end, with a warmer anomaly than anywhere else.

Should end up as a pretty average month overall.

[GHweatherChris]

52 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

not a new page but, I made this....

Bump, cuz I can!

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

DO NOT LOOK AT THE 00Z GFS @Jesse @Cascadia_Wx @CascadiaWx @Cascadia

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

3 hours ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

In this case, SLE will be the outlier, since most other station in NW Oregon/SW WA should end up above average for the month.

Glad you have identified an Olympia, Oregon though!

Salem is a cool outlier because there's less urban heat there, right? Or is the station not working properly?

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

Down to 39 now, had .07" of rain fall this afternoon. It was a pretty chilly day, only got up to 47.

[MossMan]

.91” so far on the day.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

30 minutes ago, MossMan said:

.91” so far on the day.

0.97" since midnight, 1.05" storm total IMBY.

[MossMan]

33 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

0.97" since midnight, 1.05" storm total IMBY.

.96” now! Will be a race against the clock to see if we can hit 1” by 11:59.59!

[GHweatherChris]

6 minutes ago, MossMan said:

.96” now! Will be a race against the clock to see if we can hit 1” by 11:59.59!

Went over an inch hours ago here!  1.39" on the day currently!!

[ShawniganLake]

2 hours ago, Sunriver Snow Zone said:

DO NOT LOOK AT THE 00Z GFS @Jesse @Cascadia_Wx @CascadiaWx @Cascadia

Are these some of Jesse’s burner accounts?

A little over a 1/2” of rain so far.  Kind of underwhelming 
 

[Meatyorologist]

With today's underperformance, KSEA exactly doubles its April 2024 rainfall total, adding another 0.43" to the bucket and filling it gently to an even 0.86"... Pending some stray stratoform rainbands over the next day.

Tomorrow will clear earlier than modeled over the Sound with a mostly-dissipated occlusion front overhead and weakly negative low level lapse rates. Any residual stratus should be digested mighty well by that steamin' late April sun, mixing skies into hazy sunshine before noon. I'm going for a gutsy 64/47 day at KSEA. Might even get a bit muggy, some CAM's have dewpoints pushing fifty in the favored sheltered areas, despite what I claim to be too much modeled cloudcover.

[Meatyorologist]

Models have continuously overdelevoped ridges in the 120-240hr range over the last couple months. I doubt tonight's GFS and CMC are starting any new trend.

[TT-SEA]

2 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

Models have continuously overdelevoped ridges in the 120-240hr range over the last couple months. I doubt tonight's GFS and CMC are starting any new trend.

I agree and I am 100% sure strong ridging won't happen... but the 06Z GFS has me dreaming of nice weekend.

[TT-SEA]

2 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

With today's underperformance, KSEA exactly doubles its April 2024 rainfall total, adding another 0.43" to the bucket and filling it gently to an even 0.86"... Pending some stray stratoform rainbands over the next day.

Tomorrow will clear earlier than modeled over the Sound with a mostly-dissipated occlusion front overhead and weakly negative low level lapse rates. Any residual stratus should be digested mighty well by that steamin' late April sun, mixing skies into hazy sunshine before noon. I'm going for a gutsy 64/47 day at KSEA. Might even get a bit muggy, some CAM's have dewpoints pushing fifty in the favored sheltered areas, despite what I claim to be too much modeled cloudcover.

SEA had a sensor issue yesterday.    Rainfall was not officially reported.   We will never know how much rain fell there this month. 

[the_convergence_zone]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

SEA had a sensor issue yesterday.    Rainfall was not officially reported.   We will never know how much rain fell there this month. 

I bet Sea-Tac was around 0.55 based on neighboring stations. I ended up with 0.40” in West Seattle. 

Great event for the mountains though.  

[Phil]

15 hours ago, YahRaEl said:

 

Must be just me then energy been off. Feel like something big gonna happen within the next couple weeks. 

Have you been getting enough sleep?

[Phil]

9 hours ago, Sunriver Snow Zone said:

Oh look, there's a new page now! Made some dessert to eat tonight, I noticed some weird stuff on the cake, I wonder what it is... looks delicious, kinda like cotton candy. It wasn't there 2 weeks ago.

You would eat that.

[Phil]

4 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

Might even get a bit muggy, some CAM's have dewpoints pushing fifty in the favored sheltered areas, despite what I claim to be too much modeled cloudcover.

Is this bait?

[Phil]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

I agree and I am 100% sure strong ridging won't happen... but the 06Z GFS has me dreaming of nice weekend.

You’re experiencing that exact same weather RIGHT NOW. At a beachfront resort nometheless.

Get out and enjoy it instead of sitting inside hoping for the same conditions a week from now, which may not even happen.

The way your mind works  

[TT-SEA]

7 minutes ago, Phil said:

You’re experiencing that exact same weather RIGHT NOW. At a beachfront resort nometheless.

Get out and enjoy it instead of sitting inside hoping for the same conditions a week from now, which may not even happen.

The way your mind works  

First of all I am working in the mornings.   Secondly it's cloudy and windy here this morning.   And finally... we will be home next weekend and I can look ahead while still enjoying the present.   

[Chewbacca Defense]

16 hours ago, YahRaEl said:

Anyone feel different since the April 8th Solar Eclipse or is it just me???

I don't think I am noticing anything, but one thing I will say about the eclipse:  We are doing an off leash training class, and we had class the night after the eclipse, and all of the dogs were going absolutely batsh*t crazy.  The normally "wild" ones were completely unhinged, and the dogs that are normally calm and well behaved dogs were out of control.

 

I mentioned it to my wife, and she was skeptical.  She works in the medical field, and I reminded her how things get for her on a full moon, and said "why wouldn't an eclipse have an effect on animals"

I don't have any scientific data to back that up, but when we went this week (we missed last week) all of the dogs were back to their usual behaviors.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Beautiful rain all

nite. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

Ended up just shy of an inch yesterday — 0.99". At 0.27" and counting for today. 46.9˚F.

[Cascadia_Wx]

Ended up with a 54/49 spread yesterday. Light to moderate rain at times much of the day, with little in the way of sunbreaks.

Ended up with close to .70” on the day.

Edited April 26 by Cascadia_Wx

[Cascadia_Wx]

Looks like some models want to immediately return us to a regime dominated by ridging, much like we saw in the mid-March to mid-April timeframe. Would be par for the course. Was hoping this cool and wet pattern would have a little more lasting power, but that’s asking a lot these days.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

3 hours ago, TT-SEA said:

I agree and I am 100% sure strong ridging won't happen... but the 06Z GFS has me dreaming of nice weekend.

Euro ensemble is much less torchy.

[MossMan]

.14” so far on the day, 1.44” since it started on Wednesday, and 3.46” for the month. 
Light rain and 47 degrees. 

[T-Town]

.91 yesterday and.11 so far today. I have tripled my monthly total in 24 hours, now at 1.48. 

[TT-SEA]

16 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Euro ensemble is much less torchy.

Of course... and amplified ridging won't be happening.   But even back to climo would be nice!

[TT-SEA]

9 minutes ago, T-Town said:

.91 yesterday and.11 so far today. I have tripled my monthly total in 24 hours, now at 1.48. 

Nice!

[Front Ranger]

30 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Looks like some models want to immediately return us to a regime dominated by ridging, much like we saw in the mid-March to mid-April timeframe. Would be par for the course. Was hoping this cool and wet pattern would have a little more lasting power, but that’s asking a lot these days.

At least it's been a pretty temperate spring so far. And of course this map will look cooler in a few days.

[Front Ranger]

6 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

Tomorrow will clear earlier than modeled over the Sound with a mostly-dissipated occlusion front overhead and weakly negative low level lapse rates. Any residual stratus should be digested mighty well by that steamin' late April sun, mixing skies into hazy sunshine before noon. I'm going for a gutsy 64/47 day at KSEA. Might even get a bit muggy, some CAM's have dewpoints pushing fifty in the favored sheltered areas, despite what I claim to be too much modeled cloudcover.

This forecast may be in trouble.

[Cascadia_Wx]

4 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

At least it's been a pretty temperate spring so far. And of course this map will look cooler in a few days.

No one has said it’s been a wall to wall blowtorch. But as that map shows, it’s been moderately above normal across the board. And we have had some significant ridging events, mid-March being the most notable. 

[Front Ranger]

12 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

No one has said it’s been a wall to wall blowtorch. But as that map shows, it’s been moderately above normal across the board. And we have had some significant ridging events, mid-March being the most notable. 

I wouldn't call mostly 0 to +2 with pockets of 0 to -2 moderately above normal across the board. It's not perfectly average, but this spring has been pretty darn close for most lowland locations.

And that will be even more the case by Tuesday.

[Cascadia_Wx]

4 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

I wouldn't call mostly 0 to +2 with pockets of 0 to -2 moderately above normal across the board. It's not perfectly average, but this spring has been pretty darn close for most lowland locations.

And that will be even more the case by Tuesday.

I see a lot more yellow on that map than I do green for OR/WA. Seems pretty straightforward. Now let’s spend the next four hours debating it.

[TT-SEA]

Some GFS goofiness on the 12Z run.

At least the trend is favorable and moving away from solid troughing for the next 2 weeks straight.   

[Frontal Snowsquall]

22 hours ago, Phil said:

Normally I’m meh about macaroni salad, but I’m calorie/carb restricting now and that pic has me fukkin RAVENOUS.

 

18 hours ago, Sunriver Snow Zone said:

Oh and I also made some Mac and YellowWater, I'm sure @Frontal Snowsquall would be interested!

Thanks Bros but I’ve never been a big fan of mac and cheese . The Mac Salad is just on a different level! You gotta try it if you haven’t yet.  

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, TT-SEA said:

Some GFS goofiness on the 12Z run.

At least the trend is favorable and moving away from solid troughing for the next 2 weeks straight.   

Average first 80 at PDX is May 6th, so this isn't "goofiness." 

[bainbridgekid]

Just a slight warming trend for opening day of boating season next Saturday on the GFS.

00z last night had us in the mid 40's and 12z this morning has us in the mid 80's.