May 2024 Pacific Northwest Weather

[Meatyorologist]

Rain has arrived.

[TT-SEA]

Mt Si has more snow on it this morning than most of the days in the winter.    Birds start singing at 4:45 a.m. and its light out until 9:30 p.m. and we still have typical winter weather.   Time for something different.  

[TT-SEA]

Another view of Mt Si.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

06z GFS returns us to troughing by late next week. Outstanding news. 

[Tyler Mode]

It's a lovely morning.  42 for a low.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

51 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Mt Si has more snow on it this morning than most of the days in the winter.    Birds start singing at 4:45 a.m. and its light out until 9:30 p.m. and we still have typical winter weather.   Time for something different.  

Gotta start baking those forests dry sometime soon else how are we supposed to have a decent smoke season?

[TT-SEA]

3 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Gotta start baking those forests dry sometime soon else how are we supposed to have a decent smoke season?

Time is running out... days start getting shorter in a few weeks!

[ShawniganLake]

36F this morning with a very light frost. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

21 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Time is running out... days start getting shorter in a few weeks!

It would be a real pity if a cool and wet spring and early summer were to squander last winter's snowfall deficit.

[MossMan]

.07” on the day, 1.68” for the month. 
Had a low of 39. 

[BLI snowman]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

Mt Si has more snow on it this morning than most of the days in the winter.    Birds start singing at 4:45 a.m. and its light out until 9:30 p.m. and we still have typical winter weather.   Time for something different.  

Absolutely.

The 2014-present summer pattern has gotten incredibly stale.

Edited May 7 by BLI snowman

[TT-SEA]

2 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

Absolutely.

The 2014-present summer pattern has gotten incredibly stale.

Just looking for a little seasonal variety!  

[TT-SEA]

16 minutes ago, MossMan said:

.07” on the day, 1.68” for the month. 
Had a low of 39. 

That would be a typical update from you on December 7th as opposed to May 7th... straight up early December climo.  

[Blizzard777]

12 hours ago, Phil said:

This chaser is going to wind up dead. You never want to get that close to a nocturnal wedge.

Every storm we encountered was at nightfall and we didn’t dare go out in it. It was crazy to see these chasers doing just that! Reed Timmer is just insane

 

[MossMan]

Raining again! 

[Randyc321]

1 minute ago, MossMan said:

Raining again! 

Sunny and blue

and chilly

[MossMan]

16 minutes ago, Blizzard777 said:

Every storm we encountered was at nightfall and we didn’t dare go out in it. It was crazy to see these chasers doing just that! Reed Timmer is just insane

 

Whenever I see his name the first thing I think of is The DR Trimmer Mower! For whatever reason. 

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

34 currently with the beautiful sun shining, low of 25. 48/31 day yesterday, 41/31 day on the 5th. Average temperature has been 36 degrees so far this month, not very may like.

[the_convergence_zone]

CZ made it down to West Seattle after midnight, 0.15” in the bucket for a total of 0.36” for the month. Better than Sea-Tac though! 

Plus this upcoming warm spell doesn’t look too serious. Perfect for getting the garden planted! 

[TacomaWx]

Only picked up 0.63” of rain the past few days. Still better than the final total of 0.50” we got in May 2018 I guess. 

[BLI snowman]

Over/under on the remaining number of Tim posts today reminding us in some fashion or another that it's been coolish and/or not dry over the last two weeks?

I've got 8.

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

1 hour ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

06z GFS returns us to troughing by late next week. Outstanding news. 

Great run, much less consistently troughy for Alaska when we're up there. The storms that move through are worse, but the good days are much better than the other runs, a worthit price to pay.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

12 minutes ago, Sunriver Snow Zone said:

34 currently with the beautiful sun shining, low of 25. 48/31 day yesterday, 41/31 day on the 5th. Average temperature has been 36 degrees so far this month, not very may like.

The upcoming run of torching should bring that into line.

[TacomaWx]

Looking like it won’t be that much hotter down in Las Vegas and Utah than it will be up here later this week and this weekend. Figured when I booked the trip it’d probably end up being much warmer down there than it would be at home. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

9 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

Looking like it won’t be that much hotter down in Las Vegas and Utah than it will be up here later this week and this weekend. Figured when I booked the trip it’d probably end up being much warmer down there than it would be at home. 

My guess is you should be able to see some nice cactus flowers in the lower Sonoran zone around Vegas and St. George.

[Phishy Wx]

10 hours ago, Front Ranger said:

Tell that to the NWS. They use 30 year periods for climo norms.

Yes, but they're reviewed every 10 years

[TT-SEA]

29 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

Over/under on the remaining number of Tim posts today reminding us in some fashion or another that it's been coolish and/or not dry over the last two weeks?

I've got 8.

Its been cold and wet!    Not sure what number that is??  

Looks like its about to balanced out at least a little.  

[Front Ranger]

This will end up being the coldest first week of May in quite awhile for parts of the Willamette Valley. 2022 and 2012 were also both quite cold, but it looks like 2024 may top them at some locations.

[TacomaWx]

One thing that this may (so far) has lacked is the convective activity we had in 2023. Had some nice storms on 5/3/23 and 5/15/23. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

11 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

This will end up being the coldest first week of May in quite awhile for parts of the Willamette Valley. 2022 and 2012 were also both quite cold, but it looks like 2024 may top them at some locations.

A summer similar to 2012 would at this stage be most welcome.

[TT-SEA]

8 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

A summer similar to 2012 would at this stage be most welcome.

JAS of 2012 was about as nice as it gets.  

[ShawniganLake]

59 minutes ago, the_convergence_zone said:

CZ made it down to West Seattle after midnight, 0.15” in the bucket for a total of 0.36” for the month. Better than Sea-Tac though! 

Plus this upcoming warm spell doesn’t look too serious. Perfect for getting the garden planted! 

Just 0.02” of rain on the month here.  

[Rubus Leucodermis]

10 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

Just 0.02” of rain on the month here.  

Now we know who @Port Angeles Foothiller gave his rain shadow to.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

High of 43 at Silver Falls on Sunday was a record min/max.

[ShawniganLake]

16 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Now we know who @Port Angeles Foothiller gave his rain shadow to.

Oops. I lied. 0.05”.  I forgot we had a shower on May 1st. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

12z isn’t bad. 

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

28 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

Oops. I lied. 0.05”.  I forgot we had a shower on May 1st. 

I'm up to 0.46" this month. Tropical paradise over here. 

[Front Ranger]

10 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

12z isn’t bad. 

GFS and CMC are both onboard with no second round of ridging and a nice clipper days 9-10.

Last night's Euro still didn't budge...

[Front Ranger]

1 hour ago, TacomaWx said:

One thing that this may (so far) has lacked is the convective activity we had in 2023. Had some nice storms on 5/3/23 and 5/15/23. 

Lightning over water is my favorite.

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

So it looks like the ridge will be short lived. Perhaps more rain before the summer dome sets in. My complaining was successful.