Effective June 1, 2024, I will be the Secretary of the Oregon Chapter of the AMS.
Mark Nelsen has decided to step away from the executive committee, and I won the election between myself and Mike Krejci (runs weather-reporter.com and weathersigma.com (a new model site that is still being worked on) so check out his sites).
Back to civilization now after a successful 12 day climb of North America's tallest peak, Denali, home of some of the most extreme weather on the planet, with my 4 great friends Roger, Matt, Scott, and Aaron. For the first half of the climb we were very lucky with the weather and only needed 9 days to get enough good weather days to acclimatize and summit on the evening of the 20th. After we reached the summit we got about 20 minutes of clear sky -28 degree weather with light wind until a cloud
Give it a rest again. No one said anything about the entire spring. The last 2 weeks have been consistently cold and wet up here and people are looking forward to a change. That is all. Your constant crap makes me wish a soul crushing summer on you.
Give it a rest. SEA was south of the c-zone and bumped up briefly. The rest of King County was wet and cold and it did feel very much like November this afternoon with heavy rain and temps in the low 50s. I think most people around here would say it felt like November this afternoon. Didn't look like November but it felt like it. It was a valid point.
The limiting factor here has been a lack of rain, but also a lack of sun. Like I mentioned in the previous post, the CMC would be great here. That would get the grass into 2022 mode!
I genuinely think the Canadian is onto something, especially with the way ridges have trended in the middle and short range. Given that the upcoming ridge is nigh inevitable at this point, it's a solution that should please most everyone in the Puget Sound area, with an extended period of sunnier, seasonably warm weather, with marine layers in the morning and 70s and sun by noon. The July climo you've been craving.
Portland southward into the Willamette isn't so lucky... Ridge is right overhead and pushes temperatures into the 90s. Wish we could reduce the amplitude of the ridge.... Though I think the jet extension modeled over the next week is only possible with such a narrow, warm subtropical ridge.
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