September 2024 PNW Weather Discussion

[Cascadia_Wx]

11 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

SEA: +4

PDX: +11

EUG: +10

Of course, we've seen these things aren't always a great indicator of where highs will end up.

Hoping for a big time underachiever. When it comes to hot weather patterns, that’s the rarest event of all.

[ShawniganLake]

11 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

SEA: +4

PDX: +11

EUG: +10

Of course, we've seen these things aren't always a great indicator of where highs will end up.

Definitely not. Will probably be a bit slower of a climb this afternoon. 
 

The high here yesterday was 81F. Currently 85F. 

[CasuallyFoxy]

43 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

When was the last time you had even an inch of snow since Dec 2021?

For Springfield (NOT EUG) it has likely had the least of any location in the PNW. Some nights of a dusting and nothing else. Didn't even cover the roads.

The must snow I've had since 2017 is 2".  Had the same max ice thickness as max snow depth, which is interesting in a tragic sort of way.

[Cascadia_Wx]

2 minutes ago, CasuallyFoxy said:

The must snow I've had since 2017 is 2".  Had the same max ice thickness as max snow depth, which is interesting in a tragic sort of way.

The South Metro is so overdue for a big event. Way more so than Eugene/Springfield, which has had some incredible events the last several years, including 8” of snow in December 2021 while we just had a dusting up here.

Edited September 5 by Cascadia_Wx

[snow drift]

90 already at 12:30 at Felts Field on September 5. Puts me in mind of 1988.

[T-Town]

81 degrees back here at the homestead. Was 90 on the car thermometer passing through north bend around 11:30. 

[MossMan]

A little ground fog this morning on the way to work.
And I noticed the grass is still quite wet in the shade from the morning dew while at home for lunch even though it’s 77 degrees now. Definitely getting more fall like by the day. 

[DeepFriedEgg]

92 IMBY +15F on yesterday.

[CasuallyFoxy]

14 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

The South Metro is so overdue for a big event. Way more so than Eugene/Springfield, which has had some incredible events the last several years, including 8” of snow in December 2021 while we just had a dusting up here.

Dec 2021 was very close to great, just slightly too warm.  My parent's place in Estacada at 800' had 8" snow depth with that, presumably more than that actually fell.

[Tyler Mode]

Low temps today...quite a range!  It's 94 now, +17 over yesterday.  We'd have a high of 106 if the "if this trend continues" theory played out.

[snow_wizard]

100 at 3000 feet just east of EUG.  That is straight up insane.  Even up here I'm seeing low 90s at places like the Fire Training Academy and Lester.

[MossMan]

Oh come on! I need to make up for lost time after that January 2024 debacle! 

Which event (wasn't that long ago) was it where the low was supposed to track in around Tacoma or Seattle and everyone north of it was supposed to get a bunch of snow with temps remaining below freezing…But it ended up tracking further north and everyone turned to rain from about Marysville south while I remained in the 20’s with lots of snow? 
 

That was magical! 

 

Edited September 5 by MossMan

[Tenochtitlan]

1 minute ago, MossMan said:

Oh come on! I need to make up for lost time after that January 2024 debacle! 

Which event (wasn't that long ago) was it where the low was supposed to track in around Tacoma or Seattle and everyone north of it was supposed to get a bunch of snow with temps remaining below freezing…But it ended up tracking further north and everyone turned to rain from about Marysville south while I remained in the 20’s with lots of snow? 
 

That was magical! 

 

Maybe December 2022? Though that did end up being Seattle’s biggest ice storm of the century. 

[snow_wizard]

2 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Oh come on! I need to make up for lost time after that January 2024 debacle! 

Which event (wasn't that long ago) was it where the low was supposed to track in around Tacoma or Seattle and everyone north of it was supposed to get a bunch of snow with temps remaining below freezing…But it ended up tracking further north and everyone turned to rain from about Marysville south while I remained in the 20’s with lots of snow? 
 

That was magical! 

 

We're pretty due for an event where the South Sound scores big and you get skunked.

[Deweydog]

11 minutes ago, Tyler Mode said:

Low temps today...quite a range!  It's 94 now, +17 over yesterday.  We'd have a high of 106 if the "if this trend continues" theory played out.

Please stop trolling the forum with weather info. Please stick to judging/criticizing/putting down others. Thx. 

[snow_wizard]

For those that didn't see this last night, but have heard all of the hoopla about Kevin Martin, this is worth a read.  Absolute jaw dropping accounts of some of his off the charts crazy behavior.

Kevin Martin - RationalWiki

[Tenochtitlan]

2 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

We're pretty due for an event where the South Sound scores big and you get skunked.

North Sound has been pretty lucky since 2017. There were seven straight winters I was in Bellingham (downtown, no less!) when I got at least 5” of snow per winter, and all but one winter (17-18) had a good Fraser river event. 

[Deweydog]

PDX has a lot of work left to do… Let’s get out there and support them in their time of need!

[iFred]

9 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

For those that didn't see this last night, but have heard all of the hoopla about Kevin Martin, this is worth a read.  Absolute jaw dropping accounts of some of his off the charts crazy behavior.

Kevin Martin - RationalWiki

He is one of only two people to send me repeated death threats. Nice guy.

[iFred]

1 minute ago, Deweydog said:

PDX has a lot of work left to do… Let’s get out there and support them in their time of need!

Just provide me a parabolic mirror, a tower with LOS to the airport, and I'll do the rest.

**ATTN DHS**
NOT A SERIOUS OFFER.

[MossMan]

20 minutes ago, Tenochtitlan said:

Maybe December 2022? Though that did end up being Seattle’s biggest ice storm of the century. 

We had ice as well up here with that one. 

[DeepFriedEgg]

4 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

PDX has a lot of work left to do… Let’s get out there and support them in their time of need!

They are kind of limping along compared to other locations in the northern valley. HIO already 97F. 

[Tenochtitlan]

2 minutes ago, MossMan said:

We had ice as well up here with that one. 

It reached Bellingham too. The cold air layer with that ice storm was incredibly shallow…it was 27 degrees but the rain was forming puddles on the snow. Though most of it did turn to ice. I think we had more than 1/2” of ice by the end.

[DeepFriedEgg]

Fire in the Oregon cascades kind of looks like it’s blowing up.

[Tyler Mode]

31 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

Please stop trolling the forum with weather info. Please stick to judging/criticizing/putting down others. Thx. 

I'll work on that lol.  Not weather related but I have a NE wind now and 98 degrees.  2nd hottest September temp for me.

[KeyPeninsula_Wx]

83 here…could end up the warmest September day since 2013 when we hit 90 IMBY. 90 looks very unlikely today thankfully. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

35 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

For those that didn't see this last night, but have heard all of the hoopla about Kevin Martin, this is worth a read.  Absolute jaw dropping accounts of some of his off the charts crazy behavior.

Kevin Martin - RationalWiki

Why do I get the feeling you actually sort of like the guy?

[Anti Marine Layer]

28 minutes ago, iFred said:

Just provide me a parabolic mirror, a tower with LOS to the airport, and I'll do the rest.

**ATTN DHS**
NOT A SERIOUS OFFER.

What about a circular, elliptical or hyperbolic mirror?

[DeepFriedEgg]

A bit of a smoky scent in the air.

[Deweydog]

22 minutes ago, Tyler Mode said:

I'll work on that lol.  Not weather related but I have a NE wind now and 98 degrees.  2nd hottest September temp for me.

Yeah, we’ve popped to 99 since picking up the breeze. 

[BLI snowman]

1 hour ago, Front Ranger said:

That's a major issue facing a lot of cities across the country. Covid was the death blow to office real estate.

Definitely, but Downtown Portland has had the highest office vacancy rate in the country.

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2024/03/downtown-portlands-office-vacancy-rate-is-highest-in-the-nation-report-says.html

Obviously the high taxes and perception that downtown is still pretty lawless (partially true at least)  have exacerbated things there. Downtown foot traffic hasn't recovered nearly as much as other major cities since the pandemic, either.

[DeepFriedEgg]

PDX 95 at 2pm on September 5th with no east wind. Pretty legit airmass. Already 100F in areas with east wind/downsloping.

[BLI snowman]

Not surprisingly just a very light breeze so far but still at 96 here.

I think PDX gets there.

[snow drift]

1 hour ago, snow_wizard said:

For those that didn't see this last night, but have heard all of the hoopla about Kevin Martin, this is worth a read.  Absolute jaw dropping accounts of some of his off the charts crazy behavior.

Kevin Martin - RationalWiki

I wondered what happened to that guy. He seems like a guy that could have served in the Nixon administration. His anemometer is never straight. 

 

 

[Tenochtitlan]

7 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

Definitely, but Downtown Portland has had the highest office vacancy rate in the country.

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2024/03/downtown-portlands-office-vacancy-rate-is-highest-in-the-nation-report-says.html

Obviously the high taxes and perception that downtown is still pretty lawless (partially true at least)  have exacerbated things there. Downtown foot traffic hasn't recovered nearly as much as other major cities since the pandemic, either.

My experience bears this out. There have been Friday evenings I’ve walked through downtown and it’s practically a ghost town. Whenever I visit Seattle, I’m amazed at all the crowds. 

[Front Ranger]

11 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

Definitely, but Downtown Portland has had the highest office vacancy rate in the country.

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2024/03/downtown-portlands-office-vacancy-rate-is-highest-in-the-nation-report-says.html

Obviously the high taxes and perception that downtown is still pretty lawless (partially true at least)  have exacerbated things there. Downtown foot traffic hasn't recovered nearly as much as other major cities since the pandemic, either.

Interesting, I didn't realize Portland was leading the way with that.

[Front Ranger]

1 hour ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Hoping for a big time underachiever. When it comes to hot weather patterns, that’s the rarest event of all.

You've already had a couple of those this summer! Wurms torning. 

[snow drift]

97 @ Felts Field, crazy

[Cascadia_Wx]

2 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

You've already had a couple of those this summer! Wurms torning. 

We overachieve for temps 9 times out of 10. Always more notable when we don’t.

[Tyler Mode]

100 degrees even.