September 2024 PNW Weather Discussion

[snow_wizard]

1 hour ago, BLI snowman said:

Crepuscular ray action + crooked stop sign at Amaro's Table!

I just love that word.  Sounds so scholarly!  

[snow_wizard]

9 hours ago, BLI snowman said:

Sure, or even 2012-13. Pretty forgettable with patchy snow and still ended up with some prolonged chilly periods, albeit without significant arctic air.

Probably the best fake cold spell of the century so far in January.

[snow_wizard]

My tolerance for heat must really be increasing.  I was working my arse off in Liberty today which included hiking up and down a steep slope in full sunshine and I thought it only felt like low to mid 80s.  In reality it hit 93 at Blewett Pass today.  Maybe it was the low humidity that made it feel so tolerable.

Also...I noticed the Chikamin Peak snow finger was still barely there today.  Pretty impressive considering the low snowpack the season began with.

[ShawniganLake]

86 and a bit humid here this afternoon.  A pleasant evening out. Still just below 70F

[MossMan]

81/59 on the day. 

[snow drift]

3 hours ago, Phishy Wx said:

hot as balls today 100 on the car therm.

 

hopefully this is it for nutsness 

Next weekend looks similar.

[GHweatherChris]

Wow, something bad must have happened to have the politic thread removed....

Anywhoo.... Beautiful day here, low clouds until around 4, then mostly sunny for a couple hours and then the low clouds rolled back in with a great cool breeze.

[High Desert Mathew]

8 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

2016-17 looks far and away the best analog thus far. Strong +ENSO -> weak -ENSO

Not to mention the +QBO

[Tanis Leach]

0z Held firm at 101 for PDX on Thursday.

 

Friday is 98 at PDX.

[snow_wizard]

Not a fan of the 0z ECMWF.  Looks like we might be waiting a while for fall weather to happen.

[snow_wizard]

1 hour ago, GHweatherChris said:

Wow, something bad must have happened to have the politic thread removed....

Anywhoo.... Beautiful day here, low clouds until around 4, then mostly sunny for a couple hours and then the low clouds rolled back in with a great cool breeze.

It's still there.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Looks like we got up to 82F on Sunday.

[snow_wizard]

10 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Looks like we got up to 82F on Sunday.

Pretty weak sauce for you.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

2 hours ago, snow_wizard said:

Pretty weak sauce for you.

Oh, we'll be getting back to the 90s later this week.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

PDX was actually warmer than EUG and SLE yesterday. 
 

Marine layer this morning, which is always nice. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Forecast high of 98 Thursday and Friday at SLE. Absolutely ridiculous. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Happy holiday to my fellow Americans 

[Slushy Inch]

Some convection firing up. Even some lightning in the south sound.

[the_convergence_zone]

The random rumble of thunder on top of a thick marine layer is such a uniquely PNW thing. I wasn’t paying attention and didn’t even realize there were thunderstorms up there. 

[Slushy Inch]

Jesse was making fun of friedegg and I for seeing thunderstorm potential in the mid-long range.

[KeyPeninsula_Wx]

My girlfriend is home and says there’s a thunderstorm rolling through there. Just some light rain here in issaquah so far. Looks like a pretty good amount of lighting so far in Tacoma 

[Slushy Inch]

6 minutes ago, TacomaWx said:

My girlfriend is home and says there’s a thunderstorm rolling through there. Just some light rain here in issaquah so far. Looks like a pretty good amount of lighting so far in Tacoma 

Looks like just northwest of Tacoma got a lot of lightning.

[KeyPeninsula_Wx]

4 minutes ago, Slushy Inch said:

Looks like just northwest of Tacoma got a lot of lightning.

Yeah bummer to miss that looks like it was a pretty good one. 

[BLI snowman]

Nice drizzle shower in progress here. 0.02" is already more than modeled!

[Rubus Leucodermis]

I don't think a September can be ruled out for the usual suspects in the Willamette Valley this week.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

Photo from my recent camping trip. Eaton Lake in the Canadian Cascades.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

2 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

I don't think a September can be ruled out for the usual suspects in the Willamette Valley this week.

How was camping ?

[Slushy Inch]

Quite the heatwave coming. I think models are overdoing puget sound cooling.

 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

11 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

How was camping ?

I believe our two posts crossed. Trail to the lake was a beast but it's a beautiful spot.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Enjoy the drizzle while it lasts 

 

[snow_wizard]

11 minutes ago, Slushy Inch said:

Quite the heatwave coming. I think models are overdoing puget sound cooling.

 

The GFS almost always underdoes the cooling so there is hope.  I hope this autumn isn't like 1988.  I loved the winter of 1988-89, but that autumn was awful.  

[GobBluth]

September 100 is much more tolerable than July 100.

[MossMan]

Wet deck and 58. 
 

[Eugene-5SW]

Eugene did NOT set another new all-time hottest July-August record.

2024 came in merely tied with 2015 for 5th place behind 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2014.

See? It's NOT getting warmer. It's NOT it's NOT it's NOT.

...Cliff Mass

[Phishy Wx]

JulTEMBER roars in with a HEATWAVE

 

 

 

[snow_wizard]

2 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Wet deck and 58. 
 

This will probably be just enough to make the coming heat grossly humid.

[Phishy Wx]

6 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

The GFS almost always underdoes the cooling so there is hope.  I hope this autumn isn't like 1988.  I loved the winter of 1988-89, but that autumn was awful.  

sometimes you have to PAY TO PLAY

[snow_wizard]

3 minutes ago, Eugene-5SW said:

Eugene did NOT set another new all-time hottest July-August record.

2024 came in merely tied with 2015 for 5th place behind 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2014.

See? It's NOT getting warmer. It's NOT it's NOT it's NOT.

...Cliff Mass

There were enough legit cool days last month to take hottest off the table thank goodness.

Even anti man caused global warming scientists acknowledge it is getting warmer.  It has happened many times in the past and then it gets cooler again.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

4 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

There were enough legit cool days last month to take hottest off the table thank goodness.

Even anti man caused global warming scientists acknowledge it is getting warmer.  It has happened many times in the past and then it gets cooler again.

Cooler please. Yesterday was decent. Upper 70s and a little muggy but not terrible. Perfect this morning with light rain and low 50s. 

[Slushy Inch]

5 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

There were enough legit cool days last month to take hottest off the table thank goodness.

Even anti man caused global warming scientists acknowledge it is getting warmer.  It has happened many times in the past and then it gets cooler again.

The warming is especially sharp and directly in correlation with increased co2 in the air.