September 2024 PNW Weather Discussion

[RentonHill]

6 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Well, the garbage man usually comes to take trash AWAY… so, that would make this site the garbage dump.

nah. this man BRINGS the garbage. 

[Deweydog]

Gorgeous day; guys.

And it’s going to REIGN tonight!

[Rubus Leucodermis]

31 minutes ago, RentonHill said:

nah. this man BRINGS the garbage. 

As I said, this site is his garbage dump.

[Snownerd3000]

Garbage Man looks like he has a butt in front

[Phishy Wx]

2 hours ago, RentonHill said:

Nowhere to hide!

Indian Summer gunna be HYPE!

[Front Ranger]

3 hours ago, Phil said:

No, those cold extratropical SSTAs have little if any effect on the pattern. They are merely a low frequency echo of atmospheric circulation tendencies driven by ocean-atmosphere coupling originating in the tropics (very different dynamical situation down there).

Agreed. And this is not mutually exclusive with the PDO being used as a predictive index.

[Meatyorologist]

1 hour ago, MossMan said:

And Randy along with Mr Lahey! (RIP ) 

My buddy loves trailer park boys!

[Front Ranger]

2 hours ago, BLI snowman said:

Nickelback, Drake, Biebs, and Bryan Adams effectively cancel those out though. 

I like some Drake. Also Bryan Adams.

[DareDuck]

16 hours ago, iFred said:

If it’s any consolation, the stuff out now is 10x the crap that I was exposed to in high school. With family and friends straight up addicted in a way that they try to pass off as blasé as the need for a morning cup of coffee but completely blind to how much of a mental wreck they are if they can’t get a hit of their weed pen.

Glad it’s legal, happy some people can be happy with it, but 99/100 potheads I’ve ever met were generally shitty people with some of the most insular worldviews I’ve encountered. Rick Steves is the exception, your unemployed neighbor with a brain of mush is not.

Laughable. I know so many people that HAVE to have a cup of coffee first in the morning otherwise they’re grouchy and pissy. Somehow coffee gets a pass. Also I don’t trust 99/100 stats people throw out. 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

82F and mostly sunny. Really nice and much cooler than the depressing 90s over and over.

[DareDuck]

15 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

For me I was just burying my anxiety and not growing. I could only do that for so long. I've watched weed completely dissolve the personalities of some of my high school friends... Though my roommate and his work friend smoke weed on a weekly basis, and he's a well rounded guy more or less, more so than me in many ways. Just depends. Everyone's different, and everyone's responsible for themselves. I wish anyone else struggling with addiction the very best.

Way too nuanced. Easier to just say it’s terrible for everyone. 

[DareDuck]

If this storm was coming on Thursday instead of Wednesday, Sunriver would have been in even bigger danger. I don’t think it’ll push 6 miles overnight, but if it had another 24 hours…

[BLI snowman]

2 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

I like some Drake. Also Bryan Adams.

Mid '80s Bryan Adams was solid. Not a fan of the rest.

Drake definitely has a handful of good singles (amongst dozens of releases) but his rapping is pretty weak and hopefully Kendrick Lamar put at least a couple of nails in the career coffin.

[snow_wizard]

15 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

82F and mostly sunny. Really nice and much cooler than the depressing 90s over and over.

70 here.  The cooling has been way faster up here, but at least your getting into somewhat tolerable territory. 

[TT-SEA]

Nice to have the smoke cleared out...

[Rubus Leucodermis]

1 hour ago, DareDuck said:

Laughable. I know so many people that HAVE to have a cup of coffee first in the morning otherwise they’re grouchy and pissy. Somehow coffee gets a pass. Also I don’t trust 99/100 stats people throw out. 

91.87% of statistics are made up on the spot.

[MossMan]

Nice day! Wish today wasn’t so busy otherwise I would have headed to the lake to enjoy the last warm lovely day until next May. 

[MossMan]

I got quite the ash coating from that…And the smoke lingered for many weeks. 

[TT-SEA]

Our cabernet sauvignon grapes are starting to turn purple.   We are usually able to harvest in late September.    Our vines are now 10 years old and very productive. 

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

2 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Our cabernet sauvignon grapes are starting to turn purple.   We are usually able to harvest in late September.    Our vines are now 10 years old and very productive. 

We hope to try grapes one day!

[Front Ranger]

1 hour ago, DareDuck said:

Laughable. I know so many people that HAVE to have a cup of coffee first in the morning otherwise they’re grouchy and pissy. Somehow coffee gets a pass. Also I don’t trust 99/100 stats people throw out. 

Almost every study I've seen would support that coffee is at least substantially better for you than weed. Especially if you smoke weed.

But I agree that caffeine addiction is a real thing. When it comes to harmful vices, it's probably pretty far down the list.

[TT-SEA]

27 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Nice day! Wish today wasn’t so busy otherwise I would have headed to the lake to enjoy the last warm lovely day until next May. 

We are holding out hope for late September and early October.   We have had some great boat days in October in recent years... including last year during the first weekend of the month.   It was hot out there.   

[Front Ranger]

We went to a nice little Willamette Valley vineyard on Sunday. Not a big wine guy, but the lady is and really enjoyed the pinots.

[RentonHill]

one ridge to rule them all!

[Front Ranger]

Maybe this will start the green-up a lot of places.

[MossMan]

5 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

Maybe this will start the green-up a lot of places.

Already super green here! 

[TT-SEA]

5 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

Maybe this will start the green-up a lot of places.

The grass that was all dead brown here is now lush green like May.   It can't get any greener for mid September here.    Hope that means non-stressed trees putting on a fall color show in October. 

[the_convergence_zone]

34 minutes ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

We hope to try grapes one day!

I'm buried in table grapes right now from two 3-5 year old vines that I have growing on my front fence. They are delicious! 

[snow_wizard]

8 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

The grass that was all dead brown here is now lush green like May.   It can't get any greener for mid September here.    Hope that means non-stressed trees putting on a fall color show in October. 

We're up to about 50% recovered now.  Still a lot of brown though.

[Front Ranger]

13 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Already super green here! 

The Willamette, Umpqua and Rogue Valleys are quite brown still.

[snow_wizard]

And the 18z GFS takes the death ridge away!

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, Front Ranger said:

The Willamette, Umpqua and Rogue Valleys are quite brown still.

That's pretty common for this time of year though. 

[Front Ranger]

Just now, SilverFallsAndrew said:

That's pretty common for this time of year though. 

Of course. I was just saying the rain tonight/tomorrow may start the green up in some of those areas.

[DareDuck]

Even heavier ash falling in Bend now. Hopefully this is the last day of this. 

[Thermal Trough]

3 hours ago, Deweydog said:

Gorgeous day; guys.

And it’s going to REIGN tonight!

Autumn arrives tonight! ️ 

[TacomaWx]

71/53 here today…was some light rain out near port orchard and Bremerton on my way home but dry here at home. Some interesting looking skies on the drive home but the most noticeable thing was the very clear air. Could see rainier and Seattle well from the higher hills of silverdale. 

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

Rain!

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

The grass that was all dead brown here is now lush green like May.   It can't get any greener for mid September here.    Hope that means non-stressed trees putting on a fall color show in October. 

Read somewhere last week that stressed trees actually put on the best color. Wish I saved the article, because I have observed the opposite. 

[TT-SEA]

6 minutes ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

Read somewhere last week that stressed trees actually put on the best color. Wish I saved the article, because I have observed the opposite. 

Yeah... 2022 was a stark example of stressed trees not putting on any show at all.   Around here at least it seems like if we get decent rain early in the fall then its good.    Stressed trees tend to just turn brown and then the leaves fall off quickly.   Maybe its different in the Midwest and NE where they get regular summer rain every year.  

[Phishy Wx]

we're almost 3" below normal on the year on rain.  normal to this point is 10"+, we're barely at 7". that's a lot when you don't climatologically get a lot anyway.  not good