It's Gonna Be May 2025 Pacific Northwest Weather

[Meatyorologist]

55 minutes ago, T-Town said:

You can see the rain on Fox Island. Pretty neat. 

Your regular skyscape pics are invaluable to the forum. You have a seriously kick-ass view. That last pic should be in a meteorology textbook for "downdrafts in the PNW"

[Anti Marine Layer]

1 hour ago, T-Town said:

Definitely a cloudscapes kind of day. 

Much better than marine layer stratus 4000 ft thick with a strong inversion. 

[BLI snowman]

3 hours ago, Sunny said:

Looks like gonna be a wet Kentucky Derby!  

 

Race time wasn't too bad, just a fine mist for most of the evening. Track was soaked though. 

A classic PNW day with low ceilings and light to moderate rain for most of the day here. A type of day that ironically seems to be becoming increasingly rare in our bone dry, sun-parched region.

KY is a beautiful landscape too, even if it lacks the dramatic flair of the PNW. Plenty of lush, rolling green hills and forest everywhere you look.

[jcmcgaffey]

Nice little downdraft just south of Seattle. Looked shelf cloudish. 

[StormchaserChuck1]

^Nice rainbow too over the two arc's

[T-Town]

1 hour ago, Meatyorologist said:

Your regular skyscape pics are invaluable to the forum. You have a seriously kick-a** view. That last pic should be in a meteorology textbook for "downdrafts in the PNW"

Thanks!  It’s nice to have a place to share them with people who enjoy them. 

[iFred]

Man, the time difference is throwing me off.

[Eastwind]

3 hours ago, BLI snowman said:

Race time wasn't too bad, just a fine mist for most of the evening. Track was soaked though. 

A classic PNW day with low ceilings and light to moderate rain for most of the day here. A type of day that ironically seems to be becoming increasingly rare in our bone dry, sun-parched region.

KY is a beautiful landscape too, even if it lacks the dramatic flair of the PNW. Plenty of lush, rolling green hills and forest everywhere you look.

Yeah from watching the video it reminded me of a typical rainy winter day here. Kentucky reminds me of the PNW in some ways. You should check out the Red River Gorge if you are able to.

[DareDuck]

7 hours ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Enjoy the damp dark dreary delightful drizzly day.

I enjoyed the needed rainfall after a prolonged dry stretch. I’ll also enjoy the upcoming sunny warm weather while still hoping we get more rain before the dry season. I’d move to Phoenix if I needed dry and warm everyday starting in April. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Portland may be warmer than Phoenix tomorrow.

[T-Town]

Beautiful morning here. 46 degrees after a low of 41. Managed a whopping .03 inches precip yesterday. 

[SunAndSnow]

Cold and sunny, got down to 37°! Still 42°

[ShawniganLake]

1 hour ago, T-Town said:

Beautiful morning here. 46 degrees after a low of 41. Managed a whopping .03 inches precip yesterday. 

Is that a rhododendron in bloom?

Weekend storm total of 0.05” here. 

[T-Town]

22 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

Is that rhododendron in bloom?

Weekend storm total of 0.05” here. 

Yes. Sorry, should have captioned it for you. There’s also a shed and a tree. 

[ShawniganLake]

2 minutes ago, T-Town said:

Yes. Sorry, should have captioned it for you. There’s also a shed and a tree. 

It’s a pretty impressive size unless perhaps it’s a mass planting of the same variety.  

[T-Town]

24 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

It’s a pretty impressive size unless perhaps it’s a mass planting of the same variety.  

I think it might be five different plants. 

[Omegaraptor]

18 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

Looks like a decidedly warmer than average first half of May setting up east of the crest. Unusually tight thermal gradient between the intermountain west and the Pacific for this time of year; almost 30dam thickness deficit across 200 miles from the 7th to the 13th alone. From this gradient we get a sizeable jet and a tremendous thunderstorm pattern for the Blue mountains of northeastern OR (site of initiation) and north/eastward into Spokane and Boise and all of ID on a recurrent diurnal basis for over a week. Also stout marine layers on the coast, save for extreme NW WA on the Olympic peninsula where disturbances sideswiping the region and the colder air aloft could mix out the clouds.

A pattern change toward a cooler and potentially wetter one is still on track for the 11th and beyond, starting in the NW and progressing SE as a sharp trough progrades into the continent. Warm season circulations seem to be dominating early after the speedy dismantling of the NH SPV this March.

Neither Euro or GFS ensembles are looking particularly wet. The persistent lack of rain is starting to feel reminiscent of 2021 - even the short-lived troughs are largely splitty, have little to no jet support, and anemic QPF.

[TT-SEA]

Beautiful day for yardwork.   Also had a few showers this morning.

[Front Ranger]

May is our wettest month of the year on average, and it looks like we're getting pretty wet the next few days. I'm gonna post the NAM because it's the wettest.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Seattle has been moved. Check for seismic shift.

[Apr0t0genlovWeat23r]

8 minutes ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Seattle has been moved. Check for seismic shift.

I love that. sad that I don't typically have that where I am.

[Deweydog]

Spring loaded Sunday.

[Anti Marine Layer]

25 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

Spring loaded Sunday.

[Apr0t0genlovWeat23r]

1 minute ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

L seattle, lol. (I watch too much youtube) 

[Omegaraptor]

1 hour ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Seattle has been moved. Check for seismic shift.

What I’d give to see you spend a year in Scotland or coastal Norway or SE Alaska.

You know, an actual gloomy climate.

[Apr0t0genlovWeat23r]

Just now, Omegaraptor said:

What I’d give to see you spend a year in Scotland or coastal Norway or SE Alaska or something.

You know, an actual gloomy climate.

say that when you live here rn. its rainy and gloomy all the way til Tuesday morning.

[TT-SEA]

1 hour ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Seattle has been moved. Check for seismic shift.

Meanwhile in Seattle...

[TigerWoodsLibido]

62F sunny and windy from the N.

[TT-SEA]

Was working in the garden and looked up and saw this cool cloud formation heading southward to our east.   Several showers have passed just to our east this afternoon as activity slides down the west slopes of the Cascades moving to the south.  

[Apr0t0genlovWeat23r]

46 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Was working in the garden and looked up and saw this cool cloud formation heading southward to our east.   Several showers have passed just to our east this afternoon as activity slides down the west slopes of the Cascades moving to the south.  

looks normal to me. love the scenery, tho.

[MossMan]

Spent the day playing with sunken rocks! Over time the border rocks the original owners had around the pathways had sunken to the point where only the tips were showing if at all, so it was dig them up and reinstall time. Made the path wider as well for the tractor. Now I just need a fresh batch of gravel! 
 

My back is officially tired. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

Sunny and on the cool side. 40/63 for the day.

[Omegaraptor]

A "Jim day" today. Below average day for much of Western Oregon, however this is almost entirely because of the chilly low. Feel like you don't see that too often nowadays.

[Eastwind]

11 hours ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Portland may be warmer than Phoenix tomorrow.

We’ll be warmer the next couple of days with Tuesday having the greatest difference. But then they go back to normal climatology.

[uwgraduate2021]

Looks like another week of paradise is on the table for the PNW!

Outside of cold and show, sunny and 72 has to be my favorite weather. Everything is so lush.

[Eastwind]

46 minutes ago, uwgraduate2021 said:

Looks like another week of paradise is on the table for the PNW!

Outside of cold and show, sunny and 72 has to be my favorite weather. Everything is so lush.

Sun and snow with a little thunder thrown in every now and then! ️ 

[StormchaserChuck1]

CPC's DJF 2025-26 Winter outlook

[MrWeatherTalk]

On 5/3/2025 at 9:42 AM, fubario said:

I'd have a lot more to contribute lol

Hawaii has several microclimates that would make forecasting pull your hair out especially considering elevation where rainfall increases.

[MrWeatherTalk]

5 hours ago, uwgraduate2021 said:

Looks like another week of paradise is on the table for the PNW!

Outside of cold and show, sunny and 72 has to be my favorite weather. Everything is so lush.

LOL. That kind of weather it won't be lush for long. I don't want June to be browned out. 

[BLI snowman]

18 hours ago, Omegaraptor said:

Neither Euro or GFS ensembles are looking particularly wet. The persistent lack of rain is starting to feel reminiscent of 2021 - even the short-lived troughs are largely splitty, have little to no jet support, and anemic QPF.

Pretty much a certainty now that we're going to have significant water/drought/fire/heat issues this summer. Not the spring you wanted to see if you were hoping to avoid that.