It's Gonna Be May 2025 Pacific Northwest Weather

[Phil]

1 hour ago, StormchaserChuck1 said:

With a heavy wind blowing, I'm at 50F.. It feels colder out than many Winter days lately. Crazy for June1

Had 3 thunderstorms today, 3rd one was severe warned and produced a gust to 44mph here at the Cabin John house (have family visiting so we’re back in MD until June 21st). I’m catching up to you.

The 44mph probably would have been higher had it not been for fully foliated trees. Our 30th floor apartment in VA gusted to 62mph.

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KVAVIENN164/graph/2025-05-31/2025-05-31/daily

[StormchaserChuck1]

8 minutes ago, Phil said:

Had 3 thunderstorms today, 3rd one was severe warned and produced a gust to 44mph here at the Cabin John house (have family visiting so we’re back in MD until June 21st). I’m catching up to you.

The 44mph probably would have been higher had it not been for fully foliated trees. Our 30th floor apartment gusted to 62mph.

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KVAVIENN164/graph/2025-05-31/2025-05-31/daily

I knew that it's been cold the last few days and that the storms would die west of here.. that's what happened. Sometimes the SPC is way off with their watches in the cold sector, lack of sunheating and lower temps should not warrant a tornado watch on days like today.  Lots of rain in the Spring, I like Summer lightning storms better. 

[Phil]

12 minutes ago, StormchaserChuck1 said:

I knew that it's been cold the last few days and that the storms would die west of here.. that's what happened. Sometimes the SPC is way off with their watches in the cold sector, lack of sunheating and lower temps should not warrant a tornado watch on days like today.  Lots of rain in the Spring, I like Summer lightning storms better. 

Cold upper level temps/steep lapse rates are what juiced today’s storms. My area does particularly well with these deep trough/NW flow setups so maybe I’m biased, but I’ll take this over sitting under a ridge hoping the cap breaks at the last possible second which seems to fail almost every time nowadays.

[Phil]

Big league MJO event underway. West-Pacific gets absolutely shut down during the second week of June.

[DeepFriedEgg]

29 minutes ago, StormchaserChuck1 said:

Looks like 2 legit warm up days in the PNW

I think we miss out on 90 burgers again. The worm seems to have turned. Gone are the days of heat ramping up down the stretch. Anyways those prograding pacific highs seem like to fall apart quite easily.

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

So.. Aurora might be visible Tonight. A big CME just hit.

[ClarkCountyChill]

23 minutes ago, Phil said:

Big league MJO event underway. West-Pacific gets absolutely shut down during the second week of June.

I figured we were gonna get whacked by the WPAC.

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

Looks like show came early. Aurora likely in the next few hours. With how early this is.. Sunday night might be a wash.

[Phil]

 

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

Mixed opinions on if this is main event. 

[Deweydog]

40 minutes ago, Phil said:

 

[Phil]

Ridge keeps trending west on the EPS.

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

She is out.

[Slushy Inch]

Waiting on the eps. Looking like heatwave chances went up.

[Slushy Inch]

Gem is a ******* oven 

[Meatyorologist]

Support is growing for a solid heatwave June 8-10. Highs 85-95 appear likely atm

[Make -PNA Great Again]

Another beautiful day of Yellowstone fishing here.  Love the easy access to so many rivers around here.  Caught a baby brown trout as well as a bigger fish (some sort of cutthroat, I think) that wiggled off my line just as I put my net in to catch it.