August 2025 weather in the PNW

[Meatyorologist]

6 hours ago, iFred said:

At the border waiting for my prostate exam. 80 ish and sun.

That reminds me of an old story from high school. I knew this guy named Henry... A bit of a wild dude. His brother though, god, he might have done one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of anyone doing in my life.

Him and the family roll up to the border for a two week stay in Canada. After waiting hours in line, they're at the gate while the guard asks the standard line of questions. "What's your business here?" "Do you plan on bringing anything back?" the standard fare. Anyways, they're almost done with questioning, when they get to the "do you have any guns or weapons on your person?" question, and this dude, without batting an eye, responds with the godbrained statement "yeah nothing in here except for the bomb in the back."

Border patrol deassembled their car, and they didn't end up going to Canada.

[iFred]

18 minutes ago, Meatyorologist said:

That reminds me of an old story from high school. I knew this guy named Henry... A bit of a wild dude. His brother though, god, he might have done one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of anyone doing in my life.

Him and the family roll up to the border for a two week stay in Canada. After waiting hours in line, they're at the gate while the guard asks the standard line of questions. "What's your business here?" "Do you plan on bringing anything back?" the standard fare. Anyways, they're almost done with questioning, when they get to the "do you have any guns or weapons on your person?" question, and this dude, without batting an eye, responds with the godbrained statement "yeah nothing in here except for the bomb in the back."

Border patrol deassembled their car, and they didn't end up going to Canada.

Everything I needed to know about Canadian customs came from this show. I figure that I am a guest going into Canada and will do just about anything they need me to do as I want to stay admissible and maybe one day earn citizenship. Coming back into the States though, its always cold stare, direct answers, and a slight undercurrent of anger as they ask me if I have any material on my laptop that they need to be concerned about.

[Front Ranger]

1 hour ago, Meatyorologist said:

Tomorrow looks like a marine layer day, beginning with a deck of clouds while high cloudcover increases from the west throughout the day. Similar deal Monday.

Looks like a 72/58 for today's date. -3.5F anomaly

12 of 15 days below normal since 7/18. Could be worse this time of year...

[TT-SEA]

30 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

12 of 15 days below normal since 7/18. Could be worse this time of year...

Lots of weak onshore flow.   NB has been 80+ on 9 days since 7/18 which I believe is warmer than normal.

[Cold Snap]

Anyone down to do a weather forum fantasy league this year. We don’t have to play for money we can just play for fun.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

2 minutes ago, Cold Snap said:

Anyone down to do a weather forum fantasy league this year. We don’t have to play for money we can just play for fun.

Sounds good! Would love to have Tim and Randy join in. We can have the draft out on a boat.

[Front Ranger]

36 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Lots of weak onshore flow.   NB has been 80+ on 9 days since 7/18 which I believe is warmer than normal.

Weak onshore flow is pretty common in summer. Would need actual station data and norms to verify your statement.

[GHweatherChris]

4 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

Weak onshore flow is pretty common in summer. Would need actual station data and norms to verify your statement.

Why is this  so important to you?  I can guarantee you at my house it has been above normal for most of this summers days than not, can I back it up, no (and who cares) but living here for as long as I have I know what's up.  And even if you look at the closest station to me, which is only like a mile and half to my south it would not show the same obs as I do here, at my house, that station is right on the river.

[TT-SEA]

14 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

Weak onshore flow is pretty common in summer. Would need actual station data and norms to verify your statement.

When the new averages came out... I remember seeing the peak average temp in the summer out here at Snoqualmie Falls is about the same as SEA at just under 80.  

But it seems like in recent years it's becoming more common for the marine layer and marine influence to not make it as far inland as it used to.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

2 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

That reminds me of an old story from high school. I knew this guy named Henry... A bit of a wild dude. His brother though, god, he might have done one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of anyone doing in my life.

Him and the family roll up to the border for a two week stay in Canada. After waiting hours in line, they're at the gate while the guard asks the standard line of questions. "What's your business here?" "Do you plan on bringing anything back?" the standard fare. Anyways, they're almost done with questioning, when they get to the "do you have any guns or weapons on your person?" question, and this dude, without batting an eye, responds with the godbrained statement "yeah nothing in here except for the bomb in the back."

Border patrol deassembled their car, and they didn't end up going to Canada.

I feel like we need an OOF! reaction.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

2 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

That reminds me of an old story from high school. I knew this guy named Henry... A bit of a wild dude. His brother though, god, he might have done one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of anyone doing in my life.

Him and the family roll up to the border for a two week stay in Canada. After waiting hours in line, they're at the gate while the guard asks the standard line of questions. "What's your business here?" "Do you plan on bringing anything back?" the standard fare. Anyways, they're almost done with questioning, when they get to the "do you have any guns or weapons on your person?" question, and this dude, without batting an eye, responds with the godbrained statement "yeah nothing in here except for the bomb in the back."

Border patrol deassembled their car, and they didn't end up going to Canada.

Border agents and airport security agents have ZERO sense of humor. There used to be signs in airports saying not to joke, because nothing said in jest would be interpreted that way.

(And they probably got put on a list permanently banning them from entering Canada as well.)

[KeyPeninsula_Wx]

Little less impressive on the 0z runs tonight. Still has been lots of fluctuations run to run on QPF…but it’s still been looking like 0.25-0.5” is in the realm of possibilities for western WA next week. 

[Front Ranger]

1 hour ago, GHweatherChris said:

Why is this  so important to you?  I can guarantee you at my house it has been above normal for most of this summers days than not, can I back it up, no (and who cares) but living here for as long as I have I know what's up.  And even if you look at the closest station to me, which is only like a mile and half to my south it would not show the same obs as I do here, at my house, that station is right on the river.

Importance as in I spend a few minutes in a day on it? You tell me. Seems like a bigger deal to you 

[GHweatherChris]

2 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

Importance as in I spend a few minutes in a day on it? You tell me. Seems like a bigger deal to you 

I spent seconds typing what I did, so there.

[Tanis Leach]

Today's convective outlook shows some action is possible in Central and Eastern Oregon. 

[Chewbacca Defense]

10 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

That reminds me of an old story from high school. I knew this guy named Henry... A bit of a wild dude. His brother though, god, he might have done one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of anyone doing in my life.

Him and the family roll up to the border for a two week stay in Canada. After waiting hours in line, they're at the gate while the guard asks the standard line of questions. "What's your business here?" "Do you plan on bringing anything back?" the standard fare. Anyways, they're almost done with questioning, when they get to the "do you have any guns or weapons on your person?" question, and this dude, without batting an eye, responds with the godbrained statement "yeah nothing in here except for the bomb in the back."

Border patrol deassembled their car, and they didn't end up going to Canada.

Nowhere near as dramatic, but I had a border crossing go sideways right after we moved up here.  I was in aerospace as an estimator, and we were bidding a job for Air Canada to retrofit their 767s with a new bin system we had designed.  As part of that effort were going up to YVR to survey one of the aircraft that was down for a maintenance check.  Myself and an engineer worked our standard day, went home for a bit then met back at the office about 10pm and headed to the border for our midnight appointment at the maintenance hanger.  We were warned to not say we were going up "to do work" but with our fatigue and the late hour, we applied that warning literally.  So, didn't say we were going "to do work" but we did say we were going "to survey an aircraft" which is basically doing work.

That got us pulled inside for a lengthy discussion to figure out if we were doing a job that a Canadian worker could/should be doing.  Our answers didn't really help our cause (looking back, they were pretty sarcastic), but after about 20-30 minutes of squirming while the grilled us, clacked away on their computer keyboards, whispered back and forth and made a few phone calls, they finally let us go.

The next day after we shared our story and our co-workers finished laughing at us, they said "you were supposed to say you were going up for a meeting"

Luckily we were able to get up there, the aircraft was only in the hanger for that one night, and they had a pretty unique configuration that would have been difficult to figure out with the limited drawing access we had.

[Chewbacca Defense]

9 hours ago, Cold Snap said:

Anyone down to do a weather forum fantasy league this year. We don’t have to play for money we can just play for fun.

I'd be down for that.

[High Desert Mathew]

10 hours ago, Cold Snap said:

Anyone down to do a weather forum fantasy league this year. We don’t have to play for money we can just play for fun.

I’m down

[LowerGarfield]

Today is the average peak temperature for my location. Lewiston and maybe Spokane had theirs yesterday and other places in Eastern WA have them sometime between the end of July and the first few days of August. 

Can still roast but I always look forward to this day.

[Front Ranger]

9 hours ago, GHweatherChris said:

I spent seconds typing what I did, so there.

Why does Tim spend 30 posts analyzing when/where the sun is breaking out around the Puget Sound on a given day? It's weird, I'm weird, you're weird.

[Front Ranger]

GFS really cut back on the rain totals next week, unfortunately.

EDIT: 12z Euro looks significantly wetter than GFS, though.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

1 minute ago, Front Ranger said:

GFS really cut back on the rain totals next week, unfortunately.

And in Michael Snyder’s latest video, September looks likely to be on the warm and dry side.

There really is hope for smoke season not to be a bust this year.

[DeepFriedEgg]

“Heatwave” is trending flatter and shorter as the ridge retrogrades and the pacific high takes firm control in this new regime. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Looks like the burn off is slow up there today.

[MossMan]

25 minutes ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Looks like the burn off is slow up there today.

We probably won’t see the sun again until Friday. 

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

18 minutes ago, MossMan said:

We probably won’t see the sun again until Friday. 

Sun is out!

[Tanis Leach]

MD for Central Oregon:

SUMMARY...Scattered afternoon thunderstorms will be capable of

   strong to severe wind gusts and mainly small hail. A watch is not

   expected this afternoon.

 

   DISCUSSION...Cumulus towers continue to deepen along and east of the

   Cascades in southwest Oregon. This is in response to an approaching

   shortwave trough. While these thunderstorms have been slow to move

   off of the terrain thus far, continued heating in southern/eastern

   Oregon will likely erode remaining MLCIN within the next 1-2 hours.

   Additional storm development is likely through the afternoon as

   well. With elevated convection associated with a small-scale

   perturbation moving through northeast Oregon, development within the

   Blue Mountains is less certain. However, additional heating during

   the afternoon may still be sufficient for this to occur. Steep low

   and mid-level lapse rates and 20-25 kts of shear (which will

   marginally improve to near 30 kts with time) will result in

   marginally organized storms capable of severe wind gusts.

   Thermodynamic profiles will be conducive to mainly small hail, but

   isolated hail near 1 inch could occur in the most intense storms.

 

   ..Wendt/Smith.. 08/03/2025

[Rubus Leucodermis]

Meanwhile, in Australia:

https://7news.com.au/news/snow-blankets-northern-tablelands-as-nsw-braces-for-widespread-storms-and-strong-winds-c-19563271

[SnowWillarrive]

31 minutes ago, MossMan said:

We probably won’t see the sun again until Friday. 

Gotta protect the trees. 

[MV_snow]

1 hour ago, MossMan said:

We probably won’t see the sun again until Friday. 

Yeah, I figured as much since we haven’t seen any Tim posts saying actually, this troughing pattern still brings plenty of sun using the Euro cloud maps! Since yesterday was a marine layer overperformer, some areas around the Sound will go 6 days in a row without meaningful sun during the climo height of summer. Will the warm summer lovers ever catch a break?

[MossMan]

1 hour ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

Sun is out!

[TT-SEA]

7 minutes ago, MV_snow said:

Yeah, I figured as much since we haven’t seen any Tim posts saying actually, this troughing pattern still brings plenty of sun using the Euro cloud maps! Since yesterday was a marine layer overperformer, some areas around the Sound will go 6 days in a row without meaningful sun during the climo height of summer. Will the warm summer lovers ever catch a break?

 Actually flying to Austin today for work.    Great time of year to go there.  :(

[Rubus Leucodermis]

1 minute ago, TT-SEA said:

 Actually flying to Austin today for work.    Great time of year to go there.  :(

If the humidity and heat start getting to you, just read some of @Shaheen's weather reports from Qatar.

[High Desert Mathew]

Bend is getting absolutely nuked right now. Hopefully it heads up this way and holds together. 

[Phishy Wx]

Mostly Sunny, 84

[Port Angeles Foothiller]

2 hours ago, MossMan said:

Don’t worry, our sun didn’t last long.

[MossMan]

7 minutes ago, Port Angeles Foothiller said:

Don’t worry, our sun didn’t last long.

Looks like possible slight brightening from the west coming!  

[T-Town]

HCS in progress at Suncadia. A little breezy but feels nice when the sun is out. 

[SnowWillarrive]

Happy to report heavy cloud cover all the way to North Bend. 
 

[SpaceRace22]

Only topped out at 66 so far today and it looks like the sun might not ever make it out. I love these kinds of summer days honestly