April 2026 Weather In The PNW

[SeattleSmokeLayerFan]

6 minutes ago, SunnyWeatherFan said:

Ended up with a foot of heavy, wet snow! 

Sadly it will all be melted exactly by April 2nd, 2026 at 12:00am. Not a single trace will remain.

Meanwhile down here, it's still 73 degrees! Quite the difference. Lucky for those who live north of Seattle.

[Phil]

5 hours ago, SeattleMarineLayerFan said:

In the long term, our favorable -PDO regime is coming to a close..could be several decades until we return.

This vacillation in the IPWP/PMM/PDO is intradecadal. This positive stretch likely lasts ~ 5 years, give or take a year.

The longer term/multidecadal elements of variability are driven by other factors/modes of interference.

[DareDuck]

Second light dusting this week.  

[SeattleSmokeLayerFan]

Weekend trending a bit warmer but looks pretty cloudy. Might actually be nice weather!

[MossMan]

Meta AI thinks the lake will soon become a desert with a wall? 

[MossMan]

Dumping and 39 degrees.

.53” so far on the day, 1.00” for the month. 

[Eugene-5SW]

Storm total of 1.05" here is close to QPF and right in line with other stations in the area.

Someday I'll get used to the pattern where initial fronts dry up on arrival and vigorous post-frontal showers make up for it, but it didn't happen this time -- I freaked out right on schedule.

Even if it doesn't rain again in April (a possibility given the current state of the models), it's already safe from being top-tier dry. Water year total of 25" is still low, but there have been lower ones.

[Doom Buster]

1 hour ago, Eugene-5SW said:

Storm total of 1.05" here is close to QPF and right in line with other stations in the area.

Someday I'll get used to the pattern where initial fronts dry up on arrival and vigorous post-frontal showers make up for it, but it didn't happen this time -- I freaked out right on schedule.

Even if it doesn't rain again in April (a possibility given the current state of the models), it's already safe from being top-tier dry. Water year total of 25" is still low, but there have been lower ones.

Yeah, good and badly needed storm for OR. Mountains above 4000' got a good dumping.

[TT-SEA]

2 hours ago, SeattleMarineLayerFan said:

Weekend trending a bit warmer but looks pretty cloudy. Might actually be nice weather!

Hopefully just thin high clouds like what the new RGEM shows for Saturday and Sunday...

[SouthHillFrosty]

Left my rain gear at home since it was still wet from yesterday and today looked dry…. 
 

welp I forget to check for Marysville and now I’m caught in a convergence zone

[MossMan]

7 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

Left my rain gear at home since it was still wet from yesterday and today looked dry…. 
 

welp I forget to check for Marysville and now I’m caught in a convergence zone

Yeah it’s absolutely lovely up this way…

[SouthHillFrosty]

1 minute ago, MossMan said:

Yeah it’s absolutely lovely up this way…

I’m blaming this on u

turn down the weather machine man

[TT-SEA]

My computer says rain stopping soon!   Then a warm up.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

GFS has a little rain over the next few weeks. 

[MossMan]

46 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

My computer says rain stopping soon!   Then a warm up.

My computer says it’s over by Tuesday.

[Deweydog]

15 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

GFS has a little rain over the next few weeks. 

I noticed the same thing 

[Phil]

Interesting.

 

[Phil]

 

[TT-SEA]

12Z ECMWF is really dry overall. 

[Doom Buster]

39 minutes ago, Phil said:

Interesting.

 

Yeah, we're definitely at least a couple weeks ahead of schedule here. Probably still a week or two out from full green up, though. Depending on precip.

[Edmonds Husky]

4 hours ago, SeattleMarineLayerFan said:

Weekend trending a bit warmer but looks pretty cloudy. Might actually be nice weather!

High clouds probably. Sun will still shine through 

[MossMan]

.84” now on the day. 
43 degrees. 

[Phil]

Check out this backdoor/marine front wedging in.

N of the front: North Bend weather.  

S of the front: Mid/upper 80s and building CAPE.  

 

[TT-SEA]

5 minutes ago, Phil said:

Check out this backdoor/marine front wedging in.

N of the front: North Bend weather.  

S of the front: Mid/upper 80s and building CAPE.  

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My wife is in Boston now and she says it's miserable.  She is excited to get back to NB where we will be pushing 70 and sunny by Sunday!

[Phil]

12 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

My wife is in Boston now and she says it's miserable.  She is excited to get back to NB where we will be pushing 70 and sunny by Sunday!

Was 87°F yesterday. Woke up this AM and we were imbedded in the cloud deck up here on the 29th floor and the air smelled like the ocean.

Tomorrow we’re back in the 80s again so I’ll happily take this reprieve. It’s actually soothing.

[MossMan]

5 minutes ago, Phil said:

Was 87°F yesterday. Woke up this AM and we were imbedded in the cloud deck up here on the 29th floor and the air smelled like the ocean.

Tomorrow we’re back in the 80s again so I’ll happily take this reprieve. It’s actually soothing.

87 sounds wonderful! 

[Phishy Wx]

Major downpours overnight, must've had close to an inch

 

Currently Cloudy and 42

[StormchaserChuck1]

These are crazy anomalies in the Rockies for a 6-month period!

Warmest DJFM in Phoenix (beat it by 4.2 degrees this Winter) look like this the following Winter (+12 months): top 20 analogs:

History says it usually snaps-back

[Doom Buster]

18 hours ago, StormchaserChuck1 said:

El Nino potential ranges from weak to strong. We are working with limited data.

 

20 minutes ago, StormchaserChuck1 said:

These are crazy anomalies in the Rockies for a 6-month period!

Warmest DJFM in Phoenix (beat it by 4.2 degrees this Winter) look like this the following Winter (+12 months): top 20 analogs:

History says it usually snaps-back

We are working with limited data.

[StormchaserChuck1]

4 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

 

We are working with limited data.

Huh?

[SeattleSmokeLayerFan]

Easter Sunday will be a mess. How will the kids be able to hunt for Easter eggs with the sun blasting at them? They'll get tired and start whining. 60 degrees and partly cloudy would have been better.

[Edmonds Husky]

7 minutes ago, SeattleMarineLayerFan said:

Easter Sunday will be a mess. How will the kids be able to hunt for Easter eggs with the sun blasting at them? They'll get tired and start whining. 60 degrees and partly cloudy would have been better.

They would whine faster if it were cold and cloudy. 

[TT-SEA]

22 minutes ago, SeattleMarineLayerFan said:

Easter Sunday will be a mess. How will the kids be able to hunt for Easter eggs with the sun blasting at them? They'll get tired and start whining. 60 degrees and partly cloudy would have been better.

You are trying too hard now.  

[MossMan]

22 minutes ago, SeattleMarineLayerFan said:

Easter Sunday will be a mess. How will the kids be able to hunt for Easter eggs with the sun blasting at them? They'll get tired and start whining. 60 degrees and partly cloudy would have been better.

My youngest will be up at daybreak searching…Temps will not be an issue here! 

[TT-SEA]

15 minutes ago, MossMan said:

My youngest will be up at daybreak searching…Temps will not be an issue here! 

Nor will it be a problem at noon.   Its just trolling.  

[Anti Marine Layer]

41 minutes ago, SeattleMarineLayerFan said:

Easter Sunday will be a mess. How will the kids be able to hunt for Easter eggs with the sun blasting at them? They'll get tired and start whining. 60 degrees and partly cloudy would have been better.

They can go egg hunting in a cave where it's 45 degrees 

[TT-SEA]

27 minutes ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

They can go egg hunting in a cave where it's 45 degrees 

NWS will be putting out an extreme weather warning and recommending that... egg hunting in a dark cave if possible or if a cave is not handy then parents should be constantly dousing their kids with ice cold water using a hose so they don't overheat and drop dead when its 65 degrees and sunny on Sunday.   Scary times and prayers are needed.

[Doom Buster]

1 hour ago, StormchaserChuck1 said:

Huh?

You don't see the irony? I cannot help you then.

[StormchaserChuck1]

Just now, Front Ranger said:

You don't see the irony? I cannot help you then.

There are a handful of Strong El Nino's. There are more comparisons for PHX hot vs cold. You must have been foaming at the mouth waiting for me to post something analog related lol

[Doom Buster]

Just now, StormchaserChuck1 said:

There are a handful of Strong El Nino's. There are more comparisons for PHX hot vs cold. You must have been foaming at the mouth waiting for me to post something analog related lol

You are constantly posting stuff that involves a very limited number of analogs. There have been around 10 strong El Ninos since 1950.