December 2020 Weather Observations for the PNW

[Brian_in_Leavenworth]

5 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

Worth noting that Andrew’s dad and my dad also BOTH had birthdays around this time in 2008.  Hmmm...

And your dad also had a birthday in December of 1949.  And we all know what happened the next month . . .

[luminen]

It's over. It will just be 48/40 and rain the rest of winter. Maybe a few lows between 33-39 and some slop but that's it.

Bring on summer sunshine and 80s!

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Just now, luminen said:

It's over. It will just be 48/40 and rain the rest of winter. Maybe a few lows between 33-39 and some slop but that's it.

Bring on summer sunshine and 80s!

Or 90s depending on latitude.

[Deweydog]

Thoughts about next winter?

[Cloud]

Guess it’s onto January?

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

3 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

Thoughts about next winter?

Couldn't be worse than this one! Of course that's what we said last winter!

[Rubus Leucodermis]

4 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

Thoughts about next winter?

[Jesse]

Ensembles look decent.

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, Cloud said:

Guess it’s onto January?

 

Pretty much! But was to be expected!

[Jesse]

Looks on the cool side and active going forward. Good mountain snow pattern and beats the endless ridging of recent winters.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

1 minute ago, Jesse said:

Ensembles look decent.

 

Think 50˚F and rain! C’MON!

[Rubus Leucodermis]

6 minutes ago, Jesse said:

Looks on the cool side and active going forward. Good mountain snow pattern and beats the endless ridging of recent winters.

In other words, basically the dominant pattern that I was forecasting for this winter last fall.

[Jesse]

6 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Think 50˚F and rain! C’MON!

Looks active and stormy. La Niña. Were you thinking we would see nothing but snow fall from the sky the next three months?

[ShawniganLake]

48F drizzle with the occasional period of light rain this morning. “Storm” total up to 0.76” 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

Just now, Jesse said:

Looks active and stormy. La Niña. Were you thinking we would see nothing but snow fall from the sky the next three months?

As long as there's a good chance of 50˚F rain in the forecasts, I will root for it. Might as well have some fun. What I root for is going to have exactly zero effect on what actually happens. (And I would like to see some lowland snow, too.)

[Jesse]

2 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

In other words, basically the dominant pattern that I was forecasting for this winter last fall.

Nobody else could have possibly seen it coming.

[Brian_in_Leavenworth]

1 minute ago, Jesse said:

Looks active and stormy. La Niña. Were you thinking we would see nothing but snow fall from the sky the next three months?

This. ^^^  Seeing La Nina acting like a La Nina is exactly what you all should want.  Even the legendary winters did not have constant cold and snow for 3 months in Western WA and Western OR.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

1 minute ago, Jesse said:

Nobody else could have possibly seen it coming.

Do I sense a customer wishing to take me up on the famous “double your money back” guarantee I offer for all of my weather analyses?

[SouthHillFrosty]

All of our winters have been back loaded as of late. Should expect nothing but the same from this winter.

[Deweydog]

Some winters aren’t loaded at all!

[Jesse]

So does this morning qualify as the first forum meltdown of the winter? Jim isn’t here so might not be quite there yet.

[Meatyorologist]

Just now, Deweydog said:

Some winters aren’t loaded at all!

January/February are going to look like this...

[Deweydog]

Just now, Meatyorologist said:

January/February are going to look like this...

For the record, I do NOT like sour cream.

[Meatyorologist]

Just now, Deweydog said:

For the record, I do NOT like sour cream.

Well good, because that's spoiled yogurt!

[Rubus Leucodermis]

2 minutes ago, Jesse said:

So does this morning qualify as the first forum meltdown of the winter? Jim isn’t here so might not be quite there yet.

More like the fourth or fifth.

[Deweydog]

3 minutes ago, Jesse said:

So does this morning qualify as the first forum meltdown of the winter? Jim isn’t here so might not be quite there yet.

A Jimeltdown coupled with a decent SSW event may be quite the combo moving forward.

[Omegaraptor]

35 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Or 90s depending on latitude.

Some 90/48 type days would be nice 

[weather_fan]

What a boring month. Is there

any  hope of lowland snow this month?

[Timmy]

6 minutes ago, Jesse said:

So does this morning qualify as the first forum meltdown of the winter? Jim isn’t here so might not be quite there yet.

That might be the biggest analog for a good winter. I don’t know if one good event that has happened before a meltdown.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

Just now, Timmy said:

That might be the biggest analog for a good winter. I don’t know if one good event that has happened before a meltdown.That might be the biggest analog for a good winter. I don’t know if one good event that has happened before a meltdown.

I still the remember all the self-pity about 2018/2019 shaping up to be a no-snow winter in Seattle as January was winding down.

[Deweydog]

3 minutes ago, weather_fan said:

What a boring month. Is there

any  hope of lowland snow this month?

Yes.

[Jesse]

4 minutes ago, Timmy said:

That might be the biggest analog for a good winter. I don’t know if one good event that has happened before a meltdown.

Definitely feels a little frontloaded!

[Tyler Mode]

The models suck, but this morning's clouds were cool.  Take what I can get.  I don't need snow for photos.

[Phil]

1 hour ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

The CFS has showed literally nothing for weeks. 

All the more reason to be bullish.

Can’t remember the last time that model didn’t predict the inverse of the actual outcome.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

1 minute ago, Phil said:

All the more reason to be bullish.

Can’t remember the last time that model didn’t predict the inverse of the actual outcome.

December 2013

[Omegaraptor]

5 minutes ago, Phil said:

All the more reason to be bullish.

Can’t remember the last time that model didn’t predict the inverse of the actual outcome.

I think last year the CFS was consistently showing warm and wet for October 2019.

[Deweydog]

Euro!!!

[Phil]

 

58 minutes ago, luminen said:

It's over. It will just be 48/40 and rain the rest of winter. Maybe a few lows between 33-39 and some slop but that's it.

Bring on summer sunshine and 80s!

Bro wtf. That last sentence is the most depressing thing I’ve read in a month.

[Phil]

53 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

Thoughts about next winter?

Colder than this one.

[Phil]

28 minutes ago, Jesse said:

So does this morning qualify as the first forum meltdown of the winter? Jim isn’t here so might not be quite there yet.

It’s bizarre.