December 2020 Weather Observations for the PNW

[Winterdog]

22 minutes ago, MossMan said:

I had .54” of snowmelt today! 

The power outage last night really honked up my weather data.  Wunderground won’t update now and my Davis data logger lost several days of precip data.  My monthly total is now over 2” less than it was several days ago.  32 here now.  If we can stay fairly clear for tomorrow and tomorrow night I think I’ll still have at least some patches of snow left Christmas morning.

[Gradient Keeper]

Day 5

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

This La Nina is a dud.

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Day 6

[FroYoBro]

Down into the 30s already. Winter like night coming up? THIS WINTER RULES!!!!!!!!

[Brian_in_Leavenworth]

7 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

This La Nina is a dud.

Winter is 1 day old.  

[MossMan]

16 minutes ago, Acer said:

The power outage last night really honked up my weather data.  Wunderground won’t update now and my Davis data logger lost several days of precip data.  My monthly total is now over 2” less than it was several days ago.  32 here now.  If we can stay fairly clear for tomorrow and tomorrow night I think I’ll still have at least some patches of snow left Christmas morning.

That’s too bad. Yeah I heard that many parts of the area up here lost power last night, it was going off and on here but never stayed off. Branches where cracking in the woods when I went out to snow plow. Quite the evening it was! 

[Gradient Keeper]

Day 7

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Day 8

[Blizzard777]

19 minutes ago, Acer said:

The power outage last night really honked up my weather data.  Wunderground won’t update now and my Davis data logger lost several days of precip data.  My monthly total is now over 2” less than it was several days ago.  32 here now.  If we can stay fairly clear for tomorrow and tomorrow night I think I’ll still have at least some patches of snow left Christmas morning.

Had that issue all the time with my data logger.  Trying to get it back online sucked.  It finally stopped after one outage so I got the weatherlink live.  
https://www.davisinstruments.com/weatherlinklive/

[Gradient Keeper]

Day 9'er .... Not this run. Maybe the EURO will fare better.

[Gradient Keeper]

00z GFS 10 Day Rainfall, Snowfall totals

[Rubus Leucodermis]

29˚F.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Some mountain snow will be nice. Hopefully Bachelor can stay open.

Down to 36F and partly cloudy. Very pleasant night.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

11 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Some mountain snow will be nice. Hopefully Bachelor can stay open.

Down to 36F and partly cloudy. Very pleasant night.

49" base and Bachelor is forecast to get heavy snow later this week. They’ll be fine.

[Brian_in_Leavenworth]

Long range GFS starting to look a lot like what the recent GEFS runs have been showing for that time range (not the 35 day GEFS, but the 16 day runs over the last few days).

[Gradient Keeper]

Unreal 3 consecutive massive NE Canada/Greenland blocks. Look at this one in la-la land. Just a run of the mill 1062mb surface high.

[Gradient Keeper]

Is this real life? That's larger than half the US.

[MossMan]

32 minutes ago, DJ Droppin said:

00z GFS 10 Day Rainfall, Snowfall totals

I’m in the lightest shade of grey!! 

[Gradient Keeper]

Day 16 and the block is still growing as well seems to be starting to retrograde westward. That's funky.

 

[Jbolin]

5 minutes ago, DJ Droppin said:

Is this real life? That's larger than half the US.

The old immovable object vs an unstoppable force game, something will "break" soon, that's a huge block to not alter/change the overall pattern and likely violently (at some point, soon). 

[Timmy]

3 minutes ago, DJ Droppin said:

Day 16 and the block is still growing as well seems to be starting to retrograde westward. That's funky.

 

I don’t hate this, all that warmth in the arctic has to go somewhere.

[Phil]

Legitimate LIA throwback pattern.

[Gradient Keeper]

Dozed off..... Been totally exhausted

00z ECMWF Day 1

[MossMan]

12 minutes ago, Phil said:

Legitimate LIA throwback pattern.

What’s LIA? 

[Gradient Keeper]

Day 2

[Phil]

2 minutes ago, MossMan said:

What’s LIA? 

Little ice age, man. The most epic stretch of winters and overall global cooling since the Holocene began ~ 12,000 years ago.

[Gradient Keeper]

Wow! Not to be outdone how about this 1072mb surface high along the southeastern Russia/Mongolia border!

[Front Ranger]

Unprecedented number of 384 hr maps from Phil.

[Gradient Keeper]

Day 3

[Link]

This winter we have been put into a siding for some reason.

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Day 4

[Chewbacca Defense]

10 hours ago, Kayla said:

It's getting there and is expanding quickly. We still do not have it in our neighborhood on the south end of town but it sounds like CenturyLink is going to run it here by this summer. Tech and fiber optics industry is booming here and of course COVID is accelerating fiber laying. 

Real estate pricing is absolutely soaring here now (median home prices jumped nearly 100k in August alone) so be prepared for that. 

Yeah we realized about that time that Bozeman is officially off the table for us.  Livingston was still barely in reach, but that would be a hell of a commute in the winter.  I'm hoping Montana has a brutal winter to run off all the folks who flocked to Montana to get away from Covid.

[Gradient Keeper]

Day 5

[Gradient Keeper]

4 AM Christmas Eve

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Day 6

[Link]

I'm hoping this is just a case of jet lag like on June 21st we had it so dark one day our lights were on by 4 or 5pm and it was getting much darker by 8pm. Summer was (quite) a bit tardy but came sharp when it did! Hopefully winter does the reverse with cold instead of heat!

[Chewbacca Defense]

9 hours ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

The same process is well underway in Bellingham. I moved here once I realized I could cash out my expensive home in Seattle and semi-retire here, but I am hardly the only one and the resulting upward pressure on housing costs has been very hard on those trying to buy with only a Whatcom County salary or wage to rely on; jobs just do not pay that well up this way.

Bellingham is definitely not the industrial-town-with-a-college that it once was. It’s turning into Santa Barbara North, like it or not.

I think we missed the boat this spring when we first thought about selling/moving out into the county.  Anything that would suite our needs is now going for $500k+ when the same would have been $380-400k back in March.  I'm sure our home value has gone up, but not on par with what's happening in the county.  I was really hoping to get our mortgage payment down so I can catch up on my retirement savings....

[Gradient Keeper]

Day 7 Looks more like a Nino

[Gradient Keeper]

December 29th, 4 AM. SNOW!