December 2020 Weather Observations for the PNW

[Timmy Supercell]

1 minute ago, MossMan said:

Had some rain/snow mixed earlier. Now just rain and 39. 
Oh and this should turn the models around...

Last time I bought a laptop (Jan 2019) it dumped snow one month later. I'm currently shopping for a secondary, more expensive one.... #Analogs 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

4.1" of snow at TUL now. Biggest snow event since December 6, 2013. They should pass that one soon. 

[paulb/eugene]

1 minute ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

4.1" of snow at TUL now. Biggest snow event since December 6, 2013. They should pass that one soon. 

that polar anticyclone....who’s going to get the cross polar Arctic dump?

[MossMan]

6 minutes ago, paulb/eugene said:

that polar anticyclone....who’s going to get the cross polar Arctic dump?

Tulsa Oklahoma or Atlanta Georgia. Going to be one of those seasons. 

[weatherwonder]

8 minutes ago, paulb/eugene said:

that polar anticyclone....who’s going to get the cross polar Arctic dump?

My money is on the PNW

[Deweydog]

16 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Had some rain/snow mixed earlier. Now just rain and 39. 
Oh and this should turn the models around...

Good call putting the squeegee attachment on.

[paulb/eugene]

[paulb/eugene]

[MossMan]

1 minute ago, paulb/eugene said:

1990!!! 

[TT-SEA]

This is the opposite of a GOA ridge...

 

[SouthHillFrosty]

House is only 51...might need to turn on the heat 

[paulb/eugene]

[paulb/eugene]

1990 vintage 

[MossMan]

2 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

House is only 51...might need to turn on the heat 

Good lord!! 
68 in my house. 

[TT-SEA]

2 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

House is only 51...might need to turn on the heat 

Good Lord... that is crazy.   Our house is between 70-72 all winter and that is not warm enough for my family.  

 

 

[Jesse]

Still just 39 with rain here. Nice to see the easterly flow really hold on today. It was 36 with heavy rain and gusty East winds at one point overnight. 

The passes are currently getting hammered. This weekend was looking mild with rain in the mountains not too many days ago.

[Timmy Supercell]

Here's a list of white Christmas occurrences at my place and total depth.
A lot of 0 or near 0 in there, then there's a couple pretty big blasts in there.
2015 and 2012 were very good late December snows. Well 2010 was great, just not on Xmas. I remember a blizzard the day before my birthday on 12/29/2010 with like 6" on the ground.

2010 - 0.5"
2011 - 0.0"
2012 - 8.0"
2013 - 0.0"
2014 - 0.0"
2015 - 18.0"
2016 - 0.1"
2017 - 0.0"
2018 - 2.0"
2019 - 1.0"
 

[ShawniganLake]

A bit of mixed rain and snow here. 37F. 

[MossMan]

1 minute ago, Timmy_Supercell said:

Here's a list of white Christmas occurrences at my place and total depth.
A lot of 0 or near 0 in there, then there's a couple pretty big blasts in there.
2015 and 2012 were very good late December snows. Well 2010 was great, just not on Xmas. I remember a blizzard the day before my birthday on 12/29/2010 with like 6" on the ground.

2010 - 0.5"
2011 - 0.0"
2012 - 8.0"
2013 - 0.0"
2014 - 0.0"
2015 - 18.0"
2016 - 0.1"
2017 - 0.0"
2018 - 2.0"
2019 - 1.0"
 

1990 and 2008 are my top white Christmas’s...Since both featured a lot of snow on the ground with heavy snow falling on Christmas morning. Probably had at least 15” on the ground in 1990 and about 34” on the ground in 2008. Oh the memories!! 

[Timmy Supercell]

1 minute ago, MossMan said:

1990 and 2008 are my top white Christmas’s...Since both featured a lot of snow on the ground with heavy snow falling on Christmas morning. Probably had at least 15” on the ground in 1990 and about 34” on the ground in 2008. Oh the memories!! 

Thankfully I had still lived in Hillsboro for a couple years to experience all of 2008. At the time I did not know that was going to be a 30 year type December.

Like can Portland have anything between 0" and 25" inches? lol There has to be a year where maybe an inch was on the ground on Xmas. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

63 indoors here. Time to throw a few more shrimp on the barbie. 

[SouthHillFrosty]

Just now, SilverFallsAndrew said:

63 indoors here. Time to throw a few more shrimp on the barbie. 

My gf keeps her house at 80. I keep mine at 50-55. There has to be a happy medium somewhere

[Deweydog]

2 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

63 indoors here. Time to throw a few more shrimp on the barbie. 

Same here!  We should totally hang out!

[Deweydog]

1 minute ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

My gf keeps her house at 80. I keep mine at 50-55. There has to be a happy medium somewhere

I believe that would be 65 to 67.5.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

1 minute ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

My gf keeps her house at 80. I keep mine at 50-55. There has to be a happy medium somewhere

If my brother in law were here he would have it about 80 in here. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

[MossMan]

When I lived a few of my younger single days at the lake house and when it still had a wood burning insert, I would get that living room up to about 85 degrees! 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

1 minute ago, MossMan said:

When I lived a few of my younger single days at the lake house and when it still had a wood burning insert, I would get that living room up to about 85 degrees! 

Sauna!

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Hoodoo up to 39". Not bad for mid-December there. 

[MossMan]

2 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Sauna!

Felt soo good after a day of doing drainage projects at the golf course in 38 degree heavy drizzle! 

[TT-SEA]

10 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

My gf keeps her house at 80. I keep mine at 50-55. There has to be a happy medium somewhere

Both of those are uncomfortable extremes.    I can't imagine a temp in the low 50s inside the house.   That is almost cold enough to see your breath.    We have gone on vacation for 2 weeks and set the temp all the way down to 64 and everyone is freezing cold when we return until it warms up.   

[MossMan]

Temp down to 38. 
.08” so far on the day. 

[Front Ranger]

38 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

This is the opposite of a GOA ridge...

 

Yeah, really nothing promising in the semi-believable range.

The long range ensembles do look a bit improved over yesterday, that's about it for positive trends.

[TacomaWaWx]

4 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Temp down to 38. 
.08” so far on the day. 

Was a rain/snow mix when I arrived at the work in pouslbo this morning for work now rain and 39. 

[Christensen87]

Nice east wind event around Christmas Day. 

[SouthHillFrosty]

6 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Both of those are uncomfortable extremes.    I can't imagine a temp in the low 50s inside the house.   That is almost cold enough to see your breath.    We have gone on vacation for 2 weeks and set the temp all the way down to 64 and everyone is freezing cold when we return until it warms up.   

When I was a baby, the furnace in my house went out and we couldn’t afford to fix it for 10 years. So growing up, my house was always really cold. All these years later, I’m still use to a cold house

[Jesse]

I am angry about the temperatures you guys keep your houses at. 

[Timmy Supercell]

2 minutes ago, Christensen87 said:

Nice east wind event around Christmas Day. 

I think everybody has had more than their quota of east wind for the year.

[TT-SEA]

1 minute ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

When I was a baby, the furnace in my house went out and we couldn’t afford to fix it for 10 years. So growing up, my house was always really cold. All these years later, I’m still use to a cold house

My wife's parents live in Minnesota and they have a furnace in their house but they never use it... they heat the house with wood-burning stoves and its usually uncomfortably warm in there.   Like 80+ degrees.  

[Timmy Supercell]

Usually keep my heat around 75 inside. 

In this climate, saving a few dollars could get you downright sick. Especially with this flu season you don't want to be lowering your immune system.