Weather Pictures

[MossMan]

I can't help but to go through my pics of snow and cold when the first threat of winter starts approaching. Feel free to post winters pics here.

 

Dec 2008...that is my old VW Jetta under a lot of snow! Pic taken on Christmas morning, what a gift all that snow was!

[MossMan]

Same car in Jan. 2012.

[MossMan]

And Dec 2013, pretty much the only snow of last winter.

[MossMan]

These photos are awesome!

Thanks!

 

Here are a few more from Dec 2008

[SilverFallsAndrew]

February 7th, 2014.

 

With early morning clearing my temp fell to 13 degrees with the snow cover.

 

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

January 4, 2011 about 2 miles from my house. 

 

[Parksvillewx]

Dec 18th? 2008.  Woke up in the AM after the snow the entire previous day and night.

 

 

 

 

Jan 9th, 2011

 

 

 

Jan 18th, 2012

 

 

 

 

Feb 25th 2013

 

 

 

[BLI snowman]

December 22, 2008 in Brush Prairie, WA

 

 

 

Morning of December 24, 2008 (snowiest it got)

 

 

 

 

 

[Gradient Keeper]

December 24th, 2008

 

http://i57.tinypic.com/mtuqtu.jpg

 

 

December 21st - 22nd, 2008

http://i57.tinypic.com/102l5rd.jpg

 

 

 

December 18th, 2008

http://i60.tinypic.com/11b51u9.jpg
 

 

December 25th, 2008 Christmas Day

http://i57.tinypic.com/5o5b48.jpg

 

http://i59.tinypic.com/2rmazi0.jpg

[TT-SEA]

January 2012...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then after the ice storm...

 

[TT-SEA]

November 23, 2010:

 

 

 

December 30, 2010

 

 

 

February 26, 2011

 

 

 

December 19, 2012:

 

[TT-SEA]

January 11, 2013:

 

 

 

December 4, 2013:

 

[Skagit Weather]

A few images from last winter (12/7/13). Didn't really get that much snow, but it was cold enough to try and play around with some ice.

 

One of the frozen nearby sloughs.

[MossMan]

November 2006, when I took this picture I think we were on day 2 of no power and highs in the low 20's

[bainbridgekid]

Brennan, TheNewBigMack, and I on a frozen Lake Geneva in Bellingham on 2/6/14.

 

 

Morning of 2/23/14 in Bellingham. We got another 4-5" after this was taken.

 

 

12/22/08 on Bainbridge Island:

 

 

 

Tree damage on 12/22/08 on Bainbridge:

 

 

Two from 2/26/09 on Bainbridge:

 

And 3/15/09 on Bainbridge. That was a hell of a winter.

 

[BLI snowman]

A couple of photos from February 24 this year in Bellingham, the day after our 11" wet snow bonanza, Sehome Hill Arboretum was a mess with tree branches down everywhere.

 

 

 

 

[wx_statman]

Some great pictures in this thread!

[bainbridgekid]

A couple of photos from February 24 this year in Bellingham, the day after our 11" wet snow bonanza, Sehome Hill Arboretum was a mess with tree branches down everywhere.

 

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No kidding.

 

I went up there with some friends in the afternoon on the 23rd and it turned into one of the scariest experiences of my life. Barely any branches were breaking on our way up, but after a couple hours up there they started coming down all around us. A 60 foot tall tree fell right behind us on the path as we were starting down which really kicked us into gear. We ended up basically running down and had to go over like 10 fallen trees on the way with more branches and trees coming down all around us. 

 

It was awesome, but the sheer number of limbs coming down at once was pretty terrifying.

[Black Hole]

Awesome thread!

 

Do we have a comprehensive list of all of the snow events the last few years? I think it would be fun to make something like that with input from all of the members about what fell where/when.

[bainbridgekid]

Awesome thread!

 

Do we have a comprehensive list of all of the snow events the last few years? I think it would be fun to make something like that with input from all of the members about what fell where/when.

This is a fantastic idea.

 

It would be really cool to have a single thread with a post detailing each snow event.

[wx_statman]

This is a fantastic idea.

 

It would be really cool to have a single thread with a post detailing each snow event.

 

The hard part would be actually doing it. That's a lot of work!

[BLI snowman]

No kidding.

 

I went up there with some friends in the afternoon on the 23rd and it turned into one of the scariest experiences of my life. Barely any branches were breaking on our way up, but after a couple hours up there they started coming down all around us. A 60 foot tall tree fell right behind us on the path as we were starting down which really kicked us into gear. We ended up basically running down and had to go over like 10 fallen trees on the way with more branches and trees coming down all around us. 

 

It was awesome, but the sheer number of limbs coming down at once was pretty terrifying.

 

No joke. That was probably some of the worst tree damage I've personally seen since the December 1995 storm. December 2006 wasn't even that bad in SW WA. 

[BLI snowman]

The hard part would be actually doing it. That's a lot of work!

 

I did a bit of research awhile back trying to categorize each 6"+ event for the I-5 corridor back to 1900 or so. Getting each small event would take a ton of time.

[bainbridgekid]

No joke. That was probably some of the worst tree damage I've personally seen since the December 1995 storm. December 2006 wasn't even that bad in SW WA. 

I didn't get a measurement, but there had to be 16-18" at the top of the hill. I took this in the afternoon and it snowed for hours after this.

 

Just incredible what that did to the trees.

 

[Bryant]

Brennan, TheNewBigMack, and I on a frozen Lake Geneva in Bellingham on 2/6/14.

 

 

Good times!

[MossMan]

_{I saved the all the SWS during the Dec 2008 event, this was the first official one...oh the memories!}

_{Though if I remember correctly didn't we start tracking the first signs of the big change around the last week of November?}

 

<sub>SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
315 PM PST MON DEC 8 2008
SAN JUAN COUNTY-WESTERN WHATCOM COUNTY-SOUTHWEST INTERIOR-
EAST PUGET SOUND LOWLANDS-WESTERN SKAGIT COUNTY-EVERETT AND VICINITY-
SEATTLE/BREMERTON AREA-TACOMA AREA-ADMIRALTY INLET AREA-
HOOD CANAL AREA-LOWER CHEHALIS VALLEY AREA-OLYMPICS-
EASTERN STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA-WESTERN STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA-
NORTH COAST-CENTRAL COAST-WEST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES AND PASSES-
WEST SLOPES CENTRAL CASCADES AND PASSES-
315 PM PST MON DEC 8 2008

...MUCH COLDER WEATHER IS EXPECTED THIS WEEKEND...

A MAJOR CHANGE WILL OCCUR IN THE LARGE SCALE PATTERN NEAR THE END OF
THIS WEEK...BRINGING MUCH COLDER WEATHER TO WESTERN WASHINGTON OVER
THE WEEKEND.

THE TRANSITION WILL GET UNDERWAY FRIDAY OR FRIDAY NIGHT...AS A COLD
FRONT AND ITS UPPER TROUGH SWING SOUTHEAST FROM THE GULF OF ALASKA
ACROSS THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. IN THE WAKE OF THE COLD FRONT...COLDER
AIR WILL MOVE FROM SOUTHWEST CANADA INTO WESTERN WASHINGTON OVER THE
WEEKEND.

WE CAN EXPECT TEMPERATURES TO FALL BELOW FREEZING...AT LEAST DURING
THE NIGHT AND MORNING HOURS...ACROSS MOST OF WESTERN WASHINGTON THIS
WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK. PEOPLE SHOULD BE READY FOR WEATHER THAT
IS COLD ENOUGH TO CAUSE ICY ROADS...BURST OUTDOOR PIPES...AND
ENDANGER PETS.

THE TROUGH WILL BRING SOME MUCH NEEDED SNOW TO THE CASCADES AND
OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...FOLLOWED BY SCATTERED
SNOW SHOWERS OVER THE WEEKEND.

THERE IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY OF SNOWFALL ACROSS THE WESTERN
WASHINGTON LOWLANDS...PERHAPS AS EARLY AS FRIDAY NIGHT...BUT IT IS
TOO EARLY TO SAY WITH ANY CONFIDENCE WHETHER OR NOT THIS WILL OCCUR.

WESTERN WASHINGTON RESIDENTS SHOULD KEEP INFORMED OF THE LATEST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS AS THIS SITUATION
UNFOLDS BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR VISITING OUR WEB PAGE
AT WEATHER.GOV/SEATTLE (ALL LOWERCASE).
MCDONNAL
WEATHER.GOV/SEATTLE</sub>
 

[MossMan]

Here are a few pics of the late November cold blast that we just had. The first two pics were taken just as the snow was stopping that Saturday morning.

[MossMan]

A few more of late Nov 2014.

[Snowman5678]

February 2011:

December 18th 2008 when I woke up in the morning. Ended up with over a foot that day. It snowed this heavily for hours.

 

Heavy snow caused a semi to slide off the road a couple miles down the road and caused for about 30 cars to get stuck in this area. Excuse the crappy pictures...just taking pics of my facebook cause when I upload the files are too big.

February 8th 2014:

 

 

November 29th 2014:

 

 

[MossMan]

Time to add pictures again...perhaps it will bring us good luck the rest of the winter!

12/27/15 snowfall

[crf450ish]

Looking out from our back porch 1/3/16

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry, its a cell pic...

[Snowman5678]

Okay so I dont have any new snow pics from the PNW cause there wasn't any snow when I was home for break so here are some from Salt Lake.

 

 

 

My friend from California's car looking quite out of place.

 

[wx_statman]

A couple pics from January 3rd this year. The only measurable snowfall in the Portland area this winter. Taken @ my father's house in Oregon City. Only about 0.5" there but most of the Portland area north of OC had 1-2 inches. 

 

 

[wx_statman]

Here's a shot of Portland from January 3rd, taken from Mark Nelsen's blog.

 

 

[wx_statman]

Here are a couple pictures I took on January 12, 1998. Major ice storm in Oregon City. Described by the mayor of OC as the worst to hit the town since 1980. We had a dusting of snow on the 11th (as can be seen on the garage roof) followed by 36 hours of freezing rain. 

[wx_statman]

2" of snow on December 24, 1998 in Oregon City. This was the transition out of the major Arctic outbreak that hit the PNW that month. PDX was 27/11 the previous day. That's me at 15 years old! Haha. 

[BLI snowman]

Here are a couple pictures I took on January 12, 1998. Major ice storm in Oregon City. Described by the mayor of OC as the worst to hit the town since 1980. We had a dusting of snow on the 11th (as can be seen on the garage roof) followed by 36 hours of freezing rain. 

 

Both of those storms

[wx_statman]

This is a video I took on February 6, 2014. Taken near PDX at 5:15-5:30pm. OBS for the hour @PDX were Light Snow/19F/wind E27g35. So much wind was blowing at this spot that nothing was accumulating on the pavement. As you can see everything was blowing further down the street where the calmer wind allowed for accumulation. I had to create a youtube account to share this video since its 115 megs, but what the hell. Why not! 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTNRoEcKxwo&feature=youtu.be

[wx_statman]

Both of those storms

 

Very similar storms! OC got the icy shaft while Portland got buried in both of those. 

[wx_statman]

Here's a video I took of east winds @ Vista House on 11/23/2013. I'm guessing gusts were 70-80 mph. PDX managed 24 degrees out of this little cold snap. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V75v0o8awy0

[wx_statman]

Picture of snow covered Coast Range @ Seaside on December 26, 2015. Also a shot of Highway 6 heading to Tillamook earlier that day. Lots of low elevation snow!

[ShawniganLake]

This is a video I took on February 6, 2014. Taken near PDX at 5:15-5:30pm. OBS for the hour @PDX were Light Snow/19F/wind E27g35. So much wind was blowing at this spot that nothing was accumulating on the pavement. As you can see everything was blowing further down the street where the calmer wind allowed for accumulation. I had to create a youtube account to share this video since its 115 megs, but what hell. Why not!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTNRoEcKxwo&feature=youtu.be

Very cool video. I have never seen a drifting snow event in shawnigan lake. When it snows it is always under relatively calm conditions.

[TT-SEA]

Very cool video. I have never seen a drifting snow event in shawnigan lake. When it snows it is always under relatively calm conditions.

 

 

That is a Bellingham special right there.

[wx_statman]

Very cool video. I have never seen a drifting snow event in shawnigan lake. When it snows it is always under relatively calm conditions.

 

Thanks! Its a different experience when the wind blows like that. A half inch of snow can look like a whiteout. 

[Black Hole]

Some pictures from the Dec 14 2015 mega storm in Utah. Biggest storm of my life. I measured 19" of depth after 30 hours of continuous snow. The ground was bare before this started.

 

 

[BLI snowman]

Very similar storms! OC got the icy shaft while Portland got buried in both of those.

As we've discussed before, our best snowstorms in SW WA often seem to screw everyone south of Portland. 1/13/1950 is another example. Helps to be on the edge of the battle zone.

[Front Ranger]

These are from March of this year. I got about 2' from this storm, the third largest I've seen in my 10 years here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Front Ranger]

And since there's been some non-winter pics posted...here's a few from the historic Sep 2013 floods. Both shots from inside the car were right after water had started to pour across the road. It was a little scary, since the water was clearly still rising and there was no telling how high it would get. Both times I got off the road and to higher ground quickly.

 

Highway 36, the main highway that connects Denver to Boulder, was shut down shortly after I took the second pic.

 

Of course, the worst flooding was well north of here and truly devastating.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[luminen]

Took this in December 2013 in Eugene. It was in the teens. 

 

The other one is from Cypress Mountain last December. It was only about 30F.

 

[Deweydog]

Nothing better than a sunny, snow covered day.

 

Been a long time around these parts.