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April temperature departures... from south to north.

EUG  +2.2

SLE +2.9

PDX +2.9

OLM +0.9

SEA +2.7

BLI +2.3

 

OLM is definitely representative of the I-5 corridor.     The other 5 stations are the outliers.   🙄

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Looks like EUG has already exceeded their monthly total for April by 7 a.m. on May 1st.   

And already almost 20% of the normal rainfall for May.  

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10 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

April temperature departures... from south to north.

EUG  +2.2

SLE +2.9

PDX +2.9

OLM +0.9

SEA +2.7

BLI +2.3

 

OLM is definitely representative of the I-5 corridor.     The other 5 stations are the outliers.   🙄

Totally uncalled for troll attempt. 

 

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Snowfall                                  Precip

2022-23: 95.0"                      2022-23: 17.39"

2021-22: 52.6"                    2021-22: 91.46" 

2020-21: 12.0"                    2020-21: 71.59"

2019-20: 23.5"                   2019-20: 58.54"

2018-19: 63.5"                   2018-19: 66.33"

2017-18: 30.3"                   2017-18: 59.83"

2016-17: 49.2"                   2016-17: 97.58"

2015-16: 11.75"                 2015-16: 68.67"

2014-15: 3.5"
2013-14: 11.75"                  2013-14: 62.30
2012-13: 16.75"                 2012-13: 78.45  

2011-12: 98.5"                   2011-12: 92.67"

It's always sunny at Winters Hill! 
Fighting the good fight against weather evil.

 

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Nectar from the GODS.

Snowfall                                  Precip

2022-23: 95.0"                      2022-23: 17.39"

2021-22: 52.6"                    2021-22: 91.46" 

2020-21: 12.0"                    2020-21: 71.59"

2019-20: 23.5"                   2019-20: 58.54"

2018-19: 63.5"                   2018-19: 66.33"

2017-18: 30.3"                   2017-18: 59.83"

2016-17: 49.2"                   2016-17: 97.58"

2015-16: 11.75"                 2015-16: 68.67"

2014-15: 3.5"
2013-14: 11.75"                  2013-14: 62.30
2012-13: 16.75"                 2012-13: 78.45  

2011-12: 98.5"                   2011-12: 92.67"

It's always sunny at Winters Hill! 
Fighting the good fight against weather evil.

 

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Just now, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Totally uncalled for troll attempt. 

 

Its not trolling... Jared says OLM is representative but its not always that way.

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Should also mention that HQM actually ended up with a 0.0 departure... perfectly normal.     That location only had 2 really warm days which was less than other stations.

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My friend at Crooked River Ranch in Central Oregon is having a nice band of rain come through. He's up to 0.57" since midnight, I think he was sitting at 1.29" of precip on the year before today. 

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Snowfall                                  Precip

2022-23: 95.0"                      2022-23: 17.39"

2021-22: 52.6"                    2021-22: 91.46" 

2020-21: 12.0"                    2020-21: 71.59"

2019-20: 23.5"                   2019-20: 58.54"

2018-19: 63.5"                   2018-19: 66.33"

2017-18: 30.3"                   2017-18: 59.83"

2016-17: 49.2"                   2016-17: 97.58"

2015-16: 11.75"                 2015-16: 68.67"

2014-15: 3.5"
2013-14: 11.75"                  2013-14: 62.30
2012-13: 16.75"                 2012-13: 78.45  

2011-12: 98.5"                   2011-12: 92.67"

It's always sunny at Winters Hill! 
Fighting the good fight against weather evil.

 

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Let's get this topic pinned! 

Another warm May for the ninth time in a row here or more average? ;)

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Ashland, KY Weather

'23-'24 Winter

Snowfall - 5.50"
First freeze: 11/1 (32)
Minimum: 2 on 1/17

Measurable snows: 4
Max 1 day snow: 3" (1/19)

Thunders: 11
1/27, 1/28, 2/10, 2/22, 2/27, 2/28, 3/5, 3/6, 3/14, 3/15
3/26, 

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https://imgur.com/SuGTijl

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NWS Medford has a slight chance of thunder for the east sides. Good thing I already have my batteries charged up.

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Ashland, KY Weather

'23-'24 Winter

Snowfall - 5.50"
First freeze: 11/1 (32)
Minimum: 2 on 1/17

Measurable snows: 4
Max 1 day snow: 3" (1/19)

Thunders: 11
1/27, 1/28, 2/10, 2/22, 2/27, 2/28, 3/5, 3/6, 3/14, 3/15
3/26, 

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[Klamath Falls, OR 2010 to 2021]
https://imgur.com/SuGTijl

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20 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

My friend at Crooked River Ranch in Central Oregon is having a nice band of rain come through. He's up to 0.57" since midnight, I think he was sitting at 1.29" of precip on the year before today. 

Visual of that nice little band of moisture :)

Ended up with 1.19 for April here

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Cloudy with a low of 48 here this morning. Up to 52 currently. Picked up 0.07” yesterday, just under 1/2” for the April total.

Looks like a lot of areas south of about Aurora did pretty well for rainfall last night. Might have saved some spots from recording the driest April on record.

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21 minutes ago, Jesse said:

Cloudy with a low of 48 here this morning. Up to 52 currently. Picked up 0.07” yesterday, just under 1/2” for the April total.

Looks like a lot of areas south of about Aurora did pretty well for rainfall last night. Might have saved some spots from recording the driest April on record.

I believe PDX and Eugene set their records for driest April. Good news is those records were set in 1956 and 1985 respectively. Not bad company! Weren’t those also Niña years? Noticed now the 3rd driest April at PDX was 1949.

Snowfall                                  Precip

2022-23: 95.0"                      2022-23: 17.39"

2021-22: 52.6"                    2021-22: 91.46" 

2020-21: 12.0"                    2020-21: 71.59"

2019-20: 23.5"                   2019-20: 58.54"

2018-19: 63.5"                   2018-19: 66.33"

2017-18: 30.3"                   2017-18: 59.83"

2016-17: 49.2"                   2016-17: 97.58"

2015-16: 11.75"                 2015-16: 68.67"

2014-15: 3.5"
2013-14: 11.75"                  2013-14: 62.30
2012-13: 16.75"                 2012-13: 78.45  

2011-12: 98.5"                   2011-12: 92.67"

It's always sunny at Winters Hill! 
Fighting the good fight against weather evil.

 

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Said band of moisture should reach here around 3-4pm likely giving Bozeman its first storms of the year. Models have been pretty bullish in dropping 0.5-1" of rainfall.

While April wasn't nearly as dry in Bozeman compared to you guys, (1.74" of precip for April) we are teetering on drought conditions as well as we enter the wet season and can use all the moisture that we can get.

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Cold Season 2023/24:

Total snowfall: 26"

Highest daily snowfall: 5"

Deepest snow depth: 12"

Coldest daily high: -20ºF

Coldest daily low: -42ºF

Number of subzero days: 5

Personal Weather Station on Wunderground: 

https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMTBOZEM152#history

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11 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

I believe PDX and Eugene set their records for driest April. Good news is those records were set in 1956 and 1985 respectively. Not bad company! Weren’t those also Niña years? Noticed now the 3rd driest April at PDX was 1949.

Worth mentioning April 1956 was about three degrees cooler on average than last month at PDX, as was 1949. 

Winter killing cold Octobers all of those years too ;(

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1 hour ago, MossMan said:

Nice to see areas to the south get some rain while my area remained dry overnight! 

Dry here, too. When I checked WeatherBell yesterday, neither the ECMWF nor the GFS were modeling any weekend precip for western Whatcom County, so I am not expecting any. I can't 100% recall, but your area may have had a stray shower or two modeled but was still pretty dry, too.

Neither model showed highs here getting even close to the 60˚F mark, either, so I am also not expecting that.

It's called clown range for a reason.

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Big dark tornader clouds coming.

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Ashland, KY Weather

'23-'24 Winter

Snowfall - 5.50"
First freeze: 11/1 (32)
Minimum: 2 on 1/17

Measurable snows: 4
Max 1 day snow: 3" (1/19)

Thunders: 11
1/27, 1/28, 2/10, 2/22, 2/27, 2/28, 3/5, 3/6, 3/14, 3/15
3/26, 

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[Klamath Falls, OR 2010 to 2021]
https://imgur.com/SuGTijl

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Maybe an analog for next winter? April 1949 was one of Portland's five driest. ;)

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Ashland, KY Weather

'23-'24 Winter

Snowfall - 5.50"
First freeze: 11/1 (32)
Minimum: 2 on 1/17

Measurable snows: 4
Max 1 day snow: 3" (1/19)

Thunders: 11
1/27, 1/28, 2/10, 2/22, 2/27, 2/28, 3/5, 3/6, 3/14, 3/15
3/26, 

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[Klamath Falls, OR 2010 to 2021]
https://imgur.com/SuGTijl

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15 minutes ago, Timmy_Supercell said:

Maybe an analog for next winter? April 1949 was one of Portland's five driest. ;)

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January 2022 will be epic! 

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Elevation 580’ Location a few miles east of I-5 on the Snohomish Co side of the Snohomish/Skagit border. I love snow/cold AND sun/warmth! 

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4 hours ago, TT-SEA said:

April temperature departures... from south to north.

EUG  +2.2

SLE +2.9

PDX +2.9

OLM +0.9

SEA +2.7

BLI +2.3

 

OLM is definitely representative of the I-5 corridor.     The other 5 stations are the outliers.   🙄

If the other stations are in relatively urbanized areas..then yeah it technically is (or would be in the absence of such).

Station siting + urbanization is a disease on US climate records everywhere. Many places the same airmass that produced record breaking cold in 1880 would fall 10+ degrees short today.

The -15°F lows the DC area experienced in the 19th century would be closer to 0°F today under the same airmass.

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28 minutes ago, Timmy_Supercell said:

Maybe an analog for next winter? April 1949 was one of Portland's five driest. ;)

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2020 and 1949 were good analogs for the next winter....I think 56-57 was decent not sure about 46-47 though. 

Tacoma WA elevation 300’

Monthly rainfall-3.56”

Warm season rainfall-11.14”

Max temp-88

+80 highs-2

+85 highs-2

+90 highs-0

 

 

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4 hours ago, TT-SEA said:

Its not trolling... Jared says OLM is representative but its not always that way.

It’s definitely more representative than SEA though. :lol: Hard to argue otherwise with a straight face. 

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2 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

I believe PDX and Eugene set their records for driest April. Good news is those records were set in 1956 and 1985 respectively. Not bad company! Weren’t those also Niña years? Noticed now the 3rd driest April at PDX was 1949.

 

34 minutes ago, Timmy_Supercell said:

Maybe an analog for next winter? April 1949 was one of Portland's five driest. ;)

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No El Niño years on that list.

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1 hour ago, Jesse said:

VUO and HIO were only about a degree above normal for April, FWIW. Both stations had average lows below 40.

😱😱😱

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Good news post: We will soon be entering a regime of IPWP-centered trades w/ IO convection, a critical component in almost every multiyear niña.

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Also: note the MJO bifurcation/dissolution into a faster propagating CCKW while the lower frequency component slowly propagates eastward thru the IO. That will render unfiltered RMMs difficult if not useless for assessing true state of MJO.

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Get into June with an E-IO/Maritime Continent low pass signal, and it suddenly becomes a much more productive pattern for -PNA/western troughing.

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13 minutes ago, Phil said:

If the other stations are in relatively urbanized areas..then yeah it technically is (or would be in the absence of such).

Station siting + urbanization is a disease on US climate records everywhere. Many places the same airmass that produced record breaking cold in 1880 would fall 10+ degrees short today.

The -15°F lows the DC area experienced in the 19th century would be closer to 0°F today under the same airmass.

15 degrees of UHI 🤨 

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Bad news post: Good lord above will someone shrink that d**n Hadley Cell already. Talk about slow and fat, if not morbidly obese. At this point it’s just enabling bad behavior.

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Just now, ShawniganLake said:

15 degrees of UHI 🤨 

For low temps it can easily exceed 10 degrees in downtown DC. On ideal radiational cooling nights in the autumn, the difference between DCA and Dulles has reached up to 22 degrees. :lol: 

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C’MON sun and warmth!! I’m really to get the water sports going!  Looks like I will need to run back to the lake sometime this weekend and mow if it stays dry since it’s growing like crazy now! 

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Elevation 580’ Location a few miles east of I-5 on the Snohomish Co side of the Snohomish/Skagit border. I love snow/cold AND sun/warmth! 

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Just now, MossMan said:

C’MON sun and warmth!! I’m really to get the water sports going!  Looks like I will need to run back to the lake sometime this weekend and mow if it stays dry since it’s growing like crazy now! 

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I wish there was a way to downvote this post 20 times.

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6 minutes ago, MossMan said:

C’MON sun and warmth!! I’m really to get the water sports going!  Looks like I will need to run back to the lake sometime this weekend and mow if it stays dry since it’s growing like crazy now! 

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As if you haven’t had a historic amount of dry/sunny weather already. 🙄

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17 minutes ago, Jesse said:

I wish there was a way to downvote this post 20 times.

Better conserve those weenie and downvotes...You will be seeing lots of these pictures over the summer!! 

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Elevation 580’ Location a few miles east of I-5 on the Snohomish Co side of the Snohomish/Skagit border. I love snow/cold AND sun/warmth! 

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10 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Better conserve those weenie and downvotes...You will be seeing lots of these pictures over the summer!! 

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I can’t possibly enjoy the outdoors unless there is some sort of regional drought in progress.

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15 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Better conserve those weenie and downvotes...You will be seeing lots of these pictures over the summer!! 

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I upload a cloud picture for every clap of thunder heard in the vicinity ;)

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Ashland, KY Weather

'23-'24 Winter

Snowfall - 5.50"
First freeze: 11/1 (32)
Minimum: 2 on 1/17

Measurable snows: 4
Max 1 day snow: 3" (1/19)

Thunders: 11
1/27, 1/28, 2/10, 2/22, 2/27, 2/28, 3/5, 3/6, 3/14, 3/15
3/26, 

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[Klamath Falls, OR 2010 to 2021]
https://imgur.com/SuGTijl

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Good Lord... another day of preference battles.   So stupid!  

I will always enjoy any sunny weather nature sends our way.   It could be in a wet period or in a dry period... does not matter to me.    

Even drier than normal weather for a couple months is still wet here.   I was out there working in mud just now and the grass is soggy.    Which is always the case at this time year.    And its still wetter than normal for the year and the water year.    And we have massive snowpack in the mountains so our water supply is doing great.   

So yeah.    Its a different world up here.    Just accept it.    It was nice to have a couple drier than normal months.    No one is telling Oregon people not to cheer for rain or worry about drought.   👍

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