March 2015 PNW Discussion

[SilverFallsAndrew]

 

Amazingly today's 54 was PDX's first and only sub-55 high of the month.

 

Uncharted waters for March I'd imagine.

 

 

 

Have you seriously googled Lamar Odom yet?! People thought he was going to be the next Karl Malone. Never panned out. Had a good career and then fell off a cliff. Coke will do that to you. It was like 1980 all over again. Never **** a Kardashian.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

I think it is going to be a decent summer, a little bit of everything for us all. Definitely due for a heatwave in the Willamette Valley. Been a few summers since we had a decent one.

[TT-SEA]

I think it is going to be a decent summer, a little bit of everything for us all. Definitely due for a heatwave in the Willamette Valley. Been a few summers since we had a decent one.

 

 

A little inevitable early spring troughing is skewing your opinion of what will likely be a consistently warm summer with higher than normal dewpoints.   Don't be fooled Andrew.   Think summer 2013 and 2014.  

[SilverFallsAndrew]

I enjoy the long range portion of the 00z GFS.

[Dan the Weatherman]

I see a tendency towards GOA/West Coast troughing for the next 2-3 weeks.

 

I hope we can get some much needed rain and snow in CA during this period before the rainy season ends.

[TT-SEA]

The GFS and ECMWF both show dry weather on Easter Sunday from Tacoma northward to Bellingham with rain on the WA coast... SW interior... and in Oregon.    

 

Hoping that works out... Easter Egg hunt outside is very important to a certain 5-year old here.    We will be in Bellingham and hoping for a day up there like today.   

 

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/mm5rt/data/current_extended/images_d2/wa_pcp3.120.0000.gif

 

ECMWF shows exactly the same thing.

[TT-SEA]

I hope we can get some much needed rain and snow in CA during this period before the rainy season ends.

 

WRF shows good rain and mountain snow in northern and central CA on Monday and Tuesday.

 

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/mm5rt/data/current_extended/images_d2/pcp48.180.0000.gif

[westiztehbest]

Sunspots have decreased noticeably in the last month.

 

[TT-SEA]

Maybe 3 feet of snow in the Sierras early next week...

 

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/mm5rt/data/current_extended/images_d2/msnow72.180.0000.gif

[HighlandExperience]

Snowing pretty good in the passes. Snow down to 1700 foot level along i90.

[HighlandExperience]

Maybe 3 feet of snow in the Sierras early next week...

 

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/mm5rt/data/current_extended/images_d2/msnow72.180.0000.gif

All of that will shift north in coming days.

[richard mann]

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In general regress north previously, cold where looked at more broadly having been spreading daily more south since the 26th. This cold's .. over the NW at this point looked at more in particularly, having traveled pretty much full the way across the Pacific. 
 
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[TT-SEA]

All of that will shift north in coming days.

00Z ECMWF agrees with the GFS through next week. We will see.

 

They need it even more anyways.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR
622 AM PDT WED APR 1 2015

...SNOWFALL TOTALS SINCE TUESDAY FOR THE CASCADES...

A COOL AND UNSETTLED WEATHER PATTERN HAS BROUGHT NUMEROUS SNOW
SHOWERS TO THE CASCADES SINCE TUESDAY MORNING. ACCUMULATIONS HAVE
BEEN RATHER HIT AND MISS...VARYING GREATLY DEPENDING ON WHERE
SHOWERS HAVE LINED UP THE PAST 24 HOURS. A SIMILAR PATTERN WILL
CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING BEFORE SNOW SHOWERS TAPER OFF.
ADDITIONAL SNOW IS POSSIBLE LATER FRIDAY AND INTO THIS WEEKEND.

BELOW ARE ESTIMATED SNOWFALL TOTALS FOR THE CASCADES SINCE EARLY
TUESDAY MORNING...

LOCATION 24 HR AMOUNT TIME/DATE SOURCE


...SOUTH WASHINGTON CASCADES...

SURPRISE LAKES (4250 FT) 5.0 IN 0500 AM 04/01 SNOTEL
POTATO HILL (4500 FT) 5.0 IN 0500 AM 04/01 SNOTEL
SHEEP CANYON (4030 FT) 3.0 IN 0500 AM 04/01 SNOTEL


...NORTHERN OREGON CASCADES...

TOMBSTONE SUMMIT (4236 FT) 11.0 IN 0355 AM 04/01 ODOT
MT HOOD MEADOWS (5249 FT) 10.0 IN 0500 AM 04/01 NWAC
TIMBERLINE LODGE (6000 FT) 10.0 IN 0500 AM 04/01 NWAC
SANTIAM PASS (4817 FT) 9.0 IN 0357 AM 04/01 ODOT
SANTIAM JCT (3750 FT) 6.0 IN 0356 AM 04/01 ODOT
BLAZED ALDER (3650 FT) 5.0 IN 0500 AM 04/01 SNOTEL
WHITE RIVER (3700 FT) 4.0 IN 0336 AM 04/01 ODOT
GOVERNMENT CAMP (3995 FT) 2.0 IN 0336 AM 04/01 ODOT


...LANE COUNTY CASCADES...

IRISH TAYLOR (5500 FT) 7.0 IN 0500 AM 04/01 SNOTEL
MCKENZIE (4800 FT) 6.0 IN 0500 AM 04/01 SNOTEL
WILLAMETTE PASS (5126 FT) 2.0 IN 0356 AM 04/01 ODOT


OBSERVATIONS ARE COLLECTED FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES WITH VARYING
EQUIPMENT AND EXPOSURE. NOT ALL DATA LISTED ARE CONSIDERED OFFICIAL.

$

[Jesse]

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR

622 AM PDT WED APR 1 2015

 

...SNOWFALL TOTALS SINCE TUESDAY FOR THE CASCADES...

 

A COOL AND UNSETTLED WEATHER PATTERN HAS BROUGHT NUMEROUS SNOW

SHOWERS TO THE CASCADES SINCE TUESDAY MORNING. ACCUMULATIONS HAVE

BEEN RATHER HIT AND MISS...VARYING GREATLY DEPENDING ON WHERE

SHOWERS HAVE LINED UP THE PAST 24 HOURS. A SIMILAR PATTERN WILL

CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING BEFORE SNOW SHOWERS TAPER OFF.

ADDITIONAL SNOW IS POSSIBLE LATER FRIDAY AND INTO THIS WEEKEND.

 

BELOW ARE ESTIMATED SNOWFALL TOTALS FOR THE CASCADES SINCE EARLY

TUESDAY MORNING...

 

LOCATION 24 HR AMOUNT TIME/DATE SOURCE

 

 

...SOUTH WASHINGTON CASCADES...

 

SURPRISE LAKES (4250 FT) 5.0 IN 0500 AM 04/01 SNOTEL

POTATO HILL (4500 FT) 5.0 IN 0500 AM 04/01 SNOTEL

SHEEP CANYON (4030 FT) 3.0 IN 0500 AM 04/01 SNOTEL

 

 

...NORTHERN OREGON CASCADES...

 

TOMBSTONE SUMMIT (4236 FT) 11.0 IN 0355 AM 04/01 ODOT

MT HOOD MEADOWS (5249 FT) 10.0 IN 0500 AM 04/01 NWAC

TIMBERLINE LODGE (6000 FT) 10.0 IN 0500 AM 04/01 NWAC

SANTIAM PASS (4817 FT) 9.0 IN 0357 AM 04/01 ODOT

SANTIAM JCT (3750 FT) 6.0 IN 0356 AM 04/01 ODOT

BLAZED ALDER (3650 FT) 5.0 IN 0500 AM 04/01 SNOTEL

WHITE RIVER (3700 FT) 4.0 IN 0336 AM 04/01 ODOT

GOVERNMENT CAMP (3995 FT) 2.0 IN 0336 AM 04/01 ODOT

 

 

...LANE COUNTY CASCADES...

 

IRISH TAYLOR (5500 FT) 7.0 IN 0500 AM 04/01 SNOTEL

MCKENZIE (4800 FT) 6.0 IN 0500 AM 04/01 SNOTEL

WILLAMETTE PASS (5126 FT) 2.0 IN 0356 AM 04/01 ODOT

 

 

OBSERVATIONS ARE COLLECTED FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES WITH VARYING

EQUIPMENT AND EXPOSURE. NOT ALL DATA LISTED ARE CONSIDERED OFFICIAL.

 

$

Nothing too earth shattering so far.

[DareDuck]

Heading back over Santiam in a few hours. Looking forward to all that new snow

[Front Ranger]

Maybe 3 feet of snow in the Sierras early next week...

 

 

 

But the Lake Tahoe guy just posted the FINAL SNOW TALLY.

[bainbridgekid]

Just had a huge rumble of thunder and it is hailing for the 2nd straight day.

 

The last couple days have been as exciting as anything this Winter here.

 

EDIT: 3rd rumble of thunder in the last 15 minutes as the storm pulls away to the SE to Bellevue.

[bainbridgekid]

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR

622 AM PDT WED APR 1 2015

 

...SNOWFALL TOTALS SINCE TUESDAY FOR THE CASCADES...

Snoqualmie Pass got at least 15" last night.

 

Warmed up to 45 degrees though this afternoon so quite a bit of that melted. It's just too late in the year to build much snowpack that low, even with a bunch of snow falling.