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February 2014 in the PNW


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Can't wait to see how this unfolds. 32F here dewpoint is dropping like crazy.

2013/2014 Winter season

Coldest Low: 14 F December 7th

Coldest High: 27.3 F December 7th

Coldest Wind chill: 5 F December 7th

Lowest Dew Point: -2.2 F December 6th

Days below freezing: 5

Total Snowfall: 11 inches

Most snowfall in a Day: 8 inches

Days With Snow: 3

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I think the radar is being a little sensitive tonight. Just had a bright radar echo pass overhead and it only produced light snow pellets. I am basically 10-15 miles west of YYJ. I am more interested to see if the cells up towards nanaimo can continue to develop as the move south.

 

Yeah that's what I'm thinking also. Looks like there are returns running between Olympia and Jim's house, but sfc obs all say OVC

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Yeah the radar lighting up there. No snow north of there and does not look like there will be today. 

 

 

It might look like something on the radar... but there is not much happening down there.    Air is too dry now.      We wait until the weekend.

 

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Seems like as good a time as any to rejoin the forum. Got a bit of snow/ice pellets here in Victoria last night, but doesn't look like anything stuck around. Further up island around Nanaimo it looks like they'll have a nice snow covering going into this cold snap. It'll be interesting to see if it actually gets as cold as prog'd this week, heights (at least in the north) are forecast to be 5-10 dm higher than the event back in December, which usually correlate with sub-freezing daytime highs up here without extensive snow cover. Regardless the air is definitely going to be super dry, which should bode well for next weekend if the timing of the precip doesn't keep getting pushed back.

 

Here's the cams around Nanaimo this morning:

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p286/jemeric/feb32014_3_zps9216b2f1.jpg

 

 

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p286/jemeric/feb32014_zps4a36d18f.jpg

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Seems like as good a time as any to rejoin the forum. Got a bit of snow/ice pellets here in Victoria last night, but doesn't look like anything stuck around. Further up island around Nanaimo it looks like they'll have a nice snow covering going into this cold snap. It'll be interesting to see if it actually gets as cold as prog'd this week, heights (at least in the north) are forecast to be 5-10 dm higher than the event back in December, which usually correlate with sub-freezing daytime highs up here without extensive snow cover. Regardless the air is definitely going to be super dry, which should bode well for next weekend if the timing of the precip doesn't keep getting pushed back.

 

Here's the cams around Nanaimo this morning:

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p286/jemeric/feb32014_3_zps9216b2f1.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks awesome.    Too bad the arctic front did not spread the wealth.    That would have been great.

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Canadian is dry through Saturday... and pretty weak with the push on Sunday but with moisture.       Here is Saturday afternoon:

 

http://weather.gc.ca/data/model_forecast/colour_images/12_054_G1_north@america@zoomout_I_4PAN_CLASSIC@012_132.jpg

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Canadian is dry through Saturday... and pretty weak with the push on Sunday but with moisture.       Here is Saturday afternoon:

 

http://weather.gc.ca/data/model_forecast/colour_images/12_054_G1_north@america@zoomout_I_4PAN_CLASSIC@012_132.jpg

Is that low a bit further south too? Start of a trend?

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Seems like as good a time as any to rejoin the forum. Got a bit of snow/ice pellets here in Victoria last night, but doesn't look like anything stuck around. Further up island around Nanaimo it looks like they'll have a nice snow covering going into this cold snap. It'll be interesting to see if it actually gets as cold as prog'd this week, heights (at least in the north) are forecast to be 5-10 dm higher than the event back in December, which usually correlate with sub-freezing daytime highs up here without extensive snow cover. Regardless the air is definitely going to be super dry, which should bode well for next weekend if the timing of the precip doesn't keep getting pushed back.

 

Here's the cams around Nanaimo this morning:

 

 

 

Great to have another fellow Canadian aboard the forums. 

 

I feel there's some very real potential for snow squalls for east Vancouver Island tomorrow. We'll see, but conditions do seem pretty ripe for an event like this.

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12z GFS Ensembles. Mean temp pretty much unchanged near that -15c line. What I see here to me screams Snow Saturday, then an Ice Storm Sunday-Monday for PDX metro. Indications also that the warm push looks weaker as we only get above 0c briefly, then fall again. Hard to scour out the low level cold air if that's the case. Could be very significant, especially east of I-205. Moisture details and longevity of cold air lasting beyond Sunday to me is not a lock yet. The models and ensembles are promising though.

 

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Nice webcam.  Any schools delayed with that 2 inches?    With such cold temps entering the Pacific Northwest does anybody think kids have a good chance of a bunch of 2 hour late starts due to the busses having a harder time starting up?  

 

In Central Indiana they closed school for a week back in early January when temps were down in the single digits at night because busses refused to start no matter how many times they turned the key.

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Yeah, Noticing the wind shift line to northerly moved into PDX metro about 1 hour ago. The BLI-SEA, SEA-OLM, and OLM-PDX have all been northerly for awhile and with that dewpoints have fallen in earnest across western Washington. I am seeing some N-NW wind on my Anemometer. PDX-EUG still shows -0.9mb of very weak southerly flow. KLS-PDX shows a northerly gradient too. What does this all mean? Dewpoints should start to fall soon as colder, drier air starts to filter south into northwest Oregon.

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Latest Post: Some Call It The Greatest Thing That Ever Happened. I Call It Winter  (Sorry for the Upworthy Style title!)

 

Highlights:

-Mega mountain snows

-Much needed snows for the ski season

-Localized strait-effect snow for Vancouver Island tomorrow?

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Latest Post: Some Call It The Greatest Thing That Ever Happened. I Call It Winter (Sorry for the Upworthy Style title!)

 

 

Highlights:

-Mega mountain snows

-Much needed snows for the ski season

-Localized strait-effect snow for Vancouver Island tomorrow?

Another great read

2013/2014 Winter season

Coldest Low: 14 F December 7th

Coldest High: 27.3 F December 7th

Coldest Wind chill: 5 F December 7th

Lowest Dew Point: -2.2 F December 6th

Days below freezing: 5

Total Snowfall: 11 inches

Most snowfall in a Day: 8 inches

Days With Snow: 3

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