epiceast Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 It seems to me Tacoma is in for some fun for the next hour or more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradient Keeper Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Looks like I've picked up a dusting of snow this evening.Really? *Kicks you in the balls* ... We've never formally met before, but if we do.... you got it. Yes, I am jealous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weather101 Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Can't wait to see how this unfolds. 32F here dewpoint is dropping like crazy. Quote 2013/2014 Winter season Coldest Low: 14 F December 7thColdest High: 27.3 F December 7thColdest Wind chill: 5 F December 7thLowest Dew Point: -2.2 F December 6thDays below freezing: 5Total Snowfall: 11 inchesMost snowfall in a Day: 8 inchesDays With Snow: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westcoastexpat Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmy Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 06z was garbage for next weekend. It really went light and splitting with the precip next weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighlandExperience Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Reports of light snow in Olympia this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvssnow_spokane Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Reports of light snow in Olympia this morning. Yeah the radar lighting up there. No snow north of there and does not look like there will be today. Quote My Weather Station https://tempestwx.com/station/61434 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TT-SEA Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 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. http://s18.postimg.org/vdi1rle0p/olysouthr.jpg Quote **REPORTED CONDITIONS AND ANOMALIES ARE NOT MEANT TO IMPLY ANYTHING ON A REGIONAL LEVEL UNLESS SPECIFICALLY STATED** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TT-SEA Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 This is all snow on Saturday night: http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/data/gfs/12/gfs_namer_141_precip_p06.gif Quote **REPORTED CONDITIONS AND ANOMALIES ARE NOT MEANT TO IMPLY ANYTHING ON A REGIONAL LEVEL UNLESS SPECIFICALLY STATED** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TT-SEA Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 0C line still south of Seattle at 10 a.m. on Sunday morning. Sunday morning should be a winter wonderland for most of us. Quote **REPORTED CONDITIONS AND ANOMALIES ARE NOT MEANT TO IMPLY ANYTHING ON A REGIONAL LEVEL UNLESS SPECIFICALLY STATED** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GobBluth Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 This is all snow on Saturday night: http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/data/gfs/12/gfs_namer_141_precip_p06.gifThis looks like 2004. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luterra Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Looking better up Seattle way for the weekend. If the GFS is to be believed the Willamette Valley will have ~6 hours of snow, maybe 3-4" Saturday night and we will wake up to find it melting in the rain on Sunday morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR.SNOWMIZER Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 By the time the weekend comes around the storm will be almost all offshore. Hard to tell how this will play out with the energy trying to dig from the north. Looks to me like the southern jet will loose the fight. Quote We come from the land of the ice and snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 32 with light snow in Carson this morning. There is a dusting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snow maniac Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 very light dusting this morning, still seeing very light flurries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IbrChris Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Well hello there... Quote The Pacific Northwest: Where storms go to die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VancouverIslandSouth Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TT-SEA Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 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. Quote **REPORTED CONDITIONS AND ANOMALIES ARE NOT MEANT TO IMPLY ANYTHING ON A REGIONAL LEVEL UNLESS SPECIFICALLY STATED** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TT-SEA Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 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 Quote **REPORTED CONDITIONS AND ANOMALIES ARE NOT MEANT TO IMPLY ANYTHING ON A REGIONAL LEVEL UNLESS SPECIFICALLY STATED** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GobBluth Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 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.jpgIs that low a bit further south too? Start of a trend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR.SNOWMIZER Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Is that low a bit further south too? Start of a trend?I believe so. Like I said the other day I don't think this first system will be the one to push out the cold. Quote We come from the land of the ice and snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 It was snowing pretty good here earlier, but looks like most of that moisture is to our south. Hopefully that blob currently NW of Portland can move our way. Could get some decent accumulation out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR.SNOWMIZER Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Looks like mm5 is backing off some. At this point if we all can't get snow it will suck. Quote We come from the land of the ice and snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighlandExperience Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Looks like mm5 is backing off some. At this point if we all can't get snow it will suck. I'm not liking that. Still plenty of time though. I rememeber with the cold wave back in December the MM5 (I believe it was the MM 5) showing massive amounts of snow at one point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50shadesofvan Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 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. Quote 50 Shades of Van: A weather blog dedicated to providing the public with easily accessible and downright interesting weather information for Vancouver, BC and the Pacific Northwest Latest Post: http://50shadesofvan.com/blog/2014/10/23/chaos-in-the-pacific-storm-parade-route-unknown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradient Keeper Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Portland12z 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. http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/MT8_Portland_Oregon_USA_ens.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parksvillewx Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 I had a light dusting of snow pellets last night but nothing other then that. Saw a few pictures from nanaimo and it looks like 2" or so. Hope we get some squalls tomorrow with the strong outflow winds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradient Keeper Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 I just checked over 20 cams from central Washington, throughout the Columbia Basin, and eastern Washington. All but 2 or 3 showed a dusting to 1-2"+ widespread. Good sign. Here is Colfax, WA http://71.36.245.80:3001/view/index.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Mode Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Cooler drier air filtering into Seattle: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=sew&sid=SEA&num=48 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBigOne Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradient Keeper Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Cooler drier air filtering into Seattle: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=sew&sid=SEA&num=48Yeah, 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradient Keeper Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Why the hell are so many people posting in the January thread today? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Snakes Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Why the hell are so many people posting in the January thread today? I was just wondering why it is so quiet in here. Waiting for Wunderground's Euro map to update past 87 hours... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradient Keeper Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Just had a burst of light snow here... Now back to a 80% snow / 20% rain mix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadio Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Had a light dusting of snow this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st0rmchaser Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 I forgot it's not January anymore. Snowing nicely at 500' in Battle Ground, surprisingly heavy considering NEXRAD shows almost nothing. 1 Quote Favorite weather: The kind most people run away from Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50shadesofvan Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 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? Quote 50 Shades of Van: A weather blog dedicated to providing the public with easily accessible and downright interesting weather information for Vancouver, BC and the Pacific Northwest Latest Post: http://50shadesofvan.com/blog/2014/10/23/chaos-in-the-pacific-storm-parade-route-unknown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weather101 Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 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 Quote 2013/2014 Winter season Coldest Low: 14 F December 7thColdest High: 27.3 F December 7thColdest Wind chill: 5 F December 7thLowest Dew Point: -2.2 F December 6thDays below freezing: 5Total Snowfall: 11 inchesMost snowfall in a Day: 8 inchesDays With Snow: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snow maniac Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Seeing light flurries here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR.SNOWMIZER Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Seeing light flurries here.Its dust. Quote We come from the land of the ice and snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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