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Love seeing those auroras. Jealous!

Garfield County/Pomeroy, WA:

2023-2024 Snowfall totals: 14.3 inches

HIghest snow total (per event): 5.8 inches total 1/11/24 - 1/12/24.

Most recent accumulation (non trace): 0.20 inches on 2/26/24

Days with  trace or more snowfall: 12/01/23 (0.60), 1/8/24 (1.0), 1/10/24 (3.5), 1/11/23 (3.5 inches with Thundersnow; separate event from prior day), 1/12/24 (2.30). 1/14/24 (T), 1/17/24 (1.20 inches), 1/18/24 (1.5 inches), 1/19/24 (0.20), 2/09/24 (0.30), 2/26/24 (0.20-mainly graupel)

First Freeze: 10/27/2023

Last Sub freezing Day: 1/20/24 (12th) (8 days in a row from 1/12/24-1/20/24)

Coldest low: -12F (!!!!!!!!) (1/12/24)

Last White Christmas: 2022 at my location (on ground)

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Can't see the aurora here, because the view of the sky is blocked here for the far north.

Already down to 39 here.

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Death To Warm Anomalies!

 

Winter 2023-24 stats

 

Total Snowfall = 1.0"

Day with 1" or more snow depth = 1

Total Hail = 0.0

Total Ice = 0.2

Coldest Low = 13

Lows 32 or below = 45

Highs 32 or below = 3

Lows 20 or below = 3

Highs 40 or below = 9

 

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6 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

Might do a late night drive out there… does it go all night? Ik it’s a stupid question 

Not really sure if it goes all night but peak is now. Some of the places I posted earlier are getting spectacular pillars now. Didn’t really wanna clog up the this page with too many aurora posts but they are beautiful. 

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SEA checked in with a big fat -8 departure today.  I have a -9 so far, but if it drops to 35 by midnight it will be a -10.  Significant cold snap!

Death To Warm Anomalies!

 

Winter 2023-24 stats

 

Total Snowfall = 1.0"

Day with 1" or more snow depth = 1

Total Hail = 0.0

Total Ice = 0.2

Coldest Low = 13

Lows 32 or below = 45

Highs 32 or below = 3

Lows 20 or below = 3

Highs 40 or below = 9

 

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Pretty incredible how much colder that thing on Sunday has trended over the past day.  Looks like another very solid cold shot now.  With a ridge immediately following that frosty nights will be in store.  Loving this month!

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Death To Warm Anomalies!

 

Winter 2023-24 stats

 

Total Snowfall = 1.0"

Day with 1" or more snow depth = 1

Total Hail = 0.0

Total Ice = 0.2

Coldest Low = 13

Lows 32 or below = 45

Highs 32 or below = 3

Lows 20 or below = 3

Highs 40 or below = 9

 

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3 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

Still nothing visible here. Even drove north of town to a semi-rural area. Still nothing.

And you're further north than places seeing it.

 

 

Death To Warm Anomalies!

 

Winter 2023-24 stats

 

Total Snowfall = 1.0"

Day with 1" or more snow depth = 1

Total Hail = 0.0

Total Ice = 0.2

Coldest Low = 13

Lows 32 or below = 45

Highs 32 or below = 3

Lows 20 or below = 3

Highs 40 or below = 9

 

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4 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

I’m starting to think it’s mostly just visible in long-exposure photos. Anyone have naked-eye observations to report?

I’m pretty sure that Scott S said in his blog that you have to set your camera to long exposure. Maybe quite hard to see with naked eye. 
 

fwiw, this is a G2 on a 1-5 scale, so it’s consider low-mod geomagnetic storm.

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Just now, Cloud said:

I’m pretty sure that Scott S said in his blog that you have to set your camera to long exposure. Maybe quite hard to see with naked eye. 
 

fwiw, this is a G2 on a 1-5 scale, so it’s consider low-mod geomagnetic storm.

I wouldn't be able to say I saw it unless I see it personally and not through a long exposure picture.

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1 minute ago, Cloud said:

I’m pretty sure that Scott S said in his blog that you have to set your camera to long exposure. Maybe quite hard to see with naked eye. 
 

fwiw, this is a G2 on a 1-5 scale, so it’s consider low-mod geomagnetic storm.

I would say it is definitely in the sky here, then, just to faint to see with the naked eye. Randy Small tweeted a pic from Lynden.

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It's called clown range for a reason.

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Just now, GHweatherChris said:

I wouldn't be able to say I saw it unless I see it personally and not through a long exposure picture.

I don’t think it’s all that difficult even if you can’t see it. All you gotta do is set your camera point north. 

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1 minute ago, Cloud said:

I’m pretty sure that Scott S said in his blog that you have to set your camera to long exposure. Maybe quite hard to see with naked eye. 
 

fwiw, this is a G2 on a 1-5 scale, so it’s consider low-mod geomagnetic storm.

That's pretty lame.  I've seen a number of really good ones in my time.  In the early 1980s there was an aurora so bright you could see the light coming into our house from the glow of it.

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Death To Warm Anomalies!

 

Winter 2023-24 stats

 

Total Snowfall = 1.0"

Day with 1" or more snow depth = 1

Total Hail = 0.0

Total Ice = 0.2

Coldest Low = 13

Lows 32 or below = 45

Highs 32 or below = 3

Lows 20 or below = 3

Highs 40 or below = 9

 

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1 minute ago, GHweatherChris said:

I wouldn't be able to say I saw it unless I see it personally and not through a long exposure picture.

I agree. I have seen it three times (easily visible with the naked eye), though oddly enough, never in Washington, despite this being the furthest north I have lived. I even saw it from New Mexico once!

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Went outside to see the aurora, it's not really visible to the naked eye in the city. Feels very chilly out there.

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Weather stats for MBY

Snowfall:

-Total snowfall since joining: 50.25"

-2018-19: 21"

-2019-20: 2.5"

-2020-21: 13"

-2021-22: 8.75"

-2022-23: 5.75"

-2023-24*: 0.25"

-Most recent snowfall: 0.25”; January 17th, 2024

-Largest snowfall (single storm): 8.5"; February 12-13, 2021

-Largest snow depth: 14"; 1:30am February 12th, 2019

Temperatures:

-Warmest: 109F; June 28th, 2021

-Coldest: 13F; December 27th, 2021

-Phreeze Count 2023-24: 31

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14 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

Pretty incredible how much colder that thing on Sunday has trended over the past day.  Looks like another very solid cold shot now.  With a ridge immediately following that frosty nights will be in store.  Loving this month!

Even GEFS showing the mega pac trough shifting back east. not much but it aint nothing

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Geeze.  The GFS is showing possible highs in the upper 40s on Thursday now.  This is turning into a really impressive cold snap for this early.  Especially from a duration standpoint.  It's a pretty big deal when any month ends up over 5 and probably 6 degrees below normal for the entire first half of the month.

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Death To Warm Anomalies!

 

Winter 2023-24 stats

 

Total Snowfall = 1.0"

Day with 1" or more snow depth = 1

Total Hail = 0.0

Total Ice = 0.2

Coldest Low = 13

Lows 32 or below = 45

Highs 32 or below = 3

Lows 20 or below = 3

Highs 40 or below = 9

 

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14 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

I’m starting to think it’s mostly just visible in long-exposure photos. Anyone have naked-eye observations to report?

I don’t see anything here.  I’ve never seen the northern lights so maybe this just isn’t a good spot. Too many trees on the horizon. 
 

When I was outside I did notice the high clouds are already moving in.  36F

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6 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

I agree. I have seen it three times (easily visible with the naked eye), though oddly enough, never in Washington, despite this being the furthest north I have lived. I even saw it from New Mexico once!

I've probably seen it about 6 times.  A few times directly overhead.  Seeing the light beams dance around is really special, and I've seen that a few times.

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Death To Warm Anomalies!

 

Winter 2023-24 stats

 

Total Snowfall = 1.0"

Day with 1" or more snow depth = 1

Total Hail = 0.0

Total Ice = 0.2

Coldest Low = 13

Lows 32 or below = 45

Highs 32 or below = 3

Lows 20 or below = 3

Highs 40 or below = 9

 

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3 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

I don’t see anything here.  I’ve never seen the northern lights so maybe this just isn’t a good spot. Too many trees on the horizon. 
 

When I was outside I did notice the high clouds are already moving in.  36F

I think they are going to stay really thin for most places.  That far north they may get a bit thicker.

Death To Warm Anomalies!

 

Winter 2023-24 stats

 

Total Snowfall = 1.0"

Day with 1" or more snow depth = 1

Total Hail = 0.0

Total Ice = 0.2

Coldest Low = 13

Lows 32 or below = 45

Highs 32 or below = 3

Lows 20 or below = 3

Highs 40 or below = 9

 

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Just now, snow_wizard said:

I've probably seen it about 6 times.  A few times directly overhead.  Seeing the light beams dance around is really special, and I've seen that a few times.

I remember one time when I was five or six years old and we had taken a day trip from Chicago to Milwaukee to visit relatives. It was a warm summer night, and the aurora was so bright that cars were pulling off the road to watch it. I had seen nothing like it, did not know exactly what it was, and it was so different from how the sky normally looked that it all frightened me a little.

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SeaTac is doing weird stuff right now. Extra runway, elevated observation deck, whatever you want to blame it on; either way it warmed up to 48F on the 10pm observation, roughly 6-8F warmer than any surrounding station. It'll crash like a rock later I bet.

Weather stats for MBY

Snowfall:

-Total snowfall since joining: 50.25"

-2018-19: 21"

-2019-20: 2.5"

-2020-21: 13"

-2021-22: 8.75"

-2022-23: 5.75"

-2023-24*: 0.25"

-Most recent snowfall: 0.25”; January 17th, 2024

-Largest snowfall (single storm): 8.5"; February 12-13, 2021

-Largest snow depth: 14"; 1:30am February 12th, 2019

Temperatures:

-Warmest: 109F; June 28th, 2021

-Coldest: 13F; December 27th, 2021

-Phreeze Count 2023-24: 31

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Wow already 39F here in this corner of the city! That was the low last night!

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Weather stats for MBY

Snowfall:

-Total snowfall since joining: 50.25"

-2018-19: 21"

-2019-20: 2.5"

-2020-21: 13"

-2021-22: 8.75"

-2022-23: 5.75"

-2023-24*: 0.25"

-Most recent snowfall: 0.25”; January 17th, 2024

-Largest snowfall (single storm): 8.5"; February 12-13, 2021

-Largest snow depth: 14"; 1:30am February 12th, 2019

Temperatures:

-Warmest: 109F; June 28th, 2021

-Coldest: 13F; December 27th, 2021

-Phreeze Count 2023-24: 31

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