September 2015 in the Pacific Northwest

[TT-SEA]

Typical game for the Hawks. Why can't we just have a blowout for once??

 

 

Hoping they can hold on here.   3 quarters of blah and then they turn it on.   

[Kayla]

In other news, the 12z ECMWF looks downright chilly in the extended with 850mb temps hovering near 0c. This month could end up being PDX's largest negative departure since February 2014.

[MossMan]

You're a glass half empty kind of guy.

Half empty and filled with piss.

The Rams seem to have our number every season! Oh well, good game!

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Good game by the Rams, definitely a well earned victory! Good to see Nick Foles get the win! 

[TT-SEA]

Turned into a gorgeous day here... sunny and pleasant.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

I bet the Seahawks wish they had Tennessee's quarterback!

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Nice day here as well. Sunny and not as hot. 

[Jesse]

You're a glass half empty kind of guy.

Half empty and filled with piss.

Will somebody PLEASE think of the pro-mets????

[Bryant]

Will somebody PLEASE think of the pro-mets????

Pro mets enjoy a good laugh as well. I thought it was hilariously true

[BLI snowman]

I for one can't wait for the low clouds ad daily rain to begin in earnest.

[Jesse]

Pro mets enjoy a good laugh as well. I thought it was hilariously true

I'm sure they all love sports posts too.

[Jesse]

What an amazingly gorgeous day.

[TT-SEA]

I for one can't wait for the low clouds ad daily rain to begin in earnest.

 

Sounds like a personal problem! Seems like that would mean you are not happy and want the weather to follow your mood.

 

Cold or warm anomalies... that is just personal preference. But wanting darkness can't be good.

[TT-SEA]

ECMWF and Canadian show a pattern ripe for a windstorm in about a week.

[Jesse]

My sincerest apologies for soiling the monthly regional weather observation thread with a an observation of a regional sports team.

 

 

My issue was more with the glass full of piss. It's hard to take your calls for less reactionary vitriol seriously when you are guilty of doing it yourself. Maybe it's just me. I have always had an issue with hypocritical "authority" figures.

[BLI snowman]

Sounds like a personal problem! Seems like that would mean you are not happy and want the weather to follow your mood.

 

Cold or warm anomalies... that is just personal preference. But wanting darkness can't be good.

The darker the better. After several years of softcore Yuma, I am ready for some gloom and floods. We are due.

[BLI snowman]

My issue was more with the glass full of piss. It's hard to take your calls for less reactionary vitriol seriously when you are guilty of doing it yourself. Maybe it's just me. I have always had an issue with hypocritical "authority" figures.

We need ourselves a real leader.

 

Sanders/Guevara 2016

[TT-SEA]

The darker the better. After several years of softcore Yuma, I am ready for some gloom and floods. We are due.

Sounds like a personal problem.

[BLI snowman]

Sounds like a personal problem.

I hear my coworkers saying the same thing. They laugh at many of those in the heat camp. Say it`s crazy that there`s people who like sunshine enough to post about it non stop online :lol

 

#Altitudesaffectattitudes

[TT-SEA]

I hear my coworkers saying the same thing. They laugh at many of those in the heat camp. Say it`s crazy that there`s people who like sunshine enough to post about it non stop online :lol

#Altitudesaffectattitudes

 

Right.

[Front Ranger]

Great camping weather the past few days. We spent most our time in the Lake Ollalie area. Only down side was Mt. Hood was somewhat obscured by smoke/haze.

 

Jefferson, however, was looking great.

 

 

 

 

[stuffradio]

I'm sure they all love sports posts too.

They can't get enough of the gardening posts though.

[stuffradio]

From the Seattle AFD this afternoon

 

THERE IS STILL A POSSIBILITY THAT A SIGNIFICANT PACIFIC STORM MAY

IMPACT THE AREA ON WED. AT THIS TIME...PREFER THE STRONGER

SOLUTIONS DUE TO THE FACT THAT THIS SYSTEM WILL HAVE PICKED UP

ENERGY FROM THE REMNANTS OF TYPHOON KILO. FURTHERMORE...THERE WAS

MORE THAN ENOUGH MOISTURE AVAILABLE OVER THE EASTERN AND CENTRAL

PACIFIC THAT THIS SYSTEM COULD TAP INTO.

 

THE WED SYSTEM NOT ONLY COULD BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR A DAMAGING

WIND EVENT BUT ALSO THE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAIN. THE ECMWF

SHOWED A 995 MB LOW MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS CAPE FLATTERY AND INTO

CANADA ON WED...A TRACK SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE AUGUST 29TH

WINDSTORM. THERE IS A REAL POSSIBILITY THAT THE LOW COULD BE

DEEPER THAN THE MODEL FORECAST. THEREFORE...THIS SYSTEM BEARS

CLOSE WATCHING.

That would be insane. Our trees are still recovering.

[BLI snowman]

That would be insane. Our trees are still recovering.

Two significant wind events at this stage would likely be unprecedented.

[seattleweatherguy]

Storm gone.

 

.SHORT TERM...THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OVER THE AREA WILL KEEP THE WEATHER
COOL WITH A CHANCE OF LIGHT SPOTTY PRECIP THROUGH TUESDAY. THE PSCZ MIGHT
FLARE UP AGAIN LATER MONDAY OR MONDAY NIGHT...BUT THERE IS NOT MUCH RAIN
IN THE MODELS OTHERWISE. A MORE ORGANIZED WEATHER SYSTEM WILL REACH THE
AREA ON WED QUICKLY FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER ON THURSDAY...THE 18Z GFS HAD
A 1003MB LOW OFF ASTORIA MIDDAY WED THAT COMES ASHORE AND FILLS AND
THEN AROUND A 1006MB LOW INTO THE WA COAST AROUND DAYBREAK THU. THE 00Z
NAM IS SIMILAR TO THE 18Z GFS AND THE PDX-BLI GRADIENT RISES TO AROUND
5MB WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOME WET BREEZY WEATHER. THE SECOND SYSTEM
ON TAP FOR THURSDAY DOES NOT HAVE A VERY DEEP LOW IN THE NAM...THE 84HR
FORECAST PUTS SOMETHING AROUND A 1008MB LOW JUST OFF VANCOUVER ISLAND
12Z THU...BUT DOES HAVE SUFFICIENT GRADIENT OVER WRN WA FOR ANOTHER
ROUND OF BREEZY WEATHER. BOTH THE GFS AND NAM SHOW SOME DECENT RAIN
WITH BOTH THESE SYSTEMS...24HR RAINFALL ENDING 12Z THU FROM
THE NAM SHOWS HALF AN INCH OF RAIN FOR THE SEATTLE AREA AND ALSO
OVER A GOOD PORTION OF THE LOWLANDS AND UP TO AROUND 1.5 INCHES IN THE
MOUNTAINS.

.LONG TERM...WEAK TRANSITORY UPPER LEVEL RIDGING IS LIKELY FRIDAY AND
THEN HEIGHTS RISE SOME MORE ON SATURDAY WITH STRONGER RIDGING. THEN ON
SUNDAY A FRONTAL SYSTEM REACHES WRN WA...THE 18Z GFS HAD RAIN SPREADING
ACROSS WRN WA BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON WITH A FROPA SUNDAY EVENIN

[TT-SEA]

00Z ECMWF shows no wind storm on Wednesday either... just a regular rain event.

[Sometimesdylan]

Little port Walter Alaska just hit 140 inches of rain this year.. Their wettest on record.

[Abbotsford_wx]

This week is looking fairly wet for WA but not so wet up here... common theme this year.

[TT-SEA]

This week is looking fairly wet for WA but not so wet up here... common theme this year.

Not really a wet week here either. And the weekend looks very wet up there and drier the farther south you go.

[Abbotsford_wx]

Not really a wet week here either. And the weekend looks very wet up there and drier the farther south you go.

 

I guess it's more the coast that looks wet this week as that system spins offshore.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

The CFS yesterday looked very active for the whole West Coast during November. 

[Jesse]

I guess it's more the coast that looks wet this week as that system spins offshore.

There is no system forecast to spin offshore this week. A weaker one is moving through today and another wetter one will plow through Wednesday into Thursday.

[Abbotsford_wx]

There is no system forecast to spin offshore this week. A weaker one is moving through today and another wetter one will plow through Wednesday into Thursday.

 

More like slowly meander through... and the coast looks wet Tuesday, but inland looks mostly dry until Wednesday.

[Jesse]

More like slowly meander through... and the coast looks wet Tuesday, but inland looks mostly dry until Wednesday.

A slowly meandering system would probably lead to more rainfall.

[Abbotsford_wx]

A slowly meandering system would probably lead to more rainfall.

 

True; I did say that it looked fairly wet for WA, but not as wet up here (until Sunday).

[Jesse]

The CFS yesterday looked very active for the whole West Coast during November.

Ridging in November it is!

 

At least by then we can usually score a cold inversion.

[TT-SEA]

Sun is out here now... nice way to do troughing so far with no low clouds and no precipitation.

[TT-SEA]

New 12Z ECMWF detailed map shows the system on Wednesday diving way south and leaving the I-5 corridor from Portland to Bellingam dry for the day.    No windstorm and maybe just partly sunny and pleasant.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Ridging in November it is!

 

At least by then we can usually score a cold inversion.

 

If the CFS were to verify all PNW ski resorts would be open by Thanksgiving. 

[Jesse]

If the CFS were to verify all PNW ski resorts would be open by Thanksgiving.

That would be pretty awesome.