PNW January 2022, Contact Info for Phil

[Ice_is_Everywhere]

Ugh, just discovered water seeping into the basement again. Not surprising given the amount of rain today.

[RentonHill]

2 minutes ago, The Blob said:

Hope this works for everyone, it's a mess in Troutdale. 

All those trucks and nowhere to go…

[Bryant]

Just plain raining here in whatcom county, but Brennan said northern county is covered in ice from freezing rain. 

[Cjmessling]

1 minute ago, RentonHillTC said:

All those trucks and nowhere to go…

I work in the heavy duty truck industry and to say it’s a mess would be an understatement. I have customers with trucks trapped all over

[Chowders]

2 hours ago, MossMan said:

I am currently grading this winter an A-

The massive amount of rainfall in November, the big westerly windstorm in mid November, the near summer like day at the beginning of December followed by chilly weather leading up to Christmas. A white Christmas Eve and Christmas, over a foot of snow between Christmas and New Years, a low of 3 degrees, over 7 straight days below freezing, and I currently have more snow on the ground right now than I have had on January 6th dating back to 2013 in my picture folder. 
Though I did have slight accumulation on my roof in 2019!

Now all we need is one or two more fantastic snow/cold events late month thru the first part of March and the grade goes up to an A+! 

Oh and I see they cleared the measuring sticks at Sharis! 

If you look now he shoveled the roof too

[SouthHillFrosty]

20 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

Lots of schools closed in  Grays Harbor tomorrow, only a few with no announcement, yet.  It is horrible, we have a pond in our backyard which has never happened before.

@GHweatherChris how is Aberdeen looking? Aberdeen always has flooding issues 

[TT-SEA]

SW wind just broke through here.    Temp shot up and it feels strangely warm.

[SouthHillFrosty]

Snoqualmie will get another foot of snow tonight. Wow. There is insane powder up there rn for skiers and snowboarders if it can ever open 

 

 

[bainbridgekid]

My friend who lives in Cle Elem posted some videos to Instagram which don’t even look real. Her 16 year old was out trying to shovel the driveway and the snow was literally up to his neck.

[SouthHillFrosty]

2 minutes ago, bainbridgekid said:

My friend who lives in Cle Elem posted some videos to Instagram which don’t even look real. Her 16 year old was out trying to shovel the driveway and the snow was literally up to his neck.

My 85 year old g-ma lives in  Teanaway by herself….. I hope she paying for a plowing service since I can’t get over there 

[Ice_is_Everywhere]

11 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

Snoqualmie will get another foot of snow tonight. Wow. There is insane powder up there rn for skiers and snowboarders if it can ever open 

 

 

Latest forecast discussion mentioned 24-30 additional inches for Stevens Pass.

[The Blob]

23 minutes ago, Cjmessling said:

I work in the heavy duty truck industry and to say it’s a mess would be an understatement. I have customers with trucks trapped all over

There were trucks parked along the feeeway as well.

[GHweatherChris]

21 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

@GHweatherChris how is Aberdeen looking? Aberdeen always has flooding issues 

Not looking good at all,  residential areas away from the river are being inundated from the heavy rain and runoff, places closer to the river are gonna get it bad tonight

[The Blob]

[Anti Marine Layer]

84 pages in 6 days. How much longer can this thread stay open?

[Anti Marine Layer]

3 minutes ago, The Blob said:

Lots of rain for Astoria. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Just now, Mr Marine Layer said:

Lots of rain for Astoria. 

Also looks a lot like the California storm than soaked Los Angeles and ditched San Diego. 

[TT-SEA]

5 minutes ago, Mr Marine Layer said:

Lots of rain for Astoria. 

Poor Eugene.

[joelgombiner]

They definitely happened in the past, but the intensity and frequency of all these AR's reeks of climate change... 

[https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015JD023586]

Much of the focus of recent research has been on the response of precipitation in warming projections. Few studies have focused on the explicit response of ARs, as intense moisture transport events, to warming. Dettinger [2011] was the first to investigate this topic using an ensemble of projections from seven global climate models used in the fourth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report. Comparing historical simulations to end of the century warming projections, he found an increase in moisture transport and an increase in the number of years with many ARs. Investigation was furthered by use of data from CMIP5 in Warner et al. [2015]. They identified ARs using the 99th percentile of moisture transport along a transect just off the coast of North America in 30 years of historical simulations and RCP 8.5 projections from 10 different models. Similar to the findings in Dettinger[2011], Warner et al. [2015] found a robust increase in moisture transport within ARs, but little change in lower level winds. While focused on the eastern North Atlantic, Lavers et al.[2013] found similar increases in AR intensity as Dettinger [2011] and Warner et al. [2015] using an ensemble of five models participating in CMIP5 and a different method to identify ARs.

[joelgombiner]

All passes closed until Sunday now. I can't remember a 4-day closure like this ever before. 

 

[GHweatherChris]

5.43" now, and now we have gusting winds. 

[MossMan]

6 minutes ago, joelgombiner said:

All passes closed until Sunday now. I can't remember a 4-day closure like this ever before. 

 

December 1996 had a couple day closure but not 4 days! Wow! 

[joelgombiner]

1 minute ago, MossMan said:

December 1996 had a couple day closure but not 4 days! Wow! 

Wow, good memory. I was 8 in December 1996. Remember every detail of that storm like it was yesterday. Had my trusty NOAA Weather Radio with the bar that you push to turn it on and the little antenna. 

[gusky]

Raining quite hard here. Pretty steady around ~.12" per hour, 1.3" since 9pm yesterday

[TT-SEA]

Wind is roaring here.   Water is just pouring off the roof and all the remaining ice has fallen off the house.

[bainbridgekid]

5 minutes ago, joelgombiner said:

All passes closed until Sunday now. I can't remember a 4-day closure like this ever before. 

 

That’s absolutely insane. I’ve never heard of a four day closure like that before.

[GHweatherChris]

That front cannot get here fast enough.

 

[joelgombiner]

Just now, bainbridgekid said:

That’s absolutely insane. I’ve never heard of a four day closure like that before.

It's wild. I can't imagine what I would do if I were a trucker or motorist stranded on the highway for 4 days. 

[RayRay]

oh great... water is coming up from 3 places in the ground and one of those places is the garage. Does anybody here know what to do? Where do i get a water pump? do I try to dig a hole and make it where the water is coming out of the soil deeper? Thanks

[Brennan]

Imagine if this low came in near the Columbia…

[joelgombiner]

1 minute ago, RayRay said:

oh great... water is coming up from 3 places in the ground and one of those places is the garage. Does anybody here know what to do? Where do i get a water pump? do I try to dig a hole and make it where the water is coming out of the soil deeper? Thanks

Aquarium stores will have submersible pumps for sure. Hardware stores should have water pumps as well. I would take everything off the garage floor for now. You may be able to sweep a lot of water out with a big broom depending on the layout. If the water can come up through the floor, it will drain out as well when the rain stops and the water table drops. 

[SouthHillFrosty]

 

 

[TT-SEA]

1 minute ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

 

 

Not sure of the dates... but we had terrible flooding in the Snoqualmie Valley in early January 2009.

[MossMan]

5 minutes ago, Brennan said:

Imagine if this low came in near the Columbia…

We would have looked like Leavenworth. 

[MossMan]

1.42” so far on the day. 

[The Blob]

9 minutes ago, RayRay said:

oh great... water is coming up from 3 places in the ground and one of those places is the garage. Does anybody here know what to do? Where do i get a water pump? do I try to dig a hole and make it where the water is coming out of the soil deeper? Thanks

I recommend having a sump pump installed

[TT-SEA]

We have had 3-4 inches of rain out here today and yet the Snoqualmie River is not projected to get anywhere close to flood stage.    I am not sure why... but guessing its because all the precip in the mountains came down as snow and not rain.   Normally this much rain in one day would cause some significant flooding issues in North Bend and Snoqualmie.

[MossMan]

1 minute ago, TT-SEA said:

We have had 3-4 inches of rain out here today and yet the Snoqualmie River is not projected to get anywhere close to flood stage.    I am not sure why... but guessing it because all the precip in the mountains came down as snow and not rain.   Normally this much rain in one day would cause some significant flooding issues in North Bend and Snoqualmie.

More of an urban and small stream flood event I think? Also coastal and rivers to the south? 

[TacomaWaWx]

1.71” so far here. 

[VancouverIslandSouth]

2 hours ago, snow_wizard said:

If I was going to move to Whatcom County that would probably be my top choice.  Sometimes Sumas just gets so consumed with dry air they don't get much snow.  Lynden seems to have a good mix of holding onto cold air, but still get moisture in most cases.

Or just jump up to Hope, it's still 16F and snowing there. It's typically the longest coastal hold out when it comes to sustaining Arctic air and gets huge amounts of snow for the elevation. Pretty incredible gradient in the Fraser Valley now.