PNW January 2022, Contact Info for Phil

[SilverFallsAndrew]

4 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

00Z ECMWF still on board for some more Randy snow...

 

Nice dump in the Oregon cascades. Nice to see following the rain today. 

We got to 49, down to 44 now. Snow in the yard is gone, though the canyon in front of our house has a lot of snow left. Went down there today and found the trees I heard fall during the heavy snow. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Food for thought 

[RayRay]

Flooding pictures coming soon... its bad here...

[GHweatherChris]

We did it, 6" of rain today!!  Thank you all for the support and efforts to make this happens, means so much to me!!

7.25" since this time last night.

[Geos]

Just incredible reports and pictures from the mountains and east Cascade cities. Would love to be in Leavenworth or Cle Elum. This 4 day pass closures is really crazy. 

Was listening to KIRO radio and their were several stories of people with spare rooms offering people that were stranded a place to stay until this storm is over. I can't image how many vehicles are buried on 90. 

[gusky]

[Geos]

At about 6:30 I heard there was a landslide that blocked the Maple Valley Highway 169.

[gusky]

Also who's ready for another crazy February!!! Really hope this is a trend.

[RayRay]

ready for pictures?

 

 

[RayRay]

more flooding pictures/videos.

water here is coming up from the basement and flooding the ground floor. the yard cannot take anymore water. All the lights are on in my neighborhood at 10pm. telltale signs of what is happening exactly... the water table is overflowing... water is just coming up from the ground in many places right now...

[Anti Marine Layer]

37 minutes ago, Phil said:

Man did I miss this. So much better than palm trees and sunshine. 

Whiteout

[GHweatherChris]

9 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

We did it, 6" of rain today!!  Thank you all for the support and efforts to make this happens, means so much to me!!

7.25" since this time last night.

The 7.25" in the last 24 hours is a new record for me, 6" day total is 2nd highest, if it gets past 6.5" that would be a new daily record.

[gusky]

2 minutes ago, RayRay said:

more flooding pictures/videos.

water here is coming up from the basement and flooding the ground floor. the yard cannot take anymore water. All the lights are on in my neighborhood at 10pm. telltale signs of what is happening exactly... the water table is overflowing... water is just coming up from the ground in many places right now...

Wow, that is really dramatic flooding! Hope everything turns out ok, sounds like a bad situation.

[Geos]

Stay safe Ray Ray. That doesn't look good at all. I would say the water table is now above the surface!

[snow drift]

2 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

The 7.25" in the last 24 hours is a new record for me, 6" day total is 2nd highest, if it gets past 6.5" that would be a new daily record.

Crazy rain, dude!

[joelgombiner]

11 minutes ago, Geos said:

At about 6:30 I heard there was a landslide that blocked the Maple Valley Highway 169.

Wow. Landslide risk doesn't get much higher than right now. I expect a lot of slides tonight. 

[GHweatherChris]

Come on, speed up!!

[Chewbacca Defense]

37 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

We did it, 6" of rain today!!  Thank you all for the support and efforts to make this happens, means so much to me!!

7.25" since this time last night.

What....you aren't going to thank the academy, your parents, your agent and all of the fans who got you where you are today???  What about your mom getting up at the buttcrack of dawn to take you to raindance classes?

And what about the raccoons?  Have you no thanks for the raccoons?  I know they are all about the rug pull but they still helped get you where you are today!!

 

 

 

meh....next

 

In all seriousness, that's an impressive amount of rain, we got about 1/2 of that in a day with the flooding event up here, I can't even fathom what you guys are getting!

[SnarkyGoblin]

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/storms-push-statewide-snow-pack-to-122-above-long-term-averages/

Open in incognito.

Good article about the snowpack and why it's so important.

 

[snow_wizard]

5 hours ago, bainbridgekid said:

Rain shadow has been amazing here. Everett has recorded 0.01” since 4:53 AM. Crazy to think much of the rest of the state has had hundreds of times more rain.

Holy crap!  That's as extreme a shadow as I can remember in that area.  Another case of an unusually flat trajectory this season.

Believe it or not I think these flat trajectory firehose / flood events are key in many of our cold winters.  As a result of that I'm going to be working on a jet stream trajectory index.  It will be an index that will only have relevance in the Oct to Feb time frame and neutral or cold ENSO seasons so it will only involve calculating a relatively small number of months.  I first realized this was a thing in 1990, but have only now thought of an index to capture it.

[GHweatherChris]

9 minutes ago, Chewbacca Defense said:

What....you aren't going to thank the academy, your parents, your agent and all of the fans who got you where you are today???  What about your mom getting up at the buttcrack of dawn to take you to raindance classes?

And what about the raccoons?  Have you no thanks for the raccoons?  I know they are all about the rug pull but they still helped get you where you are today!!

 

 

 

meh....next

 

In all seriousness, that's an impressive amount of rain, we got about 1/2 of that in a day with the flooding event up here, I can't even fathom what you guys are getting!

Post of the day right here!!  And I haven't seen a raccoon in over 2 weeks.

 

[Geos]

Raining even harder now. Lot of roads with pools of water on them, but nothing too crazy. I imagine we'll hear about more landslides come morning. 

[snow_wizard]

6 minutes ago, einsteinjr said:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/storms-push-statewide-snow-pack-to-122-above-long-term-averages/

Open in incognito.

Good article about the snowpack and why it's so important.

 

If we can avoid going into a Nino this year I think this could be an epic year for the snowpack / glacier health.  The key will be keeping summer cool for once.

[snow_wizard]

2 minutes ago, Geos said:

Raining even harder now. Lot of roads with pools of water on them, but nothing too crazy. I imagine we'll hear about more landslides come morning. 

It's just crazy around here.  An incredible amount of water between here and Kent on my commute.

[snow_wizard]

2 hours ago, MossMan said:

Still solid snow cover here but at 46 degrees and it being very windy I do not expect it to last much longer. I will have a lot of dog poop to scoop soon. 

That's one thing I really like about where I live.  The south wind has an extremely hard time getting in here.  If only I could get the amount of snow you do...

[TacomaWaWx]

1.88” with about 30 minutes left in the day. 

[snow_wizard]

9 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

Post of the day right here!!  And I haven't seen a raccoon in over 2 weeks.

 

I wonder if they migrated somewhere to escape the snow. 

[snow_wizard]

1 hour ago, gusky said:

Also who's ready for another crazy February!!! Really hope this is a trend.

I'm betting it gets started this month.  Nearly perfect one month spacing between cold snap starting points is pretty typical in a good winter.  I hope we can somehow manage to have the second half of the winter dry out a bit.  These things usually even out.

[The Winter Warlock]

2.88” today, and 3.76” total for this event. Crazy amounts of water flowing through my property. Definitely a fun event in contrast to the rest of this last year:

 

 

[MossMan]

Looks like many of the coastal schools will be closed due to flooding, and Skykomish due to no power. Been a wild several weeks now! 

[GHweatherChris]

10 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Looks like many of the coastal schools will be closed due to flooding, and Skykomish due to no power. Been a wild several weeks now! 

My daughter's school district Montesano is just about the only one in Grays Harbor County that hasn't announced a delay or closure for some reason, I imagine that will change in the morning.

[snow_wizard]

A couple comments about some of the posts I've seen on here.  One is I have never seen anywhere near the amount snow that has happened in the Cle Elum, Ellensburg, and Easton area.  I lived there for a couple of winter, and have had ties to that area for decades.  This is truly exceptional.  Another is concerning the comment on the crazy AR's this season being a sign of climate change or whatever.  The 19th century says hello.  Greatest AR events ever witnessed in the NW were in the autumns of 1853 and 1861.  There is also sedimentary data which suggests the Skagit had a flood in 1816 that puts any modern day flood to shame.

[snow_wizard]

15 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Looks like many of the coastal schools will be closed due to flooding, and Skykomish due to no power. Been a wild several weeks now! 

Seems like we're due for some cold / dry weather does it not?

[gusky]

Rain is pounding against my window, 0.31"/hr rn

[KingstonWX]

1 hour ago, RayRay said:

more flooding pictures/videos.

water here is coming up from the basement and flooding the ground floor. the yard cannot take anymore water. All the lights are on in my neighborhood at 10pm. telltale signs of what is happening exactly... the water table is overflowing... water is just coming up from the ground in many places right now...

Dude, no good. You guys alright for now?

[snow_wizard]

2.45 inches of rain today as measured in an analog rain gauge.

[GHweatherChris]

Gonna end up with around 6.3" of rain today 1/6.  And I found my notebook that had a few weather records I jotted down as a back up to laptop.  I was wrong earlier, 6.5" was not the highest daily total ever for me, it was 6.17", so 1/6/2022 is the new record at 6.3" for me.

[snow_wizard]

Thank the good Lord the ECMWF only shows 0.7" of rain for SEA after tomorrow for the next 10 days.  Looks like a logjam beginning to develop over the Pacific.

[TacomaWaWx]

1.92” here today. Really started raining hard again 20 minutes until midnight but wasn’t enough to get to 2”. Raining hard still and up to a 2.25” storm total…and 4.08” for the month. 

[snow_wizard]

2 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

Gonna end up with around 6.3" of rain today 1/6.  And I found my notebook that had a few weather records I jotted down as a back up to laptop.  I was wrong earlier, 6.5" was not the highest daily total ever for me, it was 6.17", so 1/6/2022 is the new record at 6.3" for me.

As long as it's this bad we might as well go big I guess.