PNW January 2022, Contact Info for Phil

[Cloud]

3 minutes ago, iFred said:

As much as it was a climate change bit, to me I saw a lot of COVIDness in it. Especially the Morning Joe knockoff “let’s be bubbly” moments.

Actually quite true. 

[BLI snowman]

Leo is mourning the warming... as he sails around the dying planet in his ginormous fuel-shitting yacht.

[Cloud]

19 minutes ago, Meatyorologist said:

I think it captured the general public's opinions on the political atmosphere of today, but ultimately it ended up angsty and pandering. The movie was frustrating because of how simultaneously absurd and believable it was.

Still wanted to make me throw my chair out the window

Obviously the “absurd” I believe that it was done on purpose to get the “comedy” aspect/genre in… otherwise the movie will become too serious and turn a lot of people away. The looking past the absurdity, the underlying message and theme was there and it’s quite true. Which is why I think it was a great movie bc I was willing to look past the other stuff. 

[gusky]

1 hour ago, Cloud said:

This is some crazy shiet…. Like out of a Bourne movie. Did the police at least do something about the bloody machete? 

Yeah, they took it. When we first got there, they claimed that they had "looked it over for evidence," and then my mom had to point out the machete covered with blood. They clearly didn't look too hard.

[gusky]

1 hour ago, Cloud said:

Has anyone here seen the movie “Don’t Look Up”? — this movie is a clear metaphor to climate change. My guess is that opinion of this movie is quite divided within this community/forums. 
 

Personally thought it was a great movie. 

It seems to be just me and the critics who hold this opinion, but I thought it was one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time. It had funny moments, but also had so many utterly useless plot elements and just weird site plots that took away from the actual intention of the film. I also feel like it was trying to be a metaphor or commentary on today's society, but it kind of just ended up as a weird, tweaked version of reality, not really much of a meaningful commentary.

[joelgombiner]

26 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

Leo is mourning the warming... as he sails around the dying planet in his ginormous fuel-shitting yacht.

Ego is so big he thinks his advocacy counteracts his personal footprint. 

[gusky]

1 hour ago, Phil said:

Haven’t seen it, but given a “climate catastrophe” of some sort is essentially inevitable (maybe not within our lifetimes, but almost certainly within the next few millennia) we might want to start looking up sooner rather than later.  

Without spoiling it, the most basic premise is something that could happen, and the proposed solution is actually something that is being worked on. I liked where it was going in the beginning, and it just got worse and worse as it progressed. 

[Cloud]

It’s here…. Welcome to wetness. 

[Geos]

Next AR is here in Bellevue with steady rain. I see that White Pass had to close down again. At least the people that were stranded there had a window to get out when they could. 

[Cloud]

Was wondering why no one talked about the models tonight and can see why. MEHHHHH!!! super uninteresting.

[Geos]

More rain, big whop! Might be talking about more flooding in 24 hours. 

[Cloud]

Euro at day 10. It’s trying. 

[MossMan]

We need something frozen to track…Stat! Today’s discussion was reminiscent of the 2013-2016 discussion's on the forum when nothing happened winter weather wise. 

[Cloud]

GFS at day 10. It’s also going to try to try but a bit more messy. 

[SouthHillFrosty]

2 hours ago, Cloud said:

Has anyone here seen the movie “Don’t Look Up”? — this movie is a clear metaphor to climate change. My guess is that opinion of this movie is quite divided within this community/forums. 
 

Personally thought it was a great movie. 

It was a little much but totally believable.  I would give it a solid 8.678/10. I think Jonah Hill killed it lmao 

[Chewbacca Defense]

5 hours ago, Clancy MT DW9972 said:

2019 for the win!  In my area "southwestern" Montana, we got hit multiple times with several feet of snow from each storm and it barely melted until mid March.  That snow had at least a 4 to 5" inch water content.  April thru mid July brought us several severe thunderstorms which dropped over 1" of rain within ten minutes at least 2 times.  The second half of July was fairly dry, until the second week of August, and yet again we got hit with a few more severe thunderstorms that dropped 1"inch + as well.  September was insanely wet with us getting well over 3" inch of rain. October thru November brought us above normal precip.  However December was bone dry and nothing to write home about.  I loved 2019 because It has most definitely been the most active, wettest, snowiest year I can remember.  2020 and 2021 didn't even have a single memorable event.

It's always a double edged sword with these extreme weather events.  Us weather geeks love them, but I don't think the ranchers saw winter 2019 as a win.  My wife's uncle and cousin won't even talk about that winter...staggering losses to their herd for calving season.  Then the thunderstorms triggered flooding that wiped out a few of their private bridges used to traverse the creek that runs through through the valley.

 

Flip side though, their hay yield that summer was the highest they had ever seen in the almost 150 year history of the ranch.

[ShawniganLake]

32 minutes ago, MossMan said:

We need something frozen to track…Stat! Today’s discussion was reminiscent of the 2013-2016 discussion's on the forum when nothing happened winter weather wise. 

We had some freezing rain this morning. 39/30 with about .4” of liquid after that. 

[TacomaWaWx]

Looks like we will finish today 49/34 with 0.19” of rain. 

[Everleigh]

I do not want more rain. Can we just, like, make it hold off for awhile? lol Can't get a crawl company to come out for an estimate until the 24th, who knows how long it will take to actually get the work done. So if it could be dry, and not too cold....that'd be greeaaaat. We have our pellet stove, that works well, until we have a stretch of not getting above 40* days....then it struggles to heat the house. 

[The Blob]

Wow, quiet night on here. 

[jakerepp]

16 minutes ago, The Blob said:

Wow, quiet night on here. 

I'll freely admit that I don't post nearly as often (if at all) unless there is cold on the horizon. Even interesting weather like AR's don't get me excited enough to contribute much.

[MossMan]

Currently 49 and cloudy/windy. 
.21” so far on the day, 3.96” for the month. 

[TT-SEA]

SEA is already over 3 inches above normal for rainfall for the month through the 11th.     

And has already tallied about 1/6th of their normal annual rainfall in the first 11 days of the year.   

[ShawniganLake]

First day so far this year without a freeze here. 

[Tyler Mode]

Get 95 ready for another storm...next Sunday night into Monday.

[RentonHill]

Don’t call it a comeback!!!

[Blizzard777]

Heavy rain

.19 rain rate
Storm total 1.08 ( .81 for the day)

48*

[RentonHill]

And 6z GEFS showed signs of movement of the Baffin Bomb at the end

[jakerepp]

 

 

[jakerepp]

12 minutes ago, jakerepp said:

 

 

Also, the forecast for the summit.

High: Starting around 30 below then slowly rising through the day to around 15 below by sunset

Wind Chill: 70 below to 80 below rising to 45 below to 55 below

Wind: W shifting NW at 50-70 mph w/ gusts up to 85 mph early, 35-50 mph midday, and 30-45 mph later

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

57 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

SEA is already over 3 inches above normal for rainfall for the month through the 11th.     

And has already tallied about 1/6th of their normal annual rainfall in the first 11 days of the year.   

I like the rain but this is getting crazy. I'm at 8 inches here for January already. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Look at the wall of snow near cle elum on the pass. Just crazy. By far deepest snow in cle elum I've saw.

[jakerepp]

Just hit 50.

.25'' since midnight.

[The Blob]

1 hour ago, RentonHillTC said:

Don’t call it a comeback!!!

[Phil]

1 hour ago, jakerepp said:

Also, the forecast for the summit.

High: Starting around 30 below then slowly rising through the day to around 15 below by sunset

Wind Chill: 70 below to 80 below rising to 45 below to 55 below

Wind: W shifting NW at 50-70 mph w/ gusts up to 85 mph early, 35-50 mph midday, and 30-45 mph later

My dream climate.

[Cascadia_Wx]

Had some rain this morning low of 41 now cloudy and 43. Warmer air should be moving in soon tomorrow has a shot at first 60 of the year for locations from Portland south 

[Randyc321]

2 hours ago, jakerepp said:

I'll freely admit that I don't post nearly as often (if at all) unless there is cold on the horizon. Even interesting weather like AR's don't get me excited enough to contribute much.

Mostly the same here.  Just watching, but it's like watching old re-runs.  Re-runs that were boring the first time I watched them.

[T-Town]

It’s both rainy and foggy here. Which is nice…

[Cascadia_Wx]

Ridge gets pretty amplified in the mid to long range on the 12z GFS Midwest and east gets cold would be nice to see that pattern retrograde toward the last 1/3 of the month 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

47F and cloudy but dry. Pretty typical January weather these days.