PNW January 2022, Contact Info for Phil

[Chewbacca Defense]

45 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Drizzle now. Yay.

And RIP Dr. Johnny Fever.

D**n....2022 has been brutal for celebrity deaths.

[snow_wizard]

42 minutes ago, Tyler Mode said:

I'm sure those who live in the Central Gorge east into the Columbia Basin are thrilled this fog is gone.  Hood River went almost exactly one week with 100% overcast, The Dalles I think went 10+ days???

This was quite the inversion.   I just looked at the month to date average anomaly map and Central / Eastern WA have come in pretty cold for the month with some spots in the Puget Sound region a little below normal.  Some places have a very good chance of all three winter months averaging below normal this season.

[snow_wizard]

1 minute ago, Chewbacca Defense said:

D**n....2022 has been brutal for celebrity deaths.

The beat rolls on.  It seems like it's been that way since COVID started.  I think COVID will go down as a watershed event for a lot of reasons.

[T-Town]

53 and gusty here. Been dry other than a couple of light showers. 

[snow_wizard]

3 minutes ago, T-Town said:

53 and gusty here. Been dry other than a couple of light showers. 

I was going to say you know it's a real cold front when we get a good south wind here ahead of it.

[snow_wizard]

The GFS has a secondary cold shot late this week that keeps below normal temps going for a solid week now.

[Cloud]

Getting some rain shadow right now but don’t think that’s gonna last long. Some strong stuff moving in. 

[snow_wizard]

Looking like this might be a very good run in the day 10+ range.

[Cloud]

Meanwhile, in Fluriduh 

 

[GHweatherChris]

Actual "real" coldish air moving in!

[Deweydog]

Breezy!

[MossMan]

Getting dark out there. 

[Deweydog]

7 minutes ago, MossMan said:

Getting dark out there. 

Darkest afternoon in over a week here. Those sun angle freaks are gonna sh*t when they hear about this one!

[Tyler Mode]

It is so dark compared to the last week of sunshine.  Rain just started falling here.

[snow_wizard]

GEFS is starting to look pretty nice.  Having the first week looking cold now makes a pretty cold Feb very possible.

 

[snow_wizard]

53 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

Actual "real" coldish air moving in!

Yeah....this airmass will be cold enough for snow a bit later.

[snow_wizard]

1 hour ago, Cloud said:

Meanwhile, in Fluriduh 

 

40s in the keys is probably very hard to pull off.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

The song in the beginning came on and I remembered every word.  Sang it outloud as my fiancee looked at me and shook her head. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Ginger is the only one alive still from the cast of Gilligan's island.

[T-Town]

Down to 48 and blustery. 

[MossMan]

Major dumpage!! 

[TacomaWaWx]

47 here 0.12” so far today. 54/41 temp spread as we get closer to February. 

[ShawniganLake]

[Omegaraptor]

Front is almost through in Corvallis. CVO’s rain gauge is still broken. Looks like widespread 0.07”-0.15” throughout the valley so far, still going strong east of the Willamette.

[Brian_in_Leavenworth]

First snow here since early Jan 7th.  We already have at or a bit above average snowfall for the entire winter.  Average is 94".  

[Phil]

Fml.

[Dave]

1 minute ago, Phil said:

Fml.

D**n dude. WTF happened? Hope you are in a safe spot.

[Phil]

5 minutes ago, Dave said:

D**n dude. WTF happened? Hope you are in a safe spot.

Hit something on the freeway, looked like some kind of plywood but didn’t get a good look at it. Tire just exploded instantly. Gripped the steering wheel so tight I probably bent it.

Pulled over and swapped it out, but I’m not gonna drive 180 miles on a donut, so staying a hotel in New Brunswick tonight. Figures it happens on a Sunday night when everything is closed.

[Dave]

2 minutes ago, Phil said:

Hit something on the freeway, looked like some kind of plywood but didn’t get a good look at it. Tire just exploded instantly. Gripped the steering wheel so tight I probably bent it.

Pulled over and swapped it out, but I’m not gonna drive 180 miles on a donut, so staying a hotel in New Brunswick tonight. Figures it happens on a Sunday night when everything is closed.

Well that sucks. I'm sure you probably aren't quite ready for the ole "it could have been worse", but it could have been worse. 

[Phil]

3 minutes ago, Dave said:

Well that sucks. I'm sure you probably aren't quite ready for the ole "it could have been worse", but it could have been worse. 

Oh yeah, all things considered I’ll take this outcome over the one where my guts are strewn across the highway.

[GHweatherChris]

[ShawniganLake]

Waited for 2 days for New England snow photos and instead we got a pic of Phil’s phlat tire. 

[The Blob]

2 minutes ago, ShawniganLake said:

Waited for 2 days for New England snow photos and instead we got a pic of Phil’s phlat tire. 

He was never there.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Here is a snow photo from the Denver airport. 

[MossMan]

Temp down to 38. 

[ShawniganLake]

14 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Here is a snow photo from the Denver airport. 

Thank you. Excellent work.  Nice to have reliable reporters in the field. 

[jakerepp]

Almost forgot to mention, I saw snow today! The parking lot at Collins Aerospace basically at Paine Field still has a fat pile of snow at it!

[Skagit Weather]

11 minutes ago, jakerepp said:

Almost forgot to mention, I saw snow today! The parking lot at Collins Aerospace basically at Paine Field still has a fat pile of snow at it!

Yeah, the snow level is so strange currently in the Cascades. Still quite a bit of snow in shaded valleys 500-1500 ft, but otherwise on the forest roads I've been exploring the last week or so the snow doesn't really start until 3-4,000 ft. I went up Mailbox Peak late last week which is at 4,800 ft and snow didn't start until 4,000 ft and there were only a few small snow patches to cross to get all the way up to the summit.

[Skagit Weather]

Wind had died down a bit here, but just picked up with gusts in the mid 30s again as the westerly surge came in. Looks like Whidbey Island and places in the Strait are gusting to near 50 mph.

[TT-SEA]

13 minutes ago, Skagit Weather said:

Yeah, the snow level is so strange currently in the Cascades. Still quite a bit of snow in shaded valleys 500-1500 ft, but otherwise on the forest roads I've been exploring the last week or so the snow doesn't really start until 3-4,000 ft. I went up Mailbox Peak late last week which is at 4,800 ft and snow didn't start until 4,000 ft and there were only a few small snow patches to cross to get all the way up to the summit.

Mailbox Peak in my area?