PNW January 2022, Contact Info for Phil

[SilverFallsAndrew]

2 minutes ago, SnowHawks said:

So what happened in 2011?

Nowata, Oklahoma hit -30. 

[TacomaWaWx]

43 here out on a jobsite in belfair. Little frost around still. 

[ShawniganLake]

59 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

Pain

Should see an arctic front sliding through late on the 20th or early on the 21st.  

[Omegaraptor]

Wetterzentrale just got ECMWF spaghetti charts for me.

[bainbridgekid]

29 minutes ago, SnowHawks said:

So what happened in 2011?

Big arctic outbreak late in February. Parts of Skagit County got 3 feet of snow in a CZ.

[Gradient Keeper]

12z GEFS

Day 8-16. Nice improvements. Solid retrogression and cold air spilling back into eastern Washington. Heights rising over the southeastern US. February just might bring back Winter. C'MON!!!!

[TacomaWaWx]

4 minutes ago, bainbridgekid said:

Big arctic outbreak late in February. Parts of Skagit County got 3 feet of snow in a CZ.

Big boom/busts with that one. We had more snow here in Tacoma than most places in the south sound. 

[SouthHillFrosty]

23 minutes ago, TacomaWaWx said:

43 here out on a jobsite in belfair. Little frost around still. 

U get a new job? Are you not @ Freddie’s anymore?

[TacomaWaWx]

1 minute ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

U get a new job? Are you not @ Freddie’s anymore?

Yeah, I got into HVAC work. It’s harder but pays better. Fred meyers isn’t really where you want to have a career from personal experience. 

[BLI snowman]

6 minutes ago, TacomaWaWx said:

Yeah, I got into HVAC work. It’s harder but pays better. Fred meyers isn’t really where you want to have a career from personal experience. 

Smart choice. 

Gonna be a big area of growth in our region as the climate warms!!!

[SouthHillFrosty]

10 minutes ago, TacomaWaWx said:

Yeah, I got into HVAC work. It’s harder but pays better. Fred meyers isn’t really where you want to have a career from personal experience. 

Congrats on the new job! You better tell Fred where u work in case you go MIA again and we form another search party

[AlTahoe]

After the snowiest Dec on record, Jan is coming in as one of the worst ever recorded.

The ridges the last 10 years have been like a light switch. Either on or off with no semblance of normal anymore. Looks like we will have to wait till at least the second half of Feb for any kind of precip which is pretty incredible. 

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It looks like the Reno Airport will end up with  
  0.00 inches for the month (driest on record),

[Gradient Keeper]

14 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

Congrats on the new job! You better tell Fred where u work in case you go MIA again and we form another search party

That was almost as big as the search & rescue operation to find Phil!

18z GFS in 32 minutes

[MossMan]

1 hour ago, SnowHawks said:

So what happened in 2011?

About 20” of snow up here when all was said and done along with about 4 subfreezing highs. 

[The Ms. Anthrop]

2 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Check out the range on this WSW. Going to be a huge gradient between snow, sleet, and ZR. South and east of Tulsa will probably be mostly sleet and ZR. 

Benton-Carroll-Osage-Washington OK-Nowata-Craig-Ottawa-Pawnee-
Tulsa-Rogers-Mayes-Delaware-Creek-Okfuskee-Okmulgee-Wagoner-
Cherokee-Adair-Muskogee-McIntosh-Pittsburg-
Including the cities of Rogers, Bentonville, Berryville,
Eureka Springs, Pawhuska, Bartlesville, Nowata, Vinita, Miami,
Pawnee, Tulsa, Claremore, Pryor, Grove, Jay, Sapulpa, Okemah,
Okmulgee, Wagoner, Tahlequah, Stilwell, Muskogee, Checotah,
and McAlester
826 AM CST Mon Jan 31 2022

...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH
THURSDAY EVENING...

* WHAT...Heavy mixed precipitation possible. Precipitation starts
  off as freezing rain, then transitions to sleet and eventually
  snow as the event progresses. Ice accumulations of one tenth to
  one half of an inch possible. Total snow and sleet accumulations
  of 1 to 10 inches possible.

* WHERE...Portions of east central, northeast and southeast
  Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas.

* WHEN...From late Tuesday night through Thursday evening.

 How common is 10 inches of snow in OK? Are they set up for snow with plows/sanding/salting? Regardless, that mix sounds ugly!

[ShawniganLake]

49 minutes ago, DJ Droppin said:

That was almost as big as the search & rescue operation to find Phil!

18z GFS in 32 minutes

Phil may be missing again. Said he was going to post those photos and videos while he was getting new tires installed today. It’s getting late out in the Eastern time zone. 

[TT-SEA]

Clean air has returned to Seattle... even a few sun breaks out here in North Bend and 44 currently. 

 

[Gradient Keeper]

Hoping Phil is okay, and not sure what the joke is behind it. I remember seeing a video he posted with light snow and gusty winds, then the flat tire.

[Phil]

Finally home! Man that was exhausting.

Getting ready to upload that footage now.

[Phil]

6 minutes ago, DJ Droppin said:

Hoping Phil is okay, and not sure what the joke is behind it. I remember seeing a video he posted with light snow and gusty winds, then the flat tire.

Compressing the 10+ hours of footage takes a lot of time. Got that done last night in the hotel but needed stronger WiFi to upload it, which I now have. 

[AlTahoe]

51 minutes ago, Phil said:

Compressing the 10+ hours of footage takes a lot of time. Got that done last night in the hotel but needed stronger WiFi to upload it, which I now have. 

What was the final snow total in the area you were at? Or did it all blow away? Must have been some big drifts somewhere. 

[gusky]

On 1/29/2022 at 10:38 PM, hawkstwelve said:

Yup. Love that show! Really sad it's over but I'm just starting book 5 and I'm excited to see how it ends after book 6 (where the show stopped). Still holding out hope they finish the final books in a movie or something. 

I think @gusky had started it a little bit ago. Season 1 takes a bit to get going but once it gets cranking it doesn't let up until the crescendo of season 3. Probably some of the best, most realistic sci-fi I've watched. 

I'm a couple episodes in at the moment, don't watch a ton of TV shows. It's really good so far though!

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Nice backdoor blast on the 18z. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Looks nice, but chilly up toward the house.

[Meatyorologist]

21 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Nice backdoor blast on the 18z. 

Subfreezing highs for the 16th pretty much everywhere. Also several inches of snow for all of the Willamette Valley. Hard not to like that.

[gusky]

Wow, light drizzle with barely anything on radar.

[TT-SEA]

925 temp is currently -1C and the  850mb temp is -6C and a c-zone just moved through here and it was light rain.  

[gusky]

... it can't snow at 47F, right? I know it shouldn't be able to, but some of these drops look remarkably like snow.

[Cascadia_Wx]

3 minutes ago, gusky said:

... it can't snow at 47F, right? I know it shouldn't be able to, but some of these drops look remarkably like snow.

Lapse rates are pretty high today especially up there wouldn’t take much to pull the snow level down 

[TT-SEA]

Just now, Cascadia_Wx said:

Lapse rates are pretty high today especially up there wouldn’t take much to pull the snow level down 

We has some ice pellet showers here earlier this morning.  

[gusky]

1 minute ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Lapse rates are pretty high today especially up there wouldn’t take much to pull the snow level down 

Still kinda doubt it was snow, but I guess it's possible. Definitely confused me for a second.

[gusky]

Awesome sunset tonight against the cvzn

[GHweatherChris]

48 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

925 temp is currently -1C and the  850mb temp is -6C and a c-zone just moved through here and it was light rain.  

Had some snow mix in at the end of the last shower that moved through here just a bit ago.

[TT-SEA]

Just now, GHweatherChris said:

Had some snow mix in at the end of the last shower that moved through here just a bit ago.

New c-zone just formed and now getting some ice pellets.    

[gusky]

[SilverFallsAndrew]

It’s been all snow at our place today, but moisture is sparse. 

[MWG]

Oof!!

 

[Cascadia_Wx]

The current tough has trended cloudier in the short range not as good a pattern for night time freezes as it was looking a couple days ago 

[Cascadia_Wx]

45/37 day here with some showers looks like January will end up pretty close to average in the Portland metro -0.1 at PDX.

[Cascadia_Wx]

3 minutes ago, MWG said:

Oof!!

 

Petty persistent ridging with big diurnal temp ranges surprised you guys didn’t get into more of an inversion pattern down that way