PNW January 2022, Contact Info for Phil

[Geos]

43 minutes ago, Gummy said:

Yea, even in Seattle it is 35 degrees out but the roads are all completely iced over, very dangerous. I almost slipped a few times walking home from work.

How far do you have to walk?

I wonder what the soil temps are... I bet the frost goes down for a bit.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

8 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

This shower should hit my area.  No telling how much poop it really has with the Langley Hill radar, but there is still some yellow in it.

Poop with yellow in it. Wow hahahaha

[Gummy]

1 minute ago, Geos said:

How far so you have to walk?

I wonder what the soil temps are... I bet the frost goes down for a bit.

only about 1/4 a mile from the bus stop, but there are a few hills.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Today was about as dynamic as it gets here. Heavy rain with winds gusting to 60mph+ and 45F at 4am, snowing and 32 by 9am. Not much by continental standards, but it made for a fun active day. 

[Brian_in_Leavenworth]

4 minutes ago, bainbridgekid said:

I know the radar's down, but get your head out of the toilet, man.

Must be a side effect of the covid that he has 

[KingstonWX]

I'm so jealous of all you other people and your weather. It was basically partly cloudy here all day, nothing interesting, and 99% of my snow has melted. Currently sitting at 35 degrees and boring. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

The Wednesday event is really shaping up to be a classic overrunning event for the Puget Sound. Looks like snow moves in Wednesday morning and lasts most of the day. 

[bainbridgekid]

00z still solid with the Wednesday overrunning system.

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

SLE up to 2.30" of rain today. About 1/3 of their monthly average. Also great to have it fall as snow in the mountains. Not just washing out to sea like a lot of our heavy rain events in recent years. Snow levels will be a lot higher Thursday during the next round of heavy rain. 

[Deweydog]

4 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Today was about as dynamic as it gets here. Heavy rain with winds gusting to 60mph+ and 45F at 4am, snowing and 32 by 9am. Not much by continental standards, but it made for a fun active day. 

Turned out to be one of our most impressive triple point-type setups in a very long time.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

2 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Today was about as dynamic as it gets here. Heavy rain with winds gusting to 60mph+ and 45F at 4am, snowing and 32 by 9am. Not much by continental standards, but it made for a fun active day. 

I wish we all could've been at my house lastnight to experience the thunder snow. All my life I lived here and this is two separate events that had thunder snow.  Last time I can remember it happening was before February 2019 was 1990. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

1 minute ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

I wish we all could've been at my house lastnight to experience the thunder snow. All my life I lived here and this is two separate events that had thunder snow.  Last time I can remember it happening was before February 2019 was 1990. 

I imagine thunder snow could happen here, but I have never seen it. 

[SouthHillFrosty]

[snow_wizard]

5 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

The Wednesday event is really shaping up to be a classic overrunning event for the Puget Sound. Looks like snow moves in Wednesday morning and lasts most of the day. 

Mid levels are colder than previous runs as well.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

2 minutes ago, bainbridgekid said:

00z still solid with the Wednesday overrunning system.

 

As you know these can be very tricky on the transition time and when and where it happens. Sometimes they don't change to rain at all until fropa. What is interesting is how far the low is from us and it doesn't take much for the flow to remain offshore depending on where the pressure falls are along the frontal boundary.  Honestly these usually remain snow much longer than forecasted. 

[SouthHillFrosty]

Rain/snow mix and currently 31 degrees……..

[Meatyorologist]

Wednesday is a legitimate and substantial threat for 1-4" of snow in the Sound before melting. With heavy enough precip rates, there could be quick road accumulations.

[snow_wizard]

4 minutes ago, SouthHillFrosty said:

The Seattle area has some breathing room on this.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Tuesday looks very wet across SW Oregon. 

[snow_wizard]

1 minute ago, Meatyorologist said:

Wednesday is a legitimate and substantial threat for 1-4" of snow in the Sound before melting. With heavy enough precip rates, there could be quick road accumulations.

Especially with the cold roads right now.  I like the looks of this one.  Warm nose potential is lower on this run.

[Meatyorologist]

Just now, SouthHillFrosty said:

Rain/snow mix and currently 31 degrees……..

Probably below freezing in the immediate ~100' above the ground, then a mixed warmer layer above that, then adiabatically cooling back down to freezing around ~500' up. Watch for icing! 

[Cloud]

SEA's still reporting light snow but nothing here atm. Maybe a bit too far north in the mean time. 

[Meatyorologist]

Just now, snow_wizard said:

Especially with the cold roads right now.  I like the looks of this one.  Warm nose potential is lower on this run.

It's also a much more typical setup than yesterday's weird, tenuous reliance on easterlies rushing cold air back over us after the SW'lies kicked out the Fraser outflow. This next go around is a simple overrunning event, with cold air in place and warmer moister air overriding it. Makes physical sense and is highly analogous to what we should expect to see 2-4 times a winter.

[Meatyorologist]

I must admit, the loss of KATX is extremely inconvenient

[MossMan]

14 minutes ago, KingstonWX said:

I'm so jealous of all you other people and your weather. It was basically partly cloudy here all day, nothing interesting, and 99% of my snow has melted. Currently sitting at 35 degrees and boring. 

Yeah today was massively boring up here. Breezy which ate more snow, and about 5 minutes of mixed precip and temps ranging from 34 to 38. 

[BurienSnow]

Snowing kind of heavy and sticking in Burien

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

8 minutes ago, Meatyorologist said:

It's also a much more typical setup than yesterday's weird, tenuous reliance on easterlies rushing cold air back over us after the SW'lies kicked out the Fraser outflow. This next go around is a simple overrunning event, with cold air in place and warmer moister air overriding it. Makes physical sense and is highly analogous to what we should expect to see 2-4 times a winter.

Going to really depend how much outflow makes it down through the sound and how long we remain offshore flow. To bad it's coming in during the day but probably won't matter to much. 

[Deweydog]

Just checked the radar here. Not because I have to/want to, but just because I can.

[Ice_is_Everywhere]

Heavy wet snow here, maybe mixing with rain at times.

[Cloud]

Snowing.  Fat flakes. 

[The Blob]

41 minutes ago, snow_wizard said:

This shower should hit my area.  No telling how much poop it really has with the Langley Hill radar, but there is still some yellow in it.

Might want to consult your doctor 

[TacomaWaWx]

Still snowing but it’s lightened up. Not enough to accumulate but I think there’s a decent chance tonight. Really hope the Wednesday system works out. 

[SnowySeeker50]

Light rain/snow mix currently.

[Meatyorologist]

16 minutes ago, KingstonWX said:

I'm so jealous of all you other people and your weather. It was basically partly cloudy here all day, nothing interesting, and 99% of my snow has melted. Currently sitting at 35 degrees and boring. 

Keep in mind that the snow reports and images flooding around social media and the forums do not represent the common scene across the PNW, and in fact only represent a specific subset of very fortunate individuals who happen to live in extremely favored, isolated corners of the incorporated PNW. The majority of us on here, including all those living in the metro areas of our region, have seen next to zero accumulating snowfall since our Fraser outflow connection was cut off on Saturday.

People aren't going to fill their Twitter pages with their own bare lawns proclaiming, "Wow, look at how bare my lawn is! I got no snow last night!" Instead, pictures of snow are shared at a vastly disproportionate rate compared to "bare lawn" reports. Turns out, people like snow here. Who'da thunk

Occasionally you'll still see a post like, "Hey lookie over here, I live in so-and-so and I got 26 inches in 14 hours!".... Except so-and-so is a refurbished outpost town leftover from the 1862 gold rush with a standing population of less than 50 people and an elevation of over 1500' laid deep within a mountain valley. Hard to call that a realistic portrayal of what "the rest of the region" is seeing.

Here in Seattle it's 31F and 90% of our snow is gone. I got nothing today.

[Cloud]

Having no problem sticking. All within the last 5-7 minutes. Getting heavier. 

[GHweatherChris]

Dang it, this next cell is gonna just clip me again and the bulk is going south of me.  A direct hit would be nice at some point tonight.

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Fv3 has light snow starting in Puget sound and pretty much snows all day and really ramps up between 3pm and 7pm before Changing to rain. Looks like a nice band lifting throughout Puget sound around 5pm.

[GHweatherChris]

1 minute ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Fv3 has light snow starting in Puget sound and pretty much snows all day and really ramps up between 3pm and 7pm before Changing to rain. Looks like a nice band lifting throughout Puget sound around 5pm.

God forbid we have a traditional region wide transition/overriding event.

[TacomaWaWx]

Would be cool to get another snow event since I missed the big ones. Have enjoyed the last 2 days of weather though dumping rain yesterday and some snow on and off today. Still a few inches of snow in patches around the area so it’s felt pretty wintery still…getting another snow event would make me feel like I atleast got to enjoy some of this event. 

[Ice_is_Everywhere]

Lightening up and switching to mostly rain now. Very marginal tonight.