PNW January 2022, Contact Info for Phil

[The Blob]

6 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

In Oregon the month is now called Torchuary.

4 below normal months since 2020 began. Anybody had fewer?

I thought we settled on Junuary last year.

[Snownerd3000]

9 minutes ago, jakerepp said:

From my friends in Wenatchee. That's their 4 year old daughter. 

my sister lives there and shared they have 2 ft of snow this morning and still dumping

 

[MossMan]

5 minutes ago, smerfylicious said:

34F here, have 5" of the sloppiest snow accumulated. It's gross but it'll protect my snowpack for a bit haha 

Sounds like all of Skykomish is without power now, I can only imagine how much they got up there! 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Interesting to see January 2009 at the top of the list. Could we potentially see a glancing blow late month? Our Spokane friends would be pleased with this outcome. 

[BLI snowman]

Centralia already approaching 2" of rainfall on the day. Near record flooding is being forecast on the Chehalis, Skoomchuck, and Newaukum Rivers in Lewis County. Probably gonna see I-5 shut down around there tonight.

[jakerepp]

2 minutes ago, Snownerd3000 said:

my sister lives there and shared they have 2 ft of snow this morning and still dumping

 

That's what this looks like. Just wild.

[FrozenBites]

I have an hunch we will have a 2 week break from cold weather and be back into a cold regime around the 19th. Maybe more cold?

[Requiem]

Wondering if Astoria nears its 24-hour rainfall record-- just over 3 inches of rain there already. Another 2.5 inches as that atmospheric river has really setup doesn't seem insanely far-fetched.

[BLI snowman]

AST already at 2.86" for the day with a ton more rain to go. 

[TT-SEA]

Just now, 1000'NorthBend said:

Snoqualmie Pass is closed... through (at least) Saturday!

Holy crap.

[joelgombiner]

I-90 closed for multiple days is a huge impact. 

[Omegaraptor]

17 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

I used to think  you were just being dramatic, but now I think we are reliving a 1997-2004 weather horror show. 

PDX coldest temp since Jan 2017 is 23. 

Compare to:

Redding (24)

Chico (25)

The average annual minimum at PDX with old 1981-10 normals was below 20

[BLI snowman]

2 minutes ago, Requiem said:

Wondering if Astoria nears its 24-hour rainfall record-- just over 3 inches of rain there already. Another 2.5 inches as that atmospheric river has really setup doesn't seem insanely far-fetched.

Haha, we had the same thought.

Their calendar day record is 5.56", so it's a bit of a push but they could get pretty close.

[Blizzard777]

1 hour ago, MossMan said:

I am INCREDIBLY jealous of Brian, Snowmizer, and everyone else experiencing the absolute epicness east of the cascades. What an epic event over there. Looking forward to when they both Check in here. Don’t think I have seen that much snow on the Shari’s cam In Winthrop. And the Leavenworth live cam…I could sit and watch that all day. Meanwhile we now wait until the end of January at the earliest. Fingers crossed! 
38 and drizzle here. 

Watching the Leavenworth cam all morning.  Plows are going and a few folks venturing out!  Wish I was there 

[bainbridgekid]

2 minutes ago, 1000'NorthBend said:

Snoqualmie Pass is closed... through (at least) Saturday!

I can't remember a three day closure ever happening before.

[Brian_in_Leavenworth]

 

That nob you see next to the air b and b sign is the top of a shovel that is buried.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

10 minutes ago, The Blob said:

I thought we settled on Junuary last year.

Ah yes that’s right. And we definitely only had one of those. Sometimes Tim can have 2 of them.

This last June saw the gates of hell stop by.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

1 minute ago, Omegaraptor said:

PDX coldest temp since Jan 2017 is 23. 

Compare to:

Redding (24)

Chico (25)

Unreal. It took 2' of snow depth to help us get to 19 on New Year's Day. First sub 20 low in almost 3 years. 

[joelgombiner]

1 minute ago, bainbridgekid said:

I can't remember a three day closure ever happening before.

WSDOT already had a huge staffing shortage going into winter. They probably have a bunch of people out tempoerarily due to the Omicron wave. 

https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/wsdot-admits-winter-travel-will-be-slow-and-dangerous-due-to-staffing-shortage

[TigerWoodsLibido]

2 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Unreal. It took 2' of snow depth to help us get to 19 on New Year's Day. First sub 20 low in almost 3 years. 

Something is definitely alarming with this.

[BLI snowman]

4 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Holy crap.

And I-84 is closed now between Troutdale and Hood River due to a landslide.

SR 14 is the only way through the Cascades right now north of Mt. Hood.

[Cascadia_Wx]

4 minutes ago, Omegaraptor said:

PDX coldest temp since Jan 2017 is 23. 

Compare to:

Redding (24)

Chico (25)

The average annual minimum at PDX with old 1981-10 normals was below 20

The Portland airport has become pretty urbanized the last 20 or so years which plays a role, most outlying spots in the Portland area have seen teens in that stretch even your new location Corvallis hit 18 less than two weeks ago 

[Front Ranger]

10 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

AST already at 2.86" for the day with a ton more rain to go. 

5.56" from 11/25/98 is their daily record...

[Cascadia_Wx]

Just now, BLI snowman said:

And I-84 is closed now between Troutdale and Hood River due to a landslide.

SR 14 is the only way through the Cascades right now north of Mt. Hood.

Here we are getting a long overdue classic active La Niña winter wide variety of interesting weather crushing Cascade snowpack and basically everyone in the western lowlands has seen snow so far but you wouldn’t guess it with the sad mood from some this morning 

[TigerWoodsLibido]

3 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

And I-84 is closed now between Troutdale and Hood River due to a landslide.

SR 14 is the only way through the Cascades right now north of Mt. Hood.

Y’all could drive down here. Santiam Pass is clear. Blue Box might be.

[Front Ranger]

12 minutes ago, 1000'NorthBend said:

Snoqualmie Pass is closed... through (at least) Saturday!

Guess snowmizer might be at his cabin for awhile.

[Requiem]

10 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

Haha, we had the same thought.

Their calendar day record is 5.56", so it's a bit of a push but they could get pretty close.

Certainly quite a bit to go but now that the AR has setup it isn't inclined to move for quite a bit. In any case, I'd expect some rather nasty flooding in low-lying spots near susceptible rivers and streams.

[RentonHill]

3 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

Guess snowmizer might be at his cabin for awhile.

hes probably excited! sorry guys cant make it back to the shop for a while guess im stuck here!

[BLI snowman]

16 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Interesting to see January 2009 at the top of the list. Could we potentially see a glancing blow late month? Our Spokane friends would be pleased with this outcome. 

Many of those were followed by 1-2 week retrogrades.

1962 had a backdoor airmass around the 12th and then the big blast around the 18th.

1980 was very quickly followed by the backdoor event around the 26th.

1994 had a backdoor airmass around the 8th of February.

1996 had the pattern break down a bit and then the large -PNA trough setup by the 17th.

2009 had the backdoor event around the 26th.

 

 

[Omegaraptor]

7 minutes ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

The Portland airport has become pretty urbanized the last 20 or so years which plays a role, most outlying spots in the Portland area have seen teens in that stretch even your new location Corvallis hit 18 less than two weeks ago 

Even so the PDX stretch is still pretty impressive. Salem and Eugene have not gotten below 20. 

I wasn’t in town for the Corvallis 18 but indeed some of the better radiational cooling spots in the valley have seen teens. Same at Hillsboro AP which I use when back in Tigard

[MossMan]

21 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Interesting to see January 2009 at the top of the list. Could we potentially see a glancing blow late month? Our Spokane friends would be pleased with this outcome. 

The 1996 analog is intriguing. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

2 minutes ago, BLI snowman said:

Many of those were followed by 1-2 week retrogrades.

1962 had a backdoor airmass around the 12th and then the big blast around the 18th.

1980 was very quickly followed by the backdoor event around the 26th.

1994 had a backdoor airmass around the 8th of February.

1996 had the pattern break down a bit and then the large -PNA trough setup by the 17th.

2009 had the backdoor event around the 26th.

 

 

The operational GFS was horrible, but we are starting to see a few cold ensemble members start showing up in the long range. 

[MossMan]

I’m now seeing pics from my work contacts that live east of the cascades, more specifically Cashmere and Ellensburg. Stunning. 

[RentonHill]

6 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

The operational GFS was horrible, but we are starting to see a few cold ensemble members start showing up in the long range. 

Ya i hope we start to see the op pick up on the ensemble trends soon. I feel like it was the other way around last time, the operational kept showing goods in fantasy land on every run while ensembles slowly caught up. GEFS looks a bit better so far than 6z but i'm just happy its not starting to show something totally different. 

[BLI snowman]

9 minutes ago, Requiem said:

Certainly quite a bit to go but now that the AR has setup it isn't inclined to move for quite a bit. In any case, I'd expect some rather nasty flooding in low-lying spots near susceptible rivers and streams.

I'd imagine there's going to be a lot more road closures heading out that way.

[BLI snowman]

9 minutes ago, Omegaraptor said:

Even so the PDX stretch is still pretty impressive. Salem and Eugene have not gotten below 20. 

I wasn’t in town for the Corvallis 18 but indeed some of the better radiational cooling spots in the valley have seen teens. Same at Hillsboro AP which I use when back in Tigard

Haven't been below 17 here since January 2017.

This location also didn't go below 17 between December 1998 and February 2006, so I still have a couple more years to go to catch up to that streak.

[TacomaWaWx]

49 here after a low of 36. 0.95” of rain this morning and 3.11” of rain this month. Already halfway to normal in the 1st 6 days of the month. No snow left in town now we still had patchy snowcover through last night. 

[TacomaWaWx]

Yeah my brothers stuck at Rimrock lake on the other side of the pass…guess I won’t be seeing him for a couple more days. Probably good since I likely got covid in texas and feel like garbage this morning. 

[Deweydog]

Feels like a sauna out there after almost two weeks below 50.

[The Blob]

Looks like fun times in Seaside