PNW February 2022 - Winters Last Stand

[Gradient Keeper]

6z GFS (Day 1-10) Check out that pattern. I bet Jim is dreaming visions of arctic blasts dancing in his head. Wait. I said that wrong maybe. I'm tired. Even at Day 10 the cold trough is still digging. Crazy. C'MON!!!!

[Gradient Keeper]

Day 11.5 Wow!

[The Blob]

6 hours ago, bainbridgekid said:

That's impressive. That town is only 3,000 feet above sea level just East of LA. 

It was also 71 there yesterday.

I'm they aren't that close.. 

[RentonHill]

1 hour ago, DJ Droppin said:

6z GFS (Day 1-10) Check out that pattern. I bet Jim is dreaming visions of arctic blasts dancing in his head. Wait. I said that wrong maybe. I'm tired. Even at Day 10 the cold trough is still digging. Crazy. C'MON!!!!

[Blizzard777]

5 hours ago, DJ Droppin said:

Awesome call on the Multnomah County Sheriff scanner. Adult male dancing naked in the Multnomah Falls parking lot.

6z GFS in 41 minutes

We must do what we must to spice up this month a bit ! 
 

43* with a beautiful full moon setting 

[TacomaWaWx]

Euro shows a couple days in the mid to upper 30s which isn’t bad for late February. Some people might get lucky and get a little snow…but still pretty early to tell. 

[TacomaWaWx]

Got down to 42 here this morning…still just 2 freezes here this month and 15 this season. The way late February is shaping up we could get to around average for the season atleast. 

[Timmy Supercell]

Send prayers.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

37 with lite reign. 0.10” in the bucket. 

[MossMan]

TacomaWaWx is playing it conservative and Cliff Mass is all in…
ITS COMING. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Hi, It's coming.

[GHweatherChris]

Just now, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Hi, It's coming.

It really isn't. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

3 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

It really isn't. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

Finally FINALLY i have the help i need at my Business! Been away from the forum because of the 16 hr days 6 and 7 days a week to keep up. At 49 years old i can't continue that so the right guy finally came around so now we have 3 men in the shop. 

[RentonHill]

3 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Finally FINALLY i have the help i need at my Business! Been away from the forum because of the 16 hr days 6 and 7 days a week to keep up. At 49 years old i can't continue that so the right guy finally came around so now we have 3 men in the shop. 

Now y’all just need a baby

[SilverFallsAndrew]

3 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

Finally FINALLY i have the help i need at my Business! Been away from the forum because of the 16 hr days 6 and 7 days a week to keep up. At 49 years old i can't continue that so the right guy finally came around so now we have 3 men in the shop. 

That's good news! Help is tough to find right now. Though things are picking up a bit. It also depends a lot on the position, we had our bookkeeper position open up recently and got 42 applicants in just a few days. Some of the salary demands were outrageous though. 

[MR.SNOWMIZER]

2 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

That's good news! Help is tough to find right now. Though things are picking up a bit. It also depends a lot on the position, we had our bookkeeper position open up recently and got 42 applicants in just a few days. Some of the salary demands were outrageous though. 

Part of it is me because I'm very picky who works for me. We have a very good rep that has taken 30 years to create so you have to be careful. Hard to believe it's so hard to find good help and i pay good. My top guy makes 38 per hr and the new guy is 30. That is not crap pay. Full benny's and 1 week pd vacation along with all pd holiday's starting on first day. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Definitely some ensemble improvement for early next week. 

[TacomaWaWx]

18 minutes ago, GHweatherChris said:

It really isn't. 

As modeled it wouldn’t be a big whoop for most. Mossman will probably get a foot of snow somehow. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Just now, TacomaWaWx said:

As modeled it wouldn’t be a big whoop for most. Mossman will probably get a foot of snow somehow. 

The 06z was really cold, but pretty DRY.

[TacomaWaWx]

Just now, SilverFallsAndrew said:

The 06z was really cold, but pretty DRY.

This late in the season really cold isn’t super cold though unfortunately. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

3 minutes ago, TacomaWaWx said:

This late in the season really cold isn’t super cold though unfortunately. 

No, but when does it get super cold? Especially south of Olympia. Some of these colder runs would produce close to the coldest weather we have seen this winter down here. We had sub freezing highs in late February 2018, even something a little more continental like early March 2009 would be pleasant. 

[GHweatherChris]

37 minutes ago, MR.SNOWMIZER said:

I knew you would get what I am doing.

[Joshua Lake Oswego]

1 hour ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

The 06z was really cold, but pretty DRY.

We need precipitation a whole lot more than we need some marginal cold. 

[luvssnow_spokane]

We really need precipitation. Looks to be cold and dry here in Spokane for the next 10 days. YAWN!!  

[Phishy Wx]

8 hours ago, Meatyorologist said:

analogs?

shrooms?

[Phishy Wx]

24 minutes ago, luvssnow_seattle said:

We really need precipitation. Looks to be cold and dry here in Spokane for the next 10 days. YAWN!!  

welcome to the land of boring wx 90% of the time.  E WA.

[Phishy Wx]

2 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

That's good news! Help is tough to find right now. Though things are picking up a bit. It also depends a lot on the position, we had our bookkeeper position open up recently and got 42 applicants in just a few days. Some of the salary demands were outrageous though. 

well at least there is not a labour shortage as portrayed by many narratives.  it's a wage shortage. ie. high COL

[Phil]

 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

12 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

well at least there is not a labour shortage as portrayed by many narratives.  it's a wage shortage. ie. high COL

Well, I think it's a little of both and depends on the position. Bookkeeper is a nice office job with a desirable schedule that can be flexed to a hybrid office/work from home. Some other positions are much tougher to hire for, and we have applicants, but they are extremely picky, as in have very specific schedule demands. Workers have all the leverage right now in this market, because there are more available positions than people looking to fill them, I think the pandemic changed the dynamics in so many different ways, there is no easy answer to the situation. It's not all wages, a lot of it is what kind of flexibility does the job offer, can it be done from home, is it in health care. We already had a shortage of employees in healthcare, and the pandemic has compounded that, even though wages have risen dramatically in the health care field, so many are burned out or it just isn't worth the stress anymore. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

20 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

welcome to the land of boring wx 90% of the time.  E WA.

Some posters on the west side have spent their whole lives wanting to move to that climate it’s all relative I guess 

[Phishy Wx]

2 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Well, I think it's a little of both and depends on the position. Bookkeeper is a nice office job with a desirable schedule that can be flexed to a hybrid office/work from home. Some other positions are much tougher to hire for, and we have applicants, but they are extremely picky, as in have very specific schedule demands. Workers have all the leverage right now in this market, because there are more available positions than people looking to fill them, I think the pandemic changed the dynamics in so many different ways, there is no easy answer to the situation. It's not all wages, a lot of it is what kind of flexibility does the job offer, can it be done from home, is it in health care. We already had a shortage of employees in healthcare, and the pandemic has compounded that, even though wages have risen dramatically in the health care field, so many are burned out or it just isn't worth the stress anymore. 

true and pandemic also showed a lot of folks out there now is the time to change careers or look for something better.  the market has realized that labour is a commodity and people are realizing that they are a commodity too

[Cascadia_Wx]

Coolish and mostly cloudy 48/38 yesterday had some light rain and drizzle at times this morning milder low of 41.

Sun peeking out a little and 46 currently 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

9 minutes ago, Phishy Wx said:

true and pandemic also showed a lot of folks out there now is the time to change careers or look for something better.  the market has realized that labour is a commodity and people are realizing that they are a commodity too

I am essentially an employer, but I think overall it is a good thing.

[TT-SEA]

12Z ECMWF shows snow for Randy on Sunday and Monday... and for me and Andrew as well. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

2 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

12Z ECMWF shows snow for Randy on Sunday and Monday... and for me and Andrew as well. 

Quite a bit 

[Cascadia_Wx]

Euro shows some lowland snow around the Portland area Tuesday morning 

Stronger low Monday night on this run which brings more moisture into the area as the cold moves in 

[LowerGarfield]

12 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

12Z ECMWF shows snow for Randy on Sunday and Monday... and for me and Andrew as well. 

Snow for me as well!

[Skagit Weather]

The Euro shows a low of 15F here next Wednesday??? And close to subfreezing highs on either side of that? That would be pretty remarkable and would be comparable to February 2011 in terms of temperatures.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

EURO looks KOLD.