PNW February 2022 - Winters Last Stand

[TacomaWaWx]

Has rained really hard the last couple hours. 2.90” right now. Since 2005 we’ve only had 2 days exceed 3” of rainfall. 3.33” on 11/6/06 and 3.33” on 1/7/09. Will see how close we can get to those before midnight but wow really impressive amount of rain in the last ~30 hours. 

[Thunder98]

lol Central Washington

 

[TonyP]

It has been a long time since I have seen a flood warning for the Puyallup river, pretty crazy stuff.

[The Blob]

1.25 for PDX. I feel like I might have gotten more at my house. 

[TacomaWaWx]

Hardest rain of the event so far. 2.95”!

[RentonHill]

Just now, TacomaWaWx said:

Hardest rain of the event so far. 2.95”!

I was just about to post the same thing. Going out with a bang

[High Desert Mat?]

Recorded a mere trace of rain in the last 36 hours. No measurable precip since the 21st imby and that was snow at 0.01 of liquid precip. 1/2 of snow. Cold last Tuesday and Wednesday with a high of only 17 on Tuesday and 26 on Wednesday. 

[FroYoBro]

4 hours ago, Cascadia_Wx said:

Ending winter with a day of wet and dry hyperbole  

Chill Jesse. They'll find you. 

[Blizzard777]

23 minutes ago, TacomaWaWx said:

Hardest rain of the event so far. 2.95”!

Rain rate at .17 under this heavy band….strange, earlier it was a dark green band and I was getting .35

[TacomaWaWx]

3.01” for the day. Heaviest rain band is NE of here now plenty of time to go though. 

[Cascadia_Wx]

Looks like the rain band is moving back in to the Portland area now 57 degrees after a high of 59

[TacomaWaWx]

1 minute ago, Jginmartini said:

Rain rate at .17 under this heavy band….strange, earlier it was a dark green band and I was getting .35

It’s just been consistent moderate rain all day…but it’s been pretty heavy this evening. 3” in one day is pretty big time. 

[MossMan]

Dry evening here and warm! The frogs are singing like crazy tonight! 

[smerfylicious]

Seattle just needs .3 more inches for the record of wettest day in February. Will it make it? Possible...

[TacomaWaWx]

8 minutes ago, smerfylicious said:

Seattle just needs .3 more inches for the record of wettest day in February. Will it make it? Possible...

Not only that, they have a shot at top 5 wettest days ever. 
1 10/20/03 5.02”

2 12/03/07 3.77”

3 11/20/59 3.41”

4 11/06/06 3.29”

5 12/20/19 3.25”

6 2/8/96    3.06”

[RentonHill]

[Blizzard777]

3.02 for the day and rain rate .16 currently 

[RentonHill]

[RentonHill]

[BLI snowman]

1 hour ago, TT-SEA said:

The 1985 analog is not looking too good... even though I would enjoy a repeat.    

SEA already has more rain this year than the total precip from January through September in 1985.    In other words... it took until September that year to get as much rain as we have had through February 28th this year.  That was a crazy dry year.    I wonder what caused that?

Intense and prolonged mid-latitude blocking for one. January and December were two of the longest lived intense blocking patterns on record in North America, in two of our wettest months.

And as you often like to point out, the sense of "dueness" was there as well. 1982-84 were very, very wet years across much of the West, driven by the big El Nino and then the sharp cooling response with the Nina and volcanic influence. Some balancing was inevitable.

[TacomaWaWx]

7 minutes ago, Jginmartini said:

3.02 for the day and rain rate .16 currently 

3.08” here. Just need a quarter of an inch of rain to be the wettest day in almost 19 years. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

It's March on the East Coast. 

[BLI snowman]

1 hour ago, The Blob said:

1.25 for PDX. I feel like I might have gotten more at my house. 

I see they were at 1.54" as of 7pm. They should add a good amount more to that the next few hours.

Just surpassed 2" for the day here. 

[Blizzard777]

8 minutes ago, TacomaWaWx said:

3.08” here. Just need a quarter of an inch of rain to be the wettest day in almost 19 years. 

Rain rate dropped to 0.00

If anything it was just a constant downpour all day like you said….3 inches quite respectable 

[TacomaWaWx]

3 minutes ago, Jginmartini said:

Rain rate dropped to 0.00

If anything it was just a constant downpour all day like you said….3 inches quite respectable 

Radar isn’t quite as healthy but it’s very possible we get 0.25” or more before midnight. 

[Gradient Keeper]

13 minutes ago, RentonHillTC said:

LMAO nice series of GIFs.... Yeah crazy 00z GFS run. Unreal IF it verifies, and it probably will since it will be March lol Following very mild rains with the AR. Seems legit. It couldn't happen 1-2 months ago, so why not in March haha.... Most likely would be any snow occurring 7 PM - 9 AM with the sun angle working against us later into the morning.

00z ECMWF in 28 minutes

[RentonHill]

Trudeau wants to play too

[The Winter Warlock]

5.33” so far for the event, 3.65” since midnight. Goodbye planter boxes.

[Deweydog]

22 minutes ago, RentonHillTC said:

Trudeau wants to play too

 

[Gradient Keeper]

Well shucks.... I tried to check out the fancy German ensembles site and this happened.... No colorful squiggly lines for us!

[RentonHill]

1 minute ago, DJ Droppin said:

Well shucks.... I tried to check out the fancy German ensembles site and this happened.... No colorful squiggly lines for us!

I bet you do a full stop at every stop sign too huh

[RentonHill]

3 minutes ago, DJ Droppin said:

Well shucks.... I tried to check out the fancy German ensembles site and this happened.... No colorful squiggly lines for us!

Here’s GEFS so far. OP has a few pals

[Cascadia_Wx]

6 minutes ago, DJ Droppin said:

Well shucks.... I tried to check out the fancy German ensembles site and this happened.... No colorful squiggly lines for us!

Hacked by Putin himself

[bainbridgekid]

SEA’s only ever had 7 days worth over 3” of rain and it looks like they’re at 2.87” now. Good chance they get there.

[smerfylicious]

3.9 inches on the day, 11 for the month and just crossed 70" since September 1st.

 

Not as high as North Bend but I'll take it. Drought is in full effect here!

[Gradient Keeper]

1.24" rain here today

[TT-SEA]

26 minutes ago, bainbridgekid said:

SEA’s only ever had 7 days worth over 3” of rain and it looks like they’re at 2.87” now. Good chance they get there.

Pretty crazy.     This event did not look like it was that big of a deal a few days ago... but ended up being just about the wettest February day in history at SEA and OLM.

And one of the wettest days ever recorded.

 

[TT-SEA]

SEA has picked up 4.53 inches in the last 54 hours.

OLM is 4.73 inches the same time period.

 

 

[snow_wizard]

A ridiculous 3.14" for today and still raining. 4.66" for the storm so far.  Between this and the SSW in progress I think we should be ready for a major (for March) cold wave coming up.

[SnowySeeker50]

Currently sitting at around 4.3 inches for storm total. 2.81 inches so far today.