PNW February 2022 - Winters Last Stand

[Deweydog]

19 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

Is Phil ok? Haven't seen much from him lately.

11th bout with Covid. Oculus variant.

[Anti Marine Layer]

8 minutes ago, MossMan said:

 

He has a high COVID risk.

[The Blob]

1 hour ago, RentonHillTC said:

Because it will be during the week?

Not really, I named the thread because I felt like the month would go about as well as Custards last stand

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00z ECMWF Day 1

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Hoping the PV slides down into western AB and the 850mb -20c line dances down to about the Dalles-Yakima.

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Day 2

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Day 3

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Day 4

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Day 5

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Looks like Day 5-6 about to carve the arctic trough out nicely.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

38F and pleasant. Moon is beautiful along with the winter stars.

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Day 6

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850s -19c Yakima close to what I hoped to see.

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Day 7

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Hoping the westerlies breakthrough on this run.

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Day 8

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Day 9'er

[gusky]

6 hours ago, Christensen87 said:

I’ll be in CB this weekend. Hoping the rain doesn’t come in till later in the day Saturday so I can enjoy some dry time on the beach. Friday night should be OK for a bonfire. 

Nice, whatever the weather is I'm sure it will be nicer to be in Cannon beach for it

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Day 10

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00z ECMWF 10 Day Rainfall, Snowfall totals

[Cascadia_Wx]

47 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

38F and pleasant. Moon is beautiful along with the winter stars.

Cloudy mild and 45 up here was hoping the moon would be out tonight 

[GHweatherChris]

Nope

[Gradient Keeper]

EPS looks pretty good!

6z GFS in 1 hour 23 minutes

[smerfylicious]

Guess I'll hold off on planting for a few weeks. Gonna need to tell the wife too. We're going big on herbs and veg! Take that inflation!

And I'll dig out my snow shovel too...just in case....

[Christensen87]

06z alert. Brrrr. 

[Meatyorologist]

shidddd okay!

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[The Blob]

How likely are we going to have snow?

[The Winter Warlock]

20 minutes ago, The Blob said:

How likely are we going to have snow?

Yes.

[Meatyorologist]

anyways i lost 7 hours of progress on a Python project bc Windows updated and i forgot to save

It's coming.

[The Blob]

I forgot to mention that I already started some tomatoes and chili's for summer.

[TacomaWaWx]

Low of 37 this morning. Euro still looks pretty good even increased the snow coverage a bit…pretty marginal though. 515dm heights but the 510 line never crosses into western WA. Looks like 850mb temps go as low as -13. 

[jakerepp]

13 minutes ago, TacomaWaWx said:

Low of 37 this morning. Euro still looks pretty good even increased the snow coverage a bit…pretty marginal though. 515dm heights but the 510 line never crosses into western WA. Looks like 850mb temps go as low as -13. 

515 is usually pretty good...in January.

[Phil]

10 hours ago, Front Ranger said:

Is Phil ok? Haven't seen much from him lately.

I posted just last night?

I do have an ugly arse exam today. Been hitting the books hard this week.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

A frosty 32 this morning under clear skies. Hard to get to excited about next week given the limited moisture. Very possible we end up with the driest February on record many places. 

[The Blob]

Well Fox 12 let the cat out of the bag with their snow graph for elevations.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

6 minutes ago, The Blob said:

Well Fox 12 let the cat out of the bag with their snow graph for elevations.

Oh no

[TacomaWaWx]

35 minutes ago, jakerepp said:

515 is usually pretty good...in January.

Yeah this time of year…we need something like 510. Just not much precip either but should be good for the mountains and Atleast it’ll feel like winter. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

14 minutes ago, TacomaWaWx said:

Yeah this time of year…we need something like 510. Just not much precip either but should be good for the mountains and Atleast it’ll feel like winter. 

Any guesses as to why our weather always sucks? In terms of airmasses it doesn’t get much better than this so late in the year. Moisture is the problem, need some juice to get sticking snow below 1000’ in late February and it doesn’t look like we get that. Maybe in some favored Randy type areas. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

12z is cold, not as good as the 06z, but that one was kind of on its own. My guess is we ve seen our coldest runs and the moderation trend will begin.