The ECMWF is pretty interesting just after day 10. Might be a gradual lead into the good stuff.

Really not much of an issue until mid Feb though.

Form what I know down there you want somewhere where the east wind causes cold air damming along east slopes of the Coast Range. I'm sure snowman knows a lot more about that though.

At least it's finally getting cooler. Down to 46 here now. Reasonably cool for mid-day.

@BLI snowman I've been researching places that are a reasonable balance between being a practical and nice place to live and getting more snow and interesting weather. What are your thoughts on the Prune Hill area in Camas? Seems like you can get to 650-750ft there but it isn't that far from the river. Does the outflow there screw up snow accumulation? The other area that looks interesting are the hills just north of Camas/Washougal. 1000-2000ft elevation and located a bit away from all the dry outflow so maybe quite ideal for snow there. However, seems it could be annoyingly far away from services. Where would you rather live between those places?