A tugboat removing snow and slush from False Creek. “Winter goes down the drain,” Vancouver Province 26 January 1954

00z GFS 10 Day GIF: 500mb Height Anomaly. 10 Day Rainfall, Snowfall totals

EUG's stats are misleading and should not be an indicator of the metro area. It did not get down to 37F in Springfield yesterday. Never even got below 40F so the temp average for the city proper is way further above normal than people will see historically. Unfortunate to have such bad data for this location.

I wanna see what happens when we have one and tons of flooding and landslides, then a low level Arctic blast flash freezes the floodwaters, a period of freezing rain ensues, followed by the upper levels going below freezing and like 2+ feet of snow on top of an inch or more of ice.

Imagine if we had one of our classic pre-Arctic AR’s…