It looked like a good change but idk at this point

If we can manage to get things going into Jan. we could make something out of this winter. Get something big at the beginning; keep the AO and NAO negative for the whole month. That way when we get back into the NW flow for the second half of Jan. we can keep snow around. Then Feb. is our snowiest month and by my math that is when the stormy pattern would come back around.

Split flow?

It's never going to snow at this rate.

What a night! Holy crap what a wind storm. I cannot recall a more widespread damaging regional westerly wind storm. At its peak Oregon and Washington had a combined 600,000 customers without power. PGE peaked at just under 125,000 and Clark County just shy of 100,000. Dozens and dozens of trees and powerlines knocked down throughout the region. All of this from a sharp, dynamic cold front with very steep pressure rises 'chasing' building in behind the frontal passage. The strongest winds were from The Dalles, to Pendleton, to Spokane, eastern Gorge to Northeast Oregon, to Southeast Washington. Numerous gusts of 60-80+mph. Looking at the pressure gradients themselves were very impressive. Peak gradients were as followed. PDX-DLS: +8.4mb TTD-DLS: +7.8mb DLS-PDT: +6.1mb PDX-GEG: +22.7mb OTH-GEG: +29.3mb *Legend: PDX = Portland, DLS = The Dalles, TTD = Troutdale, PDT = Pendelton, GEG = Spokane, OTH = North Bend A -Negative value indicates easterly/offshore flow A +Positive value indicates westerly/onshore flow Now I did not track the wind storm nearly as closely for Western Washington as I did more locally in PDX metro, the Willamette Valley, and southwest Washington. I did want to point out that this was a brief wind storm down here. The peak winds only lasted about 30 minutes and look what it did. Unbelievable! Now imagine if the winds had persisted more on the order of 2-4 hours more typical of our wind storms I think we would have easily been looking at 1.25 million + outages region wide. WOW! Okay then. Onto the next event hopefully will be of the cold, snowy, arctic variety. 12z GFS, AI-GFS, ECMWF, EC-AIFS weren't too far off with the ridge placement to drop cold air over us. After the last in a series of ARs to drench WA/OR the pattern buckles and model riding will shift to tracking arctic air. It's coming. Ya gotta believe! C'MON!!!!