Sound The Alarms! Regionwide Snowstorm Likely Friday night/Saturday.

Ahwooga!

Snow is in the forecast once again, and this time, Portland should get more than an inch. But before I dive into the snow potential this weekend, let me first touch on the surprise snow that Portland saw Monday night/Tuesday morning. I have to admit, I was pretty jealous when I saw the surprise snowmaggeddon […]

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Surprise Snowstorm for Western Washington

WOW! What was expected to be nothing more than a few scattered snow showers for Western Washington ended up being a bona-fide blizzard for the Northern Interior and a major lowland snowstorm for most locations north of Olympia. I was actually up in Seattle for the weekend doing some recording with my funk band Circular […]

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Insanely Strong Polar Vortex Pummels the Midwest

By now, I’m sure you’ve all heard of the infamous “polar vortex.” While this term has been in the meteorological literature since 1853, it sprung into the vernacular during the 2013-2014 winter, which featured repeated arctic outbreaks that punished the Midwest and Northeast with record low temperatures. The first “Sharknado” movie was released in the […]

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Heavy Mountain Snow This Week

Hi all! I hope everybody had a great weekend and enjoyed a rainy Sunday across the region. As damp and dreary as today has been, several even stronger storms will move through the area this week and will give us the classic trifecta of winter weather: wind, rain, and very heavy mountain snow. If you […]

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Late-Season Snow Hits The Pacific Northwest

Snow in Clearview, Snohomish County, WA, at approximately 500 feet.

I’m back! My sincere apologies for being AWOL the last month. I have, however, been working hard on WeatherTogether’s weather models, though I’m having some connectivity issues uploading them to the site since I’ve reformatted my code to download more, but smaller grib files for my plots (grib files are the files with the raw […]

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Another Snowstorm for Portland Tonight!

As expected, the innocuous, non-sticking snow that was so persistent yesterday quickly ballooned into a full-fledged, crippling lowland snow event last night as heavy band of snow pushed through the Portland metro area. I was out and about with some friends, and it was refreshing to see very few cars out on the roads, as […]

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Snow Early to Arrive, But Main Event Still To Come

A band of heavy snow falling in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Portland, Oregon at 200 feet. Image taken at 9 AM PST Tuesday 2/20/2018

Another day, another poorly-forecast lowland snow event. Our low-pressure system was stronger and faster than modeled, and as a result, it generated more and heavier precipitation than expected. Yesterday’s runs only had a light rain/snow mix at the coast at this morning, but the heavier-than-expected precipitation helped lower snow levels down to the surface there, […]

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More Snow for Portland Tuesday Night!

925 mb temperature, 10-meter wind, and sea-level pressure at 10:00 am PST, Tue 20 Feb 2018 (18-hour forecast)

We probably ended up with approximately an inch of snow at our place in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Northeast Portland from yesterday’s late-season snowstorm. Fellow WeatherTogether blogger Jeff Taylor ended up with 3.3 inches in Happy Valley at 600 feet, and the weather at Boring, OR (7 miles NW of Sandy, OR at 655′) was […]

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Snowing in Portland!

This will just be a quickie, as I’m getting up early tomorrow to go skiing at Mt. Hood Meadows. But after getting scattered, non-sticking snow showers for much of the day, the Portland metro area is finally seeing a decent shot of lowland snow as a weak band of showers swings through the area! Here’s […]

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No Snow for NW Washington Sunday morning :(

Sea-level-pressure, 10-meter winds, and 925 mb temperatures at 07:00 am PST, Mon 12 Feb 2018

This will be a brief post, I just wanted to let folks know that our chances of snow for San Juan/Whatcom Counties Sunday morning have dramatically decreased due to our shortwave taking a more southerly track. Compare tonight’s run to last night’s run and notice how far south the low has shifted. As a result, […]

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