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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, A Review of Thursday's Snowstorm and a Forecast for Tonight, on the site Charlie's Weather 7 years ago
First off, I apologize for getting this out so late – I’ve been extraordinarily busy between the WeatherTogether/WeatherQuack merger and work. Trust me, I wanted nothing more than to give y’all a forecast for the […]
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Weekly Wrap Up: June 30, 2018 #ARWX, on the site West Rockville MD Weather 7 years ago
This is completely appropriate for the blog Kevin! The only thing I’d recommend is posting it a bit earlier so we can give other folks on social media the heads up, but it sounds like you are aware of that. Hope you have a great time, we have a similar conference up here in Seattle that I love to go to every year.
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Early November: Winter's First Little Tease?, on the site Karl Bonner's Weather Blog 7 years ago
This really is a classic pattern for snow – I wish it was occurring just a few weeks later! At this point, I think The Dalles will see flakes while PDX will just get rain, or a rain-snow mix. Perhaps the West Hills could get something. Monday morning is still a LONG ways out though.
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Arkansas Winter Outlook 2017-18, on the site Will's Arkansas Weather Report 7 years ago
Great first post Will! I love your explanation of the Arctic Oscillation – we always root for a negative phase here in the Pacific Northwest so the polar vortex can deliver a good arctic blast and hopefully a chance of snow.
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Here`s My You Tube Weather Video for Monday – October 30, 2017 !, on the site Jackson, TN's Climate Summary 7 years ago
Wow, 88 last year at this time!!! It’s definitely starting to feel a bit nippy here in Seattle… highs were in the lower 60s and the trees are slightly past their peak colors. Thanks as always for the detailed video and climate summary.
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Halloween forecast for Reno, on the site Ingalls Weather 7 years ago
That Sierra snowfal map looks spooky… in a very good way!!! Hopefully it’s a precursor of things to come as far as mountain snow is concerned.
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Everything You Need To Know About Atmospheric Rivers, on the site Charlie's Weather 7 years, 1 month ago
With a strong atmospheric river underway, I thought I’d take some time to delve a little deeper into these phenomena. In this blog, I’ll cover the basic characteristics of an atmospheric river, how these […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Quick Update on Tomorrow's Storm, on the site Charlie's Weather 7 years, 1 month ago
Today was just a prelude to the stormy weekend ahead, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t exciting! A cool and unstable air mass poured into the region, bringing brief but heavy showers to the lowlands and heavy snow […]
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, First Storm of the Season Comes Through, But An Even Stronger One Looms, on the site Charlie's Weather 7 years, 1 month ago
Our first respectable storm of the season drenched Western Washington and Oregon with heavy rain on Wednesday and Thursday, bringing an inch of rain to many places in the lowlands and several inches in the […]
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Storm Season Begins This Week, on the site Charlie's Weather 7 years, 1 month ago
I love the rain… it was great to hear it last night while falling asleep. Rainfall totals are looking very impressive for the weekend… latest WRF gives us between 2.5 and 5 inches in 48 hours, with the potential for more than 10 inches by Mt. Hood.
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Storm Season Begins This Week, on the site Charlie's Weather 7 years, 1 month ago
One of my recent posts talked about how the transition to winter is quicker than the transition to spring. Though the post was concerned with temperature changes and had a global perspective, we in the Pacific […]
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Looking forward to getting some real weather as we move into the stormy season! I bought these rain gauges for a reason 😉
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I love the rain… it was great to hear it last night while falling asleep. Rainfall totals are looking very impressive for the weekend… latest WRF gives us between 2.5 and 5 inches in 48 hours, with the potential for more than 10 inches by Mt. Hood.
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, First Snow of the Season for the Lower Passes, on the site Charlie's Weather 7 years, 1 month ago
Thanks Kevin! Yup, tons of snowfall for this early in the season. Timberline at Mt. Hood even opened a chair for one day!
I’d like to hear his theory! I believe there’s been a general downward trend throughout the Washington Cascades as well. I wonder if El Nino/La Nina play a role… there were far more La Ninas (good for snow here) in the…[Read more]
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, The Drought is Over – Mid Michigan, on the site Mid Michigan Weather 7 years, 1 month ago
Wow, that’s a ton of rain! Sounds like it’s pretty active over there right now.
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, First Snow of the Season for the Lower Passes, on the site Charlie's Weather 7 years, 1 month ago
We got a taste of winter in mid-September, when an unseasonably cool upper-level trough dropped several inches of the white stuff to Timberline, Paradise Ranger Station, and many other locations in the Cascades […]
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Great post Charlie! Great weather up there in the Pac NW mountains now. Can’t wait to see how big a dump key places get. I have a friend who has been doing extensive traveling with his lovely wife and just passed through Crater Lake. He was fascinated by the long term snowfall record at the COOP station at Park HQ there. There has been a general trend downward through the 20th century and into the 21st He has a theory to explain this drop, and it isn’t due to global warming. Fascinating! Thanks for this great post Charlie!
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Thanks Kevin! Yup, tons of snowfall for this early in the season. Timberline at Mt. Hood even opened a chair for one day!
I’d like to hear his theory! I believe there’s been a general downward trend throughout the Washington Cascades as well. I wonder if El Nino/La Nina play a role… there were far more La Ninas (good for snow here) in the 1950s-1970s and there were far fewer to end the 20th century.
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Thanks Charlie. My friend is still driving out west with his wife so he won’t be able to shed any light about his theory on the decline of Pac NW snowfall (Particularly focus of study are the Crater Lake OR long time snow records). One thing I have been looking for over the past few years are Pac NW climate records for January 1950. As I understand it, it was a really cold and snowy month. NWS/NCEI doesn’t have any records for the month for Washington State sights, and I believe Oregon as well. The limited amount of data I have seen of low, normally milder spots like Portland and Seattle even had several very cold days and significant snows. Meanwhile here in Maryland and through much of the Eastern US we had a record warm month, with temps reaching 80 on a few days near the end of the month at many sites. Must have been quite an amplified pattern of trough in the NW and ridge over parts of the Eastern US. Fascinating!
Stay well Charlie,
Kevin
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Why is the Transition Into Winter Faster Than The Transition Out of It?, on the site Charlie's Weather 7 years, 1 month ago
Now that we are officially in autumn, I can hardly contain my excitement for storm season to get underway. Our transition from autumn into winter is fast and furious; in only 1 1/2 months, we’ll be in the […]
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Very interesting article, Charlie! Thanks for investigating. Of all of the effects you mention, the snow/ice cover are what stand out to me as the major influence (first Autumn snow cover quickly initiating a drop in temps, resulting in more snow, etc., then the max snow cover taking a long time to fully melt delays Spring warming).
I’m hoping for some lowland snows this winter too! Time to pull out and clean my snowboard.
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Baltimore Record Precipitation: Top-10 by Calendar-Day, 24-Hour, and 2-Day Amounts, on the site Murphy's Weather 7 years, 2 months ago
We stay mild here in the Pacific Northwest for our winters, it gets downright FRIGID in Michigan! Happy equinox, and I’ll wish for a mild winter for you folks there.
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, Early Fall Update, on the site Karl Bonner's Weather Blog 7 years, 2 months ago
A lot has happened in the weather world since I blogged last, both locally and nationally. Normally I like to relax in September because the weather is too “beautifully boring” to write about at length. But […]
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Charlie Phillips commented on the post, Do the Tri-Cities really get 300 days of sunshine a year?, on the site Charlie's Weather 7 years, 2 months ago
That’s a pretty high compliment! Now all I need is a catchphrase. 🙂
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Charlie Phillips wrote a new post, First Snow of the Season for the Cascades, on the site Charlie's Weather 7 years, 2 months ago
FINALLY!
It’s one thing to be overjoyed at the first stormy forecast of autumn, but to actually see the moderate rain, gusty winds, and even the mountain snow associated with it is nothing short of wonderful. […]
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Love your post and your enthusiam! Charlie, you are the Cisco Morris of PNW weather forecasts!
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That’s a pretty high compliment! Now all I need is a catchphrase. 🙂
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The most memorable snowstorm of my early childhood in The Dalles was of course late November 1985. Temps as cold as -1F a couple days before Thanksgiving, too….
Then there was the 1992-93 winter season, where the cold and snow lingered throughout late February and the first few days of March.
The El Nino season in 1997-98 had a big memorable snowstorm in The Dalles, with about 18 inches and tons of even taller drifts.
Adulthood memorable snowstorms (besides Dec ’08) included April 20, 2008 in Eugene; March 21, 2012 all over the PNW and November 13, 2014.
Mine would probably be winter of 2003-2004. I lived on McChord AFB near Tacoma and at one point we had 18 inches of snow on the ground. I was nine, but it seemed like we got a couple of different snow storms right around the new year, along with an ice storm that grounded everything to a halt.
I remember January 2004 very well, I forgot to put that one in there. It was a classic overrunning event for us – we got at least 3 inches of snow before it turned to rain. No large discrepancy in elevation (which is good, because we are close to lake level!). Portland got severe freezing rain later on from that storm.
I have particularly vivid memories from that day walking along Lake Washington with my friend and taking in all the scenery together. Schools were of course closed, and the snow stuck to the roads like glue since they were well below freezing. I remember seeing a guy ski down Madrona Hill outside my friend’s house.
I was lucky enough to ski down Madrona Hill in 2008… this was taken the evening of December 21, our second big December 2008 snowstorm. I think the snow had stopped falling at the time of this video, but I’m not sure. Little brother alert at 0:20 and dog (ours) alert at 0:56. https://youtu.be/yenpSFiiroI
Let’s see if this works.
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