Winter Storm Watch for Seattle and all of western WA
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W13 - What???
How can you take NOTHING and get an inch of snow??
Are you this blindly, insanely optimistic with everything in your life??
I LOVE snow... but man when the models show NOTHING in the first 12-hour period and there is NOTHING on the radar I can pretty much accept the fact that it will NOT snow tonight!!
Don't read this as I am angry... I am just amused. Really amused at your undying optimism in the face of NOTHING.
Man you really love snow. You need to move to the ranger station on top of Mount Rainier and be done with this stress over a flake of snow!!
I am sure R-Dub would go in with you on a cabin.
How can you take NOTHING and get an inch of snow??
Are you this blindly, insanely optimistic with everything in your life??
I LOVE snow... but man when the models show NOTHING in the first 12-hour period and there is NOTHING on the radar I can pretty much accept the fact that it will NOT snow tonight!!
Don't read this as I am angry... I am just amused. Really amused at your undying optimism in the face of NOTHING.
Man you really love snow. You need to move to the ranger station on top of Mount Rainier and be done with this stress over a flake of snow!!
I am sure R-Dub would go in with you on a cabin.
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TT-SEA wrote:W13 - What???
How can you take NOTHING and get an inch of snow??
Are you this blindly, insanely optimistic with everything in your life??
I LOVE snow... but man when the models show NOTHING in the first 12-hour period and there is NOTHING on the radar I can pretty much accept the fact that it will NOT snow tonight!!
Don't read this as I am angry... I am just amused. Really amused at your undying optimism in the face of NOTHING.
Man you really love snow. You need to move to the ranger station on top of Mount Rainier and be done with this stress over a flake of snow!!
I am sure R-Dub would go in with you on a cabin.
In all honestness, if I had a chance I would move there.

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Currently 30 F with a light NE breeze...the cold air has finally arrived, but where's the moisture? With a low-level E breeze and very low dewpoints...currently 20 F in Everett...precip will have a hard time making it very far north. And although I don't like TT-SEA's negativity, I do agree we probably won't see much snow tonight. The one exception might be Hood Canal/Kitsap Peninsula where moisture is having an easier time making it over there. Maybe an inch...but nothing more. Bellingham and the north interior probably won't see ANY precip tonight.
Anthony
Anthony
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andrewr wrote:One day it will. Probably not this year, maybe not even the next 10, but one of these days we will get an arctic outbreak like so many wish. In the meantime I think I'll move to International Falls or Fairbanks.
Fairbanks is cool, I might move there when I am older, at least for the winter months.
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Since we all like the cold, we should move to Amga, Siberia:
http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/24962.html

http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/24962.html

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TT-SEA wrote:Guys... I grew up in Minnesota.
This might be a case of "be careful of getting what you wish for".
The reason you guys think you like cold and snow so much is because you do not get it very often.
When you have it all the time it gets real old... real fast!!
I don't think it would for me, since I do a lot of Winter sports.

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That's the awesome part about snow in Seattle...it happens so rarely that you get very excited when the first few flakes start to fall. One thing I have noticed is the LACK of lowland snow Western Washington has seen the past few years. We haven't had a solid winter since 1996-1997. What happened to all the severe windstorms? What about the occasion lowland snow? Each year, we get less and less. Just think about last year...we had that one arctic outbreak in the beginning of January...two days of snow...and then winter was DONE!! Nothing after that...besides that freak windstorm in Snohomish County in the middle of April. Can we blame global warming?
Anthony
Anthony
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In Seattle... you can do all kinds of winter sports and enjoy them.
The mountains have reliable snow here... better than almost anywhere in the country. And it is much more enjoyable to do winter sports in 28 degrees than in -10 degrees and a windchill of -40.
In Minnesota there are no mountains. Downhill skiing is a complete joke. And its so miserably cold you hate it anyway. It hurts like hell.
It is extremely cold and snow is totally unreliable. This year Minneapolis has had 2.8 inches of snow. Nothing more than a trace at one time.
The mountains have reliable snow here... better than almost anywhere in the country. And it is much more enjoyable to do winter sports in 28 degrees than in -10 degrees and a windchill of -40.
In Minnesota there are no mountains. Downhill skiing is a complete joke. And its so miserably cold you hate it anyway. It hurts like hell.
It is extremely cold and snow is totally unreliable. This year Minneapolis has had 2.8 inches of snow. Nothing more than a trace at one time.
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But you have 10,000 lakes in Minnesota TT! Ice fishing would be kind of fun!
Was in Minnesota once in the middle of July......It was so humid I almost died! Temp was upper 90's with very high humidity. I was so glad when I saw the cascades flying back to Seattle, I almost kissed the ground when I walked off the plane!
Was in Minnesota once in the middle of July......It was so humid I almost died! Temp was upper 90's with very high humidity. I was so glad when I saw the cascades flying back to Seattle, I almost kissed the ground when I walked off the plane!
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The radar is amazingly sparse. That "inch" somewhere was a CYA (thats cover your ass) by the NWS. There is NOTHING out there.
Although they agree that it will do something on Tuesday... the NWS thinks rain as the flow is onshore throughout ALL of Western Washington. I agree with this assessment. There is no such thing as Frazer outflow with west winds off the ocean!!
After that front passes all arctic air is gone... cool, moist, onshore flow prevails.
Then its building high pressure. Winter is over for quite some time... maybe the for this El Nino year.
Next year will be better!!
Although they agree that it will do something on Tuesday... the NWS thinks rain as the flow is onshore throughout ALL of Western Washington. I agree with this assessment. There is no such thing as Frazer outflow with west winds off the ocean!!
After that front passes all arctic air is gone... cool, moist, onshore flow prevails.
Then its building high pressure. Winter is over for quite some time... maybe the for this El Nino year.
Next year will be better!!
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