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#4441 Postby TT-SEA » Wed Apr 13, 2005 4:50 pm

58 degrees?????!!!!!!!!!

Thats ABOVE normal.

What is going on???
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#4442 Postby W13 » Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:08 pm

Here are some cloud pics that I took while at the local Elementary School/Park:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/xbmedia/album?.dir=/2191
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#4443 Postby TT-SEA » Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:09 pm

W13 - Notice that rain is not ever quite getting to you??? It keeps falling apart as it moves to the northeast.
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#4444 Postby andycottle » Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:13 pm

Nice pics, Justin! Looking at radar...it seems that the showers are having a hard time making there way northward.

Currently 59 degrees here at 3:18pm. and yes....my thermometer is in full shade all day everyday.
-- Andy
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#4445 Postby TT-SEA » Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:17 pm

59 degrees!!!!!

Could you hit 60 degrees today?????

Holy cow. This is definitely a cold April.
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#4446 Postby AnthonyC » Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:24 pm

"Hopefully this will bring our monthly rainfall total to near normal."

Aren't we exceeding our monthly rainfall already?

And it's not 59F here...it's currently 51F with partly cloudy conditions. There's still alot of activity just offshore and in the southwest interior. The only hinderance is a westerly flow...the olympics are creating a rainshadow in the main Puget Sound. Yesterday's activity came from the southwest direction.

This weekend's storm looks very wet and powerful for the middle of April.

Anthony
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#4447 Postby W13 » Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:26 pm

AnthonyC wrote:"Hopefully this will bring our monthly rainfall total to near normal."

Aren't we exceeding our monthly rainfall already?

And it's not 59F here...it's currently 51F with partly cloudy conditions. There's still alot of activity just offshore and in the southwest interior. The only hinderance is a westerly flow...the olympics are creating a rainshadow in the main Puget Sound. Yesterday's activity came from the southwest direction.

This weekend's storm looks very wet and powerful for the middle of April.

Anthony


Any chance at a wind storm with this weekend's storm?
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#4448 Postby W13 » Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:27 pm

Thanks Andy! :D
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#4449 Postby W13 » Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:28 pm

TT-SEA wrote:W13 - Notice that rain is not ever quite getting to you??? It keeps falling apart as it moves to the northeast.


Yep, I guess you were right. :wink:

They sure came close though, as in I could see the dark clouds just to my west and south.
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#4450 Postby AnthonyC » Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:31 pm

W13,

No widespread windstorm this weekend as the surface low heads into central BC...but the pressure is very low...985 mb. That's a strong surface low for the middle of April. There could be marginal high winds for the northwest interior and north WA coast...but nothing to write home about.

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#4451 Postby andycottle » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:13 pm

Hey guys...is the Seattle NWS site being slow to come up on any of your computers at your end? Casue it is here.

PS...looks like some showers could be heading my way!
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#4452 Postby andrewr » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:17 pm

I have some very dark clouds near my house. The activity is a bit to the South, but it won't take much movement north for me to see something.
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#4453 Postby W13 » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:20 pm

andrewr wrote:I have some very dark clouds near my house. The activity is a bit to the South, but it won't take much movement north for me to see something.


Same here. On radar it looks as if the rain shadow is lifting to the north bit by bit. :D
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#4454 Postby W13 » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:21 pm

andycottle wrote:Hey guys...is the Seattle NWS site being slow to come up on any of your computers at your end? Casue it is here.

PS...looks like some showers could be heading my way!


It is loading fine for me.
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#4455 Postby andrewr » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:30 pm

It is now raining lightly with the wind slowly picking up. The clouds are very dark so I hope for some good thunderstorm activity.
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#4456 Postby andycottle » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:30 pm

Still being pretty slow for me. All eles works fine! For now, am using WeatherTap Radar...which updates every few minutes.
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#4457 Postby Guest » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:31 pm

I don't know where all of your warm temps are coming from... The high here was 53* and now its back down to 46 and it hasn't rained at all today... There is just some broken clouds hanging around and it even looks sort of hazy. This trough we are under is really quite nice, the only thing is that it has traveled so far over the ocean that the air isn't quite as cold. Now if we had this same sized trough only it came in more from the north it would be much colder, probably somewhat similar to 1972, but instead it came in from the northwest... Even more so the west at first.
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#4458 Postby andrewr » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:36 pm

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radbl ... &map.y=337

Check out the cell. I'm just a little south and east of the point (crosshairs) so I should be just a few miles from it.
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#4459 Postby W13 » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:42 pm

WOW! 0.52"+/hour in Covington! Heading our way, dark clouds all over and winds gusting to 30+ mph! I'm taking pics right now.

Be back later! :D
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#4460 Postby andycottle » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:43 pm

Hey all! 8-) Think it was Justin and Andrew that were saying that they are seeing some dark clouds right now. Well no dark clouds in my area. But looking SW to West late this afternoon...and out toward the Olympics, it looked a bit dark with some thick cirrus being blown off the high cloud tops.

Here`s just a few pics I took of some cumulus congetus, swelling cumulus, and cumulonimbus clouds that were near the Cascade foot hills.
Enjoy!! Any body eles seeing any of these clouds like I saw today?
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ajc192004/album?.dir=4f2d

-- Andy
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