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Post by Fire21 on Nov 26, 2023 11:49:39 GMT -5
Got our 2nd snow of the season Friday night/Saturday morning. Only amounted to an inch and a half or so, but was enough to make roads slippery for awhile. Nighttime temps will be in the low teens for a time while daytimes slowly go from low thirties to low forties. Nothing much more forecast for moisture.
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Post by MTwomn on Nov 30, 2023 23:14:44 GMT -5
Got our first snow to say on the ground this season. Will see in the morning how much came down.
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Post by Fire21 on Dec 6, 2023 10:43:10 GMT -5
Wx Channel says 51 and sunny today, 53 tomorrow...then 35 on Friday with 1-3" of snow. We do need the moisture.
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Post by MTwomn on Dec 11, 2023 21:39:19 GMT -5
So far in December (11 days) we have had 0.74 inches of rain. Almost every day has has been misting or light drizzle. The sun was out for about an hour on Sunday. Other than that it has been overcast and very dreary. Most of last week the temperature was in the low 50s. Today it got up to 43o. The ten day forecast shows temperatures in the low 40s and continued clouds. Good thing is that there has been minimal wind. Winter is just about here.
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Post by Fire21 on Jan 4, 2024 11:56:18 GMT -5
We've basically been in late fall weather since Thanksgiving. Now we're gonna move into winter for awhile. Forecast is for high temps in twenties to mid 30s. Lows will be teens and single digits. There's a couple low chances for snow.
I did some calculating recently. Montrose's average annual moisture is around 10-1/2". In 2023 we got around 5.8". This was from a weather source I found online.
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Post by MTwomn on Jan 11, 2024 1:22:08 GMT -5
This was over night in Pasco, 17 miles away. We had zero snow. Kennewick, 12 miles away, had about 2 inches. We do not have any snow in the 10 day forecast.
Police driving around Pasco, night shift. Instagram video takes a bit to load.
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Post by MTwomn on Jan 11, 2024 23:35:51 GMT -5
Looks like our unseasonable warm winter is about to end. Tonight it is supposed to get down to 14o. It is currently still 22o with winds around 15 mph. Tomorrow evening is forecast to be around 5o but no snow. Saturday it should warm up to around 13o. Great Falls, MT will be getting down to -24o tonight, so I won't complain.
Both the passes between here and Seattle and Boise were closed part of today due to snow. One weather report I heard said they could expect up to 100 inches of snow over I-90 Snoqualmie Pass. I-84 in Idaho is posted as "Animals on Roadway,Drifting Snow". I-84: Meaacham Pass in OR - Snow Flurries, Black Ice, Visibility of less than 500 feet.
Looks like it is a good weekend just to stay in the Columbia Basin.
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Post by MTwomn on Jan 12, 2024 20:10:52 GMT -5
Demystifying Winter Weather Terms: Rain
| Liquid preciipitation that reaches the ground in the form of drops
| 200-500 microns in diameter
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| Mist | liquid suspension in the atmosphere of very tiny water droplets
| 50-500 microns in diameter
| reduces visibility to 1 km or more
| Fog
| liquid suspension in the atmosphere of very tiny water droplets
| 50-500 microns in diameter
| reduced visibility to less than 1 km
| Blizzard
| Falling/blowing snow with wind or frequent gusts greater than 35 mph for 3 hours or more
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| reduces visibility less than 7 miles
| Blowing Snow
| Wind driven snow
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| Drifting Snow
| Uneven distribution of snowfall caused by surface wind
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| Freezing Drizzle
| Liquid precipitation that reaches the surface as drops then freeze on surface
| less than 0.5 mm in diameter
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| Freezing Fog
| Fog composed of supercooled water drops. These drops freeze after they wet the earth's surface
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| Freezing Rain
| Liquid precipitation that reaches the surface as drops then freezes on surface.
| larger than 0.5 mm in diameter
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| Hail
| Ice crystals and supercooled water that freeze or stick to the embryo hailstone. Hailstones grow by colliding with liquid water drops that freeze on the surface. The hail falls when the updraft can no longer support the weight of the hailstone.
| larger than 5 mm
| Balls that are frozen and hurt if you get hit
| Graupel
| Small hail
| less than 5 mm
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| Ice Crystals
| Also called diamond dust. Small ice crystals that float in the wind.
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| Mixed Precipitation
| Combination of two or more winter precipitation types occurring at the same time or over a period of time at the same place.
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| Rain
| Liquid precipitation that reaches the surface in the form of drops.
| greater than 0.5 mm
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| Sleet/Ice Pellets
| Frozen raindrops.
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| Snow
| Ice crystals that form into flakes. To reach the earth the entire temperature profile in the troposphere must be at or below freezing
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| Snow Grains
| Small grains of ice. Solid equivalent to drizzle. They do not produce much accumulation.
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| Snow Pellets
| Precipitation that grows by supercooled water accumulating on ice crystals or snow flakes. Can occur when a snowflake melts halfway then refreeze. Snow pellets have characteristics of hail, sleet and snow.
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| Snow Squall
| Associated with strong cold fronts, are a key wintertime weather hazard. They typically last less than an hour. Sudden white-out condition and falling temperatures produce icy roads in just a few minutes. Snow accumulations are typically an inch or less. Gusty winds, falling temperatures and quick reductions in visibility.
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Post by MTwomn on Jan 13, 2024 17:03:53 GMT -5
Last night the temperature got down to zero with a strong wind out of the north. At 03:30 I still had water running but when I got up around 09:00 there was no water. The door to my pump house faces north and the space heater inside had died, it was many years old. It was 15o inside the pump house. So a trip into town to buy a new heater. Got home about half an hour ago and set up the new heater. The water just started flowing.
I never had any frozen pipes while living in Maine or Montana even when the temperature got down to -35o and in both places I only lived in trailers. Must be that in both ME and MT they expect the cold temperatures and install the water lines accordingly. This is the fourth time my lines have froze; in 24 years. Only once did it take more than half an hour to get the water running. That one time was my second winter in this house and the temperature was down to -15o and the air vent in the crawl space had opened up an inch. But I have been lucky catching it soon and knowing how to get the heat to the correct areas.
The forecast shows another two nights of single digit temperatures, then by next weekend, daytime temperatures in the 30s.
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Post by MTwomn on Jan 21, 2024 1:29:33 GMT -5
Was playing around with some numbers from the Weather Channel. For 2023 the driest month was June with zero precipitation. From May through August there was a total of 0.34 inches of precipitation. That is not surprising. The wettest month was December with 1.44 inches. For the entire year there was 5.3 inches of precipitation, the historical average is around 7 inches. Yes, some of you may get 5 inches in one day.
It looks like we got around 4 inches of snow this week though Kennewick got 6 inches. They were also only local area that got snow in November. Forecast for later in the week shows temperatures back to the 40s so the snow will be gone.
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Post by MTwomn on Jan 22, 2024 19:10:03 GMT -5
Wow... It got up to 38o today. Of curse with the snow, everything is slushy. But they have plowed the driving lanes. All is good.
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Post by Fire21 on Jan 27, 2024 11:45:39 GMT -5
We've been having cloudy skies for what seems like weeks on end...very depressing. Temps have been in the lower 40s this past week, but today is sunny and the forecast is for 4 or 5 more days like this with temps moving into the mid 50s by Tuesday. Things are looking brighter already!
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Post by MTwomn on Jan 27, 2024 16:52:57 GMT -5
We got to see the sun for a couple hours a few days ago. There is still spots of snow left from last weeks snowfall but streets are all cleared though wet.
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Post by MTwomn on Feb 15, 2024 18:44:17 GMT -5
We suspected for the past three weeks that it was a "false spring" temperatures in the upper 40s, some green grass starting and a few daffodils popping up. So it wasn't that much of a surprise to wake up today to a white landscape.
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Post by MTwomn on Apr 4, 2024 20:36:37 GMT -5
Tuesday the sun was shining brightly and the temperature got up to 83o. Today it has sprinkled all day and the high temperature was 46o.
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