The rain has begun in earnest tonight as shown by the radar at 10 pm (below).
The key features bringing the rain are two upper-level troughs of low pressure. The next figures show the upper-level maps this week (500 hPa pressure, about 18,000 ft above sea level).
The first trough is moving in right now (see map at 7AM Monday)
Now let me show you the precipitation totals.
Through Monday at 4 PM, some healthy totals, with up to 3 inches in the mountains.
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A bit more by Tuesday at 4 PM
But by Wednesday at 4 PM..wow. Much more, with some locations up to 10 inches. And it is not over.
Freezing levels will be high enough today to limit snow accumulation, but later in the week it will get cool enough to bring substantial snow totals above 4000 ft. The snowfall total through Thursday at 4 PM is shown below, with the north Cascades getting several feet. Snoqualmie is too low and warm to get much.
Mid-November and the atmosphere is doing what it should. Our water resources are being restored, reservoirs are refilling, and moisture is percolating down into our soils.
This has already been a notably wetter than normal year in the Bellingham area, in sharp contrast to last year. My CoCoRahs rain gauge has measured more than 36” of precipitation ytd whereas last year at this time the ytd total was about half that. Normal ytd precipitation is ~27”.
ReplyDeleteI would attribute the recent rains and cool down to Inslee's CCA, that he just gloated about on KIRO. SARCASM. Funny how 62% of people in washington could favor a very regressive tax for their climate agenda, then tell the poor people that have to pay that they will appreciate it in long run. Taking money from the poor and redistributing it to the masses. Let me very clear on this to the people that voted for it. Rich people write off fuel and travel as expense to get tax breaks, now they can just write off more. This didn't hurt them it hurt the poor.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on that. Very regressive tax.
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