March 2024 Forecasts and Discussions

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Re: March 2024 Forecasts and Discussions

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Pomoman wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:12 pm Snow seems to have stopped. Received maybe 4 cm of wet snow and snow grains(?) in about 3 hours or so.
Sure it will melt again within an hour or two.
We got a couple quick centimeters in about 15 minutes and it's in a lull now, but the temperature certainly dropped a lot.
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Rubus_Leucodermis wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:48 pm I just had a trace briefly accumulate! First time I have ever seen snow stick on the ground on the West Coast in March.

Bodes well for tomorrow morning, when the NAM 3km says there will be another snow chance.
That's insane, considering March snow is not uncommon here.
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12z GFS ensembles:
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We are cool with being excluded. 3 hockey games and 3 ball games this weekend. Ready for spring 😎😎
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Kinda pretty out there ❄️
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A weather 101 special as usual.
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stuffradio wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:18 am April is the start of Q2 which is why I said almost ;)
Right but it is March 1. We are only 2/3 of the way to Q2. Anyways, it doesn’t really matter haha.
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Pomoman wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:12 pm Snow seems to have stopped. Received maybe 4 cm of wet snow and snow grains(?) in about 3 hours or so.
Sure it will melt again within an hour or two.
Snow grains are the best! :hearteyes: :hearteyes:
May has arrived and it will be a GREAT month :clap: :clap:
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Remember when the euro wasn’t the gfs’ biatch?
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Rubus_Leucodermis wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:48 pm I just had a trace briefly accumulate! First time I have ever seen snow stick on the ground on the West Coast in March.

Bodes well for tomorrow morning, when the NAM 3km says there will be another snow chance.
We sometimes get snow in April Rubes. I once saw it snow on May.. 25?? :shock: I think..around the PNE..not far from your area.
May has arrived and it will be a GREAT month :clap: :clap:
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SOMEONE, at SOME POINT, has to score here. Right?
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PortKells wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:07 pm SOMEONE, at SOME POINT, has to score here. Right?
Tofino has hovered near zero and has seen off and on snow today. :thumbup:
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Typeing3 wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:16 pm That's insane, considering March snow is not uncommon here.
I moved to the West Coast in the summer of 1989, have lived in a variety of places, and today was literally the first time I saw the ground whitened by snow in March. I have seen flakes in the air that melt the instant they hit the ground perhaps two or three other times. I am not making this up.
It's called clown range for a reason.
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Hawk wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:05 pm We sometimes get snow in April Rubes. I once saw it snow on May.. 25?? :shock: I think..around the PNE..not far from your area.
Portland had a nice dump of snow in April a year or two ago. Portland.

Needless to say, I have not seen more than just flakes in the air in April, either. At least not on the West Coast. Saw plenty of March, April, and May snow in the Rockies.
It's called clown range for a reason.
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Rubus_Leucodermis wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:44 pm I moved to the West Coast in the summer of 1989, have lived in a variety of places, and today was literally the first time I saw the ground whitened by snow in March. I have seen flakes in the air that melt the instant they hit the ground perhaps two or three other times. I am not making this up.
That can’t be right. We’ve had many March snowfalls.
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