W000000TTTT: PNW Happening

[Buster Highmen]

24 HOUR FORECAST OF PRECIPITATION IN INCHES OF WATER
EQUIVALENT ENDING AT 4AM
SAT SUN

* HURRICANE RIDGE .75-1 .25-.5

* MT BAKER .5-.75 LT .25
* WASHINGTON PASS .5-.75 .25
* STEVENS PASS .75-1 .25
*******SNOQUALMIE PASS 1 .25
* MISSION RIDGE .5 .25
*******CRYSTAL MTN 1 .25
* PARADISE 1.5 .25-.5
* WHITE PASS 1 .25-.5
* MT HOOD 1.5 .75
EXTENDED WEATHER SYNOPSIS FOR SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY
A secondary upper and surface low are expected to drift
slowly southward along the Washington coast and into
northern Oregon on Sunday. This should increasing offshore
surface pressure gradients, allow colder air to filter over
most areas, and provide additional lift for briefly
enhancing light to moderate shower activity, with heaviest
showers expected in the southern Washington Cascades and Mt
Hood area. The resulting strong easterly winds and bitterly
cold air temperatures should provide wind chills dropping to
well below zero deg F, with minus 20 to minus 40 or greater
wind chills likely in some wind exposed terrain. As the
upper low drops further south, an increasingly cold and dry
air mass should descend over the region late Sunday into
Monday, with clearing skies spreading southward and minimum
temperatures likely plummeting to near or below zero in some
locations. Mostly fair and very cold weather should persist
under a northerly flow aloft into Tuesday, although a weak
upper disturbance should produce some increase in clouds and
the chance of some light showers mid-late Tuesday. Otherwise
relatively dry and continued cold conditions are likely to
persist through mid-week.

EXTENDED FORECAST FOR SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY
Sunday: cold with light showers briefly increasing in the
north early Sunday and in the south mid-late Sunday, with
decreasing showers and a clearing trend spreading slowly
southward later Sunday
Sunday night: clearing skies north with partial clearing and
scattered light showers south
Monday: very cold and mostly fair north; cold with clearing
skies south
Monday night: clear and very cold
Tuesday: mostly fair Tuesday morning, with increasing clouds
and chance of light showers mid-late Tuesday
Tuesday night: clearing skies becoming mostly fair and
continued cold

* SNOW LEVELS
Sea level N and S Sunday through Tuesday

[hop]

Hurrah! Get some!

[cc3]

CRYSTAL!!!!!

[hafilax]

It's snowing in Vancouver right now.

Whistler here I come.

[khyber.pass]

Whistler will be good Saturday..! But don't go crazy yet. The base is only 45cm and there are open crevasses on the glacier. Glacier bridges are weak. Trees and non-permanent snowpack areas will spell your early season doom. I kid you not. There's already a lot of destroyed boards and people up here.

Sour news is, this cold front will start to rapidly deteriorate the snowpack. Let's hope a Low pushes up against it so we get TONS AND TONS of more snow. We sure as hell need it. But yah .. looks like things are beginning to happen.

[PulverSchwein]

oh yes. I am booking it to the interior BC as soon as I can shake off the hordes of people bugging me here at work

[Railslider]

It's about time! Our patience is going to pay off. We should be firing up the cats to start packing very soon.

I did ski last weekend at Mission Ridge just to get out of the house and test my new boards. Ready for some real snow.

[ACH]

Snow on the pass, roughly 3 + in the last 3 hours and still coming down.

[White Chocolate]

nwac just updated, looks like another moderate to strong low pressure system tuesday into wednesday

[grrrr]

Baker's gotten almost a foot already today, and the "storm" hasn't even hit. Weeee're back!

[GoldMember]

Dumping here in Spokane! I'm on vaction until Jan. 4 after today. Timing is everything!

[eddiecut]

its snowing at Mt Bachelor right now... we need a good 2 feet for those rocks to not show! lol

[davep]

Whistler will be good Saturday..! But don't go crazy yet. The base is only 45cm and there are open crevasses on the glacier. Glacier bridges are weak. Trees and non-permanent snowpack areas will spell your early season doom. I kid you not. There's already a lot of destroyed boards and people up here.

Sour news is, this cold front will start to rapidly deteriorate the snowpack. Let's hope a Low pushes up against it so we get TONS AND TONS of more snow. We sure as hell need it. But yah .. looks like things are beginning to happen.

Whistler website is claiming 1 cm new in the last 48 hrs, and only 2 cm more is forecast to fall over the weekend.

[D-ROCK]

just came down from Cypress Mtn, happy to report 2 feet of new snow and still dumping.

[Van_skier]

Whistler website is claiming 1 cm new in the last 48 hrs, and only 2 cm more is forecast to fall over the weekend.

The snow report that shows 1cm is from 5:32 AM this morning (before the storm hit)

[davep]

The snow report that shows 1cm is from 5:32 AM this morning (before the storm hit)

so...... since I'm flying to whistler in 2 days, should I stop being such a sad panda?

Any idea how much has fallen/will fall?

[addict]

Fuck YES!!!! Just in time for my arrival......again :P

[Van_skier]

so...... since I'm flying to whistler in 2 days, should I stop being such a sad panda?

Any idea how much has fallen/will fall?

Sadly, the 4pm report shows only 8cm (3in) in the last 24hrs

I guess there must be a mass of cold air keeping the storm just south of Whistler because the local mountains (Cypress, Grouse, Seymour) are reporting 40cm+ in the last 24hrs and it's still raining in North Van now...

[funkendrenchman]

Baker's gotten almost a foot already today, and the "storm" hasn't even hit. Weeee're back!

I thought it was never gonna snow there again. I'm sure you'll have a bigger base than us by Monday. Have fun out there!!!

[lookinback]

can anyone in north van tell me what the shore mountains were looking like as far as a base before this?

Im in a toss up for either going to whistler or getting the skins out and checking the shore out for this sat/sun/mon

[pollard]

just submited my last final + dumping in the mountains = as stoked as possible right now

I'm gonna be down in hood river for the next week at the padres spot if any mags are looking to meet up/ride share to hood

[Horu]

booya

[PTracy P1]

... STRONG WINTER STORM WILL IMPACT EASTERN UTAH AND WESTERN COLORADO THIS WEEKEND...

.AN IMPRESSIVE PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH EASTERN UTAH AND WESTERN COLORADO ON SATURDAY... MOVING THROUGH THE REGION SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. EXPECT SNOW TO INCREASE ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT... INTENSIFYING DURING THE EVENING AS THE FRONT PASSES OVER THE AREA. SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY WITH SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED FOR MUCH OF THE REGION BY EARLY SUNDAY EVENING. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY SNOW... STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE FRONT... SHIFTING TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST AS THE FRONT PASSES. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL GENERATE WIDESPREAD BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW... AND POSSIBLE WHITE-OUT CONDITIONS AT TIMES.

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh

[giggles]

can anyone in north van tell me what the shore mountains were looking like as far as a base before this?

Im in a toss up for either going to whistler or getting the skins out and checking the shore out for this sat/sun/mon

50cm of light snow on top of 20cm hard crust tonight at cyps. it would be killer conditions if only there was actually some coverage.

[bossass]

Sunday: Baker or Crystal?

What's gonna be better when you factor in snowfall, wind, and what lifts will be running? I don't know enough to know. Hence my question.

jv