We had another half-foot at least overnight, on top of over a foot and now acquiring an icy glaze. We still have power (QED), but with the freezing rain now falling, I’m setting up the candles, wool socks, and Scotch. My employer has closed, which is great because I doubt I could walk there in this mess. Trees continue to fall and our poor rhododendrons are getting a brutal pruning. I may try to make an emergency hummingbird feeder, since I’ve seen an Anna’s buzzing around.
And you?
No snow here since two weeks ago, aside from a couple light flurries that didn’t stick to anything.
Given the big ice storms in your area in the last few years, enjoy the respite!
Really windy over night in Greater Pugetopolis. Knocked over a few things in the back yard.
A couple of light skiffs of snow in Portland. Meanwhile, the rest of the state is in chaos. An Amtrak train got stranded for nearly 40 hours near Salem because of tree falls on the tracks.
Oakridge, I believe.
Yep, south and east of Eugene on the way to Klamath Falls. I used to be a regular rider. I’m glad I missed that trip.
My daughter is at school in eastern WA. Last winter was mild and dry, so she has been a bit surprised by this winter. Being from a non-snow area, at first it was mildly amusing and cool, but after weeks of highs in the 20s, snow, ice, freezing rain, freezing fog, etc., the novelty has worn off. She has finally surrendered to wearing a hat.
We keep sending her pics from home showing sunny skies with puffy clouds and dry sidewalks (altho those conditions have not been all that common recently). 
I’d take 40 hours in an Amtrak train with heat, electricity, food and bathrooms over the people who got stuck in their cars for 8 hours on I-5 in southern Oregon without access to any of those. That sounded miserable.
Big flakes coming down now in Portland, but it won’t amount to much.
So glad I live in Boise. We got about an inch, maybe a bit more, of the leftover snowflakes from your storm. it was melting off by 6am. Had a bit of rain this morning to help wash away what snow hadn’t already melted. At the time of this posting, it looks like it never happened.
Down here in southern Oregon we just had rain during the mess south of Eugene. Then yesterday the Rogue Valley got a surprise snowstorm of 4” or so. Turned back to rain and melted last night.
In the Willamette Valley and we got some good snow Monday and today. Not really enough to be too worried about but enough where I decided not to risk going in to work on Monday. It’s been so much less of a ‘snowpocalypse’ than they were predicting. MUCH less so than that one like, what? Ten years ago? Got like three feet of snow then.
Just got power back a couple hours ago since Sunday night up here in the Coast Range northwest of Eugene. I have renewed my appreciation for electric heat, water on demand (especially hot!), refrigeration, phone, internet and tee vee.
About 15" of snow total, 11" of bad heavy wet stuff overnight on Sunday, another 4" last night. At my place, it took down several ornamental trees and caused one Douglas fir (out of hundreds, so not bad) near the house to lean in an ominous way. Luckily, it stayed put. I’ll have it taken down in the next few weeks.
West of here was worse. Many utility poles came down and had to be replaced.
Haven’t yet tried to leave the property… my road is often one of the last plowed. I’ll try tomorrow.
Nothing in Seattle eastside. 3 weeks ago there were two snow days at school, 2 weeks ago there were 3 snow days, but nothing new has fallen since then. Still see a little bit of snow that hasn’t melted yet here or there.
The Summit Ski Resort on I-90 about 45 minutes drive east of here got something like 9 feet of snow in Feb, which is waaaaaaaay over normal. they got something like 6 feet in 48 hours 3 weeks ago, and actually had to admit there was such a thing as too much snow as I-90 was closed for about 48 hours owing to avalanche risk.
That said, the snowboarding was GLORIOUS! My god, instead of the usual icy conditions, there was 5 feet of new snow capped with a foot of powder. It has snowed there for 48 hours but getting a bit right now. I just might play hooky and sneak in 90 minutes tomorrow morning…
We had are snow a couple of weeks ago, up here just below the Canadian border. The current storm is hitting well south of here, in Oregon and Southern Washington.
Although in the way Boise does, the entire weather profile switches every six hours, just in time to freeze you/drench you/have you slipping on fresh slush.
Fuck this shit. I’m an hour south of Eugene. We’ve had, since Sunday night, about 16" total. Our driveway is fairly short but it’s got a slope and we don’t have 4x4 vehicles so I haven’t dared leave the house too much. I managed to get out yesterday and run to the drugstore, and the town was nuts: most people were without power so the couple of restraunts in town that had juice were absolutely packed. Last night it started snowing more so all the local schools closed for the rest of the week. Since my wife and I are both teachers that means we’re stuck here with our two teenage boys. All week. Grrrrrrrrr…
I managed to drive in to Roseburg today and go to Fred Meyer and stock up on groceries. The whole place was packed and the shelves virtually empty.
I requested next week off so that I could drive to Portland for a couple days, but that may not happen–my in-laws, who would pick up my kids from school while I’m out of town, we’re visiting their daughter in Tacoma and decided to hang out there for a couple of weeks instead of chancing driving home in the snow. So. Since I requested that week off this’ll mean I’ll be two weeks off from work, only one planned.
My wife and kids are starting to get cabin fever, and everyone seems to have a bit of a Hunger Games vibe going on. As long as it doesn’t freeze or snow some more, I’m getting them out of the house tomorrow. To hell with this.
Now to worry about flooding…
It’s the fault of everyone living along the coast. 
We get our weather by turns from Oregon and California. Seems like the Oregon weather sends us a bit more moisture.
In the Spokane area on the ID/WA border: We have a couple feet of snow (and berms of 4-5’ next to sidewalks and driveways). In the last three weeks, I think it’s snowed a couple inches all but 2 or 3 days. And, the extended forecast is more of the same. We are running out of places to shovel the snow. Schools have been closed quite a bit and when not closed, delayed two hours. The poor dogs have no where to go.
We were in Joseph, OR over the weekend and it snowed at least 2 feet while we were there. I’ve watched the Joseph weather since and I don’t think it has stopped at all yet.
The snowshoeing has been great. Very tough, but great. Deep powder is a real workout.
On the positive side, the Siskiyous and southern Cascades have a “normal” snow pack for the first time in 10 years.