Seattle Volition Necktie The Tape For Driest May, Piece Nevada In Addition To Northern Ca Aew Wet

Here is a meteorological quiz.  In May, where should you lot become for dry out conditions amongst lots of sun?

1.   Western Washington State
2.    Eastern Washington State
3.    Northern California
4.    Nevada
5.   All only western Washington

This twelvemonth the right alternative would hold upwards (1) Western Washington State!

It is increasingly possible that this extraordinarily dry out May volition necktie the tape for lowest May atmospheric precipitation full e'er observed at Seattle Tacoma Airport.  The tape depression sum is .12 inches for the month.  And that is just what nosotros accept right now.

The expected pelting for the final calendar week of the calendar month inward Seattle.  Zero. 

Here is the cumulative full atmospheric precipitation predicted from v AM this morning time through the halt of the month. Western Washington gets a few sprinkles, spell actually heavy (and unusual) atmospheric precipitation is establish from northern CA, Nevada, southern/eastern Oregon, into Idaho, together with Montana?  Want a suntan?  Western Washington is the place!

Below is the divergence from normal atmospheric precipitation over the final 2 weeks for the western US.   Western WA together with NW Oregon are several inches below normal, only caput eastward inward to the desert areas together with atmospheric precipitation is good higher upwards normal.

A to a greater extent than deceptive (but fun!) agency to aspect at precipitation is the pct of normal atmospheric precipitation for the past times 2 weeks.  Parts of western Washington are enjoying less than 5% of normal, spell sections of the Sierra Nevada mountains together with Nevada accept had 400% of normal or more.  Arizona has been real dry.

So what is been going on to laissez passer on this foreign atmospheric precipitation pattern?  I tin say you, past times showing the upper marking (500-hPa) weather condition map for today at 8 PM. 

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 ridge of high pressure level is over Washington, only it is undercut past times a trough moving into California.  This sort of configuration has been occurring on together with off for several weeks, bringing clouds together with showers (lots of thunderstorms) to northern CA together with the western interior.

And did I advert lightning?  Let me demonstrate you lot an AMAZING image--the lightning strikes over the Northwest for the 24 h ending ane AM Thursday.  Mama Mia..that is a lot of lightning.... together with notice how it totally avoids the lowlands of  western WA together with Oregon.

So if you lot desire to larn wet, caput to California together with Nevada.  Like dry out conditions?  Western Washington is the house to be.