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Metaline Falls, WA

Version 3.4 		What's New / NOTES
10/6/2018 Colors of tide XTide graphs changed to emphasize that they were upgraded. See next note. Comments welcome.
10/4/2018 I have fixed XTide and updated the harmonic files. There were some name changes so you might have to click EDIT to find the new station name.
Sunrise 7:37AMSunset 6:15PM Friday February 22, 2019 10:06 AM MST (17:06 UTC) Moonrise 10:36PMMoonset 9:39AM Illumination 89% Phase: Waning Gibbous; Moon at 18 days in cycle
NOTE: Some of the data on this page has not been verified and should be used with that in mind. It may and occasionally will, be wrong. The tide reports are by xtide and are NOT FOR NAVIGATION.
Marine Forecasts
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7 Day Forecast for Marine Location Near Metaline Falls, WA
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Area Discussion for - Spokane, WA
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area forecast discussion
national weather service spokane wa
418 am pst Fri feb 22 2019

Synopsis
Another round of light to moderate snow will spread over northeast
washington and the idaho panhandle on this afternoon and into this
evening. A moist frontal system is expected to stall over oregon
and central idaho Sunday and Monday and will have the potential to
produce moderate to heavy snow as far north as the camas prairie.

No big warm up is expected in the next seven to ten days with
much below average temperatures through next week.

Discussion
Today and Saturday: fog is expected to impact the columbia basin
this morning with some areas reaching a quarter mile vis. As the
next system begins to push into the region, the fog is expected
to lessen across the region late Friday afternoon. The models are
tracking the next system with good agreement from the previous
runs and each other. It is expected to move pretty quick and bring
periods of moderate snow. Amounts have stayed around the same as
the previous forecast. Areas in the columbia basin and lower
elevations can expect up to 1 to 2 inches of new snow. The
heaviest amounts are expected in the cascades with amounts near 6
to 10 inches. The idaho panhandle mountains can expect amounts
int the range of 3 to 6 inches. By late Saturday afternoon, a few
lingering snow showers in the mountains will remain. Winds will
slightly increase ahead of the system with gusts near 20 from the
northeast. Cloud cover will help keep the temps a little warmer
overnight than the previous nights. The highs will in the 20s and
lows in the teens for most. Jdc
Sunday through Thursday: continued positioning of a
narrow ridge of high pressure off the coast keeps a cold northerly
flow over eastern washington and north idaho through the interval
hence below normal temperatures are expected to remain. Some
operational models suggest some changes to the weather pattern may
include the appearance of a quasi-stationary wet frontal feature
coupled with a deepening and intensifying area of low pressure off
the coast over the coast developing in the early portion of the
week, potentially having this frontal feature pivot around the
offshore low and move northward as a wet warm front and bring
 snow to the far southeast portion of washington and portions of
the north idaho panhandle Monday before pulling away and exiting
to the southeast. Further complicating the meteorological setup
is the appearance of cold conditionally unstable air with the more
intense surges of northeast flow that along with increased
northerly northeasterly winds at the surface could bring about
higher intensity localized snow shower activity with the highest
pops over the more orographically favored areas over the far
southeast portion of washington and southern portions of the north
idaho panhandle along with what looks to possibly be more stable
airmass associated with a weakly defined col or saddle point over
the region potentially in the Tuesday night Thursday time frame
suggesting even lower pops while the higher pops remain focused
within close proximity over oregon. Pelatti

Aviation
12z tafs: . Freezing fog is impacting at kgeg and puw. This
moisture is expected to eventually push into keat by mid morning.

Easterly winds is expected to result in improving conditions at
klws and kpuw by early afternoon. A weather system will increase
snow chances Friday afternoon with moderate snow possible across
the spokane coeur d'alene corridor by the evening hours. By early
Saturday am, low stratus deck and patchy fog can lead to ifr
conditions for TAF locations as the snow system pushes out of the
region. Jdc

Preliminary point temps pops
Spokane 8 29 16 31 20 27 0 50 80 10 40 30
coeur d'alene 9 29 20 31 19 25 0 30 100 20 30 30
pullman 18 29 23 31 22 29 0 10 90 20 50 40
lewiston 20 35 29 37 28 35 0 0 70 30 40 40
colville 15 30 13 35 18 34 0 80 80 10 30 30
sandpoint 15 28 21 31 18 25 0 70 100 30 30 30
kellogg 15 29 23 31 20 25 0 30 100 60 50 40
moses lake 16 32 16 31 23 31 0 40 0 10 40 40
wenatchee 17 31 18 28 22 29 0 50 10 20 50 40
omak 19 31 16 29 21 30 0 60 20 20 30 40

Otx watches warnings advisories
Id... None.

Wa... None.


Weather Reporting Stations
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Airport Reports
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Boundary County Airport, ID75 mi31 minSSE 310.00 miOvercast21°F14°F74%1014.6 hPa

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