A stalled front and shortwave passage brought moderate to heavy snow to the Oregon Cascades the 8th through the 9th.
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A stalled front and shortwave passage brought moderate to heavy snow to the Oregon Cascades the 8th through the 9th.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 8, 3:47 AM PST, 4 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Pendleton OR 347 AM PST Sun Feb 8 2026 Updated Aviation Discussion .DISCUSSION... Satellite and radar imagery tonight show a frontal boundary in the process of stalling across the PacNW, with an associated band of precip draped from southwest OR to southeast WA. North of this band, areas of low stratus along the WA Cascade east slopes and in the Yakima/Kittitas valleys has managed to survive an earlier frontal passage, and are expected to persist in these areas through the morning. Otherwise, light to moderate band of rain will continue to fall along the stalled front. Today through Monday: Precipitation chances will continue across the forecast area today as a stalled cold front will tap into an accompanying weak plume of moisture. Snow levels will remain above 5.5kft through this morning, resulting in mostly rain falling below the highest peaks across the OR Cascades and the eastern mountains. Bands of rain will also continue to develop across the lower elevations of OR and far southeast WA throughout this morning and the remainder of today. A shortwave arriving to the region the latter half of today will pull the stalled frontal boundary north while dropping snow levels to 3kft to 4.5kft by tonight. This will result in the best chance of snow accumulations across the Cascades and Blues through Monday, with NBM chances of 6 inches of snow between 50-75% for the Blues and OR Cascades above 4.5kft. Otherwise, snow amounts will remain quite meager for the WA Cascades, with only a 20-40% chance of 3 inches of snow accumulations. Prior to the change over to snow, there is a 75-95% chance of at least 0.5 inches of rainfall across the Blues and the OR Cascades. This will result in rises in rivers/streams in the associated drainage basins, though at this time all river forecasts remain below action stage. The incoming shortwave today will produce breezy winds in the lower elevations and along exposed ridges, with wind gusts between 25 to 40 mph developing this afternoon through Monday morning. Light snow will continue across the Cascade crest and the interior northern Blues as flow aloft becomes zonal briefly early Monday. By Monday evening, flow aloft will transition into a split flow that will bring dry conditions across most of the region. Tuesday through Thursday: Ensemble cluster guidance indicates that the split flow pattern will persist through late Wednesday, with transient ridging now developing across the region by early Thursday. Much of the forecast area will remain dry under this pattern, however, cluster and ensemble solutions show moisture rounding a low to the south and clipping portions of central OR, Ochoco-John Day Highlands, and the Strawberrys/Elkhorns/Wallowas Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Snow levels will be low enough Tuesday night for light snow accumulations across these areas. Friday and Saturday: By early Friday, ensemble cluster solutions show a trough dropping out of the Gulf of Alaska and setting up offshore the PacNW. However, there remains disagreement in the strength of position of the approaching trough into the weekend. Confidence remains moderate (50-65%) in at least light to moderate snow in the mountains with mostly light rain and overnight rain/snow mixes in the lower elevations. Lawhorn/82 && .AVIATION /12Z TAFS THROUGH 12Z MONDAY/...A stalled front across the region will bring increasing rain chances to all sites through the period. CIGs and vsby will lower gradually with persistent precipitation, as well as lower with increased rain rates throughout the day. The front will lift north late in the evening, with rain impacts expected to end before 06Z at all sites. MVFR or lower CIGs will continue to impact sites PDT/ALW after rain moves out of the area. Winds will be light, 12kts or less, through the period. Lawhorn/82 && .Preliminary Point Temps/PoPs... PDT 35 50 30 46 / 90 20 0 0 ALW 37 49 33 47 / 90 40 0 0 PSC 36 55 30 49 / 60 10 0 0 YKM 32 49 28 45 / 30 10 0 0 HRI 36 53 29 47 / 70 10 0 0 ELN 30 45 28 42 / 30 10 0 0 RDM 27 45 23 45 / 40 0 0 0 LGD 34 45 26 46 / 90 40 0 0 GCD 33 43 26 46 / 80 10 0 0 DLS 37 52 34 47 / 60 20 0 0 && .PDT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WA...None. OR...None. && DISCUSSION...82 AVIATION...82
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Hoggs Pass SNOTEL measured 10 inches of new snow in a 24 hour period ending at 0800 PST on Feb. 9th.
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