Your Weather, 2026

[heirloomgal]

What a winter, coldest and snowiest I can remember in a long while. Gonna be -33C/ -27F tonight and tomorrow night. There has been a lot of -30ish weather. Thank heavens we have space on both sides of the driveway for the snow, because I can see the spark of snow wars in the distance with some of the neighbors whose driveways abut one another. Really lots of snow this year and people are running out of places to pile it. Some of the front yard trees are piled right up to the canopy. I can't help but wonder if that's bad for the trees.

 

[flowerbug]

[piled up snow] I can't help but wonder if that's bad for the trees.

i don't think so as there are trees growing in places on mountains that get a lot of snow up to the tree line. that's the point where trees can't persist because they can't grow enough (too cold for too long).

if the piled enough snow to last a lot longer it would probably kill the trees but that would take a lot of snow at lower elevations.

with a warmer climate the treeline has changed in some places by hundreds of feet.

 

[Dahlia]

What a winter, coldest and snowiest I can remember in a long while. Gonna be -33C/ -27F tonight and tomorrow night. There has been a lot of -30ish weather. Thank heavens we have space on both sides of the driveway for the snow, because I can see the spark of snow wars in the distance with some of the neighbors whose driveways abut one another. Really lots of snow this year and people are running out of places to pile it. Some of the front yard trees are piled right up to the canopy. I can't help but wonder if that's bad for the trees.

We are getting a strangely warm winter. It often feels like April!

 

[digitS']

strangely warm winter

And, this is in such contrast to other areas of the US.

We didn't hit a record for any highs, this week. The storms are sliding into the Seattle/Vancouver area with the forecast to bring rains all along the coastal area of the Pacific Northwest. We have an 80% chance of rain over this weekend. Snow level dropping to 3,000 feet elevation by the end of the storm. There is only about 12 inches of snow on the nearest mountain Snotel report and that amounts to 3.9 inches of water. It's good to see that there is some up there but it says 25% of normal.

Apparently, this deficit is throughout the Cascades. The national news stories about the recent floods on the westside of those mountains should have made more emphasis that the warmer weather and heavy rain in that area resulted in significant snow melt at high elevations, result –– serious and sudden flooding at lower elevations.

 

[Marie2020]

We have had rain continuously throughout the night and all of the morning until now this afternoon.
It's 92 humidity and feeling like 6c