Your Weather, 2026

[digitS']

Two days with some rain.

At this elevation, it amounted to about 1/4 of an inch. At the nearest Snotel, it was above 3/4 of water equivalency. That fell as snow which now amounts to over 24 inches at 4700 feet. There, the temperature never dropped below freezing and here, it never rose above freezing. Interesting how there are times when 4700 feet elevation and 2000 will have nearly the same temperatures but with this little storm, the snow pack built up some and stayed in place .

Our forecast has some snow for tomorrow and continuing with below freezing during the during the nights and through some days. This will be typical late February weather. Typical Typical — is that asking for too much ?

 

[Marie2020]

Temperature 1c currently snowing. Weather warnings of snow for the next 4 days.

 

[ducks4you]

Snow has delayed one Olympic event in Rome bc they just got 4 inches of it!
Groundhog was wrong this year. My grass is greening up. I keep hearing some birds fighting outside of one of my south facing windows, too.
High of 67 degrees F today and a chance of T storms/tornadoes as well.

 

[Marie2020]

Snow has delayed one Olympic event in Rome bc they just got 4 inches of it!
Groundhog was wrong this year. My grass is greening up. I keep hearing some birds fighting outside of one of my south facing windows, too.
High of 67 degrees F today and a chance of T storms/tornadoes as well.

I hope the tornado misses your home completely

 

[Marie2020]

It started to rain heavily after the snow. That was welcomed for once. So Oliver made it to the vets

It's still raining with snow at the moment. It can do as it wants now my boy is home.

 

[flowerbug]

it rained a lot here this morning but was mostly done by the time i had to run out for an errand.

 

[ducks4you]

I hope the tornado misses your home completely

Ha, Ha! We have NO control over tornadoes. When the conditions are favorable NOAA puts out watches (a tornado COULD happen in your area,) and warnings (a tornado has been spotted on the ground and may travel to your area.)
They are predictable but most do not even travel from the cloud to the ground all of the way, and the worst have been on the ground for a little over one hour, and usually those are very powerful, >200MPH and about 1/2 mile wide.
They usually occur when a strong line of cold air collides with a strong line of warm air, triggering instability in the atmosphere and the atmosphere always wants to correct this, often with just strong t storms
"Twister" is a great movie to watch and learn about tornadoes.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117998/

 

[flowerbug]

some fresh snow on the ground and a bit more coming down...

 

[ducks4you]

We got a dusting and tomorrow's low will be 15 degrees F. Supposed to be a warmup soon, but winter hasn't lost it's grip yet.

 

[digitS']

We had snow twice last week, it must be gone this morning because it's not freezing out there in the darkness. Rain is coming soon, we are told.

We also had a 13⁰f morning (-11⁰C) a few days ago. It would hardly have been remarkable except that it was the coldest temperature in the Winter of 2025-6. Wow! It's as though we are on our way to having had the driest Summer followed by the warmest Winter.

The WS will have to provide the analysis but I went back to their 140 year records for the months of January and February. All of the days until about now were below zero record lows. All, we have not come close, this Winter. Interesting that 3 of the low temperature records during the final days of February into March were in the 2000's. I see that the local ski resorts are beginning to advertise on television after their bad starts. I will try to be optimistic about our 2026 water resources.

Steve