Here is the fog lifting over Hayden Lake and Canfield Mountain this morning
Posted on 10/10/2019 9:06:50 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Add white to North Idaho’s fall colors. And don’t blame those beautiful leaves for shivering when there’s no wind.
Wednesday’s high in Coeur d’Alene was only 39. Lows in the lower 20s were forecast for this morning.
Better get used to it, said Press Climatologist Cliff Harris, who in 2014 predicted — in print, no less — that 2019-2020 could see record snows. “This has led to the earliest winter we’ve ever seen,” he said Wednesday after dusting off from Cd’A’s second snowfall in less than two weeks.
“We had icicles on our house at 10 a.m. today,” Harris lamented. “In my 30 years here, I’ve never seen icicles in October. Never.”
Overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, Dalton Gardens reported nearly 4 inches of snow, Harris said. Rathdrum saw 4.5 inches, while Coeur d’Alene registered a more modest but extraordinarily unusual 1.8 inches.
Rewind to the last weekend in September, when 1.1 inches fell at Cliff’s weather station, and you have a two-fisted phenomenon.
“Going back to 1895, we’ve never had this happen before — a record snow in September and a record snow in October,” Harris said.
He further noted that February’s record 56-inch dump — shattering the previous February record of 39.5 inches — is shaping 2019 up as a potential calendar year calamity.
Harris was urged to go out on an icy limb and make some educated guesses on a couple of key dates. Here’s what he said:
• Halloween: High temp 48, low 37. (We couldn’t get him to predict rain.)
• Christmas: 95% chance of a white Christmas. The average, he says, is 60%.
As to the why, Harris and his better half weather-wise, Press Meteorologist Randy Mann, insist that the absence of sunspots and presence of increasingly cold waters in the Pacific Ocean add up to North Idaho snow. This winter, maybe tons of it.
“The 1-inch snowfall in September 1926, that was a fluke,” Harris said. “This is a whole different pattern here, with virtually no sunspots and the Pacific waters cooling.”
Here is the fog lifting over Hayden Lake and Canfield Mountain this morning
END OF SNOW IMMINENT! Oh. Never mind.
Cold here in WA State too.
Trying to figure out how to make an emergency call to Elizabeth Warren.
Remember, global warming also causes early snow and ice. So this will be blamed on global warming.
Cold Front coming to DFW this weekend, WOO HOO!
Weather is great in beautiful mid-Michigan. Time for a color tour, methinks.
39 in early October? Too cold for me and the very reason we did not move north to places like Idaho.
It’s been in the 70s for weeks where I am in Arizona and supposed to be that way for the next 10 days or so...With cobalt blue skies and sunny...Love it!
Time to pray for Globull Warming?
Frost here this morning at sea level, southern Puget Sound.
Cold in Northern Colorado, too. High today is supposed to be 35 and we have snow on the ground
I am going home and building a giant bondfire to cause some globull warming for you.
We are supposed to finally get a tasted of cool (not cold) weather here in Houston for a couple of days. It will be nice to get a break from highs in the low 90s and lows in the high 70s.
“Remember, global warming also causes early snow and ice. So this will be blamed on global warming.”
That’s right. Remember kids, if you boil water long enough. It freezes.
In the mid south we had a record warm September
I was just in Whitefish a few weeks ago.....before the snow
It looked like that big snow recently dumped more on east glacier than Kalispell
The mountain west is such an assortment of micro climates especially about snowfall
It was 19 at our house north of Coeur d’Alene this morning! We kept our place in NorCal so we can play snowbirds for a while.
It’s been in the 70s for weeks where I am in Arizona and supposed to be that way for the next 10 days or so...With cobalt blue skies and sunny...Love it!
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Of course I should add I'm one of those who believe the sun dictates what the climate is going to be on this planet and honestly believe based on the solar cycles and lack of sunspots we're going into a significant cooling pattern which could last for decades.☺
Hey, it was 24 degrees at my house this morning. Still rode my bike to work. As long as the roads aren’t icy...
And why moving north for us was not an option....
Need Warren to make some wom-pom pow wow dance for an Indian Summer.
I’m in the Treasure Valley, SW Idaho.
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