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.”
In Spokane, we had 5.2 inches of snow. I think all of it is in my yard. Don’t know when it will melt. My cat is seriously miffed at this Global Warming episode.
My daughter works in Post Falls, lives outside Priest River , drives up HWY 41 to Spirit Lake Cutoff Road in deep snow. As she approached her place, exactly 10 miles from 41: NO SNOW.
How ridiculous is that?
It is snowing right now at the Dynachrome mansion.
22 degrees just north of Spokane this morning....Spokane on the south side had 3 inches of snow yesterday morning causing many trees down and actually closed the schools down for a SNOW DAY.....
Yep. I’m in Denver.
Guess I’ll be fishing Monday instead.
An OCTOBER snow day? Wow, that must be a first.
Be careful not to do anything stupid like heating your house. That just contributes to more global warming, so it will be even colder next year.
86 in Hilton Head, a brutal summer of high 90’s. Send some of that cooler weather our way!
Here in the trailer park lands, cotton fields and swamps of lower Alabama, the temperatures have averaged out at 102 degrees from 27 Sep - 5 Oct. Peaked Thursday at 105.7 degrees.
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KALTALLA8/graph/2019-10-10/2019-10-10/monthly
It is cooler now; only 87 degrees. It will only hit 78 on Saturday.
Nice week to finally get outdoors and tidy up some!
If that happens, well, I tell you what, neighbor, I might leapfrog you all the way up to lower Canada!
Sweet Autumn here in SoCal today means the sagey smell of brushfire smoke wafting in on Santa Ana Winds
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