We’re already getting 20 degree temps here expected to drop even further.
This Weds is a forecasted high of +5 and a low of -5 here in North Idaho. Brrrr….
We just got slammed this past weekend with +18 inches of snow and power loss for over a day.
This weather system is alarming. It has all the ingredients of a major winter storm.
It’s very strong, high winds, it’s going to be cold until it warms suddenly and starts to rain. That usually ends in icing as the surfaces of objects don’t have a chance to warm before the rain hits them, and so the rain freezes on contact.
The snowpack, of those of us who have it, will become saturated, and then the temperature is expected to drop rapidly Friday evening to Saturday morning which will freeze the water logged snowpack into a brick of ice, and then the precip is as likely as not to change to a period of freezing rain or sleet , before switching over to snow again.
The winds are expected to remain high through Saturday.
Of course, all that rain on frozen ground will just run off, resulting 8n localized flooding.
Time will tell if it does play out like this, but I’ve seen it too often. At least we will be ready for this time. I’ll have all the laundry done, food cooked for reheating, wood stacked inside the house and the gas cans full.
I’m on the MS Gulf Coast and we’ll be having lows in the low-mid 20s over the weekend.
No wonder AOC’s “Greta Moment” crashed
It’s been sub-freezing here in Eastern Washington for the last 3 weeks. Expecting single digits by the end of this week but next week it’s finally supposed to get back into the high 30’s low 40’s