A wet end to a very wet year.

[2naSalit]

1. Over here...

In the Rockies, things are not looking good for the winter sports crowd. Ski festivals and resorts have canceled events and are trying to deal with a non-winter situation. I was concerned for our precip levels last summer when most of the country had our normal, of late, summer and we had something quite different. Instead of endless heatwave and smoke all summer long, we had a moderate summer, still warm for here but not like everywhere else.

But the same gyr patterns over the Pacific that made that possible are now denying us snow and the colder temps we once knew. Argentina had a major heat wave, triple digits F, in the middle of their winter last year, that got my attention. I am concerned for this area as we might yet have snow but like two years ago, it all came in a short time and too close to thaw season so we had a 100 year flood when runoff hit. Could be a repeat pattern this year.

Today it will be in the +40sF and may not freeze at night, again. Clouds come and go, sometimes leave a little snow above 8Kft.