01/09/2025
We are so blessed to have the most accurate weather guy on the planet. He's hilarious to boot! If you live here in the TV you must follow him and delete that weather app, you'll be grateful. This is a fantastic post on some weather history in our area. Enjoy the read 👌🏻
Good mernin and happy Thursday to my early risers, night owls, insomniacs, and neurospicy besties.
Here is your forecast summary!
- Temperature inversion will continue through Friday mernin with patchy areas of low clouds & fog each mernin especially in the wind sheltered portions of the valley floors.
- A trough will move through on Friday with scattered snow showers lingering into Saturday and should help to mix out the inversion temporarily.
- A pretty dry, and monotonous weather pattern looks like it's going to set up going into next week which probably means another inversion. Yay! 🙃
Been getting a lot of questions about winter. Let's keep this simple, mmkay? 😜
- We live in a semi-arid continental climate aka a desert. We don't get super cold often because it gets blocked by the Rockies. We don't get a ton of precipitation normally because a lot of it gets blocked/absorbed by the Sierras and Cascades. Not to mention our local topography creates a lot situations where downsloping dries us out.
Welcome to one of the more unique climates you'll ever find near the 45th parallel. Snowmageddon 8 years ago set a very unrealistic expectation of what "winter" normally looks like, and I will argue that our local microclimates vary dramatically depending on what part of the Treasure Valley you're in.
Folks in Malheur County tend to run about 5-15 degrees colder in the winter and do average more snurfall than you get in Canyon & Ada County. Same can be said for the Weiser River Basin. Yes, we've had cold and snowy winters before; however if you go back and look at the data, since 1950, they don't occur as often as your prejudice thinks it does. None of Boise's low temperature records since 1950 have occurred in this century. Before Snowmageddon, many of you may remember the winter of 1990-1991. Boise's top 2 coldest low temperatures occurred during that winter. -23 and -25 respectively. Haven't come close since.
Keep in mind, winter officially started just a little over two weeks ago. The snowpack in the mountains is doing great. Where it belongs. So, chill out. 😁
What do you call a bear with no ears?
B 😆😜😁 - I'll see myself out k thanks bye.
