Phishy Wx

Well dang. color me shocked Issued: 1:21 PM Feb. 17, 2026 – National Weather Service ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM PST WEDNESDAY... * WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations 1 to 3 inches with locally up to 5 inches. * WHERE...La Crosse, Coeur d'Alene, Pullman, Genesee, Plummer, Downtown Spokane, Post Falls, Tekoa, Airway Heights, Davenport, Oakesdale, Rockford, Hayden, Moscow, Spokane Valley, Cheney, Fairfield, Uniontown, Colfax, Worley, Rosalia, and Potlatch. * WHEN...From 10 PM this evening to 10 AM PST Wednesday. * IMPACTS...Plan for winter travel conditions during the Wednesday morning commute. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Small scale bands of moderate to heavy snow will lead to large variability in snow amounts over short distances.

NWS Spokane was talking about convective snow showers today.

this looks fun

Interesting per NWS Spokane Troughing off the PNW coast will strengthen through this afternoon, ushering in anomalously cold air to the upper and mid levels. This cold air advection will promote steepening lapse rates, with the RAP and NAM showing low level lapse rates up to 8.8 degC/km. These low level lapse rates will favor convective enhancement within the incoming snow tonight, resulting in locally heavy bursts of snow. The exact location of these snow bands will be very hard to forecast in advance, but the overall area most likely to see impacts will be the Idaho Panhandle and the eastern third of Washington. This will impact the evening commute, with the potential for areas under these heavier snow bands to see low visibility, localized snowfall rates of 1-2 inches per hour, and flash freezing of roads. Conditions will deteriorate quickly, so be prepared for winter driving.

If ICON and Herpes say meh. its probably meh. they've both have done well with various events here this winter

this all feels like 'Nowcast' wait and see type scenario for the next couple days. throw the models out

the whole Pacific basin is about to be a jacuzzi

Dang 3k doubles down

lol NAM be out here all NAM-y

lol 46 and Heavy Rain

Spokane gunna get hosed

lol Pesto. I like Pesto!

I guess SLC is going to finally break their snow drought. they only have 50" to make up

story of this winter

new experimental model that will take place of the NAM suite I believe