January 2026 PNW thread

[KeyPeninsula_Wx]

Let’s go January

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Happy new year y’all!

[MikeInEverett]

It’s coming.

also, the fog totally messed up new years at the needle lol

[High Desert Mat!]

2 minutes ago, TigerWoodsLibido said:

Happy new year y’all!

May the start of this one bring more snow and cold than the first half. 

[Brian_in_Leavenworth]

Not only are we closer to 2030 than we are to 2020, but as of today, we’re officially closer to 2050 than we are to the year 2000.

[Edmonds Husky]

It’s 2026.

[BlvuSumit]

[TigerWoodsLibido]

Lots of fireworks in the misty fog.

[Meatyorologist]

Happy new years folks. May our snows this month be legendary

[iFred]

Fog is making for some interesting sound scapes.

[NWbyNW]

Socked in with fog.  It is masking most of the noise and you can't see ANY fireworks, lol.  It is the quietest, least eventful fireworks event around me in all the years I've lived here.  It's pretty much quiet and no one is doing anything for the most part.  Usually I can hear the reservation exploding, but I do not see it or hear it at all this year! That fog is really blocking it all out. 

 

Happy New Years! 

[SeattleSmokeLayerFan]

26 minutes ago, Edmonds Husky said:

It’s 2026.

Another year to feature many more weenie posts.

Edited January 1 by SeattleWeatherFan

[SeattleSmokeLayerFan]

The weather apps (Weather Channel) seem to already be picking up on fog and inversion cold by mid Jan. Kind of impressive, I've never seen them do that at that range.

Hopefully a clean retrogression shortly after.

[Maple]

3 hours ago, SeattleWeatherFan said:

The weather apps (Weather Channel) seem to already be picking up on fog and inversion cold by mid Jan. Kind of impressive, I've never seen them do that at that range.

Hopefully a clean retrogression shortly after.

Repeat of last winter lol

But I wouldn't mind that at all!

[SunAndSnow]

December stats: High 64.4° (12/10), low 27.6° (12/31), rain 11.24” (sheesh)

[Everleigh]

Happy New Year! Currently 30.7* and I see that moisture on the radar, but nothing is falling. Maybe it'll squeeze out a few flakes before it warms up too much......

[TT-SEA]

5 minutes ago, Everleigh said:

Happy New Year! Currently 30.7* and I see that moisture on the radar, but nothing is falling. Maybe it'll squeeze out a few flakes before it warms up too much......

Current 925mb temp is +10C... it would have to be freezing rain.   Snow is impossible when its that warm aloft.   Quite an inversion over parts of western WA.    Its 45 in NB this morning.

[Timmy]

Gonna be driving back tomorrow morning from McCall Idaho through the gorge.  Hopefully zr isn’t too bad, any insights are appreciated 

[TT-SEA]

Latest ECMWF not too bullish for the wind event on Sunday... although we can probably throw it out because Randy is in the area of lightest wind and that never happens.  

[TT-SEA]

3 minutes ago, Timmy said:

Gonna be driving back tomorrow morning from McCall Idaho through the gorge.  Hopefully zr isn’t too bad, any insights are appreciated 

Wow... didn't notice this until now.    There is no hourly map for ZR on WB but this all comes before 4 a.m. tomorrow and then the totals stop rising in the Gorge.    But might still be a mess during the morning hours.

 

[Timmy]

4 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Wow... didn't notice this until now.    There is no hourly map for ZR on WB but this all comes before 4 a.m. tomorrow and then the totals stop rising in the Gorge.    But might still be a mess during the morning hours.

 

Well shoot… I probably won’t be going through the Dalles until early afternoon… so maybe it won’t be too bad then 

[MossMan]

[Everleigh]

14 minutes ago, TT-SEA said:

Current 925mb temp is +10C... it would have to be freezing rain.   Snow is impossible when its that warm aloft.   Quite an inversion over parts of western WA.    Its 45 in NB this morning.

I know you're being practical here, but way to pee in my Cheerios, Tim. SMH lol

[TT-SEA]

Just now, Everleigh said:

I know you're being practical here, but way to pee in my Cheerios, Tim. SMH lol

Freezing rain is wintry too!  

[Everleigh]

1 minute ago, TT-SEA said:

Freezing rain is wintry too!  

It is, but it ain't snow!! 

[TT-SEA]

10 minutes ago, Timmy said:

Well shoot… I probably won’t be going through the Dalles until early afternoon… so maybe it won’t be too bad then 

Looks like temps are decently above freezing along the entire route by early afternoon.

[LowerGarfield]

Might see some ice today. 

 

[Blizzard777]

Happy New Year’s from Vegas!!! We didn’t have fog, but we sure did have rain!!!  
 

[BlvuSumit]

Sandwich between low level inversion fog and stratiform layer aloft. Light precip showing up on radar. Precip into a saturated cool surface layer trapped under inversion one of the gloomiest scenarios 

[MikeInEverett]

The block in the mid range has shrunk with every GFS run since the 12z run on Tuesday. I hope this theme doesn’t continue with future blocks that have potential.

Tuesday 12z

Thursday 12z

[Timmy]

Delayed, but not denied! Gfs brings its old tricks into 2026

[DefeatedEgg]

13 minutes ago, Timmy said:

Delayed, but not denied! Gfs brings its old tricks into 2026

No amplification and no cold air

[Timmy]

[TT-SEA]

Looks like windstorm threat has faded for Sunday... each run shows less wind.

 

[BLI snowman]

Looks more and more progressive the next two weeks. Yucky. 

 

[Omegaraptor]

Happy New Year all.

December 2025 finished at PDX with an average temp of 47.4F, breaking December 1950's airport-era record by a full degree. 1917 is still king going back to the pre-airport era, though.

January 1953 is the only warmest month on record from the 20th century still standing in the airport era. 7 out of 12 have now been set in the 2020s, with the other 4 being set in 2015 or 2016.

[TigerWoodsLibido]

We were due for a historic dud.

[Timmy]

Retrogression still looking decent on the ensembles

[Anti Marine Layer]

Will Portland have a snowless winter?

[TT-SEA]

1 minute ago, Timmy said:

Retrogression still looking decent on the ensembles

Its actually been trending the wrong way on the EPS in the long range.