It wasn't a dry blast for many, though that also didn't mean snow for many either. We haven't had a true dry blast like December 2009 in a while... Feels like we kinda due.

The dry blasts are harder to take in todays climate because we don’t get as many opportunities as we used to. I was one of the few that was rooting for the cold more than the snow. It was just nice to finally see a real bitter airmass move through. My main complaint was that we started to lose the upper level support at almost the same time that the arctic air made it west of the Cascades.

Winter began this morning at 4:21am. Snow amounts last evening and overnight ranged from between 0.8" to 2.0" across the area. Our coldest air of the season has moved in for the weekend. We should remain below freezing for the next 3 days before finally rising above freezing during Christmas Eve Day. We could see low temperatures by Monday morning as low as 5 degrees above zero. We could see another round of light snow overnight Monday into Christmas Eve morning. Temperatures look to rebound to near normal to close out Christmas Week.

I gave last January’s blast a D+ It did feature single digits, a stunning sunset, and some slop at the end. My kids tried to collect the 10 snowflakes that did fall going into it! Would have been epic with deep snow on the ground going into it. Probably would have hit minus low temp territory.

59? So close, yet so far.