Seattle finally getting in on the Winter25/26 action with its own Cold Weather Advisory. Bundle up folks it’s cold out there (31F at my place, ie fake cold)

Yeah this is why I refuse to get overly bummed out about this garbage winter. Areas like New York, known for relatively snowy winters, went like 5 years with hardly anything. That sort of anomaly makes one dud winter for us look like an innocent rounding error. Obviously I'll feel differently if we see this happen multiple years in a row, but I have no reason to expect that. If we can have this kind of winter in a weak la niña, we can have a cold/snowy one in a weak to moderate el niño. Not sure what data says but it feels like ENSO state is less predictive than it used to be.

Good luck to everyone. I’m glad to sit this one out at this point.

Look at some of these lows

My thermometer made it to -19 last night around 4:30 am. It is up to -9 currently.