Fun Fact! The high and low temperature in Seattle on Sunday will be higher than the high and low temperature in Miami.

Given how DISASTROUS this winter has been, I wasn’t emotionally equipped for this: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/costco-sued-over-rotisserie-chickens-advertising-preservatives/507-c8fd3ef9-9c46-42ac-9fc1-a765beb58289

doing it here already

LOT evening update .UPDATE... Issued at 853 PM CST Thu Jan 29 2026 Forecast appears on track with no big changed planned this evening. Did move the end time of the winter storm watch for central and southern Cook County to midnight Friday night as lake effect band will likely shift east into Indiana sometime Friday evening. While it could shift back west into Illinois sometime Saturday morning, that would likely be handled with a separate headline. Guidance has been trending a bit slower with the arrival of the lake enhanced surface trough Friday morning. Slowed the timing of the snow arrival down just a bit Friday morning to trend in this direction, but it is still well within the advisory timing. Still looks likely that a band of potentially intense snow will accompany this trough as it moves inland, with a quick 1-3" of snow possible in the advisory area, especially the northern suburbs. Decided to upgrade Lake and Porter Counties in Indiana to a winter storm warning, as the probabilities of totals over 6 inches near the lake are very high. Given the likelihood of mesoscale oscillations in the position of the band, which are nearly impossible to predict with much lead time, it will be hard to pin down precisely where the highest snowfall totals will end up. Should the band end up stationary in one area for extended period, then isolated totals over a foot would certainly be possible. One note caution, for those looking at the somewhat modest QPF being offered in some of the high resolution models, keep in mind that snow to liquid ratios will likely end up in the 30:1 range or higher! Given the exceptionally favorable lake effect snow parameters, seems likely that this band will likely produce snowfall rates of 2"+ per hour at times Friday night into Saturday morning. - Izzi

So, I have to admit, this has been a heck of a winter in mby w alotta cold and snowcover. My current snow depth is roughly between 7-10inches and more to come. Note: last time we had this long stretch of cold I think was back in the winter of 2017-18.