No Snow Just Dry

Drat, the outlook for The White has changed.  Figures.  Let’s see what happened.  Hot Mug time.

As expected, this morning presents a rapidly moving cold front yielding some rain across the PNW.  After a mild week, temperatures will be notably cooler this weekend, and it will be DRY.  Good shot of snow in the Cascades.  

Week of Jan 13-17:  DRY.  —> High pressure will begin to rebuild across the region, as will a very large High pressure dome centered over eastern ID & northern UT.  So what, you ask?  Well, the strong ‘fire winds’ in CA will subside this weekend, BUT return again as the High pressure dome re-establishes.  Monday through Wed, east winds will begin in the Columbia Gorge (and to a lesser extent, the Fraser Gap); dangerous in CA.  By the end of the week, the winds will weaken.  The end of next week should be a little milder.

Weekend of Jan 18,19 - DRY, but turning cooler again, as cold air mass drops into the lower 48 out of Canada.  The PNW will get a ’sliver’ of this cold air, so eastern basins will be colder (not Arctic cold).  Models have ‘erased' the Low coming down the BC coast offering us a snowy outcome.  Such is the choice of Nature.  Bitter cold air moves out across the heartland, setting up a winter storm in the east.  On Inauguration Day, it will be bitterly cold in the Nation’s Capitol, but sunny. 

Week of Jan 20-24: DRY all week in the PNW.  East wind possible late week out of the ‘Gaps’, although NOT a cold outbreak.

Overall, the long-range outlook is DRY for the rest of January 2025.  Today’s rain might be it for the month.