2025 - How's the Weather Where You Are?

Our normal wx pattern has returned. About 22°F as a low, and clear skies. The woods workers were busy over the summer removing dead and diseased trees so there lots of new "glade" skiing, if we get some powder days.
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This is the view south east from the mtn in the picture above. No snow below about 8000'. The inversion to the south(Snake River Plain) sneaks up on us - pictured on the ridgeline to right. Thankfully we're rarely effected by it.
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It's 59 degrees and a cool gray day today. I kind of like those days now and then, but it can be depressing if you get too many in a row.
 
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Given storms the last couple months, our Southwest desert areas are likely to have uncommon wildflower superblooms. The first year news media used that term was 2016 when the last big bloom in Death Valley National Park occurred that I worked before it became a major news event. That park is within that large magenta 800% plus zone. Such blooms can only occur where dormant seed beds are in the ground, meaning places where vast blooms occurred in the past and not where they haven't regardless of how much precipitation landscapes receive.

At this point, all that precipitation will only bring annual seeds out of dormancy and won't amount to anything unless further storms occur in January and February as the deserts begin warming. If it become dry, annual seeds will all just be lost to the in ground seed bank, providing less seeds for the next wet season. Perennial shrubs and herbs on the other hand that store water in root systems, are now certain to go big by mid February.

Since I bought the used 2023 Trailblazer LS, AWD, I now can easily without much worry do long road trips again. That late winter into early spring field work will also likely impact my ski season. Where @Nathan lives in LA County, is in the 400% to 800% zone as well as the not too far west Antelope Valley State Poppy Reserve. So if blooms occur, will likely be able to meet some of you in those regions.
 
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Expect partly sunny skies. The high will be 7°.
 
Holy buckets. I thought we had it bad here, being under a "severe weather warning" that might even include a tornado. Then I saw the weather for my hometown in the UP...they are expecting about 36" of sNOw between late this afternoon and early Thursday morning.

You read that right. 36" = three feet!

Glad I'm not there.
 
Ah yes, Phelan is just over the border in San Bernadino County, so is in the 200% to 400% zone. Have driven by that area in March and April during wet years, numbers of times on SR138.
 
The Wx is clear and it's cold enough to make snow mid-day today which will top out at 35°F. The next couple days are supposed to be warmer, unfortunately.


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This is a screen grab from the other night but it's nowhere near as stunning as it was in reality.

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Dear me. Looks like the weather in my hometown is gonna be even worse than what I thought. The sheriff's department up there posted on FB about it and warned peeps to stay off the roads tonight and tomorrow due to the amount of sNOw expected, high winds with drifting and blowing sNOw. I don't remember ever seeing a blizzard warning from the sheriff on FB. Usually a blizzard is no big deal up there, merely an inconvenience.
 

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