I guess you could say we are in the middle of the winter doldrums with high pressure dominating our current weather scene. Dry January weather Monday brought freezing temperatures and even some freezing fog. A few of you told me it looked like a light snowfall outside early in the morning. Our high Monday only made it to 43 degrees after a low of 30 degrees.
The outlying locations were colder, into the upper 20s. Too cold for me. At least for most of us, the fog burned off during the lunch hours and we saw some weak winter sunshine and even blue skies. There wasn’t much warmth in that sunshine, however.
More of the same the rest of the week with overnight fog and mostly sunny in the afternoons if you are located where it manages to clear off. A stagnant air advisory was issued Monday continuing until Thursday. It still looks dry all week but later in the weekend the weather pattern is forecast to change, and we return to more typical winter weather with clouds, rain and mountain snows. The coldest air will remain north of the U.S. border in our state but will drop down into the U.S. east of the Rockies. This allows low snow levels between 1,500 and 2,500 feet. The foothills are likely getting some snow.
For us here at city levels we have to wait and see what develops as February rolls in and if we get that winter precipitation the city. Goodness, my daffodils are popping up as they usually do in late January and early February. Spring can’t be too far away?
