
Winter is About to Remind Idaho It Still Has a Punch
We’ll see it by the weekend, if not sooner. Daytime forecasts for some days next week suggest we won’t break out of the 20-degree range for high temperatures. Overnight lows will be worse.
We’ve been colder. Much colder. January of 2017 comes to mind. One morning I drove to work with a low temperature of 16 below zero. I’ve lived through worse than that. I was working on a story in January of 1994 in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York. One morning I woke to 46 below zero. That wasn’t wind chill, but actual temperature. We’re not going to see anything that bad, but my experience is that once we get a forecast, it can often get worse. Dry air gets cold and fast.
On the good side, we aren’t looking at any serious snowfall. I say that and realize I may be eating my words. Long-range forecasts have ways of changing in a couple of days, making planning notoriously difficult. But look at it this way, every day is one closer to spring, and we could be living in a place like Los Angeles. Those people would gladly trade places right now.
Looking back at history, Idaho has had a mild winter in the valleys. The snowpack in the mountains is looking to be above average and will ensure a decent growing season when irrigation ditches are full.
So let’s be happy. Or until a friend in Florida sends me another tantalizing screenshot of her daytime high.

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