Summary

Hello skiers and riders! I don't know about you, but I'm getting excited about skiing! But where's the snow? I went to an early-season meeting with water, snowpack and weather experts last week to learn more detail about what a mild El Nino winter may mean for Idaho. The bad news is that if the experts are right, a mild El Nino winter will bring warmer-than-normal temperatures and drier-than-normal precipitation at least in the first half of the winter. The jet stream is expected to set up to move across the southern tier of the United States, and more High Pressure weather patterns are expected to set up off the Pacific Coast. But as I dug into short- and long-term forecasts with the National Weather Service, we are supposed to see wetter-than-normal conditions in the short-term, starting on Thanksgiving and continuing through the holiday weekend, and looking out 30-90 days, we have "Equal Chances" of precipitation. That's good news!

Short Term Forecast