So very unpredictable. Some years it snows and is freezing, other years it's warm(ish). Some years we don't see the sun for six months, and other years we see an acceptable level of sunshine throughout winter. Last year at this time it was 0 F outside with 45 MPH winds, and right now it's like 50 F degrees outside with no wind. I guess it keeps us on our toes.
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Pacific northwest but west of the Cascades mountain range.
Rain. Rain for days on end.
It's changed in recent times. It used to be more consistently constant with virtually no breaks in the rain and it was more of a drizzle too. Now it feels like it's trending towards more substantial and less frequent, more like what the rest of the country is used to
I've noticed that it's heavier rain this year too. We always have somewhat erratic winters though, with each one being different than the last, so I figured this was just this year's flavor of winter.
It is a heavier rain; that's a very good point.
The drizzle was better for saturating the ground and watering deep down without destabilizing everything. This torrent-pause-repeat thing is gonna cause more (and worse) landslides.
A typical winter day is below freezing but above 0. Snow will fall and usually melts away a few times before sticking around until spring. Lows in an average year will have a few nights that drop below -10, but won't hit -20.
That said, there's a huge difference between the average and the extremes we sometimes get. Any given day in winter can range from about 50 to -50. I've had multiple apartments where frost forming on the walls was a problem. We might get absolutely buried in snow, or we might have almost no snow all winter and then get a blizzard in May. Last year the USDA updated plant hardiness maps and our area went up a level, then a month later we had a massive storm and deep freeze that killed a lot of trees.
I've had multiple apartments where frost forming on the walls was a problem
That sounds miserable! Are you near the Great lakes?
Pacific Northwest. Usually I would've had to plow the driveway several times by now. The one snow we've gotten didn't last 24 hours. Christmas is projected to be way too warm to snow. This will only hurt our water table with less snow accumulation.
You guys got snow? No snow here yet.
Yes and no. Our property spans a long, narrow hill. The top of the hill saw snow (almost no accumulation) and the bottom just had rain.
Ah yes I didn't consider that the mountains above us got snow, but they're quite a bit higher than us. Even that isn't sticking for more than a couple days though. I'm not too worried, since some years are 2-3x warmer than others. This is kind of normal for us.
Edit: there's snow up there again as of today!
Use to snow a lot. It doesn't anymore, I miss it.
moist
The weather where I live on the California coast is between 55°F and 85°F year round. Earlier this week it was foggy at 60°F, yesterday it was 80°F.
Are you in Orange County?
Less snowy than it used to be
(I consider that a bad thing)
I keep waiting for global warming to give us more sunshine overall throughout the year, but no such luck yet.