Winter 2025-26

[Ruin]

On 10/18/2025 at 1:35 PM, Eskimo Joe said:

Ive all ready heard very cold and snowy to the point you wish we skip winter to battleground of the cold and warm meaning ice ice more ice. To the other extra very milk winter no snow temps 15 degrees above normal lol. 

[Jebman]

Ouch very warm dry all winter in Texas. NWS is a genius. We will be extremely hot and dry thru the winter in south Texas.

Meanwhile in other news.......numerous nor'easters smash into DCA along with anomalous cold and snow after snow after snow after snow.

It gets so dry in TX that the Diaspora begins, people leaving for moister and rainier pastures. Nothing can live in our 1930s Dust Bowl. Long range forecasts paint a very dismal picture indeed of the Southwest including Texas. almost no rain at all right into Summer 2026. Also no help from the Tropics: No hurricane landfalls expected in 2026 either, irregardless of ENSO. I know why but I am not saying. I want hurricane ravaging of the US coastlines back. I miss 2005 so much.

The eastern US will have anomalous cold along with record snowpacks, followed by a dismal chilly "spring" followed by an anomalously cool summer 2026 with plenty of rain from May 2026 onward, after a very snowy low sun period.

Many industries now moving into Texas will be leaving next year: Too Damn DRY - No water and notable dust storms reminiscent of Arizona and other places that normally get dust storms. Texas gets renamed The Haboob State, in place of The Lone Star State.

This is the future and the present folks, read em and weep. Lots factories are gonnabe getting out of Austin soon. WATER will be costlier than GOLD or even gasoline.

[Daniel Boone]

5 hours ago, Ruin said:

Ive all ready heard very cold and snowy to the point you wish we skip winter to battleground of the cold and warm meaning ice ice more ice. To the other extra very milk winter no snow temps 15 degrees above normal lol. 

Whew ! Don't want a milk Winter for sure. 

[Steve25]

8 hours ago, Ruin said:

Ive all ready heard very cold and snowy to the point you wish we skip winter to battleground of the cold and warm meaning ice ice more ice. To the other extra very milk winter no snow temps 15 degrees above normal lol. 

I really haven’t seen any reputable sources say very snowy to the point where you wish we skip winter. 
 

I think the most reasonable outlook I’ve seen the most from people that aren’t fishing for clicks and trying to spread hype is that below normal temperature stretches are definitely on the table but that the most likely outcome during those stretches would be cold and dry. Seems like our chances of getting any significant snow events is fairly unlikely as the ingredients would have to come together in a way that’s not typical for the pattern we will have in place this winter. Another winter where we will likely need to nickel and dime our way during the cold stretches if we want to get close to average snowfall.