January 2026 Short/Medium Range Thread

[beavis1729]

30 minutes ago, Matthew70 said:

It’s going to suck with those temps & nothing to show for them if it happens.  Dry & extreme cold, hard pass. I like cold but not brutally cold wo snow on the ground. 

I agree...but if it's any consolation, there's currently no snow cover at all in the Midwest south of 44.5N. I was just up in northern WI for my nephew's hockey tournament, and the snow cover wasn't really consistent until you hit Wausau (which is approx. 45N). And it's even worse further west in the Plains...I believe there's bare ground in most of ND, SD, and MT. Grand Forks ND typically has deep snow cover this time of year, but they only have 5" on the ground. Their max depth all season has only been 6".

Very hard to believe for mid-January.

Hopefully things change soon, even as I prefer that wintry weather occur at the beginning of the season due to the holidays and shorter day length. 

[Bigbald]

Pretty good consensus sunday-monday out of the 0z CMC-GFS-icon.  Wide spread 2-4  inch (higher mountains) cold high ratio stuff.

[John1122]

Of course the Euro has another near gulf coast snow event.