January 2026 General Discussion

[Spartman]

The new year is near, but things look rather boring during the first half of January before even anticipating a real pattern change afterwards. Discuss.

[cyclone77]

The final third of Jan will be rockin'.

[Spartman]

The first third of the month's certainly not good. TWC/Wunderground's wanting first full week of January to be repeats of Januaries 1998 and 2023 with a blowtorch. 

[OrdIowPitMsp]

7F with 1mi visibility and snow. What a way to kick off 2026, happy New Year to everyone. 

[cutlew]

7F with 1mi visibility and snow. What a way to kick off 2026, happy New Year to everyone. 

Prettiest of our daily morning snows this week


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[mimillman]

Heavy virga 

[Frog Town]

If this works out, it will be a repeat of last year.  I've said it a 1000x's before, the cold needs to be centered to our west for this sub to be in any kind of action other than the nickel and diming we've been experiencing.    

[roardog]

16 minutes ago, Frog Town said:

If this works out, it will be a repeat of last year.  I've said it a 1000x's before, the cold needs to be centered to our west for this sub to be in any kind of action other than the nickel and diming we've been experiencing.    

Everyone has been complaining the last few years that we don't get clippers anymore. Well, do you want a clipper pattern or not? lol

[Brian D]

Snow showers this morning. Might have eeked out 0.1" of fluff with that heavier band that went through. +/- sd's across NE MN this morning. Keeping my eye out for something decent 7-10 days out. My modelling method is showing potential, it looks like gov models are picking up on it, too. 

[RogueWaves]

32 minutes ago, roardog said:

Everyone has been complaining the last few years that we don't get clippers anymore. Well, do you want a clipper pattern or not? lol

The only thing wrong with this Nina pattern is his latitude. I'm nearly 50% AN to date on snow fall. I wouldn't complain if it wants to get even better, but nothing wrong here so far.

[cyclone77]

2 hours ago, roardog said:

Everyone has been complaining the last few years that we don't get clippers anymore. Well, do you want a clipper pattern or not? lol

Clippers are just to occupy us between the dogs lol

[Malacka11]

1 hour ago, cyclone77 said:

Clippers are just to occupy us between the dogs lol

I think we also all took it for granted when we were clipperposting previously that such patterns usually don't have staying power issues because it's inherently a deep winter concept to the vibe-driven amateur. That's half of why everyone shit bricks so hard when the snow rug literally melted out from under our feet a few weeks ago.

[RogueWaves]

2 hours ago, cyclone77 said:

Clippers are just to occupy us between the dogs lol

They are nice for keeping a fresh look between dogs of all sizes. Problem is there's been way too many of them vs traditional snowstorms of any size. 

Personally, I'd like more of these to ring in the new year:

[Chinook]

My best estimation is that I got 2.6" to 3.0" combining the last two days. (Now, it's snowing again)

[nwohweather]

If this works out, it will be a repeat of last year.  I've said it a 1000x's before, the cold needs to be centered to our west for this sub to be in any kind of action other than the nickel and diming we've been experiencing.    

I’m perfectly fine with this pattern, great for winter sports. Roads were awful after that band hit last night, I shutter to think how bad they’ll be if we get 8-12” in Toledo