February 2026 OBS & Discussion

[mriceyman]

Endless cold without any decent snow is going to get old fast for some I suspect.  

With snowcover locked in im ready for a push to march


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[MANDA]

Just now, mriceyman said:

With snowcover locked in im ready for a push to march


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I'm not there yet but suspect I will be within 2 weeks.

[Brian5671]

3 minutes ago, MANDA said:

My bill is due to arrive any day.  Was just thinking about what it might be.  

Last month was $367.  This coming one has to beat that.

The increasing sun angle helps a bit during the day but it's brutal

[MANDA]

Just now, Brian5671 said:

The increasing sun angle helps a bit during the day but it's brutal

It absolutely does, especially in south and southwest facing rooms.  Once the sun sets though that "free heat" goes away fast.

[Jersey_Snowhole]

18z gfs ai says “you think tomorrow is going to be hard to watch you ain’t seen nothing yet” 

[MJO812]

31 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

The increasing sun angle helps a bit during the day but it's brutal

Some melting is happening but not enough. 

[eduggs]

GFS-AI is miss, miss, rain. GFS is miss, miss, cold. But both are close to back to back hits. With the reliability of the ECM-AIFS, which is also showing essentially a miss, miss scenario next week, that should probably be the baseline for expectations until things look more hopeful. It's definitely not a close the blinds week though, fortunately.

[SnoSki14]

20 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Some melting is happening but not enough. 

Based on the weeklies this snowpack could last til March. And this doesn't account for added snowfall that we'll likely see in Feb. 

This is a rare deep winter and these patterns nowadays get stuck in place for months. This pattern stems from November.  

Also it wouldn't surprise me to see March delivering big this year. 

[wdrag]

[NEG NAO]

8 minutes ago, wdrag said:

Thanks for the good news Walt - I think