In the Rockies, things are not looking good for the winter sports crowd. Ski festivals and resorts have canceled events and are trying to deal with a non-winter situation. I was concerned for our precip levels last summer when most of the country had our normal, of late, summer and we had something quite different. Instead of endless heatwave and smoke all summer long, we had a moderate summer, still warm for here but not like everywhere else.

But the same gyr patterns over the Pacific that made that possible are now denying us snow and the colder temps we once knew. Argentina had a major heat wave, triple digits F, in the middle of their winter last year, that got my attention. I am concerned for this area as we might yet have snow but like two years ago, it all came in a short time and too close to thaw season so we had a 100 year flood when runoff hit. Could be a repeat pattern this year.

Today it will be in the +40sF and may not freeze at night, again. Clouds come and go, sometimes leave a little snow above 8Kft.

It just feels real as we experience it.

This is the 2nd year in a row in Chester, NY where we're going into January and haven't had any snow, and at least the 4th time in the last decade. That never used to happen.
Warmer temperatures are messing with weather patterns everywhere.
I hope you get your snow, but not like you got 2 years ago.

And correction, it was a 1,000year flood, closed Yellowstone for a week and they had to build a new road in a different place than the "old" one. I stood along a channel in town before the surge and I watched whole cottonwood trees, roots to canopy, floating down the channel and dunk under the bridge, the current was so strong.

It was something for 200+ miles along with several rivers that drain into the main river. But I found some really awesome rocks afterward.

I'd almost rather have a drought.

If we don't begin to love this Earth more than we do now, we're going to reap a very bitter harvest.