Late Jan. 2026: Snow where you are?

[Steve in Idaho]

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56.1% of the USA is covered by snow today, compared to 19.1% last month.

See how the blue (storm) skirts the southwest corner of Idaho there? That strip of green next to it is the Snake River basin - where I live. That has been the pattern all this winter. I'm looking at the lowest total snowfall I think I've ever seen. Only had one day worth skiing, an hour and a half away into the mountains. You guys are hoarding all our snow. Stop it.

 

[Steve in Idaho]

I've always thought (perhaps wrongly) that extreme cold without snow cover was better to kill some of them off.

I hope you're right.