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Interesting to see this chart. I am in the agriculture business and we have farms in FL (in the Lakeland area). Per my coworkers (I just joined in late 2025), we've deployed more anti-freeze measures this winter (i.e. running water at night-14 nights so far) than any year since we've owned these assets (late 90's).

Skied today at Mt. Baldy, CA. They benefitted from the snow that hit the Sierra hard (40-50” in the San Gabriel Mtns above 4500’, but fell on bare ground). This weekend was probably the only chance I will have to ski there this season as I have other ski plans next weekend and it looks like it’ll be burnt out after that. It was my first time there-great terrain, terrible mountain ops, and an eclectic crowd. .. Like a combination of Mad River Glen and Blue Hills… LOL. One interesting tidbit is that it is the only mountain on the west coast of the Lower 48 that you can see the Pacific from… When researching the question, I thought you could also see it from Hurricane Ridge, WA, but supposedly not from the ski trails. Here’s Catalina island in the distance:

Will likely be at Baldy this coming weekend and then will be at Palisades 2/27-3/2!

I live at about 40’ ASL, but we’re expecting snow levels to drop to 2500-3000ft by Wednesday. The December/early January storms were too warm to bring snow to the Santa Ynez, so looking forward to being able to see the snow capped peaks from the beach for the first time since I moved here.

Looks like we move into a colder than normal pattern here for the second half of February. High temperatures don't look to get above 65 here for the next ten days, with several days not getting above 55. Norm is 64 this time of year.

We had temps of 80+ here in Santa Barbara County yesterday. Looks like things get more seasonable over the next 7-10 days, with a few chances for snow in the higher elevations of the Santa Ynez and San Gabriels.

The Alton Bay ice runway is open, per Facebook, with ice depths over a foot.

With last weekend's rain here on the CA Central Coast, most major climo sites have surpassed their FY norms for the "water year." Anything we get from this point will be gravy, from that perspective. Looks a dry period upcoming - we need it here.

As I mentioned in another thread recently, I've relocated. As such, I've taken keen interest in the west coast weather given that, amidst the chaos of the move, my ski season this year won't start till mid-January (haven't missed much this year so far). Generally speaking - it seems that New England snowfall is inversely correlated with the Sierra Nevada, whereas it appears much less correlated with the Rockies. This is mostly due to the existence of a Western Ridge being a positive for NE. Question for the Mets: What is a pattern (from a teleconnection POV) that is positive for both the Sierra and New England?

Though I haven’t lived full-time in New England since 2014, I’ve always lurked/participated on these forums. I was in Texas 2014-2019 for a combination of college and work. I missed a great winter in 2014-15, but graduated a semester early which allowed me to be back in New England for most of the meat of the 17-18 winter which was great. In late 2019, I moved back to the northeast and have endured the worst 5 1/2 year stretch of snow in my life (I’m 30). I think the best storm that I witnessed in-person was the Dec 18 (ish?), 2020 event in NYC. After this beatdown, I gave up on winter and we are moving to the Santa Barbara area in two weeks. We moved out of our place in Hoboken yesterday and are staying with the in laws on the North Shore of Long Island as our moving truck makes its way across the country. Great, I thought we were going to be in the bulls eye for this event-one last hurrah! But, no! We hit a local minima and got 3-4” as surrounding areas got 7-8”. One final gut punch. 65-75° year around and the bi-weekly trek to the Sierra for snow doesn’t sound so bad after all.

At my in-laws in Old Field, only about 4” here-seems like a relative loser compared to the rest of North Shore Suffolk.

I am moving to the Carpinteria, CA area in early January... Any SoCal/Central Coast posters on here?

It’s weird-I’m to your southwest in an urban heat island (Hoboken) and we’ve had multiple frosts. You live in a very specific microclimate.

He (and a few others) still post trip reports on the FirstTracksOnline forum. Lots of great content-especially of European and California destinations.

Storming in Meredith, but nothing too out of the ordinary.