i live on the west slopes of the sierra nevada in california, we had our first significant

[AllaN01Bear]

snow of the season.

[Turin_C3PO]

1. Same here

in southwest New Mexico. It’s been a particularly dry winter.

[Claire Oh Nette]

2. wow...

I remember the el niño and la niña of the 90s. Skied every weekend some years.
Miss Sugar Bowl and Kirkwood and the Nevada side of Heavenly.

[niyad]

3. Yikes. That is worrisome.

[Fresh_Start]

4. I'm in SF bay area, rainfall is less than 20 percent

and we're more than half way thru the rainy season

[wheelman]

5. East slope central Oregon

Cascades, no significant snow a 4000 ft. Missmanaged lodgepole pine thick as can be with much of it dead and dieing as far as the eye can see. That the entire basin hasnt gone up in flames in recent years is a miracle. This next fire season is going be a white knuckle nail biter.

[Polly Hennessey]

6. I also live on the west slope of the Sierras and

we are loving it, especially the dogs. They look up and must think, “ what is this soft fluffy stuff from above?” They run around as if they have just been released from prison.

[sarcasmo]

7. Lower Wisconsin here, we have only had two decent snowfalls.

[2naSalit]

8. I was in...

Central MN earlier, last week, and there was barely a foot of snow on the ground.

I live in Montana and the most snow we've had all season was in October last year. We should have a foot or two of pack on the ground, instead we have half-dead grass with little patches of 1" snow here and there. The mountains don't seem to have much up there either. It;s going to be a bad fire season if it doesn't rain all spring and summer.

[Retrograde]

9. The reason Californians get excited about this

is that, unlike the Midwest, we rarely get precipitation outside of the rainy season - November through early April. And the snow in the Sierra Nevadas becomes our water source - at least for northern California - for the rest of the year, and hopefully builds up a reserve for the future dry years.

[greenjar_01]

10. We're having our first significant snow of the winter, too

In Chicago. Tonight.

It's January 25.

[Johnny2X2X]

11. West Michigan here, insanely mile Winter

In Grand Rapids we've had 10 total inches of snow this season, normal through this point is 46. 3 feet of snow missing. It's almost February, we have maybe 3 inches of snow on the ground and the temperature has yet to drop below double digits. We're supposed to get 2-3 inches tonight, but then nothing more significant on the horizon (next 10 days).

Now, many many years we learn the lesson the hard way that February and March in Michigan you can get absolutely hammered, but being 3 feet behind on snow near the end of January is absolutely remarkable. And we've even had our share of sunny days.

Michigan weather is awful, the cloudiness and all the trees being dead for nearly 6 months out of the year just wear on you. But it's late January, I've shoveled real snow once and had a couple other dustings to give a quick once over to. Every day gets a couple minutes longer, we're only a couple months from more reasonable weather starting to show.

Our parents are elderly and won't be around in a few more years, when that occurs we'll moving to some place warmer.