jasoncapecod
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what a winter we had on the east coast... sorry western boys..I do love seeing a booming ridge over the west
Western North America Conditions 2025/26
- Thread starter ChrisC
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Here's are the worst western seasons through January:
1976-77 is in a class by itself for the first half of the snow season.
1976-77 ended up at 56% for the US West for the complete season, 58% if you include Canada. 2025-26 was at 56% as of March 31 for the US West and 64% including Canada. Those numbers will go up a little bit with April but not enough IMHO to get 2025-26 out of its second worst position. The other worst complete western seasons were 2014-15 (64%/67%) and 1980-81 (65%,69%).
Nov.-Jan. Percent Normal | California | Pacific Northwest | Interior Canada | U.S. Northern Rockies | Utah | Northern & Central Colorado | Southern & Western Colorado | Northeast | US West | West | All | |
76-77 | 38% | 19% | 72% | 61% | 28% | 52% | 55% | 154% | 42% | 47% | 60% | |
80-81 | 71% | 58% | 101% | 69% | 59% | 45% | 42% | 96% | 57% | 64% | 68% | |
11-12 | 42% | 104% | 107% | 81% | 61% | 59% | 81% | 71% | 71% | 76% | 76% | |
13-14 | 31% | 53% | 90% | 80% | 61% | 105% | 101% | 90% | 72% | 74% | 76% | |
14-15 | 39% | 52% | 84% | 84% | 68% | 99% | 84% | 93% | 71% | 73% | 75% | |
25-26 | 59% | 57% | 114% | 60% | 47% | 53% | 53% | 141% | 55% | 63% | 73% |
1976-77 is in a class by itself for the first half of the snow season.
1976-77 ended up at 56% for the US West for the complete season, 58% if you include Canada. 2025-26 was at 56% as of March 31 for the US West and 64% including Canada. Those numbers will go up a little bit with April but not enough IMHO to get 2025-26 out of its second worst position. The other worst complete western seasons were 2014-15 (64%/67%) and 1980-81 (65%,69%).
Not necessarily. Note 2011-12 in that table above. I have already posted twice in this thread that Northeast monthly snowfall has no negative correlation with western snowfall.