With the recent wintry mix, I've gotten a lot of questions about sleet and freezing rain. Here's the skinny. In winter storms, the precipitation starts out as snow several thousand feet up. If it stays cold all the way to…

Winter weather timeline: Colder air will be filtering in from the northwest, which means we'll see some snow showers from roughly 2am to 11am on Saturday. But there will be little accumulation because there won't be much moisture left to…

Thursday Evening Forecast Update: My thinking on the storm is roughly the same as earlier. The only change I see is that we could see the freezing rain line dip a bit more to the south during the late morning/early…

A lot of folks are asking if there's snow in my 7day forecast. Well I have some bad news for snow lovers - just rain is in the forecast right now. Here are the details. On Friday a storm will…

There's been a lot of talk this winter about El Nino. And for good reason. This El Nino is very strong - in fact maybe the strongest one that's ever been recorded. These pictures give a quick visual on what…

You probably don't need me to tell you that December was warm. In fact it was by far the warmest on record for Columbia. The average temperature was 60.1°.  The long-term average December temperature is 46.7°. So this December was…

It's the middle of December and we are still a lot warmer than we'd expect. So far this month we're are running 8° warmer than average. We've only had two days where the temperature was below average. We'll stay warm…