Featured in this last January weather report is our very own roving weather reporter, Darlene, who sends us, first, a photo of the view from her southern California front porch. Notice the clear blue sky, snowcapped mountains, and palm tree.

She also travelled hundreds of miles, maybe a thousand, to show us the conditions in the mountains of Washington, where snow is falling….from the trees.

While we’re on the subject of views from the front porch, here’s mine, taken this morning (garbage pick up day) right after the ice fog lifted. It was about -37 when I took this photo. Notice the clear blue sky, snowcapped mountains, but no palm tree.

More weather reporting

• What is wind chill anyway? How is it determined? Let Violet  answer all your pressing wind chill questions!
  
• Candyinsierras is thankful for storms:

  A couple of weeks ago, the news media reported that we were to receive possibly the worst storm in 50 years. I just rolled my eyes. By the time storms reach us, since we are on the rainshadow side of the mountains, it usually dwindles down to a whimper of a storm. The mountains did receive a good deal of snow, and it did dwindle down to an inch or so down in the valley where I live. The news media is so sensational sometimes. Now the past couple of days, we have had a pretty good storm and an avalanche on one of the highways. I like what my pastor said yesterday. He stated that not one flake of snow falls without God sovereignly ordaining it, so I am very thankful for the snow. We always need the moisture in my part of the world. The Sierra Nevada range is what provides our water, and I am always thankful for every storm that comes our way.

• Kim reviews the weather for the month of January in Chicagoland, where they’ve had “a little bit of everything—from double digit below zero temps to mud soup, from snow to fog, and everything in between.” 
• And I’ve never been happier about cold weather in the Yukon, because it gave me something to write about, finally. Are you still curious about life at forty below? You’ll can find out more here.
• Update: Carla tells us about the weather warning for today in southern Ontario.

  Currently (as of 10:45pm), we’re under a flash freeze/high wind/freezing rain/blowing snow warning for overnight and into tomorrow. Along with the warnings, there is a chance of t-storms overnight. Our current temp is 45f and the high for tomorrow is 16f. My husband said the only thing NOT included in this warning is a forest fire or wayard comet hitting. I’ll be checking for those in tomorrow morning’s updated forecast.