***OFFICIAL 2026 WEATHER THREAD***

Average daily temperature will bottom out this week. Average temperatures will gain now until summer. Probably won’t be immediate this year but the worst is soon to be over.
 
It's January. It's the Midwest. We act like this is new. Lol....
Pope is Catholic
Cyclones will rip your heart out
January will suck in the Midwest
Age is the issue. Not the weather. Most people, me included, just get salty having to deal with it, again. I always wondered, as a kid, why all those people in Ames went South for 3 to 4 months. Ha!
 
Pope is Catholic
Cyclones will rip your heart out
January will suck in the Midwest
Age is the issue. Not the weather. Most people, me included, just get salty having to deal with it, again. I always wondered, as a kid, why all those people in Ames went South for 3 to 4 months. Ha!
Lack of attention is the issue. Next time you're at a stop light and the cross traffic is going by, count how many people are looking down at their phone while driving. It's probably half from my anecdotal evidence.
 
Anyone here live in the swath of freezing rain (south and south east) that the Weather Channel has been talking about for the coming weekend? I get that the Weather Channel hypes things up...but I enjoy watching the channel. However, the descriptions they are using to warn people of what might be hitting that region in a few days seemed over-the-top...even for them! Can't imagine Atlanta without power for a long stretch of time...what a mess that would be!
 
Anyone here live in the swath of freezing rain (south and south east) that the Weather Channel has been talking about for the coming weekend? I get that the Weather Channel hypes things up...but I enjoy watching the channel. However, the descriptions they are using to warn people of what might be hitting that region in a few days seemed over-the-top...even for them! Can't imagine Atlanta without power for a long stretch of time...what a mess that would be!
Yeah I'm in East Texas near I-20. Luckily it seems to be trending colder so hopefully less freezing rain and more sleet and snow where I'm at. Maybe even historic totals but still too early to know specifics. But confidence is very high that we're going to get a lot of precipitation and there will be very cold air to work with. Someone is going to get walloped with freezing rain. I hope we get walloped with snow.
 
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