Buckle up for another blizzard

More snow, a lot of it, could be headed for North Idaho.

Coeur d’Alene Climatologist Cliff Harris said if temperatures stay at 35 degrees or below, the area could get more than five inches of snow starting late tonight and continuing into late Thursday.

“We could get quite a bit,” Harris said.

The National Weather Service is predicting even more snow for the Coeur d'Alene area — up to a foot starting Wednesday night and into Thursday night.

Friday, though, it’s expected to warm up with a high near 40. The chance of precipitation is 90%, according to the NWS, which means it’s going to be a big, slushy mess and a lot of heavy, wet snow sitting on rooftops.

It had snowed 1.8 inches at Harris’ Player Drive weather station by 4 p.m. Tuesday, bringing the seasonal snowfall to 40.5 inches. Normal is 31.8 inches of snow on Jan. 4.

Harris said while only 3.4 inches of snow fell in November, 32.9 came down in December.

“That broke the back of this drought we’ve had in this area,” he said.

Harris is predicting about 30 inches of snow here for January, and stands by his early prediction of 83 inches for the season.