Our city-by-city winter of 2025-26 snowfall predictions
Randy Mann.
JAKE PARRISH/Press
Every year in mid-autumn, Cliff and I issue our annual city-by-city snowfall predictions for North Idaho and the surrounding areas of the Inland Empire.
Last season, our seasonal snowfall total in Coeur d’Alene was only 36.1 inches, which is below the 69.8-inch normal. The previous season, 2023-24, ended up at 51.2 inches, so there have been two seasons in a row with less than average snowfall totals in Coeur d’Alene and surrounding regions. The lower-than-average total was likely influenced by the warmer-than-normal sea-surface temperature event, El Niño. A strong El Niño was seen in late 2023 and early 2024 before returning to “La Nada” conditions, or the in-between La Niña and El Niño, in the middle of 2024. The low snowfall totals last season may have been the result of a “lag effect” of the warmer waters.
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