The most unusual thing about the single-digit temperatures and double-digit winds headed for the Inland Northwest this week is how late in the season they’re finally arriving.
“It’s not out of the ordinary for our region to experience temperatures like this,” said Greg Koch, a National Weather Service meteorologist based in Spokane. “It happens most winters. But what makes it unusual this year is how unusually mild much of December and all of January was, as far as temperatures.”
Last month, Koch noted, was Spokane’s 16th warmest January on record – and those records go back into the early 1880s.
“To put it in perspective,” he continued, “so far
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