‘Seattle Freeze’ returns as literal thing this week

It took until the third-to-last morning of 2025 but we finally have just our second official frozen morning in Seattle.

The temperature dropped to 31 degrees so far Sunday morning, matching Nov. 30 as the coldest morning of this winter season and if not for 11/30, would have broken the record for latest first freeze of a winter by four days.

Such is the trade off for clearing skies is we lose our nighttime cloud blanket that keeps nighttime temperatures relatively mild. That, and patchy fog.  There’s been some areas of dense fog in the morning with JBLM even reporting some freezing drizzle at times as temperatures hovered around 30.

Otherwise some amount of sunshine is in the offing Sunday.

I LIKE THE BREAK, CAN WE DO THIS AGAIN?

Ummm…. Sure! High pressure remains in charge through the end of the year! Basically it means Sunday’s weather will be stuck on repeat for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday: Light freezes and patchy fog overnight with gradual partly to mostly sunny skies in the afternoon. Highs in the low-mid 40s.

It even looks like our New Year’s Eve festivities will be calm and weather-worry free. Our next shot at “weather” doesn’t come until after we flip the calendars with showers moving in Thursday afternoon, courtesy of fringe of a storm swirling around far to our south.

The weather pattern then turns more “active” as we get into next weekend but there’s nothing alarming in the long range. Just getting back to “Seattle usual” lowland periods of rain and mountain snows which would be nice to get a little fresh dollop of snows up at the ski resorts. They have a snow base just they could use a lot more. La Niña has been La Impostora instead so far.

Many times this winter, cold air has been lurking in the far extended forecasts like 10-15 days out and it just hasn’t panned out with the cold air sliding east. But now, it’s not even really in the long range signal through at least mid-January. Looks like we’ll be pinning our hopes on February for lowland snows again at this rate :/