KHQ Right Now - News and Weather for Spokane and North Idaho | Bitter cold weather reported throughout Inland Northwest
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SPOKANE, Wash. - How cold is it? Cold enough for pipes to freeze, windows to frost, and cold enough for the City to open its warming centers for the homeless.
Officially, temperatures dipped to -4 at Spokane International Airport, -8 at Fairchild Air Force Base, and -10 at Deer Park. In North Idaho, it was even colder: -11 in Sandpoint.
Temperatures are expected to be only 2 to 3 degrees warmer overnight Friday. The current cold snap probably won't end until Tuesday, when high temperatures are expected to rise to about 27 degrees, with lows in the high single digits to low teens.
While official records show extremely cold weather, many thermometers outside people's homes and businesses reported even lower temperatures.
A viewer near St. Maries reported a temperature reading of -22 at 6 a.m. Friday. The same temperature was reported by someone living in Bovill, Idaho as well.
The temperature on 5 Mile Prairie in north Spokane was reported to be -5 shortly before 6 a.m., and -3 a couple of miles south in the Shadle Park area.
Cold temperatures were also reported in the Sandpoint area. Officially, the National Weather Service said it was -11, but someone reported seeing -14 on their thermometer on the outskirts of town.| City | Viewer Report |
| 9 Mile Falls | -9 |
| St. Maries, ID | -22 |
| Bovill, ID | -22 |
| North Spokane | -3 |
| Nezperce | -9 |
| 5 Mile (Spokane) | -5 |
| Blanchard, ID | -12 |
| Sandpoint | -14 |
| Santa, ID | -7 |
| St. Maries | -7 |
| City | Official Low |
| Spokane Intl. Airport | -4 |
| Spokane Felts Field | -4 |
| Fairchild Air Force Base | -8 |
| Coeur d'Alene | -9 |
| Sandpoint | -11 |
| St. Maries | -14 |
| Bonners Ferry | -7 |
| Republic | -12 |
| Colville | -3 |
| Deer Park | -10 |
| Pullman | -5 |
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Another day like yesterday and the day before..... etc. etc. etc. We have a large layer of stratus (thick and flat) clouds at about seven-thousand feet over most of the Northwest..... we also have some clouds around three-thousand feet and those lower clouds could lower some more for another foggy morning. The lower atmosphere right now is filled with moisture. Yesterday Spokane hit 39 degrees (normal is 38) after a morning low of 30 (normal is 25). We'll be in the low 40s into next week. Maybe a little sun this afternoon but don't count on it and it should be cloudier tomorrow and stay that way through the middle of next week. The rain and snow today will be in Northern California and Southern Oregon. Our best chance for rain and mountain snow comes Thursday through Friday. By the way.... memories of last year..... Washington D.C. and Baltimore could get up to 20 inches of snow today after getting a couple feet the other day. We know what that is like. I'm George Maupin and I'll see you on SWX Weather and the Q6 Morning Show.
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