Almost 60 degrees in February? Here’s what’s coming our way, starting with a wet weekend
If you’re tired of winter weather, just hold on a few more days. More moisture is forecast for Idaho over the weekend, with warming temperatures and some sunshine following close behind.
The National Weather Service predicts some clouds early Saturday but overall sunny conditions with a high around 49 degrees. Rainy conditions have a 50% chance of starting after 11 p.m. and lasting well into Sunday, with possible precipitation of between a quarter and half of an inch, according to the NWS.
“Our main weather event through the weekend is going to arrive on Sunday with some rain, and what’s going to turn into kind of a rain, high-elevation snow in the mountains during the day on Sunday and into kind of Monday,” said David Groenert, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Boise office.
That rain is predicted to last throughout Sunday with a 30% chance of carrying into Monday morning. While conditions are expected to be mostly cloudy Monday, the start of the week brings warming temperatures with sunshine in the following days.
“Our probabilities are showing maybe a 15 to 20% chance of reaching 60 degrees on Monday. So Monday does look to be the warmest day,” Groenert said. “And then after that, our high temperatures are in the low to mid-50s. We do kind of creep up there Thursday, Friday, towards the mid- to upper 50s, so certainly at or above normal for the week.”
The warmer weather rounds out what has been a particularly wet month following a dry January, he added. The additional moisture has helped bring regional water basins past the average for this time of year. So far in February 2025, Boise has seen 2.51 inches of precipitation, more than for the entire month last year.
“I think a lot of basins are 125% or more for snow-water-equivalent values,” Groenert said. “We had a dry January, but this February has really caught us up and past the current average. We’re doing as of right now fairly well with snowpack.”