First real snowstorm

[altivo]

Snow Mushrooms
Originally uploaded by Altivo

The weather forecast has been alternating between dire predictions of a foot or more of snow and nothing at all for the last two days. Here's what finally arrived just before sunset today and has been intensifying every since. Present snowfall rate is nearly an inch per hour. The latest prediction is that temperatures will rise, turning the stuff into slush while rain continues to fall, then drop again, freezing it all into an unmanageable mess. I'd rather have the foot of snow, please.

So far, the temperature is holding just below freezing, which is fine. When these photos were taken, we had about four inches accumulated and it was still falling fast.

Comments

[frith]

What's it like now? That storm is just starting to ease into my area -- no flakes here yet but there are reports of snow sightings on the radio. I have the day off and 8 cords of firewood but my milk supply is low...

[altivo]

At the time you asked, we were getting steady snowfall but not heavy. Total accumulation yesterday was probably an inch or two, compared with about six in six hours overnight before that. The temperature was dropping all day, though, and continued to fall overnight, hardly warming today even though the sun shone all day. Typical blizzard events, though conditions here didn't warrant the label. Some 30 miles west of us, though, they really did have a blizzard day, with over a foot of snowfall and a lot of blowing and drifting. East and south of us, much of the precipitation turned out to be rain rather than snow.