Steady teens with 10" - 14" forecast here in my corner of OH. No high winds forecast luckily, so I think we'll be good to go, but I have enough kerosene to keep us warm for a couple days if things do go south. I'm fixing to make a pot of red beans and rice in the morning. Gonna eat good, fart a bunch, and watch it snow. 😂

It’s currently 21* warmer than it was this morning!

Current temp 0* 😂

Fun is just beginning here, most streets are practically trackless since last night; snow plows have not begun. Plus 10 degrees, predicted to drop to 0. Wintery mix and ice coming with 4 more inches of snow, maybe 40 feet, depending on one's interpretation of the forecasts. Good news is we'll have a short winter because winter did not arrive until 3 days ago. Don't know how I ever survived living most of my life "Up North". Stay warm, y'alls.

7 minutes ago, Tackleholic said:

maybe 40 feet

🤔

The Mrs. Screenshot this for me.

50 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

The Mrs. Screenshot this for me.

Can't fix stupid

Finally.

Looks like on Monday we are going to get that heat wave we've been waiting for.

So blessed.

🥶

A-Jay

Lookin like they under guesstimated our snowfall. We're currently at about 9" with another 7-14 forecast. I'm thinking it's gonna be on the high end of that. Supposed to be coming down steady until midnight.

I spent an hour or so out clearing snow with the neighbors this morning. It made me thankful to live where I do. It's still much as it was in my childhood here in Dellroy. Small Town America with a STRONG sense of community. #BLESSED

Prayers for those down south. This snow is a walk in the park compared to the ice they're getting.

As the temps climbed to the mid single digits, it’s finally warm enough for the snow machine to start back up. Only supposed to get a couple inches.

We were supposed to get 2 feet of snow and got pouring rain. Weather terrorists (source: @gim ) must’ve needed to sell milk and bread

Got about a foot and a half of powder. I can’t remember it snowing with temps so low before, but at least the snow is very powdery and light. Supposed to get an inch or two more today, and temps continue to hover around 0°. My ice-out prediction moves back a little bit with the cold-snap that doesn’t want to break. If I’m fishing by the 3rd week of April I’ll be happy.

@Jar11591 - same here. It was ~10 degrees while it snowed so it was the nice fine dusty snow that you can blow with a leaf blower. Until it starts coming down at 2" per hour... We got about 12-14" of that to start and as I was making my last snow blower run for the afternoon it started turning to pellets of ice. We got somewhere around 6-8" of that on top of the snow. That stuff was like silica beads. It looks like we got another 2-4" of that overnight that I have to go clear this afternoon. It's the most snow we've had since we moved here in 2019, but like you said it is super light and fluffy so it blows away really easily.

And, a foot and a half of snow on top of the 8" that was already here should help fill up the reservoirs a bit.

28 minutes ago, casts_by_fly said:

And, a foot and a half of snow on top of the 8" that was already here should help fill up the reservoirs a bit.

That depends on how quickly it melts and if the ground is still frozen. If it melts quick and the ground is still frozen, it will run off in the waterways. If it melts slow, it seeps in the ground, which replenishes groundwater and aquifers better.

Snow really doesn't do a whole lot in terms of drought because on average, 12 inches of snow represents about 1 inch of water. Out west its very helpful because its measured in feet, not inches.

And now there's a potential for a Nor'easter here this weekend.

@gim - point taken. My assumption is that it will melt the way it usually does here in NJ- a warm rainfall coming up the coast. The ground is frozen hard and our temps are in the 20s as a high for the next week plus. But at some point we'll get a warm blast coming up the coast which will nuke a bunch of the snow. It might be a little early in winter for that but that's the norm here.

Heck, we're forecast for another 6" this coming weekend. We might end up with well over 2' on the ground for the next couple weeks. That's the level of melt off that would help.

Update: thankfully we only got 1" of ice and sleet. No power lost but It's not going anywhere today. Winter, as a rule, sucks. :)

we got 1/2" of solid ice here. Locked in the house for 2.5 days, saw my neighbor try and make it out to work yesterday and he made it about 20 feet from his driveway then slid back down past his driveway. Parked it on the side of the road and went back inside 😂. The "hill" is a really gentle slope, it was just like an ice skating rink.

Now were expecting a snow storm this coming weekend. I'll take snow any day of the week over ice.

We've now officially fallen behind on snowfall average this winter here after being ahead for 2 months.

Twin Cities

Average 28.4 inches

Current 27.9

-0.5 inches

6 degrees up here on the mountain this morning and my arthritis is letting me know about it. Sitting on the heating pad with a hot cup of coffee and a beautiful woman and that's about as far as I'm going to day.

@IYAOYAS

Yep, this weather eliminates all outdoor activities.

My 2 priorities are.......feed the birds and feed the wood boiler. 😁

Heading out to blow more snow.

At this point it's starting to feel like a part time job.

But so does lawn care except I can do that wearing a jock strap and a sailors cap.

You're welcome for the visual.

😁

A-Jay

^ Lynn probably enjoys it though. 😉

41 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

But so does lawn care except I can do that wearing a jock strap and a sailors cap.

You could always throw those on over the snowsuit 🙃

3 hours ago, Kev-mo said:

You could always throw those on over the snowsuit 🙃

Not sure it would have helped any today ~

A-Jay

^^^^ You know it’s cold when snow defies gravity.