Ice and snow on the deck.
Last winter we received a fair amount of snow in December and January. This year has been different. Not quite warm but higher-than-normal seasonal temperatures have plagued us. And without an Arctic blast of cold air the precipitation has all been in liquid form until tonight.
Snow showers falling in Newport News
I received a Special Weather Statement from the National Weather Service warning of an impending cold front bringing snow and high winds. The advisory predicted that this would all occur within the hour. Sceptical, being that it was in the mid-forties with barely a breeze, I decided I’d have to see it to believe it. True to their word, however, the weather turned quite quickly and a few minutes before six o’clock the wind picked up, the temperature dropped, and snow start to fall quite heavily.
While it was still to warm to stick to the roads, the snow did freeze to the grassy areas and to the deck making things quite slippery outside. And while the low temperatures are sticking around the snow is not. After about an hour of the frozen precipitation falling the storm let up without so much of a covering of the ground. The National Weather Service has given us a 20% chance of additional snow this evening but I doubt we’ll see much of anything in the morning. Too bad that Harlan isn’t going to get a chance to get out and experience this new form of precipitation.
