It started snowing some time after 11 PM Wednesday night. There are about three inches on the ground as I type (7 AM Thursday) and it's still coming down pretty hard. The forecasters (AccuHunch and weather.com) both say we will get much, much more later today and through the night. They say we can expect around 10 inches total. I'm just hoping they are correct when they say the current bout will slow and perhaps even stop before noon. If it doesn't and if it continues to snow all day like it is at the moment then we might be looking at more than a foot.
There's hardly a breath of air at the moment. What little there is is from the southeast. The forecasters insist that will change when the winds shift to the northwest and gusts get up to 50 mph late today and tonight. Luckily, the temperature is around 26 degrees so the snow isn't tremendously wet and heavy or there would be broken branches and snapped trees.
Even should it stop, I don't think I'll make it down the hill to get the mail today. I wonder if the garbage man will make it up the hill for pick up. He's driving a 4x4 pickup, not one of those behemoths you see in cities and suburbs.
I'm going to let this one take it's time and get the snow blower out when it stops tomorrow.
The squirrels have dug through the snow on the deck tray to expose the seed that was there from yesterday. They won't be getting a second helping until the storm is finished. The small birds are hitting the stick feeders pretty good (when the squirrels let them) and they should be okay.
More later as the snow piles up ad the forecast becomes history.
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We've received 5" of "15% chance of snow showers" since 6 a.m. Snow is coming down more heavily than any other time this winter, so far.
Don't you just love experts?
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