Snow again, but as you can tell, today it’s barely a dusting. Last Wednesday, we had 3 inches of snow in three hours. Two hours after the snow stopped, it had all melted away. I didn’t have a camera with me or I’d have taken at least one picture then.
I guess this will be our Snow Year, like 6 years ago was our Ice Year. We had more ice continuously on the ground 6 years ago than we’ve had for the 30 years I’ve lived here. 8 years ago, we had lots of snow but it started earlier this year than then, and our worst snow months lie ahead – January and February.
Last year was looking to be a contender for Snow Year in terms of inches of snow, but then we didn’t get any serious snow after that first bout at the end of November 2006. That one snow storm was the worst I recall in this area – 12-15 inches of snow on the ground for more than a week. For 2 days of that, the roads weren’t passable because the snow was falling and the road crews couldn’t keep up. It was so cold it shattered car windows. And then it was over for the year, but for spotty snow like last night’s fall.
So maybe this year will just be the usual spits and spats of snow that last a day. If that.
We’ll see.
