2/12-13 Winter Weather Threat

[dwagner88]

I did some slippin and sliding on my way home in the parking lot, but the roads were mainly dry with just a few icy patches here and there. Temp has plummeted to 21 degrees. I tried to make a snowball but I can't, it is too dry and powdery. I think that this is the biggest accumulation of dry snow we have had here in a long time. Usually when the powder is like this, we only get a dusting.

EDIT: I looked it up. The last time we had a cold enough storm to give more powdery snow was January 1988, which produced 10 inches of powdery snow at temps between 18 and 25 degrees.

[Brick Tamland]

I did some slippin and sliding on my way home in the parking lot, but the roads were mainly dry with just a few icy patches here and there. Temp has plummeted to 21 degrees. I tried to make a snowball but I can't, it is too dry and powdery. I think that this is the biggest accumulation of dry snow we have had here in a long time. Usually when the powder is like this, we only get a dusting.

EDIT: I looked it up. The last time we had a cold enough storm to give more powdery snow was January 1988, which produced 10 inches of powdery snow at temps between 18 and 25 degrees.

Powder? Really? It was super wet at my brothers' house in East Ridge. Snowballs would pack easy and sub-compact into good, hard baseballs. After the sun went down the snow got noticeably drier. Can't pack it now but was very wet earlier.

[dwagner88]

Powder? Really? It was super wet at my brothers' house in East Ridge. Snowballs would pack easy and sub-compact into good, hard baseballs. After the sun went down the snow got noticeably drier. Can't pack it now but was very wet earlier.

I guess it probably was wetter earlier today, but I couldn't go out to see, had to go to work at 4. It has really dried out now. I tried really hard to compress a snowball and it just blew up in my face when I tried to throw it.