If you're back home going to work, rather than hanging out at Carlin Lake these winter days, you can picture January weather correctly by visualizing snowflakes floating down almost daily, but never really adding up on the ground.
On Friday night, though, we had heavy snow from 5 to 10 pm, just when "fish fryers" were heading out to supper. That snowfall totalled about 6" of snow over the weekend and gave us beautiful fluffy snow-covered trees once again.
Gail Speer reports that this gives a running winter total of 80" of snow, a number that surprises me. It puts this year at the top of her yearly snowfall comparison graph for the end of January, so guess we are having a snowier winter than I think. (Click on "Yearly comparison of snow history" on the right side of her page, just under the weekly weather icons.)
The big blue blobs of snow on the radar seem to miss us, though. Maybe I'm the only person who would welcome a big blizzard before winter ends.
And, it's not our imagination that mornings and evenings are gradually getting brighter. John Bates tells us that by the beginning of February now, we will be back to 10 hours of daylight, after our low of 8 hours and 39 minutes at the winter solstice.
Spoken like a person who doesn't run the snowblower! Geez!
Posted by: Duanne | February 01, 2011 at 12:59 PM
I wish we could have shared our Chicago blizzard with you yesterday/today. We got over 20 inches of light snow with gale-force wind. You need to join Facebook to see all the snow pictures published today (by me and everyone else). Trust me...we love Carlin Lake snow a lot more than city snow!!
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