Greetings and welcome!

1pm

It continues to snow. I haven’t been outside to play yet, but looking out the window I would put us into the 12-14″ range. That verifies pretty well with the Athelstane Weather web can where it looks like 13-14″.

I guess that I should have put the snowplow onto the truck yesterday. LOL.

A lot of people have been e-mailing in to see if snowmobile trails will reopen since it is expected to stay cold right through the weekend. That is up to the county snowmobile alliance and member clubs.

Between the ground being soft yesterday and how fast the snow will get eaten by the sun tomorrow, I am not sure that they will reopen them. There is certainly enough snow now.

I have to tackle a few things before I can go out and play in it, so I have to keep moving. I will be back later.

RJB

8:30am

SNOW!

I saw on TV that the schools were closes from New London to Niagara, pretty much any of them in the northeast 1/4 of the state.  A look outside shows why. The snow is still coming at a good clip, and we have a lot down.

This one is going to be hard to measure. The front porch railing has about 2″, but the drift on the hood of the truck is as high as the top of the windshield. A look out back at the drum in the sheltered area behind the woodshed shows close to a foot stacked up, probably 10-12. A check of Athelstane Weather’s web cam shows about 10″. I haven’t been outside yet to check my 5 gallon bucket.

We are not done yet. The radar shows more snow on the way, and it continues to fall at a good clip. Areas to the south of here will likely report higher totals being close to the rain snow line. The top number on the morning news was 15″ in Shawano.

Our snow is heavy enough, but it is not flocking the trees as heavy as the stuff on the news down in Green Bay. At that point WPS is showing pretty minimal power outages. We are golden around here, but there are outages toward Marinette and along the lake toward Green Bay and over by Merrill and Rhinelander.

I am pretty comfortable with expecting the storm to bring a foot or maybe just a little more by the time that it clears out later this evening. Then get ready for the cold. We are looking at upper 20s for highs and single digit lows until about Sunday.

Ahh yes.. Spring.

6am

A 5:30am look out of the front door finds easily 4-6 down, but that is in the front driveway, a pretty windswept area. I am guessing that it is probably more like 7-8, and I am looking forward to seeing how much drifted into calmer areas.

We did have some thunder snow last night. It started about ten minutes before midnight and it rumbled occasionally for the next 20 minutes or half hour. The snow intensity about then was amazing, but it did not photograph well.

So far the power hasn’t even flickered.

More to follow..

RJB