Herb@MAWS

Columbia: 0.58” liquid Tuesday plus Wednesday, including 1.1” snow Tuesday.

Going with 1.1” snow for March 2nd. Season snow total now 19.3”. No iciness this morning when I went out at 6am, when it was 30° and rainy. Walkways and roads just wet. The snow seemingly protected the car windshield and windows from any potential ice forming.

Columbia pre-snow hi temp 35.1 4:30pm - 29.9 Widely scattered on/off flurries began 1pm but snow didn’t pick up in intensity until 1:45 and it quickly became heavy, tiny flakes. Eyeballing about 1” so far altho 0.75” is more conservative/accurate(?). Will wait until this round ends. Roads and walks fine. Of the list of items we usually monitor to confirm “first signs of stickage”, the last one today in my ‘hood was car tops, just not what I expected. I’ll blame it on that damn morning veiled sunshine.

Temps very slowly inching downward. After pre-snow late morning hi temp 35, now down to 30.4. Stickage in all the usual places except for roads, sidewalks and car tops.

1:45pm Columbia: It took 45 painful minutes to go from off/on snowtv ….. to steady snow/small flakes. Immediate mulch stickage. Went from late morning high of 35 to current 33.8 with temps slowly falling now in the steady snow.

1pm Columbia: finally first few flakes falling.

Feb rainfall imby/Columbia is 2.15”, to go along with 2.01” in January and 1.59” in December.

0.98” rain + melted snow — Columbia.

8:30am Monday morning Columbia imby low 29, current 30. Just shoveled a couple inches (will measure soon; looks like maybe +/- 3” considering compaction) and cleaned off cars. Pretty easy. Yeah we missed the big snows but I’m happy with a rewhitened wintry look for 2, maybe 3 days, as everything slowly melts away with no back-breaking effort needed. Sun trying to poke thru amid constant flurries/snowshowers.

I missed out on the big January storm so I’m enjoying this. From the get-go I was thinking for me that 2 inches is a bust, 3-6 acceptable, and 7 inches a boom. So I’ll just enjoy what little bit I get and I’ll rationalize it’s all ok …. by saying well, I got a total re-whitening, I can enjoy it for two days then it’ll mostly be gone, no heavy shoveling or chipping out chunks of ice, just going to enjoy it — in the snowlight. It’s a good night for a snowlight. So far eyeballing 1”+ on deck rail. After falling a few degrees the temperature seems to have leveled off at least for the last hour or so at 33.3°/Columbia. All white except sidewalks and streets. Even driveway finally is whitening.

Ahhhhh, my old ‘ hood and haunts back in the day. Spring Hill Rd.

I missed the big January snow so am enjoying this, whatever I get. After being at 37+ earlier in afternoon, down to 35.3 under mod-hvy Columbia snowpuke.

Columbia changeover appears to be underway. 36.2°

Awaiting puking in Columbia….

A few wet flakes again/Columbia 36.7, down from last hour 37.1