During the past week, St. Peters has has three winter weather advisories for snow (0.5-1.0 inches each time) and sleet/freezing rain (up to 0.1 inch each time). In spite of the advisories, the snow went north of us and the freezing rain went south. This is what we accumulated on the ground.
After the first advisory, the forecast <1 inch of snow fell, but the ground was so warm, the snow didn’t even stick to concrete surfaces.
Yesterday’s advisory brought us about a half-inch of sleet–which stuck only to the concrete surfaces. Check the road. Luckily (insert sarcasm here), the streets were treated to the point of being white and the plow went over them several times.
The snow that went north of us made it to my brother Tom’s house in the western Chicago suburbs.
Not only local weather alerts, but this snow made headline news on CNN and elsewhere.
The forecast “verified,” as Ted would say, and Tom emailed the following information to me:
[Saturday, Feb. 10] We pushed about 8″ of snow since Thursday. A little more may be coming tonight – or maybe not.
[Sunday, Feb. 11] We got about another 4″ of snow. The weather guy said we tied a record with 9 consecutive days of accumulating snow. The last date was in 1905 or something like that.
This reminded me of a cartoon I saw during the January “bomb cyclone” on the East Coast.
