Winter Storm Report, only Minor snowfall accumulations across our area.

Garden View. February 9th.

The Eastern Edge of a large winter storm effected the area the past 3 days. It really wasn't too bad here across Western Wisconsin, We had mainly off and on light snow showers the past 3 days, and total snowfall accumulations were not impressive. mainly up to 2 inches across the area, I only reported a grand total of 1.50" The main show was West of my area, into Central Minnesota, Where some places reported up to 10 inches in the Western Suburbs of the Twin Cities! Also up north along Lake Superior, where some places has some pretty impressive lake effect snow totals, See Tim's Weather blog for updates on that!

Our sidewalk drifted over.

The main problem with this storm was blowing and drifting snow, The snowflakes were quite tiny most of this storm, and temps were in the mid 20s, With winds blowing 25 MPH at times, This did make for the snow to blow around easily.

Image from GR3



I just has to point out, how there was a Warm Front that was actually coming out of the North! This system wrapped up some Cold air inside of it, This drug cold air right down into Western Iowa, While warm SE winds blew into most of Minnesota and Wisconsin, A Western Iowa town, just West of Des Monies were at -15.F While we were siting at 24 above! It's not often a warm from moves from the North to South. Eventually that warm from did continue south and east and gave Iowa some warmer temperatures.

Front Yard February 9th.

We've gained some snow cover over the past few days, and now, We have a very thick snowcover It now stands at 9.50 inches thick, I still needed a shovel to measure with, Some spots have more because of so much drifting we've had this winter! One thing I noticed this year, We have had such a constant snow depth this year! Last year, It was up and down, and I recalled at least once in the past 2 years, We've lost all or nearly all our snowcover around this time, before it built back up in March, This year that hasn't happened! this made many people believe we've had more snow then last year, But actually last winter by this time, We had 39.4 inches by this time in February, This year we've had about 37 inches, so pretty much right on target with last year!

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