On January 2nd, the snow started falling around lunchtime and became rather heavy at times before tapering off around supper time. The light snow continued for a couple hours after sunset, but most of the 3½ inches of snow had fallen by the time I was leaving work at 5:00pm. The Christmas Day snow had stayed through the weekend, but disappeared rather quickly Monday and Tuesday, helped along by some unwelcome rain… no weather is more depressing in winter time than rain!