It had to happen eventually

I’m talking about “the big thaw”. Early this week (President’s Day), some of the most windswept areas were beginning to lose their snow cover — ending our stretch of solid snow cover at 43 days (since Jan 4). However, despite temperatures breaking into the low 50s on Thursday with partly sunny skies, and a stretch of more than 24 hours above freezing for the first time this year, only south-facing slopes have lost much of their snow cover. Even with steady rain hammering away at the snow cover most of Friday afternoon, there is still a 3-5" of snow cover over the majority of our yard. Those ice-caps from the freezing rain events are surely a prime factor in the hardiness of this snowcover.

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awc 2004-02-21 00:56