Christmas Day snowflakes
Most of Christmas Day was cloudy with periods of light rain. Around 1500, the rain mixed with huge snowflakes (more like snow clumps). This lasted for about twenty minutes, and covered everything with less than ¼" of slush.
A little after 2300, I noticed the rain begin to mix with snow again. Now, at 0100 on the 26th, we have had perhaps an hour of wet snow that has left about ½" on the ground. The streets, warm from a couple of weeks of above average (and above freezing) temperatures, are only wet.
From the radar image (courtesy of The Weather Underground) at right, you can see the area of snow creeping slowly up from the southwest, with some moderately intense areas of snow headed in our direction. The official forecast (heard earlier this afternoon) was for one or two inches of snow after midnight. We can only hope that this time they are wrong on the low side!
Update --- by 0230, the snow had changed back to rain and probably stayed that way. By morning’s light (so I was told, I wasn’t awake to see it) there was no trace of snow on the ground.
Yet another bust. 
awc 2006-12-26 01:18:44
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