The game commences...

Yep, the heavy snow is starting:

https://twitter.com/edschweppe/status/434032188330627072/photo/1

We're expecting a few hours of this, followed by a nice "wintry mix" of snow, sleet, freezing rain and sundry neither-sunny-nor-dry precipitation. Choir practice tonight has, unsurprisingly, been cancelled.

Stay warm and dry, folks!

That's the first wave...

Around nine inches of white stuff on the ground, with a nice freezing drizzle crust on top. The National Weather Service says I might get a few more inches later tonight.

Then there's a chance of snow Saturday and Saturday night.

Then there's likely going to be snow Monday night into Tuesday.

Then there's still the rest of February and all of March to go.

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Actually, as long as I don't have to drive in it, I like the snow. And this should hopefully give us a solid snowpack for the rest of the winter. The worst winters, IMNSHO, are the ones where we get heavy snow, then it mostly melts leaving brown and grey crap, then we get heavy snow, then it mostly melts, etc. etc. etc. Too many snow-to-bare-ground transitions per season get to me after a while.