First blizzard of 2015
Feb 3, 2015 10:58:17 #
Woke up to this beautiful landscape on Sunday. Not so beautiful by evening after shoveling all day.
Weighted down
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Not a partridge to be seen on my pear tree
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The starlings got these by mid afternoon
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Is this where we put the cold cuts?
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Feb 3, 2015 11:01:00 #
Better you than me! :mrgreen: It's beautiful for about two hours. After that, meh.
Feb 3, 2015 11:21:14 #
Chicago hit a snow total that placed at #5 all time. How bad was it in NW Indiana ... beyond these very telling pictures?
Feb 3, 2015 11:30:23 #
Feb 3, 2015 11:41:11 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
We had close to 19.5 inches by the time it was all over.Chicago hit a snow total that placed at #5 all time. How bad was it in NW Indiana ... beyond these very telling pictures?
Feb 3, 2015 17:22:37 #
The teacher in me coming out.
You didn't have a blizzard, you had a heavy snowfall.
A blizzard is snow (heavy or light) with very high winds, in other words a sort of hurricane with snow instead of rain.
From your pictures you had a heavy snowfall with very light winds. It thus took on that cotton candy/powder puff look on everything. Beautiful, but still a pain to shovel. A blizzard with that much snow would have piled up drifts on buildings and other barriers that would have been many feet deep while leaving some of the flat areas with only a relatively thin covering of snow.
You didn't have a blizzard, you had a heavy snowfall.
A blizzard is snow (heavy or light) with very high winds, in other words a sort of hurricane with snow instead of rain.
From your pictures you had a heavy snowfall with very light winds. It thus took on that cotton candy/powder puff look on everything. Beautiful, but still a pain to shovel. A blizzard with that much snow would have piled up drifts on buildings and other barriers that would have been many feet deep while leaving some of the flat areas with only a relatively thin covering of snow.
Feb 3, 2015 18:29:37 #
robertjerl wrote:
I don't know what the actual measurements were, but in my part of Indiana, the local weathermen were reporting that winds to the west of us, in other words where those pictures were taken, were in the neighborhood of blizzard conditions.The teacher in me coming out. br You didn't have a... (show quote)
Feb 3, 2015 20:12:33 #
robertjerl wrote:
The teacher in me coming out. br You didn't have a... (show quote)
You are quite correct. The pictures were taken on Sunday morning. The blizzard conditions kicked in about 2 pm here. And yes the drifts were in the neighborhood of 3 - 4 ft. across my yard and driveway by Monday am.
Feb 4, 2015 08:00:33 #
Yikes! Makes me so glad I live in Florida!
We do have some serious rain in the forecast for today, tonight, and tomorrow though.
We do have some serious rain in the forecast for today, tonight, and tomorrow though.
Feb 4, 2015 09:55:30 #
Feb 4, 2015 11:48:38 #
Graveman wrote:
East of Indy we got a light dusting, better you than me.
2-3 inches more due today. Already started coming down.
Feb 4, 2015 11:51:15 #
jtracey wrote:
Same here.2-3 inches more due today. Already started coming down.
Last time you guys got a couple more inches than we did.
I hope South Bend loses its usual position as snow capital of Indiana.
Feb 4, 2015 12:00:19 #
jtracey wrote:
Woke up to this beautiful landscape on Sunday. Not so beautiful by evening after shoveling all day.
wow!! glad I live here no snow great photos
Feb 4, 2015 12:35:05 #
Feb 4, 2015 14:26:09 #
jtracey wrote:
Woke up to this beautiful landscape on Sunday. Not so beautiful by evening after shoveling all day.
Thanks for your pictures. Here's three from my yard in South Bend at 11:00 am Sunday before the blizzard conditions hit. Even with a snow blower it took some time to clear. Then had to do it all over again Monday.
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