Third Snowy Morning In A Row Here

11 years ago

Our weather is so goofy. On Saturday night and Sunday night we had some overnight light snow and sleet that left those little white snow pellets (graupel) piled up on the porch, the bare ground (you cannot see them in the rye grass), the porches, the roof of buildings, etc. It has been very light and has barely registered in the rain gauge. Still, it is surprising to walk outside and find it.

Today it is falling for a third consecutive morning and we are almost under a Winter Weather Advisory here....but not quite. I say almost because the Texas side of the river, including Cooke County, which surrounds my part of Love County on three sides, has a Winter Weather Advisory until 10 a.m. Chris is driving to work in Dallas in rapidly deteriorating roadway conditions. He says ice is starting to accumulate and make some roads slick down there. There's also some thundersnow or thundersleet occurring.

We've never had so many little stealth snowfalls here as we've had this winter. Even though these little graupel events have only left tiny amounts on the ground, this is at least the 7th time this winter something has fallen from the sky that is frozen in some form---sleet, snow, graupel, hail, etc. Unfortunately it is in such small amounts it isn't helping much in terms of drought relief.

I need to stop dreaming of spring. Every time we have a pretty (albeit cold) afternoon like we had yesterday, I start thinking about spring and looking forward to having flowers in bloom....and then I awaken to snow pellets the next morning. Mother Nature seems determined to suck all the fun out of having a pretty winter afternoon by following it up with a cold slap in the face.

Comments (3)

kfrinkle
11 years ago
Same happened here in Durant. I actually thought some crazy gardener sprinkled perlite all over the ground the last couple of days, and whilst walking into work this AM, it snowed proper!
oldokie
11 years ago
It is just cold up here but I can't help but walk by my strawberries and look for green sprouts. In three weeks will by seed potatoes and about month to onion planting

I was 2 wks early last year and got onions froze out had to replant half

Time to see if tractor will start and break garden up
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Original Author
11 years ago
The first day it was pretty heavy and looked more like snow, albeit snow with those little white pellets. It looked like someone had split open a bean bag chair and scattered those little white styrofoam pellets everywhere. The last two days there wasn't much, but it shocked me there was any at all.

kfrinkle, I was wondering if Durant got anything, and had assumed y'all got more than we did as the heavier band was just east of us. On KXII, the tower cam this morning showed a lot of snow on the ground in Sherman. I understand Graysonn County had a lot of people sliding off the roadways. I am glad we didn't have that here today.

oldokie, It is pretty dang cold here but not as cold as it is further north. At our house, we only made it up to 37 degrees for a high, but our low was 24. The sun stayed behind the clouds all day so far, and I think that kept us from warming up more here.

I bought three varieties of seed potatoes today and they are sitting in the back corner if the unheated pantry where they'll stay until planting time rolls around. We've had a little over 3.5" of precipitation in the last month, so our soil is too wet to work. I hope it is dry when onion and potato planting time rolls around.

Dawn