First Snow of the Season

  At 7 am when I went out to read my gauge I was more than a little disappointed that the forecast had been so wrong. When I went to bed the forecasters were saying "one to two inches, with isolated amounts near three inches".

 I measured a mere trace.

 Then it began to snow. By 8 am it was coming down at a pretty nice clip. All told, I just measured 1.5" at 3 pm. Some reports are coming in with more than five inches. So the forecasters weren't wrong. I was.

 A view of our back porch.

 Looking to the south across our driveway.

 And a view north towards the woods.

 While it was still snowing I recorded an 8-sevond video of the driveway apron and Tom's Chevy Silverado parked there:

 I just took Parker out after a seven hour delay and found some spots open to the grass due to the sunshine we've been having. The snow is now sloppy and wet. It's 33° and we're having a lot of melting.

 This isn't early for a first snow but it seems sudden nonetheless. Two days ago we had a high of 60°. On 11-05 it hit 68°. So it's more than a little adjustment to now look out upon a winter-white landscape. But we're in for months of this - and worse - so I'd better get used to it.