The Next Snow

  All day yesterday (12-13-25) the forecast was for heavy snow;  4 to 6", maybe more. A Winter Weather Advisory the evening before was replaced with a Winter Storm Warning before lunch.

 Radar showed it coming:

12:13 pm 12-13-25 Credit: My Radar

 The snow looked pretty well lined up with us (the blue dot). By this time there were a few flurries in the air. My security cams watched it begin to cover the ground: 

2:54 pm

4:37 pm

 Tom drove to Springfield for an event and the shot above was taken when he got home. He was stopped on I-70 near Springfield when cars and two semis collided.

7:14 pm

 By nightfall we'd had 3.5". Not as deep as I expected. But plenty anyway.

7:15 pm

 I dug a quick path to the rain gauge so I could more easily read it in the morning.

7:15 pm

 The next morning there was an even 4" on the ground. The above shot are shadows from the fence behind our summer flower bed at the south end of the porch.

 The sun rose on a very cold world. We bottomed out at -2°. 

 Another shot of the flower bed by our porch.

 And a view of our north lawn.

 I took Parker out per usual at 7:30 am but she refused to pee under these conditions. She kept stopping, lifting her feet and looking up at me for mercy. I took her in, warmed her up and took her back out an hour later after I shoveled a small area in the lawn free of snow so that she could walk on grass. That worked.

We have one more bitterly cold night tonight. How far will we dip below zero? Then a quick warmup. Thursday is expected to rise into the 50's and I expect  this winter landscape to be gone.