Now mind you, this is actually a good thing – we need the precipitation, especially for snow pack up in the mountains around us. We're fervently hoping they got a similarly unexpectedly great amount.
Yesterday morning when it started snowing, the temperature was in the high '40s, and the ground hadn't been frozen for a week. Consequently the first 3 or 4 inches that fell turned into a thick layer of slush, especially on our driveway where it was about 2 inches thick. The forecast called for a hard freeze last night, around 20°F (which it did) – so I decided to plow the driveway even though it was still snowing hard, in the hopes of getting that layer of slush off before it froze into solid ice. Checking this morning, it appears that I succeed in that: we've got about 4 inches of powdery snow sitting on the driveway. That should plow off very nicely. I'll be out plowing in an hour or so, and tonight the forecast calls for another 1 to 3 inches – so I expect to be out plowing tomorrow as well. If I'm to believe the forecast, we won't see above-freezing temperatures until next Sunday – a huge change from the warm spell of the past two weeks or so...
The two photos below are from yesterday afternoon, about halfway through the snowfall. We have quite a few branches so heavily loaded now that they're at risk of breaking...
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