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Sat, Jan 05, 2008

Wind and Snow

Posted at 9:03 pm MST to Weather

A year ago this weekend, we had the ground blizzard that put five foot snow drifts across my driveway that did not go away for weeks.

This year, we've had smaller amounts of snow at any one time, and the winds are true chinook snow-eaters instead of being cold. I ended up with a two foot tall drift between my house and the driveway, but the past two days of warm weather and strong winds softened it enough that I was able to chop a path through it this morning. And now the winds and sun have melted the path mostly down to the dirt.

Last year the strong winds were cold, and just turned the drifts to the consistency of concrete.

They are predicting more snow for this coming week, but if the weather patterns this year keep following the more normal pattern of alternating precipitation and melting that they have shown so far, we will be in good shape for the year. The winter shows signs of being far more comfortable than last year, and unless things go abnormally dry for the next few months, we will not need to worry about a drought in the summer.

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