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Summary: January 20th Snow

Posted by: Buckey2745, 2:10 PM GMT on January 21, 2011

Well that was certainly a decent storm. Unlike storms past, this one actually lived up to the long hype. We've been hearing about the potential for a "significant" snow for days... really, since last weekend. At times yesterday, I had my doubts whether this storm would actually produce. After all was said and done, it produced a solid 4.75" of snow. As I mentioned in the live blog yesterday, I couldn't bring myself to round up. It didn't feel right.

From the NWS in Wilmington, here's the unofficial snowfall totals:

Totals from yesterday's storm. Image from NWS Wilmington

The real story of this storm started after the snow stopped. West winds picked up to 15mph and started drifting this light powder across our roads. That brought out a bunch of Level 2 Snow Emergencies for our area, including us in Pickaway County. We don't see Level 2 very often, so needless to say, most things are shut down today:

This morning's snow emergencies

On top of the snow, and the drifting... it's COLD. Temperatures dipped down to 6° this morning, with wind chills as low as -10°! As far as I'm concerned, that's just insult to injury. Going outside is a chore, and if you're thinking of shoveling your driveway you'll have to cover all exposed skin. It's bad.

As expected, this became our largest snow of the season so far, and also our most disruptive. The good news for our friends in Columbus is with over 4" of snow, road crews decide to plow side streets. So hopefully sometime this weekend we can all get back to normal activities. But for now... bundle up and stay inside if you can.

Season Stats:
Winter Weather Advisories- 5
Winter Storm Warnings- 3
Ice Storm Warnings- 0
Blizzard Warnings- 0
Freezing Rain Advisories- 0
Winter Storm Watches- 2
Wind Chill Advisories- 0
Wind Chill Warnings- 0
Blowing Snow Advisory- 0

Snowfall Totals:
November: 0" (Predicted: 0")
December: 7.0" (Predicted: 7.0")
January: 8.75" (Predicted: 8.0")
Season: 15.75"

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1. nocaneindy 7:31 PM GMT on January 21, 2011
We had a windchill reading this am of -17! I like winter, it's my favorite season, but this is just a tad too cold! Have you seen anything about a early week system? I haven't checked but heard through the grapevine the potential exists. Gonna go check it out, and maybe put up a new blog myself. It's been a minute since I wrote one, busy times.. Member Since: September 21, 2007 Posts: 34 Comments: 514

2. Buckey2745 8:36 PM GMT on January 22, 2011
Quoting nocaneindy: We had a windchill reading this am of -17! I like winter, it's my favorite season, but this is just a tad too cold! Have you seen anything about a early week system? I haven't checked but heard through the grapevine the potential exists. Gonna go check it out, and maybe put up a new blog myself. It's been a minute since I wrote one, busy times.. I got a -13° windchill this morning, with a low of -8°. Maybe I've gotten used to it, because it didn't feel bone chilling. Probably because it wasn't real windy. Ya know, I'm in the same boat as you. I've heard about an early week storm, and then a mid-late week storm too, but I haven't had the chance to sit down and check it out. Looks like January wants to go out with a bang... Member Since: December 28, 2007 Posts: 435 Comments: 166

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