2-4 inches of rain forecasted tonight. The ground is saturated. Look out downhill! More downpours possible for Sunday.
So much for Spring. Here we go again with 16-20 inches of the heavy wet stuff forecasted for Saturday-Sunday (and power already went out once this morning; coffee and a black bear chili burrito for breakfast cooked on the woodstove).
Yeah only foot here… I am in lake valley So others know you need a good hill so the clouds have to drop weight to cross..
6-12" of snow expected here, then another couple of inches of ice/sleet which should eventually turn to rain. Fun times.
Up north they were headed to easily hit 2' last I saw yesterday evening. 6" of snow then a whole lot of sleet/rain. Once the temps started dropping again and the trees getting icy, trees started falling. Had a short power outage here as a tree fell across the wires a block or two from me. I waited about a minute then got a flashlight and went downstairs to get my Ryobi spotlight. Just as I got that and a battery for it and I was going to start grabbing battery packs for the pellet stoves, the power came back on. I switched from the mini split to the main floor pellet stove at that point (basement is only heated by pellet stove). The pellet stove heats up everything in the house (instead of just the air) and the further rooms get warmer as well. Even if I lost power the house would naturally stay warmer for longer and I could use the battery packs as needed. There were a couple of hours of regular power flickers. Power company must have gotten the tree issue resolved without having to turn off the power in my area as I never woke up to hear the UPS on the P43 telling me it needed juice (nor did I hear the pellet stove cycle abnormally).
Not sure what the official tally is here, and it would be tough to get since the winds picked up overnight and this light snow is drifting, but we ended up with somewhere around 26 inches here. Going to start clearing shortly. Biggest storm of the season and I think it caught a lot of people off guard. Many are just assuming since it's a spring storm it will melt quickly, but with temps staying well below freezing every night, and rain coming in this week, it's going to be an extended mess. 2+ feet of snow plus rain is going to play havoc on a lot of roofs.
Got about 6 inches here then it turned to rain. Pushing slush off the driveway in the pouring rain on an open tractor. No bueno! Power went out last night.
