Above is how the main roads are looking as of 10:45am to 11:00am EST. You can see there pretty well cleaned off however still some minor slush in areas so do be careful if you have to head out!Below is how some of the side roads are looking as of 10:30am to 11:00am EST. Still slushy and snowy in areas. And VERY SLICK!! Please be careful and drive safely! ;)
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Above is the radar image taken at 8:07am EST this morning. You can see the snow is now starting to push off to the east of Tippecanoe, county and heading to the eastern part of the state. But not until it dropped a nice first snow of the season in the Lafayette, and around areas! I have been up since around 5:00am and finally got on the computer to post about the amazing clipper we have seen! We was not expecting to see this much snow from this clipper. So how much did we see? I'll get to that in just a minute! :) first lets find out why we seen this much snow in the first place!
We was expecting to see the Alberta clipper move in from our north west as Alberta clippers do. Only we was expecting to see the southern part of the system to be in the form of a mixture! However this part of the system ended up moving in right over the viewing area and changed over to all snow as our temperatures were only around 29 to 30 degrees! There for it became a heavy snow band that just let lose on us.
Now let's take a look at how much snow I recorded here in the Lafayette, area below.
Lafayette, picked up (Almost) two inches! WOW! Not bad for a clipper or our first snow! I'm sure we picked up around two inches in areas. And yes, side roads are covered with all this snowfall. You will need to allow extra time to get where you need to go that's for sure. You can see how some side roads look below in this picture.
This is what you need to be on the look out for today through out your area. I'm sure trucks will have roads clear as well as nature by this afternoon sometime. But until then be safe and drive slow. If you are ready for the snow and know how to be safe and careful then you can sit back and enjoy it like seen in these pictures I snapped below.
Who doesn't like the fresh snow on the pine trees? I mean come on! :) And the Christmas lights are just amazing at night with freshly fallen snow!
One thing that I just love about morning snow is the calm beauty of it! When I was out taking pictures around 7:30am I walked out and it is so calm it's like you could hear every snowflake hit the ground! I looked down the street and you could see nothing but millions of snowflakes falling and the light glow of Christmas lights in the distance. And what made it even better was I could smell everyones fireplaces going! And when your up that early the would view just has a beautiful blue winter glow. I did my best to show the blue in these pictures below.
Now go be safe and drive slow bloggers. Enjoy the beauty of our FIRST SNOW! Have a great day and Merry Christmas!
I'll check back soon with your Christmas forecast..........
3 comments:
Thank you Justin, we were out at 9:00 this morning, side roads were very slick, main not bad, but as you said "slush"! Street dept. just went down my road, plow and salt, so not bad at this time, still take it slow all.
Oh and I love your photos, I was out early this morning as well, the snow was beautiful and so peaceful!
Teri in Laf.
Very light freezing drizzle where I am, temp 32* and wind is picking up, ugh! everything is starting to freeze again! Several winter storm watches to the north of Tipp Co
Teri
Justin loved the pictures,,, will be anxiously waititng for your post at midnight,,,,Becky
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