SNOW!!!!

Yeah, I am ready for some snow on the ground too.

That will help with keep temps down and should put us in more of a winter time temp pattern.


I HOPE!!!!!!

I like to see my snow blower nice and warm in the garage! I must really be getting old!

My wife asked me last night if I was going to put the blade on the 4 wheeler to get ready. I said no. I put it on early last year and jinxed the whole darn winter! I refuse to mount it this year until I actually need it. Hopefully that will fix our winter problems!

YES!! Accuweather's extended forecast does not have one high above freezing for the next 25 days!! Please Lord, let them be correct on this one!!

Yep, I think we are going to turn the corner after today. I know I am ready, I been rocking chit out at work and home to be prepared for when its go time. As soon as its safe your not going to see this guy doing much of anything but sitting on the ice till my back is good and sore and I have a lot of fish on the ice!!!!

Sounds like I will be fishing this weekend. Dad said he drove by some backwater and there were 8 guys out on the ice. Good thing the bait got here today!

Sweet! Tear em up dude! We'll be waiting for a report for sure!

Sounds like things in the forecast are changing. A little wobble in the storm center could change everything. We have had forecast for as much as 8" today and now they are saying 2". Very tight gradiant with this storm. Gonna be interesting next 24. Could get pounded, could get nothing. Don't really care, just want cold.

Thunder snow here right now, even got a big flash of lightning.

Don't have a clue why the observation for WP says snow all evening cause its just raining here. No snow.

Been storming like crazy though. Approaching an inch of rain already.

Raining like a beatch here now. If this was snow we would have a ton. Sounds like it might not turn in to much snow now. Sheryl's work closed the office for tomorrow about 4 oclock today, they might look like fools when we don't get chit and nobody shows up.

i"d stay 4-5" here so far

They are saying a foot has fallen in Des Moines already. Still just rain here.

Changing over here now. Wind changed, more lightning and thunder but with heavy sleet now. Or maybe that is hail. Wild storm for sure. As I type this a power flicker and major lightning strike close.

First real snow flakes have fallen in Fruitland at 9am.

Well, we got us a blizzard on our hands now boys. Woo Hoo! Lovin it!

Yes sir!

All done now, but you sure can't tell yet.

Winds are howling!

I am gonna say we got a good 7 inches of snow down here in the flatland

I have no clue what we got. Not sure how you would ever tell. Can't find anywhere that the snow wasn't blown around so much its either gone or 2' deep.

Just loving these temps now. Ice making has begun.

P was about half capped this morning. Any pond is completely capped that I have found. I will wait another day and then start looking at ponds to see how much ice they have. I'm sure they put on more than skim ice over night.

It won't be long now at all. I'd guess I will find somewhere to be on the ice before the christmas holiday is done.

The first day I have a chance to get out is next Friday. Hope the local ponds are good to go by then. Forecast looks decent for it. The big plus is that the ponds and lakes stayed open while the snow came down. Unfortunately though, the ground is not frozen. Will be a little bit of a deterrent to the ice formation.