From the Big Snow Page..

Unbelievable.. I just watched it snow here on the radar for 20 hours and we didn’t even get a dusting. The snow last night stopped about 10pm. The radar continued to show snow, including some heavier bands, right over us until about 6pm tonight.

Not even a dusting.

I have seen a lot of storms where the rain or snow would evaporate as it fell into the lower levels of the atmosphere, (see Virga) but having it eat all but the first 1/2″ of  a snow storm is a fresh one on me. Usually the atmosphere saturates and we get the precip.

Not everywhere got skunked. Dan from  Chute Pond is reporting 6-8 and that their trails will open in the morning with fair to goo early season conditions. The TV showed 10″ or more south of about Lena.

I have 1/2″-1″ depending on the spot. Slug said that they saw about a half inch near Wausaukee. The TV showed 1.5 in Carter and 4.5 in Marinette. Niagara, the northern border of Marinette Co, got zip.

Looking ahead there are glimmers of hope. We are in an active pattern, and there will be storms in the region, including some good ones for about the first week in March.

A lot of places around here are starting from bare ground. Sheltered areas still have an ice base. With the current conditions we need a couple of good storms in one week or a home run of a foot or more. That does not look likely in time for this weekend.

Looking at the calendar I don’t like that much. With each passing week the sun gets hotter and the days get longer. The chances of a storm being rain increase, and the chances of it’s snow lasting ’till the weekend don’t. We have about three weeks to have it happen and we are about to lose one of them.

For now the best riding opportunities look to be south of about Hwy 64. Riding around here is not recommended, and the Iron Snowshoe gates south of Hwy C remain locked.

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When I was in Crivitz and Wausaukee last week fields were getting pretty bare. A half inch or an inch was not what we were hoping for.

RJB

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