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Ain't know association out here in the country Roger.
It's my land and I do what I want !!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by DA34GUY

Ain't know association out here in the country Roger.
It's my land and I do what I want !!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, me too, Don, but the guys who still live in town will understand.....

Little Chilly here, but it made it above 0°f finally today.

Sun dogs mean it won't be warming up soon, either!!!!

You'd think the whole continent moved North with all this mass cold everyone is getting.

Originally Posted by stovens

BURHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Up here we are looking at extreme water conservation, due to the dryest winter in over 100 years. Seems strange not to get rain this time of year. I think we usually get 20-25 inches of rain a year, but so far I think we are at 1 inch. Normally we worry about too much rain, so this is new for us.

I heard on the news last night they are already calling for a drought in some areas here due to the lack of snow fall. We are under snow fall amounts and rain falls were all but 0 from late summer on. It never ends.

Originally Posted by johnboy

20-25 inches!
And you worry about too much rain?
We're considered to be quite high up the side of our hill, (Mt. Egmont,) 750 ft., and we get 6 ft. of rain annually whether we need it or not.
And we've had snow only about half-a-dozen times in the last fifty years.

With those two factors, that's why we can grow grass all year round, (albeit a bit more slowly over winter,) and can run dairy cows outside all year round too.
Yep; God's Own Country alright!

They say that 1" of snow = see below.

That is usually common knowledge for meteorologists.
They also have that info here: What is the formula for switching rain to snow in inches? - Yahoo Answers

The general formula is as follows.

About 1 inch of rain = 10 inches of snow.

However, there are various forms of snow. Some is low density while other snow is high density. This will help you in general.

If it is a dry, cold snow and the temperature is BELOW 12ºF than the snow is most likely LOW DENSITY and with the following formula.

12 inches of snow = 1 inch of liquid rain.

If the snow falls when the temperature is between 12ºF and 24ºF then the average of 10 to 1 - 10 incoes = 1 inch of rain - can be followed in general.

If snow is falling and the temperature is between 24ºF and 28ºF the snow is more dense usually and the following forumla is used in general. 7 inches of snow = 1 inch of rain.

If the temperature is above 28ºF and lower than 31ºF than it is usually a heavy - wet and dense snowfall with some melting taking place especially in heavy snows. Then the formula wildely varies but usually 5 inches to 1 inch - 5 inches of snow = 1 inch of rainfall - is used.

I saw that sundog too.
Second time this month.

Only this kinda sundog here

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Sun dogs mean it won't be warming up soon, either!!!!

It made it above freezing today. Now we'll pay for that warm weather with 12'' of snow & then back to the deep freeze, followed by even more snow on Tuesday.

We made it out to the Starved Rock Eagle Watch last Saturday.

Some great shots!!!!!!! Thanks for putting them up for us!!!!

He is a Lol for yall
So my wife calls me at work around 2 pm
She says- " you got a dunce cap? You left your driver side window about 3inches down & the car is snowed inside pretty good!"
Mind you, it had bern snowing since 5pm yesterday!!
DOH!!
So it took me about 1/2 hour to vac it out when I got home at 7pm this evening!!
:-(

Originally Posted by t-top havoc

He is a Lol for yall
So my wife calls me at work around 2 pm
She says- " you got a dunce cap? You left your driver side window about 3inches down & the car is snowed inside pretty good!"
Mind you, it had bern snowing since 5pm yesterday!!
DOH!!
So it took me about 1/2 hour to vac it out when I got home at 7pm this evening!!
:-(

I'm laughing with you, not at you. I've been there man. What a pita.

so you were actually lucky that it was cold enough not to melt---------------------